BACKGROUND Skin diseases in children contribute to significant morbidity and psychological distress. Infective dermatoses are one of the major dermatoses in children. Low socioeconomic status, overcrowding and poor personal hygiene has been linked to skin diseases. OBJECTIVE To find out the prevalence of infectious skin disease in children, rate of transmissible skin disease and association o...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of selected neuropeptides on itching in psoriatic individuals. Fifty-nine patients (43 pruritic and 16 non-pruritic) with psoriasis were included in the study. The severity of psoriasis, measured using the Psoriasis Area and Severity Index scale, ranged between 2 and 43.7 points. The intensity of pruritus was evaluated using a Visual Analogue ...

Pruritic scalp has not traditionally been specifically categorized as a separate dermatologic condition; but rather it has been included within the broad category of seborrheic dermatitis. This has severely limited testing and understanding of this entity. The objective of this study was to assess patient satisfaction with various topical and oral therapies for pruritic scalp. For this purpose,...

Previously published Photo Quizzes are now featured in a mobile app. Get more information at http:// www.aafp.org/afp/apps. An otherwise healthy 26-year-old woman presented for a two-week follow-up after laparoscopic rotator cuff repair. She had a mildly pruritic eruption that began approximately one week after surgery and gradually worsened. The lesions were fixed and occurred in the area wher...

The aetiology is unknown but important contributory factors include venous hypertension, exercise and gravitational dependency [2] . Histology shows a perivascular lymphocytic infiltrate of T cells centred on the superficial small blood vessels of the skin, suggesting that cell-mediated immunity plays a part [3] . There is swelling of endothelial cells and narrowing of the lumen. Extravasation ...