OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to identify the predictors of acquired perforating dermatosis (APD) in patients on maintenance hemodialysis (HD). METHODS A case-control study was performed at our outpatient HD center between January 1, 2000 and March 31, 2011. Patients on HD with APD were matched (1 : 2) for gender and age with controls on HD. Conditional logistic regression was used...

The surgical indications in 770 patients with Crohn's disease undergoing intestinal resection at The Mount Sinai Hospital from 1960-83 have been reviewed. Surgical indications were divided into two principal categories: 375 cases with perforating indications and 395 cases non-perforating. Among 292 patients who underwent second operations for recurrent Crohn's disease, the indications for secon...

Over the last few years, dermoscopy has been shown to be a useful tool in assisting the noninvasive diagnosis of various general dermatological disorders. In this article, we sought to provide an up-to-date practical overview on the use of dermoscopy in general dermatology by analysing the dermoscopic differential diagnosis of relatively common dermatological disorders grouped according to thei...

Subcorneal pustular dermatosis is a rare chronic relapsing bullous neutrophilic dermatosis. Because it can be associated with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance and multiple myeloma, screening for these conditions necessary. Herein, we present case subcorneal dermatosis, concurrent significance, successfully treated acitretin.

ARPC: acquired reactive perforating collagenosis RPC: reactive perforating collagenosis INTRODUCTION Acquired reactive perforating collagenosis (ARPC) is a type of perforating disorder that is often associated with underlying systemic diseases, such as diabetes mellitus, renal failure, or malignancy. Giant variants of ARPC may reach up to 2 cm in size and have been reported in only a handful of...

Diabetes mellitus increases the risk of cerebrovascular disease, the effects of hypercapnia on CBF (cerebral blood flow) and cerebrovascular reactivity during diabetes are still inconsistent. Here, we have established a new microangiographic technique using synchrotron radiation (SPring-8, Japan), which enabled us to visualize rat cerebral vessels with high spatial resolution in real time. The ...

A perforating vein can become incompetent due to hemodynamic or morphologic causes. Until recently all perforating veins with a diameter exceeding 3 mm at ultrasound exam were considered incontinent(1). Since introduction of duplex doppler and color doppler investigations this hypothesis was temperated because the dilatation of one or more perforating veins was usually observed in chronic venou...

background: diagnosis of the early phase of mycosis fungoides (mf) is sometimes difficult. loss of cd7 expression is considered a distinguishing characteristic of mf. the aim of this study was to determine the range of cd7 expression in mf and compare the results with benign inflammatory dermatosis and equivocal cases of possible mf.   methods: during a period of 30 months, we examined 15 patie...