Methods Demonstrate SNAS which is characterized by contact dermatitis to nickel and systemic reactions after ingestion of rich foods nickel.We evaluated adult patients with ages between 18 and 65 years, positive patch test for nickel, grades 3 and 4, and who had symptoms suggestive of SNAS.These patients had eczematous lesions of contact dermatitis did not disappear. That even with the exclusio...

Meyerson nevi occur whenever a rare focal and transitory eczematous eruption arises around melanocytic lesions. The same phenomenon has also been observed in non-melanocytic lesions as well. Herein we report the case of a 25 year old, male patient, who had noticed, two months before, the arising of a pruriginous and erithematous halo around two nevi localized on his abdomen. The lesions were fo...

The term "tinea incognita" refers to diverse clinical presentation of mycotic infections modified by inappropriate use of topical or systemic corticosteroids. A 67-year-old male patient with a five-year history of generalized erythematous plaques on the trunk and extremities, previously treated with topical corticosteroids, is described. The lesions mainly showed a psoriasiform, some eczematous...

Volume 17, No.1, April 2010 The Gulf Journal of Dermatology and Venereology INTRODUCTION Topical antibiotics are commonly prescribed by dermatologists in clinical practice for a variety of potential uses, which are the following: (i) infectious, including localized cutaneous bacterial infections, (ii) crusted (secondarily impetiginized) eczematous dermatoses, (iii) staphylococcal nasal carriage...

IL: interleukin PRP: pityriasis rubra pilaris TNF: tumor necrosis factor INTRODUCTION Pityriasis rubra pilaris (PRP) is a heterogeneous inflammatory skin disease characterized by follicular papules, orange palmoplantar keratoderma, and erythematous scaly patches with islands of skin sparing. Type II PRP is a rare, severe, chronic form of PRP presenting atypical features including long disease d...

Mammary Paget disease is the intraepidermal adenocarcinoma of the nipple area which is characterized usually by a well-demarcated eczematous plaque. Reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM), is an in vivo noninvasive diagnostic tool with a high-resolution imaging of the skin, almost comparable to conventional histology. RCM findings of Paget disease are limited in the literature. Most of the repor...

Price, J. F., Cogsweil, J. J., Joseph, M. C., and Cochrane, G. M. (1976). Archives ofDisease in Childhood, 51, 912. Exercise-induced bronchoconstriction, skin sensitivity, and serum IgE in children with eczema. Forty-two children with eczema were studied for exercise-induced asthma (EIA), skin sensitivity to prick testing, blood eosinophil count, and immunoglobulins. 29 had a fall in peak expir...

Skin diseases are common in hospitalized patients. However, there is a lack of data concerning their frequency. The objective of this study is to evaluate the prevalence of dermatological diagnoses in hospitalized patients after consultation requested by non-dermatologist physicians to the Department of Dermatology, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre period of 10 years. A total of 5685 patien...