Benign Degos' Disease Developing During Pregnancy and Followed for 10 Years

Benign Degos' disease developing during pregnancy and followed for 10 years.

Degos' disease, or malignant atrophic papulosis, is a rare and often fatal multisystem vasculopathy of unknown etiology. The cutaneous manifestations comprise erythematous papules, which heal to leave scars with a pathognomonic central porcelain-white atrophic area and a peripheral telangiectatic rim. Involvement of the gastrointestinal tract is observed in 50% of cases, with intestinal perfora...

Benign cutaneous Degos disease

A 41-year-old woman presented with a 2-year history of multiple asymptomatic pea-sized papules with an erythematous, telangiectatic rim surrounding an atrophic, porcelain-white center on the trunk and extremities (Figure 1). She had experienced abdominal fullness and vomiting for 1 year. Histopathologic examination of a skin biopsy from the left forearm revealed hyperkeratosis, epidermal atroph...

Sequels 10 years after thoracoscopic procedures for benign disease.

OBJECTIVE Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) is recognized to be as effective as open thoracic surgery for a variety of diagnostic and therapeutic conditions, but with significantly less morbidity. Chronic postoperative pain (CPP) is defined as persisting more than 2 months after the procedure. CPP and other neurological sensations like dysesthesia or numbness are found frequently, but litt...

Cocaine use during pregnancy and health outcome after 10 years.

BACKGROUND Women who used cocaine during pregnancy may become at risk for increased physical and mental health problems. METHODS Three hundred and twenty-one (158 cocaine use during pregnancy (PC), 163 no cocaine (NC)) women were assessed using the Health Survey Questionnaire (SF-36V2) 10 years after infant birth. Factors related to mental and physical health, and co-occurring with PC, were e...

[Dowling-Degos disease].