A point on pseudo-chancre redux raised by the reviewer in the last edition has been settled in consonance with the modern opinion in this edition. Among the rare diseases are included pemphigus and under it the Senear-Usher type of it. Concerning the non-essential, this edition compares very unfavourably with the last. The binding has been done badly. Stitches crumple nearly every leaf and cut ...

OBJECTIVE Diagnoses of skin, mucosae, hair and nail manifestations in malignant diseases are often challenging because of life-threatening drug reactions, opportunistic infections or skin involvement of primary processes. Description of morphology, configuration and distribution of lesions is important in order to differentiate the self-healing eruptions from serious side effects of chemotherap...

OBJECTIVE Viral and bacterial infections in childhood decrease the likelihood of allergic diseases in later life. The frequency of allergic diseases in patients with a history of measles has been reported to be low but some studies still suggest that measles can increase the frequency of allergic diseases. The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency of allergic diseases following mea...

Bullous autoimmune skin diseases, characterized by the formation of bullae or vesicles, are divided into two groups dependent on the location of clefts and the formation of bullae within the skin. In the pemphigus group of diseases the vesicles form intradermally; in pemphigoid the clefts occur at the dermal epidermal junction. The primary lesion of pemphigus is acantholysis in which the epider...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence and severity of atopic dermatitis in a stratified cross-section of preschool-age children examined throughout Victoria, Australia. DESIGN A cross-sectional skin survey using a selected cluster sample of the various centers throughout Victoria. SETTING The study population included Victorian children attending child-care centers, preschools, and Maternal...

Warts are among the most common skin diseases especially in children between the ages of 12-16 years. Usually plantar and periungual lesions are resistant to traditional treatments and cause a lot of trouble for patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate therapeutic effects of intralesional Bleomycin injection. This study was performed on 38 cases of recalcitrant warts. All the lesions dis...