Background and aim: Adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL) is an aggresive malignancy which may occur in human T lymphotropic virus1(HTLV1) infected persons. HTLV1 is endemic in Khorasan with prevalence of 2.3% in general population. Since specific cutaneous manifestations of lymphoma may occur in a significant number of patients, we studied ATLL patients in Mashhad.Mate...

Scleromyxedema, the most severe manifestation of the spectrum of lichen myxedematosus, is characterized by cutaneous mucinosis, extracutaneous manifestations, and a monoclonal gammopathy. Seven of 8 patients evaluated at our center were treated with high-dose melphalan (180 mg/m(2) intravenously) and autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation, with marked improvement of gastrointesti...

Almost one-third of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) develop skin lesions. Cutaneous disorders associated with IBD may be divided into 5 groups based on the nature of the association: specific manifestations (orofacial and metastatic IBD), reactive disorders (erythema nodosum, pyoderma gangrenosum, pyodermatitis-pyostomatitis vegetans, Sweet's syndrome and cutaneous polyarteritis ...

Lupus erythematosus (LE) is a chronic disease that includes a broad spectrum of symptoms. Lupus is Latin for wolf; perhaps the skin lesions were thought to resemble wolf bites. LE is included among the connective tissue diseases and is divided into systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and cutaneous lupus erythematosus (CLE). These can occur together or separately. The classification of CLE was di...

UNLABELLED Introduction. Patients with chronic kidney disease on hemodialysis (HD) undergo many dermatological signs and symptoms during treatment. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of skin manifestations among the patients on maintenance HD in the HD center of Boo Ali-Sina Hospital (Qazvin, Iran) and compare them with the general population. METHODS From June 2012...

EXTRAHEPATIC MANIFESTATIONS IN CHRONIC HEPATITIS B – THE EXPERIENCE OF THE IASI INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITAL BETWEEN 2012-2014 (Abstract): There are numerous extrahepatic syndromes associated with HBV infection: vascular, renal, and cutaneous manifestations, essential mixed cryoglobulinemia, and neurological phenomena. Aim: This study proposes an approach to the extrahepatic manifestations of c...

Although COVID-19 is best known for causing fever and respiratory symptoms, it has been reported to be associated also with different extra pulmonary manifestations, including dermatological signs. Whilst the COVID-19-associated cutaneous manifestations have increasingly that were unexpected before their onset, exact incidence yet estimated. Furthermore, evidence accumulating skin manifestation...

Dear Editor, Skin is the largest organ of body, and serves as an outermost mechanical chemical boundary between internal external environment. It also body’s major source antioxidants in response to stress inflammation. However, that makes it vulnerable a variable number infectious systemic manifestations. Where most ailments are caused by innate skin pathology, many cutaneous manifestations mi...

Leishmaniasis include several clinical manifestations, mostly cutaneous, visceral and mucosal (1, 2). Various species can lead to diverse clinical presentations. Thus species identification contribute to proper management (3). Localized Leishmania Lymphadenitis (LLL) is a distinct entity in clinicopathologic field presenting with isolated lymphadenitis and possible cocomitant cutaneous...