Nonmutilating palmoplantar and periorificial kertoderma

Kertoderma Blenorrhagica

Childhood Granulomatous Periorificial Dermatitis

Childhood granulomatous periorificial dermatitis (CGPD), also known as facial Afro-Caribbean childhood eruption (FACE), is a distinctive granulomatous form of perioral dermatitis. It is a condition of unknown etiology, characterized by monomorphous, small, papular eruptions around the mouth, nose and eyes that histopathologically show a granulomatous pattern. It affects prepubescent children of...

Granulomatous Periorificial Dermatitis in a Young Woman

Granulomatous periorificial dermatitis is a skin disease presenting predominantly in prepubertal black-skinned children. It is characterized by tiny, monomorphous, papular eruptions around the mouth, nose and eyes. Extra-facial lesions in children had also been reported. These lesions are self-limited and resolved without scarring in most cases. We report a 28-year-old woman presented with pink...

Periorificial cutaneous tuberculosis of the vulva.

Periorificial cutaneous tuberculosis, or tuberculosis cutis orificialis, accounts for approximately 2% of cases of tuberculosis of the skin.1 It results from the auto-inoculation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis into the periorificial oropharyngeal, anal, or genital skin or mucosa from a pulmonary, intestinal, or genitourinary focus, respectively.2,3 The definitive diagnosis is made by the isolati...

Palmoplantar pustulosis and smoking.

A multicentre case-control study of 216 patients with palmoplantar pustulosis and 626 controls with miscellaneous dermatoses showed a considerably higher prevalence of smoking in the group with palmoplantar pustulosis. This was the first indication that smoking may be an important factor in this skin disease, possibly by affecting the inflammatory responses of the skin.