Abstract: Lichen simplex chronicus is a skin disease that mostly affects female patients, with a peak incidence between ages 35 and 50 years. On the scalp, it appears as a single or multiple oval lesions, showing scaling and hair shaft loss or breakage. An important dermoscopic feature of the disease are...
Abstract: Periungual basal cell carcinoma is rare and needs to be differentiated from other common diseases that affect this region. Several factors are associated with the development of this tumor, and sun damage seems to play an important role in its pathogenesis. Dermoscopy of clinically indolent les...
Introdução: O diagnóstico clínico, dermatoscópico e histopatológico dos nevos atípicos é um desafio, uma vez que podem apresentar padrões regulares, observados em nevos melanocíticos comuns, ou padrões irregulares e assimétricos, que se assemelham aos padrões encontrados em melanomas e assim...
El Pilomatrixoma es un tumor anexial benigno. Presenta una variante histopatológica infrecuente denominada pilomatrixoma proliferante reportada en 1997 por Kaddu et al. Corresponde a una lesión compuesta predominantemente por una proliferación lobular de células basaloides, con atipia nuclear variabl...
El patrón en arcoiris ha sido un tema controvertido, dado que en un principio se planteó como un patrón dermatoscópico específico asociado al diagnóstico de Sarcoma de Kaposi. Sin embargo, esta asociación ha sido cuestionada por diversos reportes que han evidenciado la presencia de este patrón de...
Abstract: Piccardi-Lassueur-Graham-Little syndrome is a rare entity characterized by progressive scarring alopecia of the scalp and keratotic papules on hairless skin, associated with non-scarring alopecia in the axilla and pubic area or lichen planus lesions. We describe the case of a 70-year-old woman ...
Abstract: Dermoscopy is a non-invasive technique widely used to aid in the characterization and diagnosis of pigmented skin lesions. Recently, it has also been employed for the evaluation of non-pigmented skin tumours, and inflammatory and infectious cutaneous diseases. Although the diagnosis of cutaneou...
