BACKGROUND Some relationships are established between diabetes mellitus (DM) and a series of cutaneous disorders. Specific dermatoses are markers for undiagnosed DM. Other disorders represent supervening complications in an already treated DM patient. OBJECTIVE To review the information about dermocosmetic care products and their appropriate use in the management and prevention of dermatoses ...

In a public hospital in Lima, Peru, 24 patients with 16 types of paraneoplastic dermatoses were identified by data collection. The most frequent dermatosis was dermatomyositis (four patients). The other dermatoses were malignant acanthosis nigricans, palmoplantar keratoderma, bullous dermatoses, lymphomatoid papulosis, edematous scarring vasculitic panniculitis, Norwegian scabies, primary syste...

Olympic athletes are vulnerable to traumatic, environmental and infectious skin manifestations. Although dermatological complaints are frequent among Olympians, there is a scarcity of literature that reviews sports-related dermatoses among Olympic athletes. A comprehensive review of PREMEDLINE and MEDLINE searches of all available literature through to January 2011 was conducted, focusing on sp...

Résumé Les dermatoses paranéoplasiques sont un ensemble de signes cutanés qui peuvent précéder, coïncider ou suivre le diagnostic du cancer. Notre observation rappelle que l’érythrodermie desquamative fait partie des dermatoses paranéoplasiques facultatives au cours des hémopathies, d’où l’importance de faire un bilan complet devant ce signe clinique à la recherche d’un processus néoplasique in...

Introduction Robert Sweet first described a syndrome with a painful, erythematous nodular plaques, neutrophilic dermal infiltrates, fevers and peripheral neutrophilia. This cluster of syndromes became known as Sweet’s syndrome. There have been many published cases in children of neutrophilic dermatoses and fever which are labeled as Sweet’s syndrome. Recently, however, neutrophilic dermatoses h...

The term "neutrophilic dermatoses" includes a rare inflammatory pattern characterized by neutrophil-rich cutaneous infiltrate. Both innate and adaptive immune pathways may be involved in neutrophil recruitment. Occasionally, neutrophilic dermatoses may occur in association with autoimmune thyroiditis. Pathogenetic aspects of this autoimmune disorder may elucidate their possible connection. Two ...