Dermatologists and child abuse are not frequently associated in the minds of most physicians. Yet the most common manifestations of child abuse are cutaneous. This article reviews cutaneous manifestations of physical abuse, including bruises, lacerations, abrasions, human bites, and burns. It also discusses ways that dermatologists can differentiate abusive injuries from accidental ones as well...

The cutaneous manifestations of Lyme disease have been known for more than 100 years and are specified as different diseases. All of them show similar pathophysiological mechanisms. After invasion of the borrelial pathogen, the cellular immune response leads to noticeable changes in the skin that usually proceed without epidermal involvement. In most cases, the manifestations in early local inf...

Incidence of Abusive Cutaneous Injuries Cutaneous injuries include bruises, petechiae, burns, bite marks, lacerations, and abrasions. In 2004 data from the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System of the US Department of Health and Human Services indicated that physical abuse constituted 17.5% of the total substantiated reports for child maltreatment.' Data from the first Canadian incidence...

We present a sixty three year old female with erythematous itching rash over the lower limbs since 4 years, rash over abdomen since 2 years, rash over forehead and scalp since 1 year. She denied any other systemic complaints. Clinically she had pallor and well defined erythematous, hyperpigmented plaques over the shin bilaterally, symmetrical with few depigmented areas over the lower aspect of ...