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Degos disease

How is it treated?

There is only symptomatic treatment for the condition although research continues to try to find effective drugs. Surgical intervention may be needed for gastrointestinal bleeding, gastrointestinal perforation, bowel infarction (death of tissue) or intracranial bleeding.

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Medical text written September 2004 by Contact a Family. Approved September 2004 by Dr A Theodoridis, Department of Dermatology, Charité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Germany.

 

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