What are the causes of liver spots?

sun damage.

Liver spots are caused by localized inflammation of blood vessels just below the skin. This is a category of vasculitis. Generally speaking, this happens to people who are older -- say above fifty.

sun damage. they are called liver spots because the coloring of them. they really have nothing to do with the liver.

Liver spots or Lentigo is a flat dark brown spot found mainly in the elderly on skin exposed to light. It is not from sun damage as in freckles and it is not related to the vascular system.

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