None of them reported any illness or habitual use of medication. We observed that all 3 patients examined presented small stature, with short limbs. The patient reported that all except 1 of her siblings were of small stature, as was 1 of her children. Radiological examinations of the patient revealed shortened long bones diagnostic of hypochondroplasia and similar results were seen in her son....

Background: In this study we compared the clinical and biochemical variables of adolescent females with PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome) its association or without acanthosis nigricans (AN).Methods: Adolescent girls (14-19 years) oligomenorrhoea hyperandrogenism were studied. Clinical parameters like blood pressure (BP), body mass index (BMI), abdominal circumference (AC), presence absence ac...

Vol. 25 No. 3, 2013 375 Received April 26, 2012, Revised September 10, 2012, Accepted for publication October 11, 2012 Corresponding author: Elvira Moscarella, Dermatology and Skin Cancer Unit, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova-IRCCS, Viale Risorgimento 80, 40122 Reggio Emilia, Italy. Tel: 39-0522295611, Fax: 39-0818993711, E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distribu...

Chronic itch could be a presenting sign of malignancy. Pruritus of lymphoma is the common prototype of paraneoplastic itch and can precede other clinical signs by weeks and months. Paraneoplastic pruritus has also been associated with solid tumors and is an important clinical symptom in paraneoplastic skin diseases such as erythroderma, Grovers disease, malignant acanthosis nigricans, generaliz...

Correspondence Figure 1. Acanthosis nigricans in the axilla of a patient receiving treatment with protease inhibitors. Sir—Dubé [1] and Thiébaut et al. [2] have published interesting articles describing insulin resistance in patients with HIV infection who are receiving treatment with protease inhibitors. Recently , an increasing number of papers have been published which relate treatment with ...