© 2013 The Authors. doi: 10.2340/00015555-1372 Journal Compilation © 2013 Acta Dermato-Venereologica. ISSN 0001-5555 Eosinophilic pustular folliculitis (EPF) is an inflammatory disease characterized by pruritic follicular papulopustules of unknown aetiology. Histopathologically, a number of eosinophils infiltrate around and into hair follicles. Nevertheless, EPF uncommonly affects the palms and...

Background and Objective: Rosacea is a common and ill-defined disease and Demodex folliculorum has been reported in rosacea in a number of clinical studies. Since demodex mite is present in many healthy individuals, the mite may have a pathogenic role only when it is present in high densities. Therefore,...

Background: Alopecia Areata (AA) is a recurrent non-scarring type of hair loss that can affect any hair-bearing area. Prognosis of AA is unpredictable and most patients experience more than one episode of hair loss. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the severity of AA with respect to age of onset, nail involvement, family history, number of recurrences and du...

Kinky hair disease (KHD) was first described by Menkes et al.(1). Ten years later Danks et al. suggested that the primary defect is in copper transport leading to copper deficiency(2). It is a Xlinked recessive disorder. The gene for KHD is about 200 kb in size and is located on the long arm of X chromosome (Xql3.3). The cDNA has been recently sequenced and is known to code for a protein of 150...

An eight month old male infant with protein energy malnutrition was admitted in the hospital with the history of repeated attacks of convulsion since four months of age. He was also suffering from frequent attacks of cough and cold since 6 months of age which was marked prior to admission. The infant had fair complexion, sparse fuzzy wooly hair with marked trunkal hypotonia. He had also mental ...

We describe a patient with long-standing Parkinson's disease who noted that his white hair turned grey and darkened 8 months after the addition of carbidopa to his established levodopa (L-dopa) therapy and 4 months after the introduction of bromocriptine.

Menkes kinky-hair disease (trichopoliodystrophy, steelyhair disease) is an X-linked neurodegenerative disorder that occurs predominantly in males. It was first described by Menkes in 1962 [1]. The characteristic clinical features are steely hair, profound retardation, spastic quadriparesis, seizures, and hypothermia. The disease is caused by an underlying defect of copper metabolism; and the se...