ABSTRACT A healthy 6-year-old boy presented with an erythematous macular exanthema, meningeal signs and fever, initially diagnosed with probable bacterial meningitis and treated with antibiotic and anti-inflammatory drugs. Enteroviral meningitis was confirmed, but the skin lesions continued to evolve and...
As neoplasias neuroendócrinas são tumores raros, cuja prevalência varia de 0,7 a 4,48 casos em 100 mil habitantes. Menos de um quinto dos pacientes tem a síndrome carcinoide, que pode
ser marcada por flushing, diarreia, dor abdominal, alterações cardíacas, pulmonares e pelagra. A dosagem do ácido...
Abstract Granuloma annulare is a benign cutaneous inflammatory disease, whose lesions have spontaneous improvement in two years in 50% of cases, but there is recurrence in 40% of patients. Treatment may be topical, intralesional or systemic. The use of phototherapy with narrowband UVB is highlighted, who...
Abstract We herein report two cases of eosinophilic annular erythema in adults, which is rare. In both patients, lesions developed rapidly in few days and were located mainly on the trunk, buttocks, and extremities. Diagnosis was histopathological, with typical features including acute dermal inflammator...
Abstract: Langerhans cell histiocytosis is rare and more frequent in children. The skin is affected in 50% of the cases and is the only site in 10%. Its course varies from self-limited and localized forms to severe multisystemic forms. Congenital cases are usually exclusively cutaneous and self-limited, ...
Abstract Pemphigus herpetiformis is an autoimmune bullous disease, that combines clinical features of dermatitis herpetiformis and linear IgA bullous dermatosis and immunological characteristics of pemphigus, which makes this disease peculiar and this diagnosis rarely suspected in the first evaluation of...