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Table 6 Differential diagnosis of cutaneous ulcers

From: Vascular ossification – calcification in metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease, and calciphylaxis – calcific uremic arteriolopathy: the emerging role of sodium thiosulfate

Drug reactions:

Warfarin

Circulatory Disorders:

Venous stasis

Peripheral arterial disease

Necrotizing vasculitis – Collagen vascular diseases -

Infectious endocarditis with septic emboli

Cholesterol emboli

CALCIPHYLAXIS (CPLX) – CALCIFIC UREMIC ARTERIOLOPATY (CUA)

Diabetes: (T1DM – T2DM)

Peripheral neuropathy

Peripheral vascular disease accelerated atherosclerosis (atheroscleropathy) ASO Insulin injection sites (sharp trauma)

Necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum?

Trauma

Sharp – Blunt – pressure ulcers at pressure points due to immobilization

Thermal (Hot or Cold [cryoglobulinaemia]) – Radiation

Radiation therapy

Miscellaneous

Brown Recluse spider bite

Malignant tumors

Inflammatory Diseases

Collagen Vascular Diseases – Necrotizing vasculitis specifically SLE, systemic sclerosis (Scleroderma)

Pyoderma gangrenosum usually associated with chronic inflammatory diseases such as: ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, and rheumatoid arthritis

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