Saturday, January 17, 2009

Granuloma annulare

6 clinical variants:
  • localized
  • generalized or disseminated
  • subcutaneous (pseudo-rheumatoid nodules)
  • perforating
  • arcuate
  • linear

Childhood BCC

Albinism, Bazex syndrome, BCC nevus syndrome, nevus sebaceous, solid organ transplants, xeroderma pigmentosum and radiotherapy-treated cancers 32 M. de la Luz Orozco-Covarrubias, L. Tamayo-Sanchez, C. Duran-Mckinster, C. Ridaura and R. Ruiz-Maldonado, Malignant cutaneous tumors in children. Twenty years of experience at a large pediatric hospital, J Am Acad Dermatol 30 (1994), pp. 243–249.

Friday, January 16, 2009

Reed's syndrome

  • Multiple cutaneous and uterine leiomyomatosis
  • Autosomal dominant disease
  • Chromosome 1q42.3-43 and the gene encoding fumarate hydratase
  • Uterine and cutaneous leiomyomas
  • Ass with papillary renal-cell carcinoma

Erosions in a newborn

Infections: Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome, HSV and varicella zoster virus infection,
Drug: Toxic epidermal necrolysis
Congenital: Aplasia cutis congenita, genetic blistering disorders such as epidermolysis bullosa, Autoimmune disorders: Pemphigus
Others: Incontinentia pigmenti and neonatal Behçet disease.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Baboon syndrome


SDRIFE

Symmetrical Drug-Related Intertriginous (buttock and groin folds) and Flexural (other folds) Erythema (redness)