Pityriasis rotunda as an incidental paraneoplastic finding in two patients with multiple myeloma.

abstract：:Follicular mucinosis is a rare chronic inflammatory disease of unknown aetiology, presenting as mucin deposits around the follicles and sebaceous glands. It can progress to alopecia of the scalp and other hairy areas. Follicular mucinosis may be a benign primary idiopathic disorder or secondary to malignant lymphoprol...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Passaro EM,Silveira MT,Valente NY

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lichen planus (LP) is an inflammatory disease of the skin and mucous membranes. Autoimmunity has been suggested as a possible cause of this disease. The cyclooxygenase enzymes (COX-1, COX-2) are the key enzymes in the conversion of arachidonic acid into prostaglandins. Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), a key product ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： El-Rifaie AA,Rashed LA,Doss RW

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This randomized double-blind controlled study examined whether sulphydryl-containing agents influence the healing of venous ulceration occurring for the first time on the medial side of the leg. Graduated compression bandaging, which exerted a mean ankle pressure of 40.6 +/- 0.4 mmHg, and a mean below-knee pressure of...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Salim AS

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that the protein MIA (melanoma inhibitory activity) is a potent serum marker for malignant melanoma. MIA is expressed in chondrocytes at high levels, and might potentially be elevated during periods of growth in childhood. Therefore, we evaluated MIA serum levels in pregnant women and in grow...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Bosserhoff AK,Küster H,Hein R

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic cutaneous lesions affect 15% of human patients with diabetes, and the associated risk of limb amputations is 15-46 times greater than that of people with normal glycaemia. It is estimated that half of these limb amputations could be avoided by opportune treatment with somatic stem cells or platelet-r...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Argôlo Neto NM,Del Carlo RJ,Monteiro BS,Nardi NB,Chagastelles PC,de Brito AF,Reis AM

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Haemangioma of infancy (HOI) is the most frequently occurring benign tumour of infancy. A good, reliable and objective scoring system for haemangioma activity is not yet available. AIM:We have developed a simple system called the Haemangioma Activity Score (HAS) for scoring the (disease) proliferative activ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Janmohamed SR,de Waard-van der Spek FB,Madern GC,de Laat PC,Hop WC,Oranje AP

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vitiligo is a pigmentation disorder of autoimmune aetiology. Polymorphisms in beta-defensin genes have been linked to a predisposition to some autoimmune disorders. AIM:To evaluate the role of polymorphisms in DEFB1, the gene encoding for human beta-defensin (HBD)-1 and its 5' untranslated region in nonsegm...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Ochoa-Ramírez LA,Becerra-Loaiza DS,Díaz-Camacho SP,Muñoz-Estrada VF,Ríos-Burgueño ER,Prado-Montes de Oca E,Rangel-Villalobos H,Velarde-Félix JS

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of neonatal lupus erythematosus (NLE) in a black infant presenting with symmetrical depigmented macules on the face resembling vitiligo. NLE is a rare condition affecting newborn infants of mothers who have connective tissue disease, with or without autoantibodies to extractable nuclear antigens Ro (...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Jenkins RE,Kurwa AR,Atherton DJ,Black MM

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the challenging case of a patient presenting with extensive, eruptive mid-facial squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) and keratoacanthomas (KAs) consequent to radiotherapy. Our patient had a personal and family history of multiple KAs and SCCs. Multiple self-healing squamous epithelioma, otherwise known as Ferg...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Robertson SJ,Bashir SJ,Pichert G,Robson A,Whittaker S

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Langerhans cells in the lentigines of four patients with the Leopard syndrome contained large membrane bound accumulations of melanin granules. Giant melanosomes were only seen in two patients. The patients had no immune-based symptoms relating to their lentigines. The Leopard Syndrome, also known as multiple lent...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Fryer PR,Pope FM

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 59-year-old woman with a single cuff-like plaque, consisting of multiple skin-coloured to bluish cysts and comedones on her right forearm is reported. The solitary lesion resembled, morphologically and histologically, the Favre-Racouchot syndrome. The above condition is another case of the previously described actin...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： John SM,Hamm H

更新日期：1993-05-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Intraoperative frozen section analysis (IFSA) is traditionally performed for complex and high-risk non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) resections, particularly when surgery under a general anaesthetic and a complex reconstruction is required, and where Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS) is not available. METHODS...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Moncrieff MD,Shah AK,Igali L,Garioch JJ

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although surgery may be curative in early malignant melanoma, its effect on survival lessens with each succeeding stage of the disease. A wide variety of immunological strategies have therefore been used to improve the prognosis of patients with malignant melanoma, but adjuvant therapy with interferon (IFN)-alpha is t...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Russell-Jones R

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The main cause of lichen simplex chronicus (LSC) is not known but there is evidence to suggest that neurological abnormalities may be implicated in its aetiology. AIM:To investigate neuropathy in patients with LSC on the limbs. METHODS:In total, 23 consecutive patients [15 women (65.2%) and 8 men (34.8%); ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Solak O,Kulac M,Yaman M,Karaca S,Toktas H,Kirpiko O,Kavuncu V

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An earlier standard syphilology textbook states that 'If vesicles are an essential part of an eruption in an adult, the lesions are not due to secondary syphilis'. However, vesicular and bullous eruptions do occur in congenital syphilis and rare reports of both vesicular and pustular eruptions in adults with secondary...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Lawrence P,Saxe N

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen patients with psoriasis received long-term treatment with cyclosporin (CsA). Among patients there was great variability in the minimal effective CsA dose. In most patients long-term treatment was limited due to dose reductions made necessary because of side-effects. The therapeutic window for CsA seems small....

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Korstanje MJ,Van de Staak WJ

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, a new population of IL-17-producing CD4 T helper (Th) cells, named Th17, was identified and shown to be involved in various inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, including psoriasis. AIM:To determine the frequency of Th17 cells and related cytokines in peripheral blood of patients with psoriasis, ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Chhabra S,Narang T,Joshi N,Goel S,Sawatkar G,Saikia B,Dogra S,Bansal F,Minz R

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with primary malignant melanoma localized to the right gluteal region is described. Four years later and after intercurrent influenza, disseminated metastases of malignant melanoma to the skin occurred. After a further 6 months melanodermia developed and lasted until the death of the patient (6 months later)...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Péc J,Plank L,Mináriková E,Palencárová E,Rollová Y,Lazárová Z,Auxtová S,Lauko L

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumoral calcinosis is an uncommon ectopic calcification syndrome characterized clinically by the presence of irregular, painless, periarticular soft tissue calcifying masses, and pathologically by fibrous-walled cystic spaces containing structureless calcific debris and associated with a variable inflammatory reaction...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Harwood CA,Cook MG,Mortimer PS

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Verrucous cyst is an uncommon nonplantar epidermoid (infundibular) cyst with verrucous changes in its wall. We present the first case of trichilemmal cyst (isthmus-catagen cyst) with verrucous changes of its squamous lining. ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Misago N,Narisawa Y

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient of Malay ancestry with dermatopathia pigmentosa reticularis (DPR) resulting from a recurrent KRT14 p.R125C mutation. The patient has reticulate hyperpigmentation over his trunk and proximal limbs, together with onychodystrophy. Despite the absence of noncicatricial alopecia, he has acral nonscarrin...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Goh BK,Common JE,Gan WH,Kumarasinghe P

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The dorsum of the hand is a common site for squamous cell carcinoma, and excision with appropriate margins often results in surgical defects that cannot be repaired by primary side-to-side closure. AIM:To assess healing time, complications and resulting scars when surgical wounds on the dorsum of the hand w...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Lateo SA,Langtry JA

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Emerging evidence indicates that plasma interleukin (IL)-17 levels may be associated with increased risk of psoriasis, but the individual published results are inconclusive. AIM:To evaluate IL-17 levels in patients with psoriasis using a meta-analysis of studies comparing IL-17 levels in controls and in pat...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Zhou XY,Bao J,Huang B,Jin Y

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia (AHE) is a benign reactive vascular lesion characterized by a proliferation of small to medium sized vascular structures lined by epithelioid endothelial cells. We report a 75-year-old woman with a 1-month history of a painful ulcer on the tongue. Histopathological findings ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Garrido-Ríos AA,Sanz-Muñoz C,Torrero-Antón MV,Martínez-García G,Miranda-Romero A

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alopecia areata (AA) is a recurrent, immune-mediated, hair-loss disorder. It is associated with other autoimmune disorders that carry a high risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, there is a lack of reports on the association of cardiovascular comorbidities and AA. Cardiac troponin I is a biomarker of myocardi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： El-Sayed Mahmoud Marie R,El-Sayed GAK,Attia FM,Gomaa AHA

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic factors predisposing individuals to Behçet's disease (BD) are considered to play important roles in the development of the disease. Patients with BD exhibit elevated levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines, and affected organs show a significant neutrophil and lymphocyte infiltration. Current evidence suggests th...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Sallakci N,Bacanli A,Coskun M,Yavuzer U,Alpsoy E,Yegin O

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 72-year-old woman with chronic renal failure requiring haemodialysis developed acute iododerma twice, after receiving iodide contrast dye for radiological procedures. Iododerma was localized to the face, scalp and elbows and was associated with papular purpura of the legs. Histopathology of the skin lesions showed a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Vaillant L,Pengloan J,Blanchier D,De Muret A,Lorette G

更新日期：1990-05-01 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：:Mohs' surgery for basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is widely recommended by dermatologists as first line surgical therapy for recurrent or ill-defined skin tumours. The technique assumes that BCC spread by contiguous growth and that all tumour cells have to be removed. Advocates claim that Mohs' surgery provides a better ch...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental dermatology

authors： Lawrence CM

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00