Pemphigus vulgaris following varicella infection.

abstract：:We report a case of cutaneous alternariosis in an immunocompetent 85-year-old man. Identification of the causative organism in this patient was achieved by 18S rRNA sequencing. A 6-month course of itraconazole led to a good clinical response. ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Williams C,Layton AM,Kerr K,Kibbler C,Barton RC

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three children (two boys and one girl) from the same family presented with photosensitivity, hyperpigmentation, hypertrichosis, mild skin fragility, blistering and scarring in childhood. On examination, the cutaneous lesions were found to have improved since their previous examinations. Laboratory tests showed raised ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Remenyik E,Lecha M,Badenas C,Kószó F,Vass V,Herrero C,Varga V,Emri G,Balogh A,Horkay I

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interferons are molecules with antiviral effects, which have been used for the treatment of verruca for many years. AIMS:To determine if sublesional interferon (IFN)-alpha injection offers an effective alternative treatment for common warts. METHODS:We compared the results of single-dose sublesional IFN ap...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Aksakal AB,Ozden MG,Atahan C,Onder M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in molecular diagnostics have led to the feasibility of DNA-based prenatal testing in families at risk for recurrence of severe forms of both dystrophic and junctional epidermolysis bullosa. In this report, we describe prenatal testing in a woman who previously had a child affected with Herlitz junctional epi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Fassihi H,Ashton GH,Denyer J,Mellerio JE,Mason G,McGrath JA

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Controlled trials and clinical experience indicate that systemic cyclosporin A and tacrolimus are effective treatments for psoriasis, and that cyclosporin A also improves atopic eczema. A variety of other inflammatory and non-inflammatory skin diseases are probably also responsive to these drugs. However, the widespre...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Reynolds NJ,Al-Daraji WI

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a man with a 3-year-history of a striking eruption of small, 2-3 mm diameter keratotic, crateriform papules distributed symmetrically over the lower limbs. Morphologically the individual papules closely resembled those described in acrokeratoelastoidosis (AK) of Costa and in focal acral hyperkeratosis of Dow...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Helbling I,Tucker SC,Chalmers RJ

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high-affinity receptor for immunoglobulin E (IgE), FcepsilonRI, plays a central role in the initiation and control of atopic allergic inflammation. On mast cells and basophils, the function of the receptor is well known and constitutes cellular degranulation and the release of various mediators. FcepsilonRI on ant...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： von Bubnoff D,Novak N,Kraft S,Bieber T

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is often complicated by severe skin ulcers that are unresponsive to traditional treatments. Vascular alterations are responsible for the ischaemic features of the disease in both the skin and visceral organs. Defective neoangiogenesis correlates with an abnormally reduced quantity of circulati...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Ferri C,Giuggioli D,Manfredi A,Quirici N,Scavullo C,Colaci M,Gianelli U,Deliliers GL,Del Papa N

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyostomatitis vegetans is a rare oral disorder often associated with gastrointestinal and/or cutaneous diseases and sometimes with other disorders. The association of pyostomatitis vegetans with inflammatory bowel disease, particularly ulcerative colitis, is well known and in most cases bowel disease precedes the onse...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Hegarty AM,Barrett AW,Scully C

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data on the dermoscopic features of fungal melanonychia are limited. AIM:To identify the dermoscopic features of fungal melanonychia. METHODS:We reviewed patient files, clinical history and dermoscopic images of all cases with a diagnosis of fungal melanonychia seen at our dermoscopy unit within the past y...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Kilinc Karaarslan I,Acar A,Aytimur D,Akalin T,Ozdemir F

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucocutaneous side-effects from etretinate are common and are usually dose-dependent, whereas hypersensitivity drug eruptions are rare. Two patients are described in whom erythema multiforme-like eruptions appeared several days after oral intake of etretinate. In one patient etretinate rechallenge again produced the s...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： David M,Sandbank M,Lowe NJ

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papilloma virus is a common and often distressing cutaneous disease. It can be therapeutically challenging, especially in immunocompromised patients. We report a case of recalcitrant cutaneous warts that resolved with intravenous cidofovir treatment. The patient was immunocompromised secondary to monoclonal anti...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： McAleer MA,Bourke J

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a rare case of cutaneous abscess by Trichosporon asahii in an immunocompetent adult. A 31-year-old Korean woman presented to our hospital with a cutaneous abscess. She had received an intralesional steroid injection 4 months earlier on the site of a hypertrophic scar. Direct sequencing of the intergenic spac...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Yun SJ,Lee JB,Shin MG,Kim SJ,Won YH,Lee SC

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extramammary Paget's disease (EMPD) is considered to be an intraepithelial adenocarcinoma. Typically involved anatomical sites are the vulvar, perianal, perineal, scrotal and penile regions. Clinically, the lesions present as well-defined, moist, erythematous plaques usually accompanied by pruritus. An unusual feature...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Pascual JC,Perez-Ramos M,Devesa JP,Kutzner H,Requena L

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous amyloidosis and multiple endocrine neoplasia 2A (MEN 2A) have been previously reported in several families. A genetic linkage of both disorders has recently been described. Notalgia paraesthetica has been suggested to be involved in the aetiology of amyloidosis in such patients. We report such an association...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： de Argila D,Ortiz-Romero PL,Ortiz-Frutos J,Rodriguez-Peralto JL,Iglesias L

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a combined cutaneous hamartoma in a 57-year-old man, which comprised a vellus hair cyst, an epidermoid cyst and an intradermal melanocytic naevus in a single facial tumour. The vellus hair cyst was filled with keratinous material with unusual slit-like lacunae. While numerous cases of epidermoid cyst have ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Tsuruta D,Nakagawa K,Taniguchi S,Kobayashi H,Hamada T,Ishii M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple cutaneous and uterine leiomyomata (MCL) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by the development of benign smooth muscle tumours (leiomyomas) in the skin and uterus of affected women, and in the skin of affected men. In rare cases, MCL has been associated with a predisposition to the rare type II pa...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Chuang GS,Martinez-Mir A,Engler DE,Gmyrek RF,Zlotogorski A,Christiano AM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 68-year-old woman developed allergic contact dermatitis to topical metronidazole gel as proven by positive patch tests to the gel and to metronidazole. She was also allergic to methylchloroisothiazolinone and methylisothiazolinone (MC/MI). The similarity between the two molecules and the fact that the patient reacte...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Wolf R,Orion E,Matz H

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loceryl nail lacquer was developed to provide the effective antifungal drug, amorolfine, in a once-weekly dosage regimen combined with a convenient mode of application. Traditional formulations such as creams and nail solutions do not fulfil these requirements because they are wiped or washed off very rapidly. Amorolf...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Pittrof F,Gerhards J,Erni W,Klecak G

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of onychomycosis is mainly based on clinical diagnosis with auxiliary diagnostic methods such as potassium hydroxide (KOH) microscopy, periodic acid-Schiff staining or fungal culture. However, each method is limited by its sensitivity and specificity. AIM:To develop a new test method using th...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Ho WT,Li Y,Yang S

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Kindler syndrome (KS) is a rare autosomal recessive skin disorder, which was recently reclassified as a subtype of epidermolysis bullosa. Despite the fact that loss-of-function mutations in the FERMT1 gene, encoding kindlin-1, have been shown to cause the syndrome in numerous patients, a small number of typi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Fuchs-Telem D,Nousbeck J,Singer A,McGrath JA,Sarig O,Sprecher E

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of disseminated Kaposi sarcoma in a 76-year-old woman treated with low-dose steroids for a seronegative polyarthritis is described. HIV serology was negative, whereas PCR for HHV-8 was positive. The patient presented with a profound reduction in the peripheral blood CD4+ cell count and a decrease in serum immun...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Fierro MT,Savoia P,Quaglino P,Novero D,Bernengo MG

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunosuppression is recognized to predispose to the development of disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis and to cause the spread of pre-existing lesions. Porokeratosis of Mibelli has been less frequently described following immunosuppression and we report a further case. ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Wilkinson SM,Cartwright PH,English JS

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of autoimmune blistering diseases consists of systemic glucocorticosteroids usually in combination with additional immunosuppressants such as azathioprine and mycophenolate mofetil or immunomodulators such as dapsone, antibiotics, intravenous immunoglobulins, and immunoadsorption. In some patients, these tre...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Schmidt E,Hunzelmann N,Zillikens D,Bröcker EB,Goebeler M

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epidermal replacement is an important step in the management of patients with post-traumatic and iatrogenic scars. Skin-colour variation from disease or trauma causes significant changes in self-image and appearance. AIM:The aim of our study was to analyse the results obtained with a novel autologous cell-h...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Cervelli V,De Angelis B,Spallone D,Lucarini L,Arpino A,Balzani A

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoporosis has been observed with chronic hypervitaminosis A, leading some authors to hypothesize that systemic retinoids may have an effect on bone mineral density. Two previous small studies identified osteoporosis in patients who received long-term therapy with etretinate. Etretinate has now been superceeded by a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： McMullen EA,McCarron P,Irvine AD,Dolan OM,Allen GE

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythema multiforme (EM) is a common, self-limiting condition. Recurrent EM is a well-recognised variant, often associated with herpes simplex virus infection. It is frequently managed with prophylactic aciclovir. Anecdotal reports suggest that recurrent EM may be associated with the use of corticosteroids. Persistent...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Turnbull N,Hawkins D,Atkins M,Francis N,Roberts N

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Necrobiosis lipoidica is a well recognized but comparatively rare cutaneous complication of diabetes mellitus. The aetiology is probably multifactorial with microangiopathy, immune complex formation, abnormal collagen synthesis and breakdown, and altered haemostasis all thought to play a part. Necrobiosis lipoidica of...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Owen CM,Murphy H,Yates VM

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of an 80-year-old woman who developed extensive cutaneous calcification following intravenous phosphate administration is presented. Also the circumstances under which cutaneous calcification may occur are discussed. ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Mills CM,Knight AG

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contact hypersensitivity from topical corticosteroids is becoming increasingly recognized; it is present in 2-5% of the patients attending contact dermatitis clinics. The use of a corticosteroid series containing tixocortal pivalate 1% (petrolatum), to detect hypersensitivity to hydrocortisone, and other steroids 1% (...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Wilkinson SM

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00