Allergic contact dermatitis is a common skin disease, which affects approximately 20% of the population. This reaction may present with several clinical manifestations. Erythema multiforme-like allergic contact dermatitis is a rare type of non-eczematous contact dermatitis, which may lead to difficulty in diagnosis.Essential oil of Laurus nobilis is widely used in massage therapy for antiinflam...

Sunlight is composed of visible and ultraviolet light, but only 10% the UV can penetrate Earth's atmosphere. Exposure to UV-B on human skin result in sunburn erythema. To avoid damage from UV, sunscreens containing oxybenzone octinoxate compounds are used. However, these have adverse effects skin, so finding a more natural alternative essential. Phenolic flavonoids, which found plants, believed...

OBJECTIVE Despite the application of skin care treatments, many infants have skin problems such as dryness and erythema. We proposed a new combination skin care for infants which consisted of a foaming cleanser with lower surfactant activity and moisturizers that contained pseudo-ceramide. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A total of 50 infants (age: 3-24 months) with insignificant levels of dry skin were...

Necrolytic migratory erythema is a rare skin condition that consists of migrating areas of erythema with blisters that heal with hyperpigmentation. It usually occurs in patients with an alpha islet cell tumor of the pancreas-or glucagonoma-and when associated with glucose intolerance, anemia, hyperglucagonemia, and weight loss defines the glucagonoma syndrome. We describe a 52-year-old female p...

MAY, LEWIS K. (Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia), RALPH A. KNIGHT, AND H. WILLIAM HARRIS. Allescheria boydii and Aspergillus fumigatus skin test antigens. J. Bacteriol. 91:2155-2157. 1966.-Protein and polysaccharide fractions were extracted from culture filtrates of Allescheria boydii and Aspergillus fumigatus by the methods of Seibert and of Heidelberger, and injected intr...

Id reaction or autosensitization dermatitis is an acute skin that develops at a site distant from primary inflammatory focus.1,2 It frequently associated with infections. can clinically show various presentations, such as eczematous, urticarial, lichenoid, morbilliform, psoriatic, erythema nodosum and multiforme, rosacea.

BACKGROUND Lyme disease is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi which is transmitted in Europe by the tick ixodes ricinus. Erythema migrans is a skin lesion which is pathognomonic of Lyme disease. A retrospective study was carried out to determine the geographical distribution of the occurrence of tick bites and erythema migrans in the Netherlands and to identify ecological risk factors. METHODS In...

Terrestrial solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR) exerts both beneficial and adverse effects on human skin. Epidemiological studies show a lower incidence of skin cancer in people with pigmented skins compared to fair skins. This is attributed to photoprotection by epidermal melanin, as is the poorer vitamin D status of those with darker skins. We summarize a wide range of photobiological responses...

BACKGROUND Texture, color, and durability are important characteristics to consider for skin replacement in conspicuous and/or mobile regions of the body such as the face, neck, and hands. Although autograft thickness is a known determinant of skin quality, few studies have correlated the subjective and objective characters of skin graft healing with their associated morphologic and cellular pr...

We report a patient with idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome presenting with bilateral eosinophilic pleural effusions. He also had erythema elevatum diutinum, a rare skin disease of the vasculitic type. No cardiomyopathy was present. Pleural effusions, skin lesions, and blood eosinophilia disappeared with prolonged corticosteroid treatment.