Keratosis circumscripta

A case of calcinosis circumscripta.

Calcinosis, or chalk gout as it is commonly named owing to the tophus-like swellings it presents, is a slowly progressing condition of unknown aetiology and pathogenesis. Two types are described, circumscripta and universalis. The female sex is the more commonly affected. The circumscripta variety usually occurs in those in middle or late life. Discussion Atkinson and Parkes Weber (1938) from w...

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Dr. A.R. Verhagen, St. Joseph Hospital, Aalsterweg, Eindhoven (The Netherlands) Dear Sir, In 1964 [1] and 1966 [2], Shrank described ‘keratosis circumscripta’ as a separate entity in Nigeria. Soyinka andLaja [3] suggest that it is a variant of psoriasis. Between 1965 and 1974 we saw a number of patients who fitted Shrank’s description in Kenya, East Africa. About 10 cases were studied and obser...

Idiopathic circumscripta calcinosis cutis of the knee.

BACKGROUND Calcinosis cutis, a disease characterized by the presence of calcium deposits in the skin, is classified into four types according to etiology: dystrophic, metastatic, iatrogenic and idiopathic. The dystrophic form is the most common while the idiopathic one is the rarest, but specific incidence and frequency data are not available in scientific literature. OBJECTIVE Calcinosis cut...

[Myositis ossificans circumscripta: a case report].

Myositis ossificans circumscripta is a benign lesion characterized by focal heterotopic soft tissue ossification, occurring in young people generally after localized trauma. Clinical and radiological appearances may mimic a sarcomatous neoplastic process. We report a case of myositis ossificans occurring after trauma, so as to illustrate the different imaging features of this benign pathology o...

Inverted follicular keratosis = نارقتلا يبارجلا بولقملا INVERTED FOLLICULAR KERATOSIS