Skin cancer is an important complication in renal transplant recipients. Associations of transplant-related skin tumor with ultraviolet radiation, age at transplantation, type of immunosuppressant drug administered, and viral infection have been reported; however, the details remain unclear. We report a 61-year-old man who had underwent renal transplantation at 38 years of age and developed mul...

BACKGROUND This paper aims at presentation of our surgical techniques and results of the lateral thoracic (LT) flaps for head and neck reconstructions. METHOD There were seven LT cutaneous, seven LT myocutaneous, and two LT conjoint myocutaneous flaps for reconstruction of head and neck mucosal or cutaneous defects. RESULTS The largest flap size was 22 cm x 13 cm. All donor sites were close...

INTRODUCTION S ystemic sclerosis (scleroderma) is an autoimmune disorder of unclear etiology that leads to fibrosis and vascular injury of the skin and multiple organs, including the lungs, heart, gastrointestinal tract, kidneys, and the musculoskeletal system. It is classified as either diffuse or limited cutaneous based on the extent of skin thickening. In the diffuse form of systemic scleros...

ALA: aminolevulinic acid BBL: broadband light IPL: intense pulse light Nd:YAG: neodymium-doped yttrium aluminium garnet PDT: photodynamic therapy INTRODUCTION Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory disease characterized by noncaseating epithelioid cell granulomas. Skin involvement is seen in approximately onequarter of patients. Multiple cutaneous variants in sarcoidosis include lupus pernio, Lofgren s...

Background: The advantages of cyanoacrylates in cutaneous wound closure have been wi­ dely demonstrated in the literature. However, these products have not been widely used in Brazil due to the high costs of octyl cyanoacrylates. Moreover, there have been only a few studies on the most affordable product, ethyl cyanoacrylate, as a cutaneous adhesive. The objective of this study was to evaluate ...

Pellagra is a nutritional wasting disease attributable to a combined deficiency of tryptophan and niacin (nicotinic acid). It is characterized clinically by four classic symptoms often referred to as the four Ds: diarrhea, dermatitis, dementia, and death. Prior to the development of these symptoms, other nonspecific symptoms insidiously manifest and mostly affect the dermatological, neuropsychi...

An odontogenic cutaneous fistula is a pathological communication between the outer skin surface of the face and the oral cavity. Facial cutaneous fistula is a complication of odontogenic infection that is often misdiagnosed with skin infection. We report a rare case, which was diagnosed as basal cell carcinoma based on the biopsy of skin lesions in the patient who had been diagnosed with odonto...

Toxic epidermal necrolysis is an uncommon but potentially life-threatening adverse cutaneous drug reaction characterized by variable degrees of epidermal necrosis and detachment leading to morbidity and risk of mortality. We describe a 67-year-old woman who underwent allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation as treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia. She developed toxic epiderma...

Reverse total shoulder arthroplasty is becoming a common form of shoulder arthroplasty that is often performed in the setting of rotator cuff pathology. Infection is a rare complication but is more common in reverse total shoulder arthroplasty than in hemiarthroplasty or anatomic total shoulder arthroplasty. We present the case of a 69-year-old patient with a reverse total shoulder arthroplasty...