ACH: acrodermatitis continua of Hallopeau IL-17: interleukin 17 INTRODUCTION ‘‘Treatment of acrodermatitis continua of Hallopeau is difficult and often disappointing.’’ ‘‘Oral lesions of psoriasis are rare clinical observations.’’ Acrodermatitis continua of Hallopeau (ACH) is characterized by chronic, painful, destructive, and typically disabling disease of the hands and feet. It is considered ...

Acrodermatitis continua of Hallopeau (ACH) is a rare variant acral pustular psoriasis, exclusively involving the distal phalanges and nails hands feet. We herein report case concurrent ACH psoriatic arthritis sine psoriasis presenting with dactylitis. The patient was successfully treated biologics apremilast.

Studies on frequencies of serum antibodies to outer surface proteins (Osps) in Lyme disease have produced conflicting results. Osp antigens (A, B, and C) enriched by butanol extraction, which aids band identification in immunoblotting, were used to test sera for IgG antibody to Osp antigens from Borrelia burgdorferi isolates from each subspecies (sensu stricto, afzelii, and garinii). Individual...

We present here a case of acrodermatitis enteropathica-like eruption associated with essential free fatty acid and protein deficiencies as well as borderline zinc deficiency that occurred after Whipple's operation in a 31-yr-old woman. Her eruptions were improved not by zinc supplements alone, but her condition was improved by total parenteral nutrition including amino acids, albumin, lipid and...