Epidermal nevus syndrome: association with central precocious puberty and woolly hair nevus.

abstract：:Oral juvenile xanthogranuloma is a rare condition, with only 10 histologically proven cases previously described. A histologically unusual variant is reported here, diagnosis of which was aided by the use of immunohistochemical stains. Previously reported cases are reviewed, and their characteristics are tabulated and...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Satow SJ,Zee S,Dawson KH,Gown AM,Oda D,Worthington P

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early recognition of melanoma is the key in preventing metastatic disease. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to evaluate diagnostic ability of general practitioners (GPs) and dermatologists concerning pigmented skin lesions in general and melanoma in particular. We also investigated whether the diagnostic...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Brochez L,Verhaeghe E,Bleyen L,Naeyaert JM

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 28-month-old boy had firm, red nodules for 4 months that were mostly localized to the face. The eruption was preceded by conjunctivitis, eyelid edema, and swelling of the root of the nose. He also had dyspnea, anisocoria with areflexia, swelling of the parotid glands, and hepatosplenomegaly. A bone marrow aspirate s...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Caputo R,Grimalt R,Ermacora E,Cavicchini S,Portaleone D

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple basal cell epitheliomas developed in two psoriatic patients during treatment with orally administered 8-methoxypsoralen and long-wave ultraviolet radiation (PUVA). Twenty-two basal cell epitheliomas (BCEs) were seen in the two patients, 80% occurring in non-sun-exposed areas. Since neither patient had any his...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Brown FS,Burnett JW,Robinson HM Jr

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary prevention of skin cancer must start early in life to reduce total life-time sun exposure and severe overexposure in childhood. Childhood is an excellent time to form life-long prevention habits. A school-based curriculum can be an effective prevention strategy. OBJECTIVE:Our purpose was to determin...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Buller DB,Buller MK,Beach B,Ertl G

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with sarcoidosis was treated with thalidomide for disfiguring and painful steroid unresponsive sarcoidal granulomas of the skin. The duration of the therapy was 14 months, during which time, the skin lesions resolved almost completely. The initial dosage was 200 mg a day, which was increased to 400 mg a day ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Lee JB,Koblenzer PS

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Available information of the effect of sun exposure on the biologic activity and morphologic characteristics of nevi is based on a few cross-sectional studies. According to these, nevi excised in summer show a higher mitotic count, a greater extent of the junctional component, and more frequent regression an...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Stanganelli I,Rafanelli S,Bucchi L

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been a resurgence of syphilis in the past decade. Uncommonly, diffuse hair loss, termed essential alopecia, is the only sign of syphilitic infection. We describe two patients with syphilis in whom the first sign of disease was alopecia and discuss the clinical and histopathologic findings of essential syphil...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Cuozzo DW,Benson PM,Sperling LC,Skelton HG 3rd

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A number of factors other than those identified by the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) may have prognostic significance in the evaluation of melanoma. OBJECTIVE:We sought to evaluate commonly recorded clinical features potentially associated with aggressive melanoma. METHODS:We conducted a retros...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Donahue T,Lee CY,Sanghvi A,Obregon R,Sidiropoulos M,Cooper C,Merkel EA,Yélamos O,Ferris L,Gerami P

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies suggest that ultraviolet (UV) A1 phototherapy is an effective treatment for localized scleroderma (LS); however, the optimum UVA1 dose remains to be determined. OBJECTIVE:We sought to compare the immediate and long-term efficacy of low- versus medium-dose UVA1 phototherapy for plaque-type LS....

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Sator PG,Radakovic S,Schulmeister K,Hönigsmann H,Tanew A

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blue-brown macules of the face occurring on both sides of the forehead, temple, eyelids, malar area, alae of the nose, and root of the nose are often observed in middle-aged Japanese women. These lesions histologically are a form of dermal melanocytosis as shown by electron microscopic examination. They differ clinica...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Hori Y,Kawashima M,Oohara K,Kukita A

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prognosis of drug-induced hypersensitivity syndrome (DiHS)/drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) is highly unpredictable. Severe complications, either related or unrelated to cytomegalovirus (CMV) reactivation, are a highly probable cause of death. OBJECTIVES:The aim was to estab...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Mizukawa Y,Hirahara K,Kano Y,Shiohara T

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct-to-consumer teledermatology is radically changing the way some patients obtain dermatologic care. Many direct-to-consumer teledermatology services offer care to patients younger than 18 years, but policies and standards are nonuniform. For pediatric patients, direct-to-consumer teledermatology is a substantial ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Fogel AL,Teng J,Sarin KY

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pruritus is a common symptom in patients with hepatobiliary disease. Numerous treatments have been attempted. We review published therapeutic trials for hepatobiliary pruritus and utilize statistical analysis to evaluate treatment results. Randomized placebo-controlled studies show cholestyramine, rifampin, naloxone, ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Connolly CS,Kantor GR,Menduke H

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 16-year-old male patient had multiple angiokeratotic lesions arranged in a linear pattern on his left arm. Histopathologic examination showed characteristic features of verrucous hemangioma. This entity should be distinguished from angiokeratoma or simple hemangioma. The linear arrangement of lesions as observed in ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Wentscher U,Happle R

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical, electron microscopic, and freeze-fracture features of the skin of a harlequin fetus are described. Ultrastructural findings included large, concentric lamellar bodies, focal absence of intercellular stratum corneum lipid, and an increase in the size of desmosomes and the number of tight junctions. Althou...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Fleck RM,Barnadas M,Schulz WW,Roberts LJ,Freeman RG

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Keratoacanthoma (KA) is currently considered a benign epithelial neoplasm. We report a patient with a lesion diagnosed as a KA that behaved aggressively like a squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). Similar reports are not uncommon in the literature. Because there are currently no criteria by which KA can be differentiated fr...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Goldenhersh MA,Olsen TG

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nail apparatus melanoma (or subungual melanoma) is rare and accounts for only 1.4% of all cutaneous melanomas in the United Kingdom. We report the use of fixed-tissue Mohs micrographic surgery to treat a biopsy-proven Clark level I in situ nail apparatus melanoma, presenting with diffuse longitudinal melanonychia. ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Banfield CC,Dawber RP,Walker NP,Stables GI,Zeina B,Schomberg K

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four female patients with chromoblastomycosis were completely cured by prolonged topical application of tolerable heat from pocket warmers. The lesions involuted after 2, 3, and 6 months, respectively, in three patients who faithfully followed our strict treatment schedule, in contrast to the fourth patient who perfor...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Tagami H,Ginoza M,Imaizumi S,Urano-Suehisa S

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hereditary polymorphic light eruption (HPLE) occurs unique ly in the American Indian and Inuit and exhibits autosomal dominant transmission. Because the cutaneous expression of HPLE resembles that of polymorphic light eruption (PLE) and because many non-Indians in the United States have American Indian herit...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Fusaro RM,Johnson JA

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Molluscum contagiosum (MC) is a common and at times severely disfiguring cutaneous viral infection in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to describe the clinical course of MC in patients with HIV infection and to examine the relation between p...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Schwartz JJ,Myskowski PL

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The PA Patch, a new multiple-antigen, predispensed patch testing device, was compared to the Finn Chamber in subjects with previous positive patch tests. After pressing the PA Patch well, the PA Patch performed as well as the Finn Chamber in nine subjects tested. ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Marks JG Jr,Westheim A,Snipes W

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A young woman developed minocycline-related lupus erythematosus with associated autoimmune hepatitis. All clinical and laboratory abnormalities returned to normal when the drug was stopped. The symptoms worsened dramatically upon rechallenge, strongly suggesting the reaction was related to the minocycline. ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Crosson J,Stillman MT

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the cathepsin C gene have recently been detected in Papillon-Lefèvre syndrome (PLS). Until now, 5 cases with the late-onset variation of this disease have been reported in the literature. The genetic background of this type of PLS is still unknown. We describe a 46-year-old woman with late-onset transgred...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Pilger U,Hennies HC,Truschnegg A,Aberer E

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kawasaki disease, or mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children in the United States and other developed countries. Coronary artery lesions are the most significant cause of morbidity and mortality. Treatment should ideally be provided within 10 days of symptom onset ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Bayers S,Shulman ST,Paller AS

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Palliative care has been shown to improve quality of life, symptom, and caregiver burden for a range of life-limiting diseases. Palliative care use among patients with severe dermatologic disease remain relatively unexplored, but the limited available data suggest significant unmet care needs and low rates of palliati...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Thompson LL,Chen ST,Lawton A,Charrow A

更新日期：2020-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid autoimmunity has been increasingly reported to be associated with chronic urticaria and angioedema. The administration of thyroid hormone may alleviate chronic urticaria and/or angioedema in selected patients. This review focuses on the association of thyroid autoimmunity with chronic urticaria and/or angioede...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Heymann WR

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The incidence of delayed pressure urticaria (DPU) may have been underestimated, particularly in patients with widespread wheals of concurrent idiopathic urticaria, because of difficulty in recognizing the association between pressure-related swellings and the preceding physical stimulus. Diagnostic tests for...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Barlow RJ,Warburton F,Watson K,Black AK,Greaves MW

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Eczema is a common chronic inflammatory disease of the skin. Studies suggest differences in disease prevalence and severity by race/ethnicity. Our knowledge of health care utilization for eczema among different racial/ethnic groups remains limited. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate health care utilization for childhood...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Fischer AH,Shin DB,Margolis DJ,Takeshita J

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant melanoma presenting as an inflammatory skin metastasis has been described but is an exceedingly rare phenomenon. We report an unusual case of a patient who developed right leg lesions that were initially thought to be infectious in origin. There was no resolution of these lesions with antibiotic therapy, and...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Cotton J,Armstrong DJ,Wedig R,Hood AF

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00