Woman With Diabetes has Atrophic Scars on Shins – Let’s Diagnose

During her annual physical, a 71-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes asked the doctor to take a look at her shins. They both had pink atrophic scars surrounded by hyperpigmented patches of skin. They had developed since her last physical and she wasn’t sure what caused them.

Is it diabetic dermopathy, stasis dermatitis, necrobiosis lipoidica, or lichen planus?

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