Severe alopecia areata treated with systemic corticosteroids.

Background: Treatment of severe alopecia areata is difficult, and most efforts to successfully treat this condition have been disappointing. Systemic corticosteroids have been demonstrated as an effective treatment of severe alopecia areata.

Methods: Eighteen patients with alopecia areata (extensive patchy and totalis universalis types) were treated with systemic corticosteroids.

Treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis with antimony: intramuscular versus intralesional administration.

The various methods used to treat cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) have not given consistent results. The aim of the present study was to compare the efficacy of a solution of meglumine antimoniate (MA; 85 mg Sb/ml) given intralesionally (i.l.

Epidermolysis bullosa in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia.

Background: Epidermolysis bullosa is recognized to be rare, but its prevalence in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia had not been previously established.

Methods: We reviewed 49,902 dermatology cases seen in our clinic over a 7-year period (1984 through 1990) and carried out a therapeutic trial of oral phenytoin in three severe cases of epidermolysis bullosa dystrophica (Recessive dystrophic type).

Results: Sixteen cases of epidermolysis bullosa were found in this series, ten (62.