© 2012 The Authors. doi: 10.2340/00015555-1450 Journal Compilation © 2012 Acta Dermato-Venereologica. ISSN 0001-5555 Skin metastasis of ovarian carcinoma is rare (1). Some cases show umbilical metastasis, known as Sister Mary Joseph’s nodule (2). Other cutaneous metastases of ovarian carcinoma include pilomatricoma-like (3) and cauliflower-type (4) variants. Only one case of nodular cutaneous m...

OBJECTIVE Early operative debridement is a major determinant of outcome in necrotizing fasciitis. However, early recognition is difficult clinically. We aimed to develop a novel diagnostic scoring system for distinguishing necrotizing fasciitis from other soft tissue infections based on laboratory tests routinely performed for the evaluation of severe soft tissue infections: the Laboratory Risk...

Necrotizing gingival disorders are rare conditions of the gingival tissues. Patients typically present with severe discomfort, halitosis, bleeding, and ulcerated oral tissues. This condition will typically present in patients who are under psychological stress, malnourished, and/or who are immunosuppressed. This case report will present a patient with acute ulcerative necrotizing gingivitis (AN...

INTRODUCTION Necrotizing sialometaplasia is a rare disease first described in 1973. It involves salivary gland in the oral cavity. CASE PRESENTATION We present a 32-year-old, white, male with rare bilateral localization of necrotizing sialometaplasia. CONCLUSION Clinically and histologically necrotizing sialometaplasia may mimic malignant lesions. In the above presented case, the patient's ...

timonae infection is diagnosed have >1 eschar, which raises the suspicion that some cases of Mediterranean spotted fever with multiple eschars reported in Spain could be caused by this rickettsial species. More studies about the vectors of this bacteria are needed because studies of Hyalomma and Rhipicephalus ticks (the suspected hosts) conducted in our area have not demonstrated the presence o...

Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is the first cause of skin and soft tissue infections, but can also produce severe diseases such as bacteremia, osteomyelitis and necrotizing pneumonia. Some S. aureus lineages have been described in cases of necrotizing pneumonia worldwide, usually in young, previously healthy patients. In this work, we describe a fatal case of nec...

A 20 year old woman with anorexia nervosa and severe weight loss developed extensive necrotizing colitis after being admitted to hospital for stabilization of her weight. Necrotizing colitis with anorexia nervosa has been reported previously. We report a second case. We believe necrotizing colitis is a true complication of anorexia nervosa and should be considered in the differential diagnosis ...

We present a case of necrotizing vasculitis with the testicle as the isolated affected organ. A 25-year-old man, pretreated for epididymo-orchitis, presented with a presumed testicular neoplasm. Radical orchiectomy was performed and diagnosis of necrotizing vasculitis was established. In the absence of any other sign of systemic disease, the diagnosis of isolated necrotizing vasculitis of the t...

Inflammatory myopathies such as dermatomyositis and polymyositis are well-recognized paraneoplastic syndromes. Little is known, however, about necrotizing myopathies in association with cancer. We here describe a case of paraneoplastic necrotizing myopathy with a mild inflammatory infiltrate in a patient with adenocarcinoma. After the rapid development of a severe, disabling muscle weakness, th...