AIM To investigate the association of the HLA-C allele with psoriasis. Methods Twenty five type I psoriasis patients with 25 healthy controls participated in this study. PCR-SSP was preferred for HLA-C typing. The patients were questioned for age at onset and family history and examined for severity and area of involvement of the disease and presence of articular, nail and scalp involvement. PC...

Lichen planus (LP) is a chronic autoimmune inflammatory dermatosis that is characterized by purple, pruritic plain topped papules, involving the skin, mucous membrane, nail and hair follicles. According to the site of involvement there are various forms of LP. Palmoplantar LP is one of the rare clinical variants, which is meanwhile accompanied with the oral involvement being extremely uncommon....

Keratosis follicularis or Darier's disease (DD), a rare autosomal dominant disorder is characterised clinically by appearance of multiple, prurutic, discrete, scaly papules affecting seborrheic areas coupled with palmar pits, nail changes and mucosal involvement. Histologicaly the lesions show suprabasal clefts with acantholytic and dyskeratotic cells. We report a case of 35 years old woman wit...

In recent years, the widespread use of taxane-based chemotherapy regimens for the management of malignant tumors of various origins has evidenced the high frequency of cutaneous toxicity induced by this pharmacological group. In 2003, among its possible manifestations, Childress and Lokich defined periarticular thenar erythema and onycholysis (PATEO) syndrome as a rare subtype of hand-foot synd...

The treatment of comminuted tibial shaft fractures in canine patients is burdened by significant risk which involves bone healing complications, such as delayed bone union. Complications may result from iatrogenic damage to blood vessels during fracture stabilization. To minimize this risk, treatment methods increasingly often rely on the concept of biological osteosynthesis. One of such method...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the epidemiology, responsible agents, clinical features, and outcome of white superficial onychomycosis (WSO). DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING University hospital. PATIENTS A total of 79 patients with WSO seen at the Department of Dermatology of Bologna University from 1994 to 2002. Responsible agents included Trichophyton interdigitale in 58 cases (73%), Trichoph...