objective: this study aimed to detail the phenomenology and psychiatric comorbidities in patients with pathologic skin picking (psp). method: forty five subjects (30% males) with psp (mean s.d. =33.210.9) were assessed. subjects were assessed for psychiatric co morbidity using general health questionnaire (ghq). the yale-brown obsessive compulsive scale (y-bocs) was used to assess obsessive com...

background: marjolin's ulcer is a rare, aggressive condition that arises on chronic skin lesions and diseases. in this article, we will report 83 cases of this disease. methods: retrospectively, we retrieved 83 records of patients with cancer arising from chronic skin conditions. data concerning demography, type of original skin insult, time interval between original lesion and cancer, cancer h...

Linear scleroderma represents a unique form of localized scleroderma that primarily affects the pediatric population, with 67% of patients diagnosed before 18 years of age. When linear scleroderma occurs on the head, it is referred to as linear scleroderma en coup de sabre, given the resemblance of the skin lesions to the stroke of a sabre. Here we describe 3 pediatric patients with linear scle...

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 ...

the pathergy phenomenon (pp) is one of the hallmarks of behcet's disease (bd). it has been reported to be positive from 17.5% to 83% of cases in different studies. pp is used as a diagnosis criterion in the dilsen criteria, the japan criteria, the international criteria, and the iran criteria. it is therefore important to know wether pp is a fix manifestation of the disease or a cyclic manifest...