Case presentation: Patient L.V.M.B., female, 3 months old, born and resident in Frutal-MG. She was admitted to the Pediatric Emergency Room of Hospital de Clínicas da UFTM, referred from city origin, due an unprecedented convulsive crisis 1 day ago, which characterized by spastic movements topography hemiface on right (right eye traction labial commissure) preceded hyporexia irritability, accor...

INTRODUCTION Incontinentia pigmenti is a rare X-linked dominant disease which affects the ectodermal tissues, usually lethal in males. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective analysis of clinical data obtained from the photographic documentation and casenotes of patients diagnosed to have incontinentia pigmenti at the National Skin Centre. The study covered the period from January 1990 to Decem...

Incontinentia pigmenti is a rare X-linked genodermatosis that affects mainly female neonates. The first manifestation occurs in the early neonatal period and progresses through four stages: vesicular, verruciform, hyperpigmented and hypopigmented. Clinical features also manifest themselves through changes in the teeth, eyes, hair, central nervous system, bone structures, skeletal musculature an...

Incontinentia pigmenti is a rare X-linked genodermatosis that affects mainly female neonates. Skin manifestations are the most common and occur in four quite distinct phases. A female infant presented vesiculobullous lesions on trunk and limbs, and a verrucous lesion on the right palm. Biopsy revealed eosinophil exocytosis and pigment incontinence, confirming the clinical hypothesis. Although u...

The recorded reports of cutaneous eruptions due to the antihistaminic drugs have been few in number (1,2,3,4, 5, 6,7), but none of these has been truly urticarial in nature. McElin and Horton (1) in 1945 reported one instance of generalized pruritus, following thirty-eight intravenous injections of Benadryl hydrochloride in twenty-six patients. Epstein (2) reported two patients with atopic ecze...

and the only other occasion when London had the honour of entertaining the world's dermatologists was in 1896. Forty-five coun;tries, including the U.S.S.R., were represented, and the attendance was well over one thousand. The three main topics for discussion were: "The Pathogenesis of Eczema," "A.C.T.H. and Cortisone," and "The Treatment of Tuberculosis of the Skin." Dr. Pillsbury (U.S.A.) ind...