Lupus vulgaris is a progressive form of skin tuberculosis occurring in the patients with a moderate to high degree of immunity. It is reported to be the commonest type of skin tuberculosis. Our case was a 40 year-old man who referred with multiple, erythematous, annular plaques, 30-50 mm in diameter with active margin and few studded pustules throughout the lesions. Our first impression was tin...

In the era of the Internet, more and more privacy-sensitive data is published online. Even though this kind of data are published with sensitive attributes such as name and social security number removed, the privacy can be revealed by joining those data with some other external data. This technique is called joining attack. Among many techniques developed against the joining attack, the k-anon...

BACKGROUND Syphilis incognito is a subtype of latent syphilis (early or late) characterized by no signs or symptoms of primary or secondary syphilis and diagnosed by positive serologic results for syphilis during routine screening. OBJECTIVE To study the epidemiological characteristics, causes, and implications of syphilis incognito in Greece. PATIENTS AND METHODS All new adult patients dia...

Objective: To evaluate the increase in frequency of tinea incognito along with its current presentation and etiologic features. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Dermatology Outpatient Clinic, Dr. Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi, Dow University Health Sciences. Period: July to November 2023. Material & Methods: It is a retrospective cross-sectional study done on subjects who we...

We conducted a retrospective cohort study on clinical and mycological features of tinea pedis and tinea unguium in psychiatric inpatients in Japan. Of the 317 inpatients (152 with schizophrenia and 165 with depression), 46.1% had tinea pedis and 23.7% had tinea unguium. Of those with tinea pedis, 48.6% also had tinea unguium. The most common clinical type of tinea pedis was the combination of i...