Physicians who treat children will encounter dermatologic conditions in their daily practice. A general approach to the diagnosis and management of pediatric skin disease is discussed in this article, and specific common entities are summarized, with emphasis on diagnosis and treatment.

Bacterial folliculitis (superficial pyoderma) is usually caused by a coagulase positive Staphylococcus species. Both S. aureus and S. intermedius have been isolated. In one study, S. aureus accounted for twice as many isolates as S intermedius; the same study isolated some strains of S. hyicus as well. Interestingly, in another study, lysozymes from equine neutrophils were only slightly bacteri...

Laura Melnick1, Karolyn A Wanat2, Roberto Novoa3, John Harris4, George Cotsarelis5 and Misha Rosenbach5* 1Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA 2Department of Dermatology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA 3Department of Dermatopathology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA 4Department of Medicine, Division of Dermatology, University of Massachusetts Medi...

Anca Chiriac1, Liliana Foia2, Anca Edward Chiriac2, Tudor Pinteala2, Caius Solovan3, Piotr Brzezinski4 1Department of Dermato-Physiology, Apollonia University Iasi, 2Departments of Dermatology, Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi, 3Departments of Dermatology, University of Medicine V Babes, Timisoara, Romania, 4Departments of Dermatology, 6th Military Support Unit, Ustka, ...

Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria; State Clinic of Dermatology, Hospital of Skin and Venereal Diseases, Thessaloniki, Greece; Dermatology Center, Nemours, France; and Clinic of Dermatovenerology, Clinical Center of Nis, Medical Faculty, University of Nis, Nis, Serbia E-mail: [email protected] Conflict of interest: none declared. Accepted for publication 27 De...

1Department of Dermatology, Mersin Medical School, University of Mersin, 33079, Mersin, Turkey 2Department of Dermatology, Bovenij Ziekenhuis, Statenjachtstraat 1, 1034 CS Amsterdam, Postbus 37610, 1030 BD Amsterdam, The Netherlands 3Department of Dermatology, University of Florence, Via della Pergola 60, 50132 Florence, Italy 4Rheumatology Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Kargar Avenue, Teh...

Accepted March 2, 2009. Abstract. Dermatoweb is a website to aid undergraduate dermatology training. It includes the dermatology program of the Lerida Faculty of Medicine, and is based principally on clinical presentations, tables with the differential diagnosis of the 20 most common reasons for dermatologic consultation, about 200 clinical test cases to stimulate self-training, and a subject l...

Dermatoweb is a website to aid undergraduate dermatology training. It includes the dermatology program of the Lerida Faculty of Medicine, and is based principally on clinical presentations, tables with the differential diagnosis of the 20 most common reasons for dermatologic consultation, about 200 clinical test cases to stimulate self-training, and a subject list with the 32 topics that make u...

Dermatopathology is a subspecialty of pathology and dermatology involving correlation of clinical information with microscopic observations of skin biopsies to provide diagnostic information. Pediatric dermatology is a subspecialty of dermatology for which specific points need to be known for evaluating and managing skin disorders in children. The histopathological approach and other important ...