Other names: purpura
Petechiae look like tiny red to purple spots on the skin or mucosa, and are actually tiny burrs from the smallest blood vessels.
May arise even in a healthy person who is exposed to a force, wherein small vessels locally burst, for example, if made at a specific location of the skin sufficient vacuum, certainly with petechiae appear.
If they occur spontaneously or after a slight violence are indicative of some disease. Their appearance may indicate a low level of platelets in the blood (thrombocytopenia professionally) also occur during certain infectious fevers. Rarer causes some vasculitis, inflammatory vascular disease.
Petechiae, which appear without obvious external cause, should be reason for doctor visits, may be a sign of serious internal disease.
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