A 14-year-old student presented with burn injury due to scalding soup exposure 6 hours prior to proper medical attention. Examination found deep rubor and necrosis of the epidermis occurs on left metacarpal carpal joint area where involving 1% of total percentage of body surface area (TBSA). The patient…
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Fig. 1 | Postoperative Autograft Burn Wound Treatment. A patient with a severe industrial ethanol burn injury had undergone autologous skin graft and was discharged from hospital. The burn wounds excised and was covered with autologous skin, but the wound at the donor graft sites did not recover well…
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Folliculitis is an infammaiton of the superficial or deep hair follicle on hair-bearing skin due to infectious or non-infectious causes. It can appear anywhere on the skin, except for our palms and soles. They are tender or itchy red spots, and they might have pus in them. Symptoms can vary. You…
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Steroid induced Rosacea: persistent facial erythema and inflammatory papulopustules, additional features are facial telangiectasias, a tendency for frequent facial flushing. Steroid rosacea occurred on the mid-face caused by potent topical steroids or their withdrawal. It is a variant of perioificial…
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A 54-year-old woman presented with 3 months of facial rash. The rash persisted despite a recent 2-month applicaiton of various corticosteroids daily, prescribed for eczema. The patient reported a 2-week history of acne treated by retinoid cream when she entered menopause 6 months before the current…
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A 40-year-old woman presented with a two-month history of worsening rashes on her chest, arms and legs. Twenty months before presentation she had received a diagnosis of eczema after the development of rash. Her skin rashes had been minimised since the initiation of treatment with topical steroids….
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Chronic pruritus (itch) is defined as ‘an unpleasant sensation leading to the desire to scratch lasting at least 6 weeks [1,2]. Secondary scratch lesions occur frequently, and if chronic, may form certain typical clinical presentation as prurigo nodularis (PN). Nodules in PN are also intensely itchy…
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What is diabetes mellitus? All the human cells need sugar to work normally. Sugar enters into the cells with the help of a hormone called insulin. If there is not enough insulin, or if the body stops responding to insulin, sugar builds up in the blood. That is what happens to people with diabetes….
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The prevalence of immue system related skin disorders such as psoriasis, atopic dermatitis (AD) , and allergy has increased dramatically in industrialized countries over the past several decades. Automimmune skin diseases are a serious public health problem and demorolize the quality of life in patients,…
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Chronic plaque psoriasis is the most common clinical form of psoriasis in children, approximately one-third reported onset of disease during the first two decades of life and 10 percent reported onset prior to the age of 10 years [1]. Psoriasis is more frequent in older children than young children…
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