Generalized Eosinophilic Pustular Folliculitis of Infancy Responding to Hydroxyzine

Generalized Eosinophilic Pustular Folliculitis of Infancy Responding to Hydroxyzine

458 Ann Dermatol Received May 12, 2014, Revised August 26, 2014, Accepted for publication August 26, 2014 Corresponding author: Hyun Jeong Park, Department of Dermatology, Yeouido St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 10 63-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul 150-713, Korea. Tel: 82-2-3779-1230, Fax: 82-2-783-7604, E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Acces...

Eosinophilic Pustular Folliculitis Associated with Cutaneous Angiosarcoma

Two cases of eosinophilic pustular folliculitis associated with pregnancy

lated to play an important role in the pathogenesis of PG. A marked persistent leukocytosis (White blood cells, >50 000/lL) with bandemia, when the cause is other than leukemia, defines a leukemoid reaction. The major causes of leukemoid reactions include severe infections, intoxications and malignancies. A previous report showed that severe PG with extensive ulceration may have leukocytosis. T...

Therapeutic effectiveness of various treatments for eosinophilic pustular folliculitis.

Eosinophilic pustular folliculitis is a rare dermatosis. Recently, in addition to oral indomethacin, other treatments have been applied for eosinophilic pustular folliculitis. The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of various therapies encompassing conventional to newly applied drugs for eosinophilic pustular folliculitis. Twenty patients with eosinophilic pustular folliculitis s...

Acrosyringeal involvement of palmoplantar lesions of eosinophilic pustular folliculitis.

© 2013 The Authors. doi: 10.2340/00015555-1372 Journal Compilation © 2013 Acta Dermato-Venereologica. ISSN 0001-5555 Eosinophilic pustular folliculitis (EPF) is an inflammatory disease characterized by pruritic follicular papulopustules of unknown aetiology. Histopathologically, a number of eosinophils infiltrate around and into hair follicles. Nevertheless, EPF uncommonly affects the palms and...