A wide variety of dermatoses are associated with participation in specific athletic activities. These dermatoses can result from mechanical injuries, exposure to environmental factors and infectious agents, contact dermatitis to sports equipment, and other factors. Proper diagnosis requires familiarity with their characteristic clinical presentations, which are sometimes bizarre and perplexing....

Eastern Health Clinical School, Monash University, 5 Arnold St Box Hill, Victoria, 3128, Australia Neutrophilic dermatoses have primarily been classified based on their histological appearance and many have overlapping associations with systemic diseases. This article provides a brief overview of the two most common neutrophilic dermatoses, Sweet's syndrome and pyoderma gangrenosum. The clinica...

Factitious disorders are defined as acts of self-harm that directly or indirectly result in clinically-relevant injury. They are typically performed in secret and without direct intention of suicide (1, 2). The patient’s initial goal is hospital admission and receiving medical treatment to confirm the severity of their state (3). Current prevalence ranges of factitious disorders is between 0.05...

BACKGROUND Multinucleated giant cells in the epidermis can either be epithelial or histiocytic. Epithelial multinucleated giant cells are most often associated with herpes virus infections. PURPOSE To review the histologic differential diagnosis of conditions with epithelial and histiocytic multinucleated giant cells-since multinucleated giant cells in the epidermis are not always pathognomon...

Adult onset still disease is a rare systemic inflammatory disease which presents with cardinal symptoms of spiking fever, arthralgia, and characteristic non pruritic evanescent salmon pink rash and neutrophilic leukocytosis. However it can have accompanied atypical cutaneous manifestations of pruritic plaques and papules. Clinicians need to be aware of this condition so that they can correctly ...

Epidermolysis bullosa pruriginosa (EBP; OMIM #604129) is an unusual variant of autosomal dominant (or occasionally recessive) dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (DEB) in which intense itching and scratching impacts upon the phenotype (1, 2). Although trauma-induced blistering often occurs, and toenail dystrophy is almost universal, the skin lesions can often resemble nodular prurigo, lichen simpl...

vious to the onset of lesions; therefore they scratched their skin. We observed that these patients presented more lesions and that they were more disseminated than in those patients without pruritus. What is more relevant, in patients 2, 3 and 4 some of the lesions had a linear, Koebner-like, arrangement (Figure 1B). Strikingly, patient 3 developed new lesions on the stitches at the site of bi...

This review aims to highlight the clinical features, diagnosis and treatment of the most common dermatoses of the male genitals in old age. Diseases of the male genitalia range from infectious problems to inflammatory and neoplastic dermatoses. These can affect sexual and urinary functions. The importance of the former in older men should not be underestimated. Pre-malignant and malignant penil...

AIM The present study has been carried out to detect non-parasitic dermatoses in canines brought at the Nandini Veterinary Hospital, Surat. MATERIALS AND METHODS The current investigation was carried out on skin scrapping, skin biopsy specimens, blood, and serum samples of 210 freshly registered cases of dogs with dermatological afflictions. Dogs found healthy on clinical examination were use...

Geriatric health care has become a major issue worldwide. There are no data regarding geriatric dermatologic diseases are available from Nepal. Patients of 60 years and above were enrolled in the Nepali fiscal year 2067(April 2010-April 2011). The data included age, sex, place, and diagnosis. The aim of the study is to determine the characteristic pattern and frequency of dermatoses in dermatol...