An 81-year-old Finnish female had a 10-month history of a very pruritic eruption. In the clinical examination porokeratosis was suspected and histologically verified with the typical cornoid lamellae. The eruption involved also the unexposed areas of the skin. The patient had always avoided sunshine because it made her feel uncomfortable. The patient's sister, too, had a solitary lesion of poro...

Tinea capitis, tinea corporis, and pityriasis versicolor are common superficial fungal infections in the pediatric population. • Tinea capitis is the most common dermatophyte infection worldwide. In North America, the cause is almost exclusively T tonsurans. Diagnosis of tinea capitis usually can be made by clinical features alone, especially when occipital or postauricular lymphadenopathy is p...

Department of Dermatology, Sainte Elisabeth Hospital, B-5000 Namur, Belgium. VIVES University College, Wilgenstraat 32, B-8800 Roeselare, Belgium. University of Liège, Quai Edouard Van Beneden 22, B-4020 Liège, Belgium. Department of Microbial Physiology and Ecology, University of Brussel, Bruxelles, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium. Superior Health Council, Place V. Horta, 40, bte 10, B-1060 Brussels,...

introduction: lasers, light emitting diodes (leds) and super luminous diodes (slds) are widely used to treat selected musculoskeletal, integumentary and neurological conditions. the mechanisms underlying the reported treatment effects of light therapy are unclear and the physiologic effect of light on a variety of tissues, particularly neurological, is mostly unknown. a few researchers have rep...

Lipoma is one of the most common benign soft tissue tumors. The most common location of lipomas is in areas of abundant adipose tissue. Lipomas arising in the peripheral nerves are rare tumors, with most arising in the forearm and wrist, and most have occurred within the median nerve. This report describes a case with lipoma arising in the superficial peroneal nerve.

An Bras Dermatol. 2017;92(4):584-95. lobulated, of benign behavior, but which can persist or recur if it is excised in an inadequate manner, being recommended the complete excision of the lesion and postoperative follow-up.2,3 Nail bed is involved in 50% of the cases, and can rarely have a history of trauma preceding the onset of the lesion. Less frequent locations have already been described a...

As a general rule, superficial myxoid lesions are benign and deep ones are often malignant, with the important exceptions that intramuscular myxoma is deep and myxofibrosarcoma (also called myxoid malignant fibrous histiocytoma) is classically superficial. These latter two lesions are covered in Chapter 21 and are likely to be sampled on needle biopsies, whereas superficial lesions are typicall...