La acroqueratoelastoidosis de Costa es una genodermatosisde herencia autosónimica dominante con penetrancia incompleta. Es un trastorno de las fibras elásticas exclusivamente cutáneo y a nivel acral. Se caracteriza por la presencia de pápulas eritematosas, amarillentas o del color de la piel normal e...
El síndrome de la piel indurada es un trastorno esclerosante crónico, infrecuente, que se presenta en la infancia, caracterizado por la induración progresiva de la piel. Esta afección puede provocar restricciones torácicas y dificultad respiratoria, limitaciones en la movilidad ar...
Abstract Secondary osteoma cutis is a phenomenon that may occur in several conditions. When it occurs in a melanocytic nevus it is named osteonevus of Nanta, an event considered uncommon and characterized by the presence of bone formation adjacent or interposed with melanocytic cells. There are reports o...
Abstract Dissecting cellulitis is an inflammatory, chronic, and recurrent disease of the hair follicles that mainly affects young Afro-descendent men. Trichoscopy is a method of great diagnostic value for disorders of the scalp. Clinical and trichoscopic findings of dissecting cellulitis are heterogeneou...
ABSTRACT Ligneous conjunctivitis is a rare form of chronic and recurrent bilateral conjunctivitis, in which thick membranes develop on the tarsal conjunctiva and on other mucosae. We report the case of a 55-year old female patient with bilateral ligneous conjunctivitis who was successfully treated with 5...
Abstract: Background: Actinic prurigo (AP) is an idiopathic photodermatosis. Although its initial manifestations can appear in 6 to 8-year-old children, cases are diagnosed later, between the second and fourth decades of life, when the injuries are exacerbated. Objective: To identify risk factors assoc...
Abstract: Yellow dots are follicular ostium filled with keratin and/or sebum. Initially, they were exclusively associated with alopecia areata. Currently they have also been described in androgenetic alopecia, chronic cutaneous (discoid) lupus erythematosus, and dissecting cellulitis. Due to the growing ...