Background: Pruritic skin disorders are one of the most common disorders in elderly. Objective: To find out the prevalence of pruritic skin disorders in the elderly residing in Kahrizak Institute in Tehran. Patients and Methods: In this descriptive, cross sectional survey, all the elderly over 60 years of age without dementia residing in Kahrizak Institute in Tehran in the first 6 months ...

Moisturizers are widely used in various dermatologic and cosmetic skin therapies. Different classes of moisturizers are based on their mechanism of action, including occlusives, humectants, emollients and protein rejuvenators. Commercially available moisturizers often utilize components of each of these classes to provide their beneficial effect. Dry skin (xerosis) is the major indication of us...

Diabetes is the most common endocrine disorder, affecting 8.3% of the population (1). Skin disorders will be present in 79.2% of people with diabetes (2). A study of 750 patients with diabetes found that the most common skin manifestations were cutaneous infections (47.5%), xerosis (26.4%), and inflammatory skin diseases (20.7%) (2). Individuals with type 2 diabetes are more likely than those w...

Hydroxyurea is an hydroxylated urea derivative used in many myeloproliferative disorders. Many, but unusual cutaneous disorders are related after its prolonged use. Their pathogenesis is not clear, but it is suggested that there is direct toxicity of the drug on the skin. We described a white, 75-year old man with diagnosis of Polycythemia Vera that in 11 years of treatment developed many cutan...

The cell wall compositions of two strains of Corynebacterium bovis were found to differ: one contained lysine, rhamnose, mannose, and glucose, the other meso-alpha, epsilon, diaminopimelic acid (DAP), arabinose, galactose, and mannose. The walls of a strain of C. nephridii were characterized by l-DAP and galactose. Those of a strain of C. paurometabolum and of two strains of "lipophilic diphthe...

was epoch-making), general anatomy ; sociological enquiry; working out the incidence of disease as affected by age, season of the year and by the social status of the subject; causes of blindness; bacteriology; simple and purulent conjunctivitis ; angular conjunctivitis ; tuberculosis; the lymph follicles of the conjunctiva; trachoma and its treatment; phtyctenar conjunctivitis; spring catarrh ...

Erlotinib is a small-molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). Erlotinib has been used primarily to treat non-small cell lung cancer. In addition to its role in tumor cells, EGFR is also an important regulator of growth and differentiation in the skin and hair. Therefore, EGFR-TKIs have been associated with a number of cutaneous side effects includ...