Cutaneous Collagenous Vasculopathy: Description of Two New Cases in Elderly Women and Review of the Literature
| Autor: | Daniel González Fernández, Blanca Vivanco Allende, Silvia Gómez Bernal, Narciso Pérez Oliva |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty Biopsy Dermatology Telangiectases Skin Diseases Vascular Diagnosis Differential Dermis Eosinophilic medicine Humans Telangiectasis Hyaline Aged Skin Aged 80 and over business.industry Microangiopathy Collagen Diseases medicine.disease medicine.anatomical_structure Microvessels Female business Generalized essential telangiectasia Cutaneous collagenous vasculopathy Reticular Dermis |
| Zdroj: | Dermatology. 225:1-8 |
| ISSN: | 1421-9832 1018-8665 |
| DOI: | 10.1159/000339770 |
| Popis: | Cutaneous collagenous vasculopathy (CCV) is an idiopathic microangiopathy with characteristic histological findings. It was described in 2000, and 9 cases have since been described. Two women of 83 and 74 years consulted for long-standing telangiectasias. In case 1, they affected the limbs and trunk and in case 2 were located on the legs. Biopsies of these lesions showed dilated vascular structures whose walls were thickened due to deposition of eosinophilic hyaline material. The affected vessels were located in the superficial dermis in case 1, and in case 2 the reticular dermis was also affected. CCV is a microangiopathy of unknown etiology. Clinically it is indistinguishable from generalized essential telangiectasia and differs in its histology. CCV may be underdiagnosed, and some nonbiopsied cases of generalized essential telangiectasia may really be CCV. We contribute 2 new cases of this entity to help establish its clinical and epidemiological characteristics and make its etiology better known. |
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