Weil’s disease with cutaneous manifestation

Cutaneous manifestation of internal disease.

Rosai-Dorfman disease presenting with extensive cutaneous manifestation - Case report*

Rosai-Dorfman disease is a benign, self-limited, idiopathic proliferative histiocytic disorder. It was first described in 1969 by Rosai and Dorfman. In its typical form the disease is characterized by extensive cervical lymphadenopathy associated with fever, polyclonal gammopathy and leukocytosis with neutrophilia. The skin is the most common site affected. Extranodal manifestations have been r...

cutaneous manifestation in children with hiv/aids

the most recent studies have explained almost 2.3 million children are affected with hiv up to the end of 2009. sub-saharan africa is the main region to at least 68% of the global total of hiv infection of 22.5 million. despite providing competent healthcare services to prevent mother-to-child transmission which is the main way of infection to a newborn, an estimated 370,000 children were newly...

Kyrle's disease: a cutaneous manifestation of diabetes mellitus.

Lokesh V, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-220023 Description A 52-year-old female patient presented to the dermatology department with complaints of itchy skin lesions all over the body for past 3 months. She was a known case of type 2 diabetes mellitus for 10 years which was poorly controlled on oral antidiabetes medications. On cutaneous examination, multiple, discrete, hyperpi...

'Nodular necrobiosis': a new cutaneous manifestation of Crohn's disease?

A skin lesion previously unassociated with Crohn's disease is described. Although superficially resembling erythema nodosum it runs a different clinical course and has different histological appearances, the central feature being necrobiotic collagen. The term ;nodular necrobiosis' is suggested.