How do you evaluate livedo reticularis (not livideo racemosa)?
Does your evaluation hinge on nonresolution with warming? How extensive is your workup?
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Dermatology · Yale School of Medicine
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Livedo reticularis appears as an interrupted vascular network on the lower limbs. One does not need to warm up the affected area in order to make this diagnosis. The response to heat usually occurs in cutis marmorata that is found in children. Livedo reticularis when it is acquired in teenage and la...
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