A descriptive study on patients with Pityriasis Rosea admitted to Dermatology Clinic at Qaem Hospital, Mashhad, 2000-02

A descriptive study of patients with Pityriasis Rubra Pilaris admitted in Sina Hospital in Hamadan in 1991-99

Background: Pityriasis rubra pilaris (PRP) is a rare skin disease characterized by follicular hyperkeratosis, perifollicular erythema with islands of normal skin scattered over the sheets of erythroderma, palmoplantar hyperkeratosis and pityriasis capitis with unknown etiology. Objective: This study has been done in order to determine the demographics, clinical and therapeutic aspects of PRP pa...

Clinical and Epidemiological Evaluation of Patients with Anogenital Warts Referred to Dermatology Clinic of Imam-Reza Hospital in Mashhad

Introduction: Genital infections with human papilloma virus (HPV) are the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States. Several predisposing factors are known for this infection. So far, no studies on the risk factors and clinico-epidemiologic aspects of genital warts in Iran have been reported. So, we performed this study to evaluate epidemiologic aspects of anogenital warts i...

Profile of patients admitted to a triage dermatology clinic at a tertiary hospital in São Paulo, Brazil*

BACKGROUND Knowledge of epidemiological data on skin diseases is important in planning preventive strategies in healthcare services. OBJECTIVE To assess data from patients admitted to a triage dermatology clinic. METHODS A retrospective study was performed of patients admitted over a one-year period to the Triage Dermatology Clinic at the Hospital das Clínicas of the University of São Paulo...

Electric shock in patients administered to hospital: a descriptive study

A Case-Control Study on the Take-Off Sign in Lesional Skin Biopsies of Patients with Pityriasis Rosea

Dear Editor-in-Chief   Lesional histopathological features in pityriasis rosea (PR) are non-specific (1).  Our aim here is to investigate whether a histopathological take-off sign (TOS) is associated with PR.

Pityriasis rosea.

T HE Medical Research Council's investigation into pityriasis rosea in 1959 has already been published (Proc. roy. Soc. Med., 55, 556). This second investigation, based on a very simple questionnaire, has produced some additional information, but has not altogether solved the question put, namely "What is the cause of this disease?" Much interest was shown. In 1964, 180 observers notified 531 c...