Showing papers in "Dermatologica Sinica in 2011"

TL;DR: Enhanced delivery systems for ALA in the skin will play an important role in ALA-PDT, and several enhancement techniques for increasing ALA permeation through the skin are introduced.

TL;DR: Metal alloys may induce multiple metal allergies in metal-allergic patients and patients suspected of having a metal allergy should be patch tested with an extended series of metals, including palladium and gold.

TL;DR: Although overt leukemia relapsed in some of these patients, a delay in chemotherapy spared these infants of the toxic effects of treatment.

TL;DR: In Case 1, in addition to the characteristics of NL, the biopsy showed dense perineural infiltration, which may explain the pathogenesis of the anesthesia of NL lesions, and well-formed tuberculoid granulomas were of special interest.

TL;DR: A case of tungiasis imported from Brazil is reported and dermatologists are advised to promptly diagnose the condition to prevent complications.

TL;DR: Overall, DI incidence in dermatologic patients was lower than that of the general patient population, and it was concluded that dermatologists need to be reminded of having possible potential DIs when prescribing medications.

TL;DR: Clinicians need to be alert to the possible diagnosis of Omenn syndrome, a rare form of combined immunodeficiency in infants presenting with recurrent infections, erythroderma, lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, eosinophilia, and increased serum IgE levels.

TL;DR: Identification of AP-1 transcription factor as a specific target for dimethoxycurcumin-downregulated molecules in human keratinocytes suggests that this novel chemical modulates various AP- 1–related events in the epidermis, including cell-cycle progression and its role as an inflammatory reservoir.

TL;DR: A 42-year-old female with a long-standing history of rheumatoid arthritis, presenting with multiple pruritic erythematous papules and nodules on the lower legs 1 month after beginning treatment with etanercept should be considered in the differential diagnosis of skin eruptions within a setting of anti-TNF-α therapy.

TL;DR: No clinical features or pathologic features can predict increased risk for developing malignancy within the spectrum of CD30+ cutaneous lymphoproliferative disorders in Taiwanese patients diagnosed with LyP.

TL;DR: Because infants are at a stage of rapid growth, timely diagnosis and tailored therapy according to response are essential to ensure that the disease process does not interfere with normal development.

TL;DR: It is proposed that defect in melanosome transfer from melanocytes to keratinocytes may underlie the pathogenesis of DUH.

TL;DR: Treatment is unsatisfactory and follow-up is suggested for possible complication of progressive nodular histiocytosis, and a typical case of the disease is reported.

TL;DR: Ponychia is the most indicative survival predictive factor among the skin manifestations, and it correlates with age, gender, and xerosis, which can provide information on the epidermal growth factor receptor signaling mechanism of skin.

TL;DR: The prevalence of skin diseases in soldiers is very high and is one of the major public health problems that have a significant burden on the authors' nation.

TL;DR: A 68-year-old-man without any systemic disease presented at the authors' dermatology outpatient clinic with the chief complaint of pain described as throbbing and burning along his right abdominal wall, followed by an eruption of clustered vesicles along the right T10–T12 dermatome, and the method of cold recovery test was chosen.

TL;DR: A case of dapsone-induced DRESS, which resulted in fever, maculopapular eruptions progressing to exfoliative dermatitis, cervical lymphadenopathy, transaminitis, and hypersensitivity myocarditis resulting in congestive heart failure, is presented.

TL;DR: The case of a 27-year-old man who received cadaveric renal transplantation 10 years ago presenting with bullous eruption during chronic renal allograft rejection phase, with the renalAllograft being the possible trigger stimulus for BP development in this case is reported.

TL;DR: The histopathological examinations showed that the Langerhans cell (LC) infiltration in the skin lesion of the tumor stage was greater than that in the patch/plaque stage; this phenomenon indicates that LCs accompanied by Treg CTCL cells may play an important synergistic role in the tumor progression.

TL;DR: The treatment of choice in systemic involvement of childhood sarcoidosis is corticosteroids and Methotrexate can also be considered in the long-term treatment due to its safety, effectiveness, and steroid-sparing effect in children.

TL;DR: S aureus is still the leading causative bacterial organism for SSTIs in the dermatologic settings in eastern Taiwan, and MRSA strains are still susceptible to other non-beta lactam antibiotics, such as minocycline, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, levofloxacin, and fusidic acid in dermatological settings, of which minocy cline is an alternative choice in clinical experience.

TL;DR: A 35-year-old man presented in February 2010 with a 3-year history of asymptomatic scaly erythema on his right face, which had been treated unsuccessfully with topical corticosteroid ointment and topical Chinese herbal medicine in private clinics before he came to the authors' hospital.

TL;DR: A case of AECP confirmed by indirect immunofluorescence of type VII collagen- and laminin 332-deficient skin as substrates to differentiate it from epidermolysis bullosa acquisita is reported.

TL;DR: An 18-year-old Taiwanese woman who presented with asymptomatic boggy and thickened scalp for 10 years was diagnosed with lipedematous alopecia and the coexistence of mucin is extremely rare and its significance should be further investigated.

TL;DR: A woman with bilateral upper extremities for more than 10 years showed basket weave hyperkeratosis and awell-demarcated area of slightly thickened epidermis composed of enlarged cells with nuclei larger than those of the adjacent normal epidermal cells.

TL;DR: Age in association with an alteration in serum zinc status seemed to have played an independent or combined role as an etiologic factor in hair relaxer-induced alopecia in Group B subjects, as a positive correlation was observed between age and duration of alopECia.

TL;DR: A healthy 27-year-old Taiwanese man presented with extensive and recalcitrant plantar warts on his right foot for more than 10 years and was nearly clinically ameliorated after 6 months with few small residual hyperkeratotic areas.

TL;DR: A sporadic case of FDH is reported in a 16-year-old girl presenting with atrophic or erythematous macules and patches distributed along the lines of Blaschko over the trunk and extremities with prominent soft yellowish fat herniation over the left axilla and left groin, and papillomas in the oral and genital areas.

TL;DR: A patient is presented with a novel nonsense mutation in the TRPS1 gene, a rare malformation syndromes with autosomal dominant inheritance, which presents with distinctive facial dysmorphisms and various skeletal abnormalities.

TL;DR: The clinical and pathologic findings are consistent with dyschromatosis symmetrica hereditaria (DSH), with mottled hyperpigmented and hypopigmented macules over the upper extremities and neck for about 5 years.