Content - Volume 89, Issue 6
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Kristian Thestrup-Pedersen
Hidradenitis suppurativa is an “ugly” disease: secretion of pus from your axillae and/or groin; who wants that? The quality of life of patients is therefore not very good.
Yes, we can treat it with topical clindamycin and tetracylines and, in the minor cases, this may control the symptoms; but do we have new options?
First, Dr Matusiak et al. (p. XX–XX) describe that TNF-a levels are incre ...
Page: 594
REVIEW
Pia Haslund, Robert A. Lee and Gregor B. E. Jemec
Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a common inflammatory skin disease. Medical treatment is often disappointing and in severe disease surgery remains the therapy of choice. Extensive surgery may be effective but also mutilating. Patients experience a significant reduction in quality of life and the need for new treatment modalities are urgent. In recent years patients with HS have been treated off-l ...
Pages: 595-600
INVESTIGATIVE REPORT
Łukasz Matusiak, Andrzej Bieniek and Jacek C. Szepietowski
Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a recurrent, debilitating suppurative skin disease. Nowadays the major challenge is the choice of optimal treatment. Many conservative therapies seem to have only a supportive character and do not prevent progression of the disease. Early surgical intervention with complete excision of the involved areas is still considered to be the most efficient therapy, but ant ...
Pages: 601-603
INVESTIGATIVE REPORT
Anestis Prantsidis, Dimitrios Rigopoulos, Georgios Papatheodorou, Panayiotis Menounos, StamatisGregoriou, Ifigeneia Alexiou-Mousatou and Andreas Katsambas
Pityriasis rosea is an acute self-limiting dermatosis with clinical and epidemiological features that suggest viral involvement. The aim of this study was to investigate a possible association between pityriasis rosea and human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8). Lesional skin tissue was obtained from 34 Kaposi’s sarcoma-negative, immunocompetent patients with typical acute phase pityriasis rosea. Nested pol ...
Pages: 604-606
INVESTIGATIVE REPORT
Mikael Bitsch, Inga Laursen, Anne-Marie Engel, Michael Christiansen, Severin Olesen Larsen, Line
Iversen, Per E Holstein and Tonny Karlsmark
The aim of this study was to describe the epidemiology of chronic wounds in a large cohort of patients from a tertiary hospital out-patient clinic, and examine the significance of serum mannan-binding lectin for the occurrence and clinical presentation of such wounds. The study comprised 489 consecutive patients with chronic foot and leg ulcers. A clinical classification of wound- aetiology was ...
Pages: 607-611
INVESTIGATIVE REPORT
Jaw-Shyang Jih, Yi-Ju Chen, Ming-Wei Lin, Yu-Chun Chen, Tzeng-Ji Chen, Yu-Lin Huang, Chih-Chiang Chen, Ding-Dar Lee, Yun-Ting Chang, Wen-Jen Wang and Han-Nan Liu
To analyse the epidemiological characteristics and related costs of herpes zoster in Taiwan, a nationally representative cohort of 1,000,000 individuals from the National Health Insurance register was followed up from 2000 to 2006 and their claims data analysed. Overall, 34,280 patients were diagnosed with zoster (incidence 4.89/1000 person-years) and 2944 patients (8.6%) developed post-herpetic n ...
Pages: 612-616
CLINICAL REPORT
Kazunari Sugita, Kenji Kabashima, Motonobu Nakamura and Yoshiki Tokura
Papuloerythroderma of Ofuji is characterized by coalescent solid papules that spare the skin folds. Although cutaneous lymphomas and internal malignancies are known associated conditions, the causative agents are unclear in most cases. A number of recent reports have documente d that drugs can induce papuloerythroderma. We review ed the reported cases and our own cases of drug-induc ed papulo eryt ...
Pages: 618-622
CLINICAL REPORT
Matilda Berntsson, Petra Tunbäck, Agneta Ellström, Ingela Krantz and Gun-Britt Löwhagen
High estimates of herpes simplex virus-2 (HSV-2) seroprevalence have been reported for women who were pregnant in Sweden in the 1980s, probably reflecting sexual risk-taking during the 1960s and 1970s. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the HSV-2 seroprevalence in pregnant women and in the female attendees at a clinic for sexually transmitted infections in Sweden at the beginning of the ...
Pages: 623-626
CLINICAL REPORT
Stéphane Barete, Camille Francès, Frédéric Charlotte, Benoît Barrou, Véronique Leblond and Olivier Dereure
The occurrence of primary cutaneous anaplastic large cell lymphoma (PCALCL) in immunocompromised patients is rare. Only 11 cases have been reported to date, all of them in organ transplant recipients and none in patient with idiopathic CD4+ T-cell lymphocytopaenia. We describe here the original clinical pattern of deep, fascia and muscle-penetrating PCALCL of the lower limb in two immunocompromise ...
Pages: 627-630
CLINICAL REPORT
Martin Laimer, Konrad Namberger, Cesare Massone, Josef Koller, Michael Emberger, Lisa Pleyer, Helmut Hintner and Richard Greil
Scleromyxoedema is a rare disease of unknown aetiology that is characterized by progressive cutaneous mucinosis and paraproteinaemia. A variety of systemic (e.g. gastro intestinal, neurological, pulmonary, cardiac and renal) complications may lead to significant morbidity and mortality necessitating therapeutic intervention. The latter remains challenging. Numerous treatment modalities have been r ...
Pages: 631-635
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Woon-Kyong Chung, Heungsup Sung, Mi-Na Kim, Mi-Woo Lee, Jong-Hee Shin, Jee-Ho Choi, Kee-Chan Moon and Jai-Kyoung Koh
Pages: 636-638
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Daisuke Inokuma, Satoru Aoyagi, Nao Saito, Maria Maroto Iitani, Erina Homma, Kokichi Hamasaka and Hiroshi Shimizu
Pages: 638-639
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Agnes I. Otto, Judit Harsing, Iren Herjavecz, Maria Kiss and Sarolta Karpati
Pages: 640-642
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Cristina Renzi, Simona Mastroeni, Mauro Paradisi, Eva Mazzotti and Paolo Pasquini
Pages: 642-644
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Hei Sung Kim, Min Ju Kang, Hyung-Ok Kim and Young Min Park
Pages: 644-645
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Andrzej Prystupa, Dorota Wojnowska, Danuta Skomra, Maria Borowiec, Andrzej Puźniak, Patrycja Lachowska-Kotowska, Chagin Ozankaya, Anisa Mayar, Jerzy Mosiewicz and Grażyna Chodorowska
Pages: 646-648
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Stefano Ramoni, Marco Cusini, Francesca Gaiani and Carlo Crosti
Pages: 648-649
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Frauke Benedix, Annette Geyer, Verena Lichte, Gisela Metzler, Martin Röcken and Anke Strölin
Pages: 651-652
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Lianne Koens, Nancy J. Senff, Maarten H. Vermeer, H. Karel Ronday, Rein Willemze and Patty M. Jansen
Pages: 653-654
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Ting Xiao, Zhe Guo, Jian Wu, Chun-Lin Zhou and Hong-Duo Chen
Pages: 655-656
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Christian Grønhøj Larsen, Maiken Cavling Arendrup, Elizabeth Krarup, Michael Pedersen, Søren Thybo and Frederik Grønhøj Larsen
Pages: 657-658
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Masato Mizuashi, Takahiko Tsunoda, Setsuya Aiba and Hachiro Tagami
Pages: 659-660
REVIEW
Maria Rosaria Zampino, Monica Corazza, Alessandro Borghi, Andrea Marzola and Annarosa Virgili
Pages: 661-662
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Woon-Kyong Chung, Myoung-Shin Kim, Chae-Hwa Kim, Mi-Woo Lee, Jee-Ho Choi, Kee-Chan Moon and Jai-Kyoung Koh
Pages: 663-664
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Lotus Mallbris, Fredrik von Bergen, Marianne van Hage and Mona Ståhle
Pages: 665-666
ERRATUM
In: Mosterd B, Arits AHMM, Thissen MRT, Kelleners-Smeets NWJ. Histology-based Treatment of Basal Cell Carcinoma. Acta Derm Venereol 2009; 89: 454–458 Table II is incorrect. The correct Table is shown in the corrected pdf.
Page: 667
QUIZ
Woon-Kyong Chung, Gyeong-Hun Park, Seong-Min Kang, Ho-Seok Suh, Mi-Woo Lee, Jee-Ho Choi, Kee-Chan Moon
Pages: 668-671
QUIZ
Ayse Esra Yılmaz, Evren Sarifakioglu, Canan Gorpelioglu, Musemma Karabel and Guzide Dogan
Pages: 668-671
QUIZ
Chia-Chi Tsai, Jie-Jen Lee, Chi-Kuan Chen and Shih-Ping Cheng
Pages: 668-671
ABSTRACT BOOK
Pages: 684-720