Dermatological conditions associated with dental professionals in Saudi Arabia.

Background: Dental professionals and students are commonly exposed to occupation-related skin lesions, characterized as contact dermatitis (like allergic and irritant contact dermatitis, contact urticaria), that are commonly observed on hands and fingers. The present study evaluated the prevalence of skin lesions, knowledge about risk factors, and prevention of dermatological lesions among dental students and dental professionals.

Methods: The present observational study was carried out on 100 study subjects, including dental students and staff, using a self-administered and structured questionnaire to assess demographic variables, awareness information, and knowledge about work-related skin lesions.

Behaviors and Knowledge Related to Intentional Outdoor Tanning Among Adults in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia.

Background: Intentional outdoor tanning is the process through which people expose their skin to ultraviolet (UV) radiation to darken their skin color toward brown or bronze. UV radiation is a well-known modifiable risk factor for photoaging, photoallergic reactions, and phototoxicity.

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the behaviors and knowledge of intentional outdoor tanning among adults in the western region of Saudi Arabia.

Adult-Onset Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia 15 in a Saudi Patient with A Compound Heterozygous Variant in the Gene.

Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) 15 is an autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disease caused by homozygous or heterozygous point mutations in the gene that encodes the spastizin protein, located on chromosome 14q22-q24. Hereditary spastic paraplegia has been rarely reported in Saudi Arabia. In this article, we reported a rare case of adult-onset HSP 15 with a pure form of the disease in a Saudi patient with a compound heterozygous variant in the gene.

Psoriasis in Saudi Population: Gender Differences in Clinical Characteristics and Quality of Life.

Introduction Patients with psoriasis suffer from an inflammatory immune-mediated skin condition that impacts their quality of life severely. In our study, we aimed to analyze the gender differences in clinical characteristics in patients with psoriasis and to assess the quality of life in these patients. Methods This is a retrospective observational study that was conducted at King Abdulaziz Medical City (KAMC) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Late Presentation of Aggressive Fibromatosis Involving Head, Neck and Chest Wall.

Fibromatosis is a rare, benign, slow-growing and locally infiltrative tumour, caused by uncontrolled proliferation of fibrous tissue arising from muscles, connective tissue, fasciae and aponeurosis. It is also called desmoid tumour, which is very rare pathology representing only 0.03% of all neoplasms in human and around 3% of all soft tissue tumours.