in a prospective clinical trial, the incidence of scrotal tongue in psoriatic patients was studied. one hundred psoriatics and the same number of non-psoriatic individuals were evaluated for the incidence of fissured tongue, age, duration of illness, and clinical types of psoriasis. in this study 49 psoriatic patients (49%) and 28 non-psoriatic persons (28%) had fissured tongue. the most common...

In a prospective clinical trial, the incidence of scrotal tongue in psoriatic patients was studied. One hundred psoriatics and the same number of non-psoriatic individuals were evaluated for the incidence of fissured tongue, age, duration of illness, and clinical types of psoriasis. In this study 49 psoriatic patients (49%) and 28 non-psoriatic persons (28%) had fissured tongue. The most c...

Deep scrotal hemangiomas are rare. Less than 50 case reports have been published. After systematic research of the literature, we found less than 5 cases of ulcerated scrotal hemangioma. The aim of this case report is to illustrate the challenges of scrotal hemangiomas pose and their potential therapies based on the successful surgical treatment of an ulcerated scrotal hemangioma in an 18-month...

BACKGROUND Granular cell tumors are neoplasms of Schwann cell origin. They typically arise in the head and neck of adults, with the tongue being the most common location; granular cell tumors of male genitalia are exceedingly rare. We identified only eight prior cases of scrotal granular cell tumor in the literature, and only one was in a child. Herein, we report a second case of childhood scro...

Sir, Patients with Down syndrome have increased prevalence of common dermatological conditions like folliculitis, atopy and vitiligo, besides having increased incidence of peculiar dermatoses like syringomas, milia-like calcinosis, acanthosis nigricans and elastosis perforans serpiginosa. The frequency of alopecia areata is also reported to be higher in Down syndrome Figure 1: Alopecia universa...

background: since the earliest days of medicine, the tongue has been considered a good reflection of systemic disease. hip­pocrates, galen and others considered the tongue to be barometer of health. in addition, the early diagnose of tongue le­sions help to recognize the some systemic diseases. the purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of different mor­phological variations (anom...

neurofibromatosis being manifested as scrotal elephantiasis is a very rare condition and in review of the literature no such presentation was found. here we report a 20 year old man who presented with scrotal elephantiasis and consequently, a pathological diagnosis of neurofibromatosis was reached.

during one year survey, 77 psoriatic patients were hospitalized in the dermatology department of razi hospital. this comprised 19% of admitted patients in this period. 29% (n=22) of psoriatic patients had previous history of hospitalization. on admission, the mean age of patients was 32.8 years, the mean and peak age of disease onset were 26.46 and between 11-20 years, respectively. 14% (n=10) ...