Content - Volume 87, Issue

In the last few decades an increasing understanding of the pathomechanisms involved in urticaria has highlight­ed the heterogeneity of different subtypes. According to the new European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology/Global Allergy and Asthma European Network/European Dermatology Forum (EAACI/GA²LEN/ EDF) guidelines, urticaria subtypes can be grouped into spontaneous urticaria, wh ...

Since they were first administered to patients with antibody deficiency disorders over 50 years ago, human intravenous immunoglobulin preparations have been used successfully to treat a rapidly increasing number of auto­immune and inflammatory disorders, among which are a series of cutaneous autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. These include dermatomyositis, Kawasaki’s disease, a number of aut ...

Some human papillomaviruses are thought to be associated with skin cancer. In this pilot study, 21 female renal transplant carriers, 10 with a history of skin squamous cell carcinoma and 11 without, together with 9 age-matched healthy women were investigated for human papillomavirus DNA in sun-exposed (forehead) and less sun-exposed (buttock) skin, mouth and uterine cervix. Paraffin-embedded tumou ...

Allograft inflammatory factor-1 (AIF-1) is an evolutionarily conserved, inflammatory protein produced by activated macrophages during chronic transplant rejection and in inflammatory brain lesions. Since T-cell-mediated inflammation is common to various dermatoses and noth­ing is known about AIF-1 in skin, we studied its protein expression at the tissue level and regulation in monocytic cell line ...

Polymorphic light eruption is one of the few dermato­logical diseases in which some antioxidants have been said to be reduced in both the epidermis and the blood. This study measured the hydrosoluble antioxidant capacity in the serum of patients with polymorphic light er­uption, using a commercially available kit. All patients were tested in winter, in order to avoid the influence of exposure to ...

Malignant melanoma is the most common cancer during pregnancy, but it is unknown whether melanocytic naevi in general are activated. A total of 381 melanocytic naevi in 34 Caucasian primigravidae were examined using spectrophotometric intracutaneous analysis (SIAscopy) technology in early pregnancy and prior to delivery. The Siagraphs of each naevus were then compared in order to evaluate changes ...

"Pigmented basal cell carcinomas can be difficult to distinguish clinically from melanoma. Dermoscopy has proven to be useful in the differential diagnosis of the two tumour types. SIAscopy (Spectrophotometric intracutaneous analysis) is a fairly new technique of imaging pigmented skin lesions that has been presented previously as a useful tool in diagnosing melanoma. The aim of this study was to ...

Since the introduction of organized cytological screening in Sweden, most women currently presenting with cervical cancer are those who have not attended the programme and who have no cytological screening history. The aims of this study were: (i) to measure the response rate among women not attending organized cytological screening who were offered a device for self-sampling a vaginal smear at ho ...

The aim of this study was to compare the clinical and microbiological effect on Propionibacterium acnes of oral tetracycline plus topical adapalene vs. oral isotretinoin in moderate to severe acne vulgaris. Male and female acne patients with moderate or severe inflammatory disease were enrolled and assigned randomly to 6 months of treat­ment with oral tetracycline hydrochloride plus topical adapa ...

Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measurements in clinical practice ensure that treatment and evaluations focus on the patient rather than the disease. To verify whether these measurements are also relevant in a minor dermatological disease and whether a generic routine assessment is sufficient to capture different aspects of quality of life, we studied patients affected by nail disorders. ...

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In: Yalccin B, Tamer E, Gur G, Oztas P, Polat MU, Alli N. Neurofibromatosis 1/Noonan syndrome associated with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and vitiligo. Acta Derm Venereol. 2006; 86: 80–81 the first author name is incorrect. The correct name is as follows: Yalcin B.

In: Chen Y-J, Wu C-Y, Shen J-L. In Predicting Factors of Interstitial Lung Disease in Dermatomyositis and Polymyositis. Acta Derm Venereol 2007; 87: 33–38 the corresponding author is incorrect. The correct corresponding author and address is as follows: Chun-Ying Wu, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung 407, Taiwan, E-mail: yjchenmd@vghtc.gov.tw.

In: Rivers JJ, Wolf J. Assessing clinically meaningful end points for the management of actinic keratosis with diclofenac 3% gel. Acta Derm Venereol. 2007; 87: 188–189 the first authors name is incorrect. The correct name is as follows: Rivers JK. On p. 189 the meaning ".....3% diclofenac in 2.5% hyaluronic acid" is incorrect. The correct words is as follows:".....diclofenac 3% gel". Also in D ...