BACKGROUND Throughout history, every civilization in the world used plants or their derivatives for treatment or prevention of diseases. In Palestine as in many other countries, herbal medicines are broadly used in the treatment of wide range of diseases including urological diseases. The main objective of this research is to study the use of herbal remedies by herbalists and traditional healer...

In this study, the methanolic extracts from four medicinal plants (Sarcopoterium spinosum, Paronychia argentea, Inula viscosa, and Achillea fragrantissima) were tested in vitro for antibacterial antioxidant properties. The properties of these MPEs assessed using disc diffusion Serial dilution techniques. evaluated by DPPH FRAP methods. total phenolic compounds measured according to Folin-Ciocal...

Dear Editor, Inhibition of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a new strategy in treatment of a variety of solid tumors, such as colorectal carcinoma, non-small cell lung cancer, squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck, and pancreatic cancer (1). Cetuximab is a chimeric human-murine monoclonal antibody against EGFR. Cutaneous side effects are the most common adverse reactions oc...

Supportive treatment plays an important role in oncology nowadays. The main aims of oncologic supportive are management cancer symptoms and adverse events treatment.
 In terms dermatologic the most types reaction oral mucositis during radiation therapy, chemotherapy hematopoetic stem cell transplantation, palmoplantar syndrome chemotherapy, skin reaction, acneiform paronychia pyogenic gran...

The persistence of thumb sucking might also be harmful as it associated with the development complications seen on paronychia and nail deformities in mouth level malocclusions. In this review, we have looked up studies literature to identify effect malocclusion. Thumb children usually occurs a primitive reflex that appears early childhood no apparent causative factors. Children develop habit be...

The etiologic role of Malassezia furfur in onychomycosis is a contentious diagnostic problem because its keratinolytic ability has never been verified. This case report describes the isolation of M. furfur from the infected nails of a child clinically diagnosed with onychomycosis, and discusses the role of this organism as an etiologic agent/colonizer. The patient presented with subungual hyper...

Acrodermatitis enteropathica (AE) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder of zinc (Zn) deficiency. AE is the clinical phenotype of Zn deficiency and is characterized by pustular and bullous dermatitis with an acral and periorificial distribution, frequently associated with pustular paronychia, angular stomatitis, glossitis, generalized alopecia and diarrhoea. Initially the term AE was used to de...

Skin involvement may occur in patients with Wegener's granulomatosis (polyangiitis with granulomatosis; WG) and is more frequent in the generalised form. However, when a patient with vasculitis develops digital ulceration, in addition to disease activation, other pathologies should be considered. One of them may be the herpetic whitlow mimicking paronychia. Here, we present a patient who develo...