Lichen Amyloidosus Without Itching Indicates That it is Not Secondary to Chronic Scratching

Lichen amyloidosus without itching indicates that it is not secondary to chronic scratching.

Sir, The origin of lichen amyloidosus (LA) is controversial. It is a form of primary cutaneous amyloidosus in which fibrillar proteinaceous material is deposited solely in the skin, without associated systemic manifestations. LA is typically highly pruritic, and the deposition of fibrillar material has generally been considered to be secondary to the scratching induced by other subjacent prurit...

Lichen amyloidosus: a bullous variant.

INTRODUCTION Lichen amyloidosus is a common skin disease seen among Asian patients. CLINICAL PICTURE Typical features range from macular hyperpigmentation to pruritic, lichenified, hyperpigmented papules. However, in this rare bullous variant of lichen amyloidosus, bullae and vesicles are present. Histopathologically, deposits of amyloid were seen in the papillary dermis, associated with an i...

“Not Everything That Is Faced Can Be Changed, but Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced”: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Remission of lichen amyloidosus after treatment with acitretin.

Lichen amyloidosus Retinoids Apoptosis Norbert Reider, MD, Department of Dermatology, University of Innsbruck, Anichstrasse 35, A-6020 Innsbruck (Austria) In September 1993, a 72-year-old woman presented at our Department with an eruption of reddish brown, coalescent, hyperkeratotic, extremely pruritic papules of her thighs (fig. 1), the extensor surfaces of both forearms and the lumbosacral ar...

Academic nepotism – all that glitters is not gold

Dear Editor With increasing emphasis on publications forfaculty recruitment, career advancementand obtaining research grants, the issues relatedto author kinship and academic nepotism havegrown significantly and these probably reflectthe inflationary growth rather than the optimalgrowth warranted due to increasing researchcomplexity. Allesina S (1) measured the fullmagnitude of nepotism in the ...