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Clinical and Pathological Aspects of Skin Diseases in Endocrine, Metabolic, Nutritional and Deposition Disease

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  • Alcoholism is associated with many cutaneous stigmata.

  • Most of the skin manifestations significantly associated with alcoholism are mediated by liver toxicity.

  • Other cutaneous manifestations in alcoholics are due to nutritional and metabolic diseases that are capable of inducing skin symptoms.

  • Alcohol can exacerbate or trigger many common skin manifestations, which may exhibit atypical or severe manifestations in alcoholics.

  • Awareness of the skin manifestations of alcohol abuse can allow early detection and intervention for reducing the adverse medical implications.

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  1. Department of Dermatological Sciences, University of Florence, Via Lorenzo il Magnifico, 104, 50129, Florence, Italy

    Torello Lotti

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  1. College of Medicine, Dept. Pathology, University of Arkansas, W. Markham St. 4301, Little Rock, 72205, Arkansas, USA

    Bruce R. Smoller

  2. Dipto. Scienze Endocrinologiche e, Mediche, UniversitĂ  di Genova, Viale Francesco Gambaro 19/6, Genova, 16146, Italy

    Franco Rongioletti

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Lotti, T., D’Erme, A.M. (2010). Alcohol Abuse. In: Smoller, B., Rongioletti, F. (eds) Clinical and Pathological Aspects of Skin Diseases in Endocrine, Metabolic, Nutritional and Deposition Disease. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-181-3_15

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