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Image Number #5352 (Steroid-induced purpura)

Diagnosis: Steroid-induced purpura

Description: Skin atrophy with purpura.

Morphology: Purpura

Site: Hand,dorsum

Sex: F

Age: 60

Type: Clinical

Submitted By: Nameer Al-Sudany

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Differential Diagnosis

History:

A 60-year-old woman suffering a long history of asthma has used to take systemic corticosteroids to control her attacks of shortness of breath. She presented with multiple purpuric lesions with skin atrophy of the hands' dorsa and lower parts of the forearms.

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