not merely blemishes on the skin: A study on the morbidity associated with having viral cutaneous warts. Dermatosis granulomatosas faciales To t he Edit or: The term f acial granulomat ous dermat osis refers t o a group of disorders characterized by facial papules with the common histological feature of epithelioid granulomas. We present a patient whose condition fitted this classification both...

The authors present a review of neutrophilic dermatoses that have great impact on the health of patients: Sweet syndrome, pyoderma gangrenosum, Behçet's disease and neutrophilic urticaria. Major clinical aspects, histopathological changes and management options are discussed based on the results and conclusions of relevant studies recently published and on the authors' experience.

As occupational medicine has become more established, the awareness of health problems, either caused or exacerbated by exposures in the workplace, has increased. As a group of disorders, occupational skin disease is certainly very common. The OPRA reporting scheme from 1996 to 1999 showed that work-related dermatological problems accounted for 20% of reports, just overtaken by mental ill-healt...

Hormonal alterations contribute to the physiologic skin changes in pregnancy, which include hyperpigmentation and melasma, striae gravidarum and vascular phenomena, such as spiders, palmar erythema and varicosities. Hair, nails and sweat glands may also be affected. Dermatoses associated with pregnancy include herpes gestationis, impetigo herpetiformis, pruritic urticarial papules and plaques o...

Although skin changes in workers associated with the manufacture of various textiles, especially cotton, have been the subject of numerous communications (e.g., Southam, 1927; Brockbank, 1941) there are few references in the literature to dermatoses in jute workers. Henry (1947) refers to one case of scrotal carcinoma in a jute worker out of a total of 1,421 notifications to the Factory Inspect...

INTRODUCTION Septilin is an Ayurvedic preparation which contains antibacterial and anti-inflammatory principles. Septilin has been reported to stimulate phagocytosis. Cahu and Hirsh (1960) demonstrated the presence of an antibacterial protein (phagocytin) in the cytoplasmic granules of polymorphs. This protein of polymorphs has an antibacterial effect on both gram-positive and gram-negative org...

Nepal experienced a devastating earthquake measuring 7.8 Richter scale on 25th April 2015. Although the heightened effects were secondary to trauma, the indirect effects were also of prime importance. We came across different dermatoses, directly or indirectly secondary to earthquake. We here present an audit of the cutaneous effects following four months of the major shock presenting to a tert...