| Autor: |
Agrawal, Nisha, Samanta, Prabal, Chatterjee, Kingshuk, Barua, Jayanta Kumar, Banerjee, Gautam |
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Journal of Pakistan Association of Dermatologists; Jul-Sep2023, Vol. 33 Issue 3, p935-942, 8p |
| Abstrakt: |
Objective Achrochordons (Skin Tags) are common benign tumours occurring in skin of the neck and flexural regions of the body. They most commonly occur in middle age and old age population ranging from size of 1mm to 2-3cm in diameter. The middle aged population most commonly seek treatment and older people generally leave it attended. Cosmesis is the most common reason for treatment, but they may sometimes cause chronic irritation due to pressure effect or repeated friction. They can be multiple morphologies likel filliform, pedunculated, sessile etc. They can be pigmented or of skin colour as well. They don't have any gender-predilection. Metabolic syndrome is a curse of modern time. Genetic as well as lifestyle has been implicated for the same. Diagnosis involves presence of 3 or more out of Hyperglycemia, Hypertriglyceridemia, Decreased HDL Cholesterol levels, Central obesity and Hypertension, according to guidelines laid by NCEP ATP III guidelines. Skin Tags is associated with the Metabolic syndrome in a significant number of population. The co-existant population may have clinical manifestation of Metabolic syndrome or may be having subclinical disease. So the presence of Skin Tag can be used to screen patients for metabolic syndrome and may aid in the detection of the subclinical cases as well. Early initiation of lifestyle modification and therapy if required, may significantly decrease the morbidity associated with the chronic disease. Hence it is advisable to be vigilant in patients of Skin Tags, particularly in patients having more than 5 skin tags, and investigate them for Metabolic syndrome so that we detect and treat them early. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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