HISTORY OF DERMATOLOGY Vitiligo and Leprosy
The vitiligo has long been confused with the leprosy and with other leukoderma diseases, therefore the Hebrew word 'Zora' or 'Tzaraat/Tzoraath' was translated using the Greek word "Lepros" and the...
INCONTINENTIA PIGMENTI
Incontinentia pigmenti, is a rare genodermatosis, also called Bloch-Sulzberger syndrome or Bloch-Siemens, that shows early at birth or in the neonatal period. In its classical form, the cutaneous...
KINDLER SYNDROME
A case is reported of a 28 year old man referring the appearance of swollen blisters due to insignificant trauma since birth. Later he noticed progressive changes of the skin as teleangectasies,...
ABCD's of MELANOMA
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ABCD's of Melanoma.
Malignant Melanoma is the most aggressive of malignant cutaneous tumours. Cases with lymphonode involvement, and...
WERNER SYNDROME
German physician Otto Werner (1879-1936) described the clinical picture of this syndrome in 1904, in four sisters, defining the skin thin, tight, scleroderma-like, that mimics premature aging,...
XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM
Hereditary disease, trasmitted with recessive autosomical modality, the XP is characterized from extreme photosensivity, that causes strict and premature damages to level of the cutis and of the...
BIOTERRORISM: PLAGUE AS A BIOLOGICAL WEAPON
Bioterrorism is the utilization of microorganisms or toxins in order to produce a disease and/or death in human beings, animals or plants. Different from conventional weaponry, relatively economic...
HUTCHINSON-GILFORD SYNDROME
Recent studies suggest that, as in other aging syndromes, the Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome is due at to a defect in the mechanism of DNA repair. Mutations have been found in the Lamin A gene...
LASSUEUR PICCARDI GRAHAM LITTLE Syndrome.
A rare disease in which cicatricial (scarring) alopecia of the scalp is associated with widepsread keratosis pilaris particularly in the axillae and pubic area where scarring does not usually...
MELANOMA THERMOGRAPHY
Thermography allows the investigator to create a 3 dimensional image based on infrared emissions from tissue. Warmer tissues show up as yellow and white, whereas darker colors represent cooler...