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Liver spots
Liver spots are black or brown spots on the skin that occur with aging and sun exposure. Despite their name, they are unrelated to problems with the liver.
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What are liver spots?
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How can you get rid of liver spots?
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A 33-year old asked:
Do people with freckles get more liver spots?
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A 28-year old asked:
Is it bad luck or bad genes that made me develop liver spots?
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A 39-year old asked:
Why do old people get bigger liver spots and young people just have freckles?
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A 30-year old asked:
What is the cream used for liver spots?
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A 50-year old asked:
Are there long-term effects of liver spots?
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A 30-year old asked:
Sudden outbreak of liver spots, what's wrong?
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A 29-year old asked:
Could I be getting liver spots on my foreskin?
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A 31-year old asked:
How can you get rid of liver spots (aka age spots) on your face?
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A 28-year old female asked:
How can i treat liver spots on my 11yr old neck spreading to is back?
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A 45-year old asked:
How to get rid of liver spots on my arms?
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A 24-year old asked:
My mother has liver spots. Should I be worried for what this means?
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A 35-year old male asked:
what is it if you get spots on your legs that look like liver spots but they're black?
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A 42-year old asked:
Does african lack soap get rid of black spots and liver spots or is this just a rumor?
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A 48-year old asked:
Why do i have liver spots and dark circles under my eyes even though I'm only 18 years old?
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A 37-year old female asked:
is liver spots on the soles of feet a signal of a health condition. I have a lot and no sun exposure to my feet?
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A 33-year old asked:
Ugly liver sun spots. Please tell me how to get rid of spots fast?
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A 33-year old female asked:
Survival rate of using chemoembolization 4 advaned metastatic liver? We took chemo for 2.5 yrs..spread 2 whole liver & 2 spots in lungs?65 yrs old
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A 44-year old female asked:
My mother has stage iv colon cancer that has mestitized to the liver. She has 15 tumors in liver with spots in her lungs and lymph nodes. Prognosis?
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A 40-year old asked:
What can spots liver mean on ultrasound?
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A 50-year old female asked:
Choroidal Melanoma (1994). No issues since treatment til now. U/S shows 2 spots liver (8.2cm/2.1cm), waiting on MRI. If cancer would this likely be considered metastasized from original cancer?
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A 33-year old female asked:
Mum had coloncancer resection3 yrs ago wiz 2 spots in liver.chemo fr 2 yrs.stoped 7 mnth,liver now has big tumor15cm &7.5 & spread 2 lung.livr dysfunc?
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A 25-year old male asked:
Female 55 years old, many lymph node in abdomal cavity, hypodensity spots in liver (CT scan suspect peritoneal cancer), CA 19-9: 190. What's disease?
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A 29-year old asked:
Brown spots on the skin? What does liver have to do with them?
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A 50-year old asked:
Which disease puts dry spots on the liver?
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A 41-year old male asked:
The white spots on the skin are caused by sun exposure or has any connection with the liver or nervous?
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A 40-year old asked:
I have spots on my stomach please help? Could it be liver or kidney problems?
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A 47-year old asked:
I recently had a CT scan and they found spots on my liver, what could this be.having another CT scan w/contrast next week?
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A 22-year old female asked:
Is my liver failing? I have biliary atresia, depression, psorisis, and my thighs are covered with unexplained bruises and blood spots?
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