Ashy dermatosis, also known as erythema dyschromicum perstans, is an idiopathic dermal melanosis of unknown etiology. We here describe an unusual case of 63-year-old Caucasian male with ashy dermatosis and skin lesion of lichen pigmentosus-like. No treatment was tried because the lesions were totally asymptomatic. After a control, three months later, all lesions had cleared up. This case is of ...

Ashy dermatosis, also known as erythema dyschromicum perstans, is a peculiar, slowly progressive, idiopathic dermal melanosis. In most cases, slate gray- to lead-colored patches are symmetrically distributed over the body. Ashy dermatosis with a unilateral distribution is rare. We report a case of unilateral ashy dermatosis in a 27-year-old Korean man.

lesions occurred in up to a third of patients who initially responded to alitretinoin after 24 weeks of follow-up. A recent study reported that a second course of treatment with alitretinoin at a dosage of 30mg/d in patients who relapsed achieved clearance in up to 80% of cases, with good tolerance; this would indicate that this medication could be used for long-term management of chronic hand ...

Linear immunoglobulin A dermatosis is a rare autoimmune bullous disease, but the most common autoimmune bullous dermatosis in children. We report a typical exuberant case of linear IgA dermatosis in a ten-month old child, who showed good response to treatment with corticosteroids and dapsone.

(A) Prominent filling defect at the floor of the proximal left anterio septal perforating branch. Left main coronary artery normal. Left c wire biased down septal perforating branch of the LAD. Thrombus Far field of the vessel (9 to 1 o’clock positions) drops out and is n erosclerotic plaque in the LAD—visualized by OCT at the 9 to 10 o branch. (F) Further ruptured atherosclerotic plaque in the...

Perforating granuloma annulare (GA) is a rare subset of GA with an unknown etiology and chronic course. Herein, we report the case of 72 year-old women with a 3-month history of a post-traumatic, persistent, erythematous and exudative plaque located on her left leg. Differential diagnosis included mycobacterial infection, subcutaneous mycosis, perforating dermatoses, pyoderma and squamous cell ...

Linear immunoglobulin (Ig) A dermatosis is an immune-mediated bullous disease characterized by linear deposits of IgA along the basal membrane. While usually idiopathic, it can occasionally be induced by drug exposure. We report the case of a 60-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis being treated with sulfasalazine who developed linear IgA dermatosis and drug rash with eosinophilia and syste...

BACKGROUND Although many articles on perforating veins have been published, much knowledge about these veins is lacking. OBJECTIVE In this review relevant facts about the clinical importance of perforating veins in venous disease are described. METHODS A literature search on English, French and German articles has been performed using literature databases like Medline, Embase and Cochrane. ...

Various reported methods to demonstrate the territory supplied by an intracranial artery are designed to deal with major cerebral arteries or a group of perforating arteries. We have devised a technique to demonstrate the area supplied by individual small perforating arteries using different dyes with gelatin. A temporal craniectomy was made in the dog and the posterior circle of Willis was exp...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), mainly chronic unspecific ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease have increased in incidence in the last decades. These have multiple extraintestinal manifestations, with those of the skin appearing after the intestinal clinical presentation. These are classified as: granulomatous dermatosis, reactive dermatosis, and those secondary to treatment of IBD, and oth...