Infective dermatitis is a chronic exudative eczematous eruption presenting in human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1)-infected people. It presents with relapsing erythematous, scaly, and crusted lesions affecting simultaneously the scalp, external ear, retroauricular area, eyelid, paranasal skin, neck axilla, and groin. Superimposed Staphylococcus and Streptococcus infection are common. It m...

Erdheim-Chester disease is a rare non-Langerhans form of histiocytosis with multiple organ involvement. Approximately 20% of patients have xanthoma-like lesions, usually on the eyelids. We report a case of Erdheim-Chester disease in a 32-year-old male who showed peculiar xanthomatous skin lesions and also had atopic dermatitis. His skin manifestations included ring-like yellowish tumors on his ...

Atopic Dermatitis [AD] is a chronic relapsing inflammatory dermatological disease characterized by itch, dry skin, localized or disseminated eczematous lesions and hyperpigmentation of skin. There are several exogeneous endogenous risk factors for development AD. The include genetic factors, atopy, skin hyperreactivity such as food, dust, pollen, epidermal, fungal, bacterial, vaccine-associated...

A 37-year-old atopic woman presented with a 1-week history of eczematous lesions affecting both axillae. She had been using a new deodorant, Mineral® (Garnier, L’Oréal, Portugal), for the previous 2 weeks. There was a past history of jewellery intolerance, and she did not report any previous skin reactions to perfumes and deodorants. She was treated with topical corticosteroids, and there was c...

A 65-year-old woman with palmoplantar psoriasis was referred with intense itching eczematous dermatitis on her feet. Her history showed that she had her psoriasis treated for 3months with oral acitretin 0.5mg/kg daily and daily topical application of an emollient stick used to improve the re-epithelization of fissured heels. During the treatment, her hands healed quickly, but she experienced wo...

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a common, chronic or chronically relapsing, severely pruritic, eczematous skin disease. AD is the second most frequently observed skin disease in dermatology clinics in Japan. Prevalence of childhood AD is 12-13% in mainland Japan; however, it is only half that (about 6%) in children from Ishigaki Island, Okinawa. Topical steroids and tacrolimus are the mainstay of tre...

Atopic dermatitis is a skin disease characterized by inflammation, pruritus, and chronic or relapsing eczematous lesions. Recently, ampholytic polysaccharide sacran has attracted a particular focus of attention as a novel biomaterial. In the present study, we investigated the effect of sacran solution on atopic dermatitis in the clinical study. Almost all of the average scores for atopic dermat...

BACKGROUND Vulvar dermatoses are often difficult to classify due to histopathologic overlap. We aimed to report our experience at a single institution. METHODS A total of 183 non-neoplastic, non-infectious vulvar biopsies were reviewed. Associations between histopathologic features and specific diagnoses were analyzed by Chi-squared tests. RESULTS Twenty-two biopsies (12.0%) showed two conc...

BACKGROUND Urticarial dermatitis, which is characterised by persistent wheals with eczematous papules and plaques, is frequently misdiagnosed and difficult to treat. Patients commonly experience intolerable pruritus which may greatly affect their quality of life. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to characterize the clinical patterns of pruritus in patients with urticarial dermatitis a...