BACKGROUND There are concerns that there is no uniform approach towards the management of vitiligo. Objectives To explore attitudes and strategies for the management of vitiligo among dermatologists. METHODS A self-administered questionnaire containing 22 questions was distributed to 160 dermatologists attending a national dermatology conference in 2007. RESULTS One hundred and twelve derma...

BACKGROUND Pityriasis lichenoides (PL)-like skin lesions rarely appear as a specific manifestation of mycosis fungoides (MF). OBJECTIVE We investigated the clinicopathological features, immunophenotypes, and treatments of PL-like MF. METHODS This study included 15 patients with PL-like lesions selected from a population of 316 patients diagnosed with MF at one institution. RESULTS The pat...

A 41-year-old man presented with a ten-year history of recurrent erythema and swelling of skin that occurred following sun exposure even as little as ten minutes. The lesion affected only on the sun exposed area. A phototesting was carried out and revealed that urticaria was induced following ultraviolet A (UVA) and visible light exposure. Solar urticaria (SU) from UVA and visible light was dia...

INTRODUCTION Matrix metalloproteinase-12 (MMP-12) may play an important role in the pathogenesis and spread of psoriatic disease. AIM To investigate plasma levels of the selected enzyme in plaque psoriasis patients before and after the course of narrowband UVB (NBUVB) therapy with respect to disease advancement. MATERIAL AND METHODS The cohort included 49 patients suffering from plaque psor...

Background: Despite great advances in therapeutic regimens,complete repigmentation in vitiligo is still out of reach. The aimof this assay was to study the efficacy and tolerability of repeatedneedling combined with narrowband ultraviolet B (NBUVB)therapy in the treatment of generalized, stable, refractory vitiligo.Method: Twenty-six patients with stable generalized intractablevitiligo were rec...

BACKGROUND Determination of the minimal erythema dose (MED) is important for developing a phototherapy protocol and to diagnosis photosensitivity disorders. But obtaining a precise and reproducible MED is quite difficult because a phototest for erythema is based on subjective assessment. OBJECTIVE The objective of our study was to compare the gross interpretation of a phototest and the object...

Primary cutaneous lymphomas (PCL) are rare in pediatrics. Mycosis fungoides (MF) is the most frequent PCL diagnosed in childhood. There are various clinical variants of MF, including the hypopigmented MF (HMF). We present a 5-year-old boy with an 18-month history of progressive, generalized, nonpruritic hypopigmented lesions with central lacy erythema. He had no improvement with emollients. Ski...

© 2009 The Authors. doi: 10.2340/00015555-0685 Journal Compilation © 2009 Acta Dermato-Venereologica. ISSN 0001-5555 Sir, Acquired reactive perforating collagenosis (ARPC) is associated with diabetes mellitus and/or chronic renal failure. The disease lesions consist of many dome-shaped nodules, which have a central umbilication containing firm keratotic plugs. Histologically, transepidermal eli...

BACKGROUND Cutaneous lichen planus (CLP) is an inflammatory dermatosis. Its chronic relapsing course and frequently spontaneous regression hamper the assessment of treatment effectiveness. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of available treatment modalities for CLP. DATA SOURCES PubMed, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), ClinicalTrials.gov registry. METHODS We perfo...