leprosy is an ancient disease, known from south asia since at least 2000 bce. while there is no physical evidence of this disease in the region before about 50 ce, five different words are translated as “leprosy” in mesopotamian texts and some of them occur frequently. based on the texts, one word (garāṣu) is rarely used and there is evidence that the other four words relate to diseases that we...

Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic skin disease affecting around 1% of the population and characterized by painful boil‐like lumps, cysts scarring on folds.

chronic granulomatous disease (cgd) is a rare primary immunodeficiency disease. although the most affected patients are diagnosed in childhood, there are several reports of the disease presenting in adult patients. here we present a 40 years old man who was admitted in hospital due to respiratory symptoms and ground glass pattern in high resolution computed tomography of lung. open lung biopsy ...

psoriasis is an common, chronic, recurrent, inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by red scaling plaques on the skin surface. the morphology of psoriatic lesions allows classification of the different types of psoriasis that included plaque type, pustular type and erythrodermic type. i have studied the relationship between distribution of rh and abo blood groups in 110 psoriatic patie...

intradermal injection of autologous serum and plasma elicit a cutaneous reactivity in almost 45-60% of patients with chronic idiopathic urticaria (ciu).   this reactivity is associated with the presence of auto antibodies against ige or ige receptors. this study was carried out to compare the cutaneous reactivity of autologous serum and plasma skin tests in a series of patients with ciu for dia...

Malakoplakie is a chronic granulomatous inflammatory disease, which usually affects the genitourinary tract and less frequently other sites such as, kidney, ureter, bladder, bone, lung, skin, gastrointestinal ovary.

 Background: Marjolin's ulcer is a rare, aggressive condition that arises on chronic skin lesions and diseases. In this article, we will report 83 cases of this disease. Methods: Retrospectively, we retrieved 83 records of patients with cancer arising from chronic skin conditions. Data concerning demography, type of original skin insult, time interval between original lesion and cancer, ...