Background: This paper reports a case of pemphigus vulgaris in middle-aged male with oral lesions and skin eruptions
 Objective: To highlight the complications prolonged steroid therapy.
 Case Report
 A 48-year old presented an eight-month history recurrent mouth ulcers. There was positive cutaneous ulcers on upper extremities, back genital areas. Patient had been placed long ter...

Introduction: Alopecia areata is a common, inflammatory, non-scarring type of hair loss that affects persons both sexes and all age groups, with prevalence in the general population approximately 0.1–0.2%. It characterized by variable clinical presentations, ranging from single or multiple well-circumscribed patches to extensive involvement complete absence body scalp hair. an autoimmune diseas...

A woman aged 23 years, with no past medical history of interest, was seen for the appearance a week earlier of pruritic skin lesions in the area of a tattoo created on the dorsum of her right foot 6 months earlier (Fig. 1). The patient denied taking any new medication or applying any topical products. There were no lesions on the rest of her skin or mucosas or lesions of the skin appendages. De...

Table I. Patients’ own opinion regarding eYcacy after 12 Sir, months Calcipotriol, a vitamin D derivative, has proven to be eVective in the treatment of nail psoriasis (1–4). The Hands (n= 48) Feet (n= 53) purpose of this open study was to evaluate the eYcacy n (%) n (%) and safety of the combined treatment of nail psoriasis Poor 3 (6.2) 6 (11.3 ) with calcipotriol cream and clobetasol propiona...

Study sample The sample size was not determined in the planning phase of the study, and power calculations were not performed retrospectively. Initially, 7 women and 25 men (mean age 49 years) were enrolled in the study, all being residents of the San Francisco Bay area. Three patients were excluded and a justification for their exclusion was provided. The number of patients allocated to the tw...

Oral lichen planus (OLP) is a common oral inflammatory condition. Against symptomatic atrophic-erosive OLP, topical steroids, or photobiomodulation (PBM) are deployed. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) provides real-time, non-invasive, tissue investigation. Aim of this study was to evaluate modifications OCT pattern in patients with painful before and after treatment PBM, comparing those resul...

Despite the social, pathological, physiological, and psychological effects that topical corticosteroids (TCs) present, it has become a widespread practice among Sudanese women. This cross-sectional study involving three localities of Khartoum state assessed perceived risks reasons behind use TC Data was collected from 217 women using validated self-administered questionnaire with Cronbach's alp...

The physical and chemical degradation of drugs may result in altered therapeutic efficacy and even toxic effects. Therefore, the objective of this work was to study the stability of clobetasol propionate (CP) in a nanoemulsion. The nanoemulsion formulation containing CP was prepared by the spontaneous emulsification method. For the formulation of the nanoemulsion, Safsol, Tween 20, ethanol, and...