In medical practice, almost every clinician may encounter patients with skin disease. However, it is not always easy for physicians of all specialties to face the daily task of determining the nature and clinical implication of dermatologic manifestations. Are they confined to the skin, representing a pure dermatologic event? Or are they also markers of internal conditions relating to the patie...

Skin disease is the most common occupational disease, but the reported number is small in Korea due to a difficulty of detection and diagnosis in time. We described various official statistics and data from occupational skin disease surveillance system, epidemiological surveys and cases published in scientific journals. Until 1981, 2,222 cases of occupational skin disease were reported by Korea...

The tea collection is a difficult and laborious task, but few studies have analyzed risks by work activities or the work environment. To investigate the effects of work activities and work environment on tea collectors by looking from dermatological perspective, detailed dermatological examination was performed on tea collectors and clinical backgrounds of the participants were questioned and a...

The possibility of prenatal diagnosis and abortion of abnormal fetuses reassures many couples considering a pregnancy. Some children are conceived only because the pregnancy can be terminated if a serious uncorrectable abnormality carried in the family is passed on. This paper reviews how skin diseases can be diagnosed prenatally. Space does not permit reference to most of the original papers b...

Both acute and chronic liver disease can manifest on the skin. The appearances can range from the very subtle, such as early finger clubbing, to the more obvious such as jaundice. Identifying these changes early on can lead to prompt diagnosis and management of the underlying condition. In this pictorial review we will describe the skin manifestations of specific liver conditions illustrated wi...

This is a book which is written chiefly from the point of view of a European physician. Regarded as such, it is a useful work of moderate size, coming between the smaller books which profess to be merely introductions for the use of student?, and the larger text-books, such as that of Stelwagon. The descriptions of the pathology and symptomatology are sufficiently full for general practice. The...

BACKGROUND Skin diseases have only recently been considered as a possible public health problem in developing countries. Data supporting this matter are scarce. The aim of this study is to report the experience of a specialized dermatologic center in Bamako (Mali) in order to complete two previous studies conducted in the Bamako area: a prevalence study in the general population and a study in ...