Livedoid vasculopathy: fast involution after anticoagulant and hyperbaric oxygen therapy
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Intractable livedoid vasculopathy successfully treated with hyperbaric oxygen.
We describe a new method for treating livedoid vasculopathy. The typical presentation of livedoid vasculopathy includes chronic, recurrent painful ulcers, satellite scar-like atrophy and telangiectasia involving the lower extremities. Histologically, these lesions show areas of ulceration and dermal vessel occlusion without frank inflammatory cell infiltration. There is currently no satisfactor...
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عنوان ژورنال: Einstein (São Paulo)
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1679-4508
DOI: 10.1590/s1679-45082011rc1676