Clinical study of geriatric dermatoses

A Clinical Study of Geriatric Dermatoses

Introduction: The geriatric population is composed of persons over 65 years of age and very few studies are available on the dermatologic diseases in this group. This study was done to study the spectrum of cutaneous manifestations and prevalence of physiological and pathological changes in the skin of elderly people. Material and Methods: Two hundred consecutive patients aged more than 65 year...

Penile dermatoses: a clinical and histopathological study.

OBJECTIVE To assess the spectrum of genital dermatological conditions affecting men and compare the clinical and histopathological diagnoses. DESIGN Prospective study over a one year period. SETTING A central London teaching hospital. PATIENTS Seventy one patients with unresponsive penile dermatoses attending a specific internal referral clinic within the department of genitourinary medic...

Non-Venereal Female Genital Dermatoses – A Clinical Study

Study of dermatoses in kidney transplant patients*

BACKGROUND The increasing in the number of kidney transplant recipients has favored, more frequently than before, the emergence of dermatoses and warranted their study through subsequent publications. OBJECTIVES to evaluate the frequency of dermatoses in kidney transplant recipients. METHODS kidney transplant recipients with suspected dermatoses between March 1st 2009 and June 30th 2010. ...

Pattern of geriatric dermatoses at a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital of South Rajasthan, India

Aging is an inevitable and continuous process with a variable spectrum of manifestations of all organ systems including the skin [1]. Due to the degenerative and metabolic changes occurring throughout the skin layers during the aging process, some inevitable changes such as dryness, wrinkling, and laxity of the skin, and atypical presentations of dermatologic diseases are observed in elderly pa...