Photos of Degos Skin Lesions

Mature Lesions

These photos are of mature lesions caused by Degos Disease:

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  1. Lesions on the sole of the foot
  2. Scars left after healing. Lesions on foot had coalesced, broken down and ulcerated. Cellulitis developed with MRSA, and treated with Vancomycin. Ulcers eventually healed after 5 months with daily applications of Manuka honey and then neat Vitamin E (D-Alpha-tocopherol). Scars are sensitive and severe neurological pain has occurred at intervals, treated with Ketamine.
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  4. Smaller groups of lesions, now about 8 years old - all scars and no sensitivity at all.
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  7. Lesions about 8 years old. Many have coalesced. Some still become inflamed but most are now scars. The white atrophic centres are flaky.
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My God, I thought I had a lot of lesions, but this poor person is smothered in them and what I had must have been very mild. The thing I noticed was that like my outbreaks, some lesions were in clusters and some single, although I can't believe that some of the clusters are so close they are almost a continuous area of lesions with no unmarked skin showing through.

The other thing I noticed were that this person's lesions were both odd shapes and circular, whereas every one of my lesions were circular. My lesions never appeared as angry looking as some of these do and notwithstanding what my dermotologist said 25-odd years ago, it shows that they do appear on the soles of the feet.

I think this record of photographs and others that I hope will be sent in, is a fantastic idea so that we can see how it affects different people and in what form their lesions manifest themselves. Are there any other people whose lesions dried up and shrunk, leaving them with just small, round, white spots like mine, which never change colour no matter how tanned my skin gets? I think I had Degos for roughly 2 years before they started to go, on their own, without any medical intervention.

This first set of pictures makes me realise how lucky I was. I await further pictures with great interest.

I had a look at the pictures and I would say they seem really typical for Degos since they show the typical central porcelain-white scarring with the peripheral erythema. What is slightly unusual is the extent of the lesions (they are really big); however this does not put the clinical diagnosis at doubt.

Dr. Athanasios Theodoridis, MD

Private Practice in Dermatology Dr.med. Walter Taud, Dr.med. Claudia Vicktor, Dr.med. Katja Fuhrmeister
Tempelhofer Damm 119
12099 Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 7516048
Fax: +49 30 7527000
E-mail: drtheodoridis@yahoo.com

Departments of Dermatology, Venereology, Allergology and Immunology
Dessau Medical Center Auenweg 38
06847 Dessau
Germany
Tel.: +49 340 5014000
E-mail: drtheodoridis@yahoo.com

These Degos lesions are actually pretty characteristic and should be recognised by any experienced Dermatologist.

Dr Peter Coburn FRCP Consultant Dermatologist, Worthing and Southlands Hospitals, West Sussex, UK.

Stephanie’s Photos

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The first picture of my left pinky finger is the latest spot that I noticed, so it is still raised & red.

The 3rd pic (the one that looks crusty) is an old spot that has gotten irritated.

All of the other spots are old... & yes, they are on the sole of my one foot too....I just picked a few & photographed them! I hope others do the same!

Degos lesions from birth – Becky Street, who died 23rd October 2008, aged 15 months

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  1. taken 6 days after birth
  2. taken 10 days after birth
  3. taken 41 days ater birth
  4. a new lesion starting on foot
  5. becky now 3 and a half months old & these 2 lesions were the 2 she was born with
  6. nearly 4 mths old, right arm-got bigger and darker, & a new 1 on left arm
  7. a closer look at right arm
  8. 5 months old, all new lesions appearing on back
  9. 5months old more new lesions appearing
  10. just over 5 months old now, the big lesion is the 1 she was born with
  11. 10th march, the morning of the 1st biopsy
  12. 9months old,more new lesions appearing
  13. 2 months after biopsy and site still not healing (it never did heal)
  14. the 5th of september this year
  15. the 12th september this year, the lesion above rebecca's knee is 1 of the 2 lesions that she was born with
  16. 27th september this year
  17. 19th september
  18. this photo was taken 5th october this year

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