OBJECTIVE To determine clinical profile of vitiligo in children. STUDY DESIGN A descriptive study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Combined Military Hospital, Abbottabad, from January 2010 to June 2013. METHODOLOGY All new patients below the age of 15 years, clinically diagnosed to have vitiligo, were included in the study. A detailed history was obtained, thorough physical examination was pe...

A woman aged 23 years, with no past medical history of interest, was seen for the appearance a week earlier of pruritic skin lesions in the area of a tattoo created on the dorsum of her right foot 6 months earlier (Fig. 1). The patient denied taking any new medication or applying any topical products. There were no lesions on the rest of her skin or mucosas or lesions of the skin appendages. De...

BACKGROUND Halo nevus (HN) has been shown to be associated with vitiligo, but no standard signs are currently available to identify HN patients at risk of vitiligo, and the relevant data obtained in previous studies are somewhat conflicting. This study aimed to identify factors affecting the presence of vitiligo in HN patients. METHODS We performed a retrospective study on consecutive patient...

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1 of 2 DESCRIPTION The patient was a 74-year-old gentleman with underlying palmoplantar psoriasis ( fi gure 1 ). He was electively admitted for left below knee amputation for cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma at his left heel with locoregional spread. He was incidentally found to have symmetrical shortening of his fi ngers. On further questioning, we discovered that this had occurred over a per...

Background: Psoriasis is a common and genetically determined skin disease, which is frequent throughout the world. Objective: To perform a descriptive clinical study of 200 cases of psoriasis in Ahwaz. Patients and Methods: This study was performed from November 1997 to April 1999 on 200 psoriatic patients attended a private skin clinic in Ahwaz. Data were collected from patients and entered in...

Disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis is a rare photodistributed disorder that has occasionally been reported in association with psoriasis. Treatment of psoriasis with phototherapy may trigger the onset of porokeratosis in some cases. In other cases, the coexistence of these disorders may be coincidental. Clinical inspection of lesions of coexisting porokeratosis and psoriasis reveals...