Dermopathy of Graves Disease

  • Pretibial myxedema occurs in 0.5% to 4.3% of patients with Graves’ disease:
    • It is an infiltrative dermopathy:
      • Most often involving the skin of the legs
    • It is manifested by painful, pruritic, raised plaque-like vio- laceous and hyperpigmented lesions:
      • That have the texture of an orange peel
  • Acropachy occurs in less than 1% of patients with Graves’ disease:
    • It is manifested by clubbing and periosteal new bone formation of the metacarpal bones and the phalanges
Pre Tibial Myxedema
Clubbing of fingers as the most common form of thyroid acropachy.

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