Content - Volume 92, Issue 2

Beginning with this issue of Acta Dermato-Venereologica, the Editorial Board has decided to launch a series of theme issues, whereby regular papers on similar topics are published together instead of appearing chronologically (and hence dispersed) based solely on the date of acceptance. Needless to say, these themes, just as in the present issue, will be complemented by other review articles and o ...

Patients with chronic itch are diagnosed and treated by dermatologists. However, itch is a neural sensation and some forms of chronic itch are the presenting symptoms of neurological diseases. Dermatologists need some familiarity with the most common neuropathic itch syndromes to initiate diagnostic testing and to know when to refer to a neurologist. This review summarizes current knowledge, admit ...

Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) is a rare, severe adverse drug reaction. The aim of this study was to characterize the aetiology, clinical features, laboratory findings, and management of patients with DRESS, diagnosed from January 2005 to April 2010 in a tertiary centre in Thailand. Twenty-seven patients were included in the study with a mean age of 52 years. Phenyto ...

Beginning with this issue of Acta Dermato-Venereologica, the Editorial Board has decided to launch a series of theme issues, whereby regular papers on similar topics are published together instead of appearing chronologically (and hence dispersed) based solely on the date of acceptance. Needless to say, these themes, just as in the present issue, will be complemented by other review articles and o ...

Patients with chronic itch are diagnosed and treated by dermatologists. However, itch is a neural sensation and some forms of chronic itch are the presenting symptoms of neurological diseases. Dermatologists need some familiarity with the most common neuropathic itch syndromes to initiate diagnostic testing and to know when to refer to a neurologist. This review summarizes current knowledge, admit ...

Cowpox virus infection of humans is an uncommon, potentially fatal, skin disease. It is largely confined to Europe, but is not found in Eire, or in the USA, Australasia, or the Middle or Far East. Patients having contact with infected cows, cats, or small rodents sporadically contract the disease from these animals. We report here clinical aspects of 8 patients from the Munich area who had purcha ...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a new imaging method with promising results for several dermatological indications, including preoperative skin tumour characterization. While high-frequency ultrasound (HFUS) is frequently used for this purpose, overestimation of tumour thickness is a problem, due to subtumoral inflammatory infiltration that cannot be differentiated from tumour tissue. The ai ...

The aetiology of oral lichen lesions is obscure. In this study the frequency of contact allergy to gold in 83 patients with oral lichen lesions was compared with that in two control groups, comprising 319 age- and gender-matched patients with dermatitis selected from files and 83 clinically examined dermatitis patients. All patients were tested epicutaneously with gold sodium thiosulphate. The two ...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of photodynamic therapy with topical methylaminolevulinate for the treatment of basal cell carcinomas in a single dermatological department. Ninety patients (34.4% men and 65.6% women) with a total of 157 basal cell carcinomas (111 superficial, 40 nodular, 6 unknown) were treated. Primary endpoint was clinically observed recurrence verified by biops ...

Although varicella zoster virus latency has been demonstrated in several sensory ganglia, herpes zoster usually effects only one single, either left or right, dermatome in half of the body. In immunocompromised patients, more than one contiguous unilateral dermatome may be involved. Bilateral non-contiguous herpes zoster, also termed herpes zoster duplex, is rarely reported. Chronic varicella zost ...

Congenital melanocytic naevi can give rise to secondary melanocytic tumours, such as proliferative nodules and malignant melanoma. The clinical and histological features of both lesions may be nearly identical, which makes an unequivocal diagnosis impossible. In particular, it is difficult to differentiate clearly between benign and malignant proliferation in infants with secondary melanocytic pro ...

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Dapsone is widely used in the treatment of leprosy and several chronic inflammatory dermatological conditions. Hypersensitivity reactions to dapsone are potentially fatal adverse drug reactions with unknown prevalence and risk factors. We performed a systematic review covering all reported cases of hypersensitivity reactions, in order to systematically summarize the published evidence on prevalenc ...

Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) is a rare, severe adverse drug reaction. The aim of this study was to characterize the aetiology, clinical features, laboratory findings, and management of patients with DRESS, diagnosed from January 2005 to April 2010 in a tertiary centre in Thailand. Twenty-seven patients were included in the study with a mean age of 52 years. Phenyto ...

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