New clinical indications for rituximab seem to appear every day. This review will trace the use of this monoclonal antibody from lymphoid malignancy, to classic autoimmune disease, and specifically severe autoimmune skin diseases. The history leading to different dosing schema with associated pharmacokinetic data will be discussed. A case of livedoid vasculopathy (atrophie blanche) responding t...

Careful consideration must be given to the possibility of occult neoplasms in dermatomyositis in middle-aged to elderly patients.3,8,9 The most common cancers found in association with dermatomyositis are ovarian, pancreatic, and lung cancers. We have presented a case of dermatomyositis associated with cancer of the lung and presenting livedo reticulated ulcers due to livedoid vasculopathy. We ...

Livedoid vasculopathy is a skin disease that occludes the blood vessels of the dermis. It has a pauciinflammatory or non-inflammatory nature. It is characterized by the presence of macular or papular, erythematous-purpuric lesions affecting the legs, especially the ankles and feet, and producing intensely painful ulcerations, which cause white atrophic scars called "atrophie blanche". This revi...

introduction cement has a wide industrial usage and it is the leading cause of occupational skin diseases among construction workers, which are present as contact urticarial and contact dermatitis. case presentation a 79-year-old water sewage worker man referred to our department with numerous symmetric hyper-keratotic papules with an erythematous base on both hands and feet for about 20 years....

<p>Livedoid vasculopathy (LV) is recurrent and episodic thrombotic dermatosis characterized by pain ulcerations. It requires early diagnosis, treatment with combination of drugs. Dermoscopy a non-invasive technique which enables clinician to visualize subsurface structures the skin. Here, dermoscopy LV in skin color was treated colchicine reported.</p><p><strong> </st...

background: atopic dermatitis is a major public health problem, often starting in early childhood and sometimes followed by other allergic diseases. although hypersensitivity to foods is assumed to play an essential role in the development of atopic dermatitis in some patients, little is known about common food allergens in iranian children with atopic dermatitis. objectives: this study was des...