Periorbital dermatitis: causes, differential diagnoses and therapy.

Periorbital dermatitis is common and frequently difficult to treat. Patients with periorbital dermatitis often suffer severely because their disease is in such a visible location. Because of the variety of clinical appearance, the differential diagnostic considerations are often difficult.

Periorbital dermatitis--a recalcitrant disease: causes and differential diagnoses.

Background: Periorbital dermatitis is common and frequently recalcitrant to treatment. Due to the exposed and visible location, patients often suffer severely from periorbital dermatitis.

Objectives: To determine the frequency and causes of periorbital dermatitis including contact sensitizers.

[Digital speech recognition in dermatology: a pilot study with regard to medical and economic aspects].

Background: Economic factors dominate more and more the healthcare systems; modern technologies advance every day and offer opportunities for savings.

Material And Methods: In a pilot study, digital speech recognition based on Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Version 7 was compared with common dictation in dermatology.

Results: The conventional method took 24.

Chemotaxis and activation of human peripheral blood eosinophils induced by pollen-associated lipid mediators.

Background: Eosinophil accumulation at sites of allergic inflammation is largely regulated by chemokines and lipid mediators released by a variety of cells of the local microenvironment. Recent studies have shown that pollen grains, apart from their function as allergen carriers, are a rich exogenous source of eicosanoid-like lipid mediators that are rapidly released on contact with the aqueous phase and thus may contribute to the generation of local inflammatory responses.

Objective: Here we analyze the biological activity of pollen-associated lipid mediators (PALMs) on peripheral human blood eosinophils.