Peau d’orange – Orange peel skin

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Causes of peau d’orange –

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• Cellulite
• Infection
• Pseudoxanthoma elasticum
• Inflammatory breast cancer
• Graves’ dermopathy- Pretibial myxedema

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What is the common mechanism of Orange peel skin?

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Phenomenon in which hair follicles become buried in edema, giving the skin an ‘orange peel appearance’.

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• Peau d’orange on the breastseen in Inflammatory breast cancer,
• Inflammatory breast cancer – rare and very aggressive disease in which cancer cells block lymph vessels in the skin of the breast.
• This type of breast cancer is called “inflammatory” because the breast often looks swollen and red, or inflamed

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Pseudoxanthoma elasticum – Where the peau d’orange is observed?

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Peau d’orange occur in the eye due to breaks in Bruch’s Membrane called angioid streaks, which are common in pseudoxanthoma elasticum

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