A 58-year-old man had 3 years history of asymptomatic, extensive, yellowish patches on his face, neck, trunk and arms. Histopathological examination confirmed the diagnosis of diffuse plane xanthomatosis. This is a rare ...

Nails can act as a protective, defensive and beauty cover of the phalanges. The dermatologic disorders as well as the systemic diseases and trauma can produce change in the nails. Normal variations of nails are important ...

Helicobacter pylori is probably the commonest bacterial infection worldwide and is now accepted as the cause of gastritis, peptic ulcer, gastric carcinoma, and gastric lymphoma. In the last few years, besides the local ...

Objective: To study of relationship between alopecia areata and finger print dermatoglyphic types in 100 patients with alopecia areata and in 100 controls. Methods: A case control analytical study was done on ...

Trichoadenoma is a rare skin tumor first described by Nikolowski. There are variable clinical features and tumors have been diagnosed as cysts, basal cell epithelioma and seborrheic keratosis. The microscopic feature ...

Hypnotherapy is recommended for recalcitrant cases of many dermatologic disorders including viral warts, chronic urticarias, psoriasis and alopecia areata. A 23-year old, married lady referred with five years history of ...

A 9-year old boy had severe muscle weakness and typical skin rash and EMG with diagnosis of dermatomyositis associated with erythrodermia with islands of normal skin and palmoplantar hyperkeratosis, which was reported. As ...