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Endocrine Skin Diseases

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This chapter consists of pretibial myxedema, calcinosis cutis, idiopathic scrotal calcinosis, unilateral nevoid acanthosis nigricans, malignant acanthosis nigricans complicated by gastric adenocarcinoma, hyperandrogenism, insulin resistance and acanthosis nigricans syndrome, and necrolytic migratory erythema.

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Li, L. et al. (2018). Endocrine Skin Diseases. In: Zhu, WY., Tan, C., Zhang, Rz. (eds) Atlas of Skin Disorders. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8037-1_23

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