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		Chronic Venous Insufficiency and Postphlebitic Syndrome

The skin over the ankle is dark brown and scaling at the site of a varicose vein. These skin changes are typical of stasis dermatitis.

(From TB Fitzpatrick, Color Atlas and Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology, 3 ed, 1997, McGraw-Hill, Fig. 17-6; with permission.)