The management of dermatological hypersensitivity diseases is a lifelong struggle for most patients. Often, patients are advised to avoid triggers and aggregating factors that lead to flare ups which eventually becomes second nature to them. However, when the symptoms of these conditions become unbearable and conventional medicine no longer provides relief, an increasing proportion of allergy p...

OBJECTIVE Diagnoses of skin, mucosae, hair and nail manifestations in malignant diseases are often challenging because of life-threatening drug reactions, opportunistic infections or skin involvement of primary processes. Description of morphology, configuration and distribution of lesions is important in order to differentiate the self-healing eruptions from serious side effects of chemotherap...

Correspondence to: William Yuk-Ming Tang Abstract: There are protean cutaneous manifestations in patients with lupus erythematosus (LE). Skin lesions rate one of the most common manifestations of SLE second to musculoskeletal features. They can be classified as LE-specific and LE-non-specific. The commonest LE-specific lesion is acute cutaneous LE (ACLE) and the commonest LE-non-specific lesion...

Abstract This article reviews non-infectious inflammatory dermatoses with mainly neutrophilic infiltrates and the formation of pustules. The infiltrate containing neutrophils may either be mild as in urticaria or very dense, even leukocytoclasia Sweet syndrome pyoderma gangrenosum. location, interaction epithelial structures density useful to distinguish these dermatoses. Neutrophilic pustular ...

background: nail disorders comprise approximately 10% of all dermatological conditions. abnormalities in the color of nails are called ungal dyschromia or chromonychia. ungual dyschromia may be endogenous or exogenous. yellow discoloration of the nails has been reported during the last years as separate observation related to drug administration, during hemodialysis and associated with pulmonar...