Temporal arteritis is middle and large vessel vasculitis, that affects parts of carotid arteries. First symptoms are headache, weakness and tiredness. Later occur scalp sensitivity, lack of pulse and temporal nodes, visual disturbances, and claudications of jaw and limbs. Diagnosis is based on clinical symptoms, laboratory findings, and biopsy of the temporal artery. First choice for treatment ...

eccrine porocarcinoma is a rare malignant adnexal tumor of ductal portion of eccrine sweat gland. it occurs commonly in the lower extremities and rarely in scalp, face, ear, trunk and upper extremities. this survey presents a classic case of eccrine porocarcinoma of scalp in a 58 yr old male patient, presenting as cauliflower like growth over parietal aspect of scalp.

BACKGROUND Central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia is the most common form of cicatricial alopecia in African American women. Treatment options are limited and mostly aimed at halting further hair loss but rarely result in hair regrowth. Therefore, it is important to recognize early clinical signs, perform a confirmatory biopsy, and begin treatment promptly. We have observed that hair breakage...

A young adult male patient presented with diffuse hair loss of two years duration. Clinical features and investigations were suggestive of loose anagen hair syndrome. He developed alopecia totalis during follow-up. Scalp biopsy revealed perifollicular lymphocytic infiltration. A diagnosis of adult-onset loose anagen hair syndrome with alopecia areata was made. Introduction Loose anagen hair syn...

We report of a 29-year-old man presented with yellow-red, scaling papules on the skin of scalp, retro-auricular folds, inguinal, axillary, chest and abdomen. The lesions had a poikilodermatious appearance in some areas, such as trunk. The patient also had diabetes insipidus and skull osteolytic lesions. The diagnosis of langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) was suggested based on H and E staining...

Sir, A 13-year-old girl presented with complaints of a boggy mass on her left frontoparietal scalp since birth with thinning of the overlying hair. The lesion was first noticed at birth and gradually increased in size with age. On examination, a large (12 × 14 cm) soft to firm, bosselated, skin-colored plaque was seen involving the vertex and left frontoparietal scalp. The surface was irregular...

Introduction. Skin metastases are the result of skin infiltration caused by proliferation cells remotely located malignant tumors occurring with a frequency 0.6–10.4 % in various oncological processes. They may be sign progressive neoplasm or manifestation newly diagnosed cancer. Due to high variability clinical manifestations leading misdiagnoses, limited number articles describe and dermatosc...

BACKGROUND Alopecia can be a manifestation of mycosis fungoides (MF) and Sézary syndrome (SS), but the prevalence is unknown. OBJECTIVE We sought to describe the clinicopathologic presentation and molecular features of alopecia in patients with MF/SS. METHODS A retrospective chart review of a prospectively collected MF/SS database was used to identify patients with alopecia. The National Al...

Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease with skin presentations in different parts of the body. We have noted improvement in psoriasis skin manifestation in a patient with long standing psoriatic lesions of the scalp. We actively sought additional patients with scalp psoriasis and transplanted hair into their scalp into, or in close proximity, of psoriatic lesions in order to elicit a response. Meth...

1 Moo Yeol Hyun, MD Beom Joon Kim, MD, PhD Department of Dermatology Chung-Ang University College of Medicine Seoul, Korea Changjin Lee, MD, PhD Jae Wook Kim, MD, PhD Hugel, Inc. Gangwon-do, Korea Sir: B toxin type A (BTXA) has been in use for more than 20 years in the treatment of various neurological conditions and aesthetic treatments.1,2 BTXA is also occasionally used to treat alopecia; how...