Mammary skin tag in a 2-year-old girl: a long-lasting adnexal polyp of neonatal skin?

We describe the case of a 2-year-old girl showing a pedunculated lesion on the areola of the nipple since birth. Clinical and histological features were consistent with an adnexal polyp of neonatal skin observed beyond the neonatal period.

Dermatoses in Latin American immigrants seen in a tertiary hospital.

Europe, and in particular Spain, has become the destination of a considerable number of immigrants, 50% come from Latin America. The purpose of this study was to describe the cases of dermatoses seen in the immigrant Latin American population and compare them with those found in the control Spanish population. Over a year all the visits of economic immigrants seen in the Dermatology Section of the Hospital General Universitario de Alicante were prospectively recorded.

Nail changes in Langerhans cell histiocytosis: a possible marker of multisystem disease.

We describe a child with a 6-month history of onycholysis, subungual hyperkeratosis, and hemorrhages in most of her fingernails and toenails. Nail involvement preceded the identification of osteolytic lesions at the mastoid on a cranial computed tomography scan, which was performed because of repeated episodes of acute otitis media. Some weeks later, a small number of erythematous papules developed over the trunk and face.