Photogallery. Metabolic dermatoses

Metabolic dermatoses are signs of some internal diseases, which makes it possible to identify them before clinical manifistation. Thus amyloidosis is often associated with Familial Mediterranean fever, and its timely diagnosis contributes to the detection of diseases such as medullary thyroid cancer, multiple myeloma, Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia and other monoclonal gammopathy, nephropathy, generalized sensorimotor polyneuropathy, dysfunction of the gastrointestinal tract, etc. Necrobiosis lipoidica is associated with diabetes mellitus, mucinosis ― with thyroid diseases, xanthomas ― with histiocytosis X, porphyria ― with liver disease, calcinosis ― with abnormality calcium metabolism.