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News|Articles|May 1, 2002
Tight Skin in a Patient With Diabetes
Author(s)Norman Levine, MD
This patient with long-standing insulin-dependent diabetes has difficultyclosing his hand because of “tight skin.” Diabetes is the cause: this findingoccurs more often in persons with microvascular complications, such asretinopathy and nephropathy. The condition may occur even in patients withwell-controlled diabetes.
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This patient with long-standing insulin-dependent diabetes has difficultyclosing his hand because of "tight skin." Diabetes is the cause: this findingoccurs more often in persons with microvascular complications, such asretinopathy and nephropathy. The condition may occur even in patients withwell-controlled diabetes.(Case and photograph courtesy of Norman Levine, MD.)
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