OBJECTIVES Quantitative evaluation of palpebral dimensions of Japanese residents in Japan and Japanese descendant (Nikkeis) who live in Brazil, in order to define if environmental factors may influence these parameters. METHODS A prospective study evaluating 107 Nikkeis from Brazil and 114 Japanese residents in Japan, aged 20 years or older. Exclusion criteria were those with palpebral positi...

Annular erythema (AE) associated with anti-Ro (SSA) and/or La (SSB) autoantibody in patients with Sjögren syndrome (SS) or with SS/systemic lupus erythematosus overlap syndrome (SS/SLE), has recently been described in Orientals, and it may be a counterpart of annular skin lesion of the subacute cutaneous LE seen mostly in Caucasians. The author examined five Korean AE patients in respect to din...

Naevus of Ota (naevus fusculocoeruleus ophthalmomaxillaris) was described by the Japanese dermatologist, Ota, in 1939 as a dermal melanocytic hamartoma that presents as bluish hyperpigmentation along the ophthalmic, maxillary, and mandibular branches of the trigeminal nerve. It is bilateral in less than 5% cases, occurring frequently in Orientals (0.2%–1%) and darker races and rarely in white p...

disease of unknown etiology that occurs primarily in Orientals of young to middle age (1-4). Patients usually present with subcutaneous or soft tissue masses of the head and neck, often with involvement of the salivary glands and regional lymph nodes (5). The condition is characterized pathologically by the presence of lymphfolliculoid granuloma with infiltration of the mass and surrounding tis...