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Actinic Prurigo: A case report
Actinic prurigo is a rare disease occurring mainly in individuals of American Indian origin and those living in high altitudes. Skin lesions consist of pruritic popular or nodular excoriated lesions mainly affecting exposed skin but covered skin is also involved in up to 50% of patients. This is the first case report of an Iranian patient. This 19-year-old female had pruritic popular and ...
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BACKGROUND Actinic prurigo (AP) is an idiopathic photodermatosis, this entity requires exposure to UV-B and -A to develop lesions. Apoptosis is a physiological death program that can be initiated by a permanently active mechanism (extrinsic pathway) or irreparable damage (intrinsic pathway). MATERIAL AND METHODS Descriptive study, the sample size comprised 64 paraffin blocks of tissue with a ...
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Actinic prurigo is a pruritic sun-induced dermatosis classified among the immunologically mediated photodermatoses. The disease is a well-known entity among Native Americans and in Central and South America, however rare in Caucasians with only a few reports from Australia, Britain and France. We report the first case of actinic prurigo in a Scandinavian patient, responding favorably to systemi...
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A 28‐year‐old unmarried woman presented with a 10‐year history of itchy papules and nodules over her extremities and nape of neck. Initially, there were summer exacerbations but then disease became persistent for the last 3 years. She also gave history of episodic, redness of eyes, eyelid pruritus and swelling along with mild facial edema. There was no personal or family history of atopy. Cutan...
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BACKGROUND Actinic prurigo (AP) is an idiopathic photodermatosis. Although its initial manifestations can appear in 6 to 8-year-old children, cases are diagnosed later, between the second and fourth decades of life, when the injuries are exacerbated. OBJECTIVE To identify risk factors associated with clinical manifestations of AP such as skin and mucosal lesions. METHODS Thirty patients wit...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Photodermatology, Photoimmunology & Photomedicine
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0905-4383
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0781.1997.tb00119.x