SKIN CHANGES IN SOMATIC DISEASES
Skin lesions in somatic diseases reflect the relationship of skin diseases with impaired homeostasis and the state of internal organs. This connection is possible in several ways: physical illness is the cause of skin disease; skin lesions and physical illness have a common etiology and represent merely different manifestations of the same process. Cutaneous manifestations due to its clarity, are the first signs that attract the patient's attention long before other symptoms of physical illness. Medical task – to quickly identify the link between changes in the skin and discreetly developing somatic disease, which in its consequences for the patient can be immeasurably more dangerous than minor cosmetic defect. The earlier suspected the true cause of cutaneous manifestations and the patient will be sent for further examination, the sooner it will start pathogenetic rather than symptomatic treatment. This review describes the main changes of the skin when gastroenterology, nephrology, endocrinology and hematology diseases, knowledge of which will improve the efficiency of health care provision.