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Acquired nevoid telangiectasia
U Wollina1, U Barta, C Uhlemann
1Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany. uwol@derma.uni-jena.de
Background:
Acquired nevoid telangiectasia (ANT) is a segmental dilatation of papillary plexus vessels.
Objective:
In the present study, the frequency of ANT and its associations with collagen vascular and spinal disease have been investigated.
Methods:
188 unselected patients, seen at an interdisciplinary dermatorheumatologic outpatient clinic, were clinically examined for the presence of ANT and possible associations to preexisting disease.
Results:
ANT was seen in 17% of patients, all females. The mean age of ANT patients was 57.5 +/- 8.2 years. Most common diseases were lupus erythematosus and scleroderma. Twenty-four of them suffered from generalized fibromyalgia, 8 had spondylitis deformans, 1 suffered from thoracal syringomyelia and 1 had a spine trauma. Two types of ANT have been seen: the cervicothoracal transition type and the lumbosacral transition type.
Conclusions:
ANT is not uncommon among patients attending a dermatorheumatologic outpatient clinic. ANT indicates spinal or neuromuscular complaints, but is not related to collagen vascular disease itself.