Ann Dermatol Venereol
May 2020
Introduction: Mucosal leishmaniasis is endemic in certain parts of Latin America and are usually absent in Morocco. Herein we report a case of Leishmaniainfantum in a Moroccan patient.
Patients And Methods: A 61-year-old male patient working as a tourist bus driver presented with a sublingual endobuccal tumor.
Ann Dermatol Venereol
November 2017
Background: Frontal fibrosing alopecia is a topographic form of lichen planopilaris, which most commonly affects postmenopausal women. We report on three original pediatric cases of this scarring alopecia, including one case of female twins.
Observations: The first observation concerns twin sisters, 14 years of age, with frontotemporal symmetric and progressive alopecia, beginning at the age of 5 years, with follicular facial noninflammatory micropapules.
A 37-year-old woman with no remarkable medical or family history presented with papules and vesicles on an erythematous background involving the neck, sacrum, and folds (postauricular, axillary, inguinal, and under the breasts) (Figure 1). During the previous year, she was treated with local and systemic antifungals without improvement. Her history included a secondary amenorrhea, polydipsia, and polyuria (6 L/d) that started 2 years prior.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction And Objective: Tinea capitis are due to fungal infection by dermatophytes. They are common in developing countries including Morocco. The objective of this study intended to describe the epidemiology, clinical and mycological profile of tinea capitis in Avicenna military hospital of Marrakech.
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December 2015
Background: The cutaneous signs of sarcoidosis are polymorphous and occasionally misleading. Herein, we report a rare case of profuse sarcoidosis involving various rare cutaneous signs specific to the disease associated with multiple cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas.
Patients And Methods: A seventy-three-year-old man had been presenting dry ichthyosiform erythroderma for 2 years.
Unlabelled: Vitamin K antagonists are widely used in thromboembolic diseases. Hemorrhagic complications related to drug overdose represent their main side effect. We report a rare side effect, a severe and unexpected type of skin vasculitis - necrotic leg ulcer - induced by vitamin K antagonist.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Cryptococcosis is a rare and a serious opportunistic infection that occurs primarily on the field of immunodeficiency. We report a case of disseminated cryptococcosis in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome revealed by unusual skin lesions.
Observation: A 52-year-old patient consulted for two crusty ulcerative lesions situated on the left supraorbital and on the nasal tip that appeared 6 months ago.
Ann Dermatol Venereol
February 2016
Purpose: To describe the ocular complications at the end of serious drug eruptions such as Lyell syndrome or toxic epidemic necrolysis (TEN) syndrome, Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS), and SJS/TEN overlap syndrome; to analyze their relationship using disease severity scores.
Patients And Methods: A retrospective study carried out in the dermatology department in collaboration with the ophthalmopathy department in a series of 81 dossiers collated over a 10-year period. The severity of ophthalmological involvement was evaluated using the Foster score, and the drug eruption score was assessed using the Bastuji-Garin classification and the SCORTEN prognostic score.
Introduction: Idiopathic palmoplantar hidradenitis is an uncommon neutrophilic dermatosis, occurring in children and young adults. Its pathogenesis is incompletely understood. It is characterized by spontaneous resolution, but it can relapse in 50% of cases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 19-month-old boy presented to our department with ulcerated plaque on the right lumbar region. The lesion was known to have been growing for about 5 months. At another center 9 months prior to presenting to our department, the patient's parents reported a history of cutaneous nodules from the same lumbar region.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Hemodialysis patients have frequent and various cutaneous manifestations of often hypothetical pathogenesis. Chronic renal failure (CRF) presents with an array of cutaneous manifestations. The objective was to evaluate the prevalence and nature of cutaneous lesions associated with CRF patients on hemodialysis patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction. Sinusoidal hemangioma is a rare variant of acquired cavernous hemangioma predominantly occurring in females. Very few case reports have been described in the literature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Myxoid neurofibroma (MN) is a benign tumor of poorly identified perineural cell origin. We report a case of NM of left thumb and discuss the main differential diagnosis.
Case Report: A 34-year-old woman presented with a painless, slowly progressive tumor of the left thumb of 6 months duration.
Calcifying aponeurotic fibroma (CAF) was originally described by Keasbey in 1953 as juvenile aponeurotic fibroma, most commonly occurring in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet in children and adolescents. It usually presents as a firm, painless mass without preceding trauma. We report a case of this rare condition with an unusual presentation in a 60-year-old woman affecting the dorsal surface of the foot.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report the case of a 36-year-old patient admitted for Macrophage Activation Syndrome (MAS), revealed by inflammatory dermo-hypodermal lesions, tumor syndrome, pancytopenia, biological cholestasis, increased lactate dehydrogenase rates and hemophagocytosis in skin biopsies. The patient also exhibited an exponential increase in triglycerides serum levels that reached 22 g/L. The patient died after multiple organ failure.
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