Walter Gebhart, MD, Department of Dermatology II, University of Vienna, Vienna (Austria) The past decade’s explosive progress in dermatological research is not only tightly linked to ever improving biochemical, immunological or micromorphological methodology, but also grounded in partnership with rapid and reliable distribution of data at an international level. The paper ‘Idiopathic acquired g...

Aluminum chloride hexahydrate concentration-dependently inhibits perspiration and is highly effective in palmar and axillary hyperhidrosis. The main effect is in the sealing of the sweat glands, the precipitation of aluminum-mucopolysaccharide-complexes and the damage to the epithelial cells in the excretory ducts of the eccrine sweat glands result in sealing of these ducts. Other aluminum salt...

We report here a case of adenolipoma of the skin, an unusual variant of lipoma, arising on the neck. A 56-year-old man visited our hospital due to an anterior neck mass. An excisional biopsy was performed. The mass revealed a tan-yellow soft cut surface. We could not find any difference from other lipoma on gross inspection. Microscopically, the mass showed proliferation of mature adipocytes ad...

Neutrophilic eccrine hidradenitis (NEH) is a nonspecific clinicopathological reaction pattern, classified as a neutrophilic dermatosis, that usually develops in patients receiving chemotherapy for a hematologic malignancy. More rarely, it has been reported in association with infectious agents such as Serratia and Enterobacter species, Staphylococcus aureus, and human immunodeficiency virus. We...

Since the classical work of Köllike r, (1889), a large number of embryological studies on the skin and the sweat gland of the human embryos have been reported by many investigators, including some Japanese such as Nagai (1936), A k a g i (1939) and Ueda (1939). Histochemical studies on the skin and the sweat gland have been carried out by Tak a g i (1941), I t o (1949, 1951) and M ont a gn a (1...

A new method of isolating human eccrine sweat glands by the repeated dissection of skin biopsies with scissors is described. The success of the technique is attributed to a potential line of weakness between the investing capsule and the surrounding connective tissue, which parts under shear forces. The yield is 20-50 glands per biopsy (5 cm X 0.5 cm). The glands are judged to be viable by: (i)...

Eccrine poroma is a rare benign adnexal tumor of epithelial cells originating from the terminal ductal portion of the sweat glands that is typically located on palms and soles, although other cutaneous sites can be affected [1]. It is usually nonpigmented even if there is a pigmented variant that corresponds to 17% of cases and it is usually underdiagnosed, since it is mistakenly confused with ...