Vascular diseases are the most common cutaneous manifestations of reflex sympathetic dystrophy

Reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) is a chronic pain syndrome with prominen t cutaneous findings. Atrophy has been considered to be the most common man ifestation of the disease. We catalogued the abnormal skin conditions in RS D by means of chart review. Vascular problems were most common, followed by inflammatory diseases, infections, and atrophic diseases. Atrophic disease accounts For a minority of the skin problems seen in RSD. Most cutaneous c omplaints were related to vascular disease, particularly edema.