Autoerythrocyte sensitization syndrome (AES) was first described by Gardner and Diamond in 1955, when four women with painful bruising were depicted. Patients with AES typically present with the development of recurrent, spontaneous, painful ecchymosis, frequently preceded by a prodrome of pain or itching of the skin. The patients are sensitive to their own red blood cells injected intradermall...

Background: Many patients that have itchy thickened skin lesions are lichenified, it's located on the extremities namely knees, feet, dorsum of hands, and /or elbows was being seen bilaterally may be symmetrically. Objective: To evaluate clinical histopathological features neurodermatitis with some similarities to psoriasis in Iraqi patients. Patients Methods: Twenty- Five attending Department ...

Prurigo nodularis (PN) is a benign neurodermatitis of unknown etiology characterized by firm, hyperkeratotic pruritic nodules most commonly localized symmetrically on the bilateral extensor lower extremities. PN represents a primary dermatological condition or a dermatological manifestation of repeated traumatic manipulation secondary to chronic pruritus. One must consider underlying causes of ...

Sir, Abnormal keratinization of the distal part of the hair follicle can prevent emergence of the growing hair from the follicle and lead to spiral growth within a hyperkeratotic papule, socalled ``rolled hairs'' (1). Rolled hairs have been reported in patients with keratosis pilaris (1), neurodermatitis (1), palmoplantar keratoderma (2), and hypertrichosis (3). The disorder has also been assoc...

objective: this study aimed to detail the phenomenology and psychiatric comorbidities in patients with pathologic skin picking (psp). method: forty five subjects (30% males) with psp (mean s.d. =33.210.9) were assessed. subjects were assessed for psychiatric co morbidity using general health questionnaire (ghq). the yale-brown obsessive compulsive scale (y-bocs) was used to assess obsessive com...

Since the establishment of the terms “psychosomatic medicine” and “psychosomatic diseases”, in the psychoanalytic papers of Ferenczi S, Alexander F, Dunbar HF, Deutch H etc, there has been an effort, during the first half of 20th century, by scientists to explore the relation between psychological procedures (specific psychic conflicts, symbolism, childhood traumata, types of personality) and m...

Reactive perforating collagenosis is one of the perforatingdermatoses; the acquired form is characterized by transepithelialelimination of altered collagen bundles. It has been seen inassociation with multiple disorders including diabetes mellitus,renal failure, hyperparathyroidism, liver disease, neurodermatitis,IgA nephropathy, and periampullary carcinoma with jaundice.According to the litera...