Steroid skin Images
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Survey of the left arm: Generalized skin atrophy with diffuse, livid redness, telangiectasia, and partially follicular papules in an 81-year-old patient who has been treated with systemic steroids for 28 years because of COPD.

Detail enlargement of the left arm: Generalized skin atrophy with diffuse, livid redness, follicular papules (right picture) and telangiectasia (e.g. central in the picture) in a 81-year-old patient.

Steroid skin, induced by long-term treatment of a (now no longer detectable) perioral dermatitis, flat reddening of the face, combined with a persistent feeling of tension and itching.

Numerous telangiectasias and erythemas in variable skin conditions after years of use of topical glucocorticoids in a 50-year-old Turkish woman.

Steroid skin. detail magnification: Numerous telangiectasias and erythema on atrophic skin after years of use of topical glucocorticoids.


Generalizedskin atrophy with cigarette-paper-like wrinkling of the skin, multiple telangiectasias, hyperpigmentation and depigmentation on the right forearm of an 81-year-old female patient who had been treated with topical steroids for many years.