Cutaneous blood flow and peripheral resistance in type II diabetes as compared to intermittent claudication patients

Skin blood flow in necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum*

“…Therefore, we have proposed that decreased skin blood flow is a manifestation of a cutaneous diabetic microangiopathy. Cutaneous microangiopathy affects both type I and type II diabetic patients 18,19 . It is possible that NLD is related to this microangiopathy, and that these lesions represent areas of ischemia.…”