<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> Progressive pigmented purpuric dermatosis (PPPD) is a chronic cutaneous presents with petechiae, purpura on hyperpigmented yellowish-brown macules or patches. Diagnosis straight forward, sometimes may be challenging for the diagnosis. Dermoscopy non-invasive tool. It gives characteristic patterns in PPPD. However, dermoscopic de...

We assessed the dermatological manifestations associated with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and their association with liver status. Of 155 patients with chronic HCV infection in Cairo, Egypt, 71 (45.8%) had dermatological manifestations: pruritus without evident skin lesions (21.3%), pigmented purpuric eruption (5.2%), aphthous ulcer and lichen planus (3.9% each), leukocytoclastic ...

isolation of pigmented t.violaceum from a patient with endothrix infection associated with the inflammatory and kerion symptoms and also isolation of the non- pigmented strain from another patient with non-inflammatory symptoms, led us to investigate the enzymic activities in both strains. most of the studies on dermatophyte compoxition have shown the relationship between proteolytic enzymes an...

Irritant or allergic contact dermatitis usually presents as an eczematous process, clinically characterized by erythematoedematovesicous lesions with intense itching in the acute phase. Such manifestations become erythematous-scaly as the condition progresses to the subacute phase and papular-hyperkeratotic in the chronic phase. Not infrequently, however, contact dermatitis presents with nonecz...

A 47-year-old Japanese woman presented with a 3-year history of rash on her lower legs. The eruption tended to worsen in winter. She had suffered from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) for 6 years and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection for 4 years. Upon physical examination, punctate purpura and pigmentation were scattered over her lower legs and their coalescence formed irregular red-brown patches (Fig...