introduction: child abuse is one of the major problems of today’s societies ;so in developed countries supportive laws for children have been established. obvious manifestations of physical child abuse include: skin lesions (echymosis, erosion, biting), skull fractures and injury to the visceral organs. physicians should take child abuse in their consideration whenever they encounter skin manif...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Pigmentation and keratosis are the prerequisites to diagnose arsenicosis. However, many systemic manifestations occur in association with pigmentation and keratosis in people exposed to chronic drinking of arsenic contaminated water. The present study aim to find out whether systemic manifestations occur in significant number of cases in arsenic exposed people in the abse...

Apart from well-known respiratory symptoms, less frequent symptoms also appear as a direct result of COVID-19 infection, or indirect effects the recommended quarantine and related lifestyle changes. The impact pandemic on human skin is predominantly focused in this article. Cutaneous manifestations, including redness, chilblain-like (COVID toes), hives urticaria rash, water blisters, fishing ne...

Clinical manifestations of sixteen children and teenagers exposed to chemical warfare in Halabje are presented. 15 patients complained of burning of skin. Dry coughing was present in 13 subjects. The most frequent signs were conjunctivitis, skin erythema, edema of the eyelids, hyperpigmentation, ulceration, erosion, dyspnea, closure ofthe eyes, blisters, edema of the skin, and crepitation ...

scleromyxedema is a rare, chronic, progressive, fibromucinous disorder of unknown etiology, characterized by lichenoid waxy papules and firm induration of skin of trunk, face, forearm and hands; fibroblast proliferation and mucin deposition in the upper dermis. cutaneous involvement is characteristic but there are several associated systemic manifestations: we observed a case of scleromyxedema ...

Morphea is a skin disease characterized by local skin inflammation and fibrosis. Extracutaneous manifestations have been described with this disease including inflammatory arthritis. We describe a case of morphea who developed inflammatory polyarthritis and sacroiliitis coincident with new skin lesions.

systems, eyes and the skin.[1] The skin is affected by One hundred fifty consecutive diabetes mellitus both the acute metabolic derangements and the chronic patients attending the endocrinology outpatient department and diabetic clinic constituted the study degenerative complications of diabetes. Although the group. One hundred fifty age and sex matched mechanism for many diabetes associated sk...

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a lifelong condition, which may occur in patients of any age. Prior to confirming a diagnosis of IBD, clinicians may face unusual non gastrointestinal symptoms. The extra intestinal manifestations of Crohn's disease (CD) may develop prior to signs of gastrointestinal involvement. Many of these extraintestinal clinical signs overlap with those seen in patients...

Scleroderma (skleros; hard, and derma; skin), is currently known as systemic sclerosis due to its progressive nature and widespread tissue involvement. It is a rare connective tissue disorder with a wide range of oral manifestations. Thickening of the skin is the hallmark of the disease. The patient education for self-care and multidisciplinary approach would be needed to manage the condition. ...

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is the most common of all the endocrine diseases. It affects approximately 40.9 million people in India and around 350 million across the world. ] Various studies have shown that about 30% of diabetic patients exhibit skin lesions. ] In fact, in many patients, cutaneous manifestations precede the diagnosis of diabetes. In such cases these skin manifestations can be the fi...