Publications by authors named "Baik-Kee Cho"

Ticks are obligate parasites on animals and sometimes humans. They usually suck the blood of the hosts and can carry various infectious diseases as a vector. Otoacariasis is the presence of ticks and mites within the ear canal and relatively common in domestic and wild animals.

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Background: Acquired ungual fibrokeratomas are uncommon fibrous tissue tumors located in the ungual area. Though there are many reports of this entity, only some reports have reviewed the clinical features of the tumor.

Aims: The aim of this study was to clarify the clinical characteristics of acquired ungual fibrokeratomas.

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Onychomatricoma is a rare tumor of the nail matrix. Until now, few cases of onychomatricoma have been reported in the literature. Immunohistochemically, CD10, a marker of the onychodermis, is expressed in the stroma of the onychomatricoma.

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Background: Nail involvement in lichen striatus (LS) is rare and has not been documented extensively.

Objectives: This study describes the clinical and histological features, response to treatment, and follow-up in seven patients with nail LS.

Methods: We reviewed seven cases of nail LS between 2006 and 2012 at the Dermatology Department, Yeouido St Mary's Hospital, Seoul, South Korea.

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Deep cutaneous fungal infections (DCFI) occur worldwide and their prevalence is influenced by personal factors of the affected patients and the geographic and cultural features. Surveillance studies of DCFI with respect to the various clinical backgrounds of affected patients can ultimately help to improve their outcome. Expanding on our previous study, we performed a retrospective analysis of patients with DCFI who were treated in a group of university teaching hospitals in Korea to determine the trends within a 5-year period.

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Background: There have been a few reported cases of congenital great toenail dystrophy (GTND), described as a congenital malalignment of the great toenails. However, acquired GTDN is rare, and has not been documented extensively. This study aimed to describe the clinical features of 21 patients with acquired GTND.

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Hypersensitivity to mosquito bites is defined as the appearance of intense skin reactive lesions and systemic symptoms subsequent to mosquito bites. Most cases of hypersensitivity to mosquito bites reported thus far have been associated with chronic Epstein-Barr virus infection or natural killer cell leukemia/lymphoma. In this study, we describe the case of an 18-year-old Korean boy who had hypersensitivity to mosquito bites associated with primary systemic anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma.

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Background: Insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor (IGF-1R) is a key regulator of cell transformation and controls the expression of genes that governs cell cycling and cell survival. The aim of this pilot study was to gain insight into the expression pattern of IGF-1R in conventional cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC) using immunohistochemical analysis.

Materials And Methods: Five cases of normal human paraffin-embedded skin sections, 4 cases of actinic keratosis, and 28 cases of paraffin-embedded sections of different histological subtypes of CSCC were selected for immunohistochemical analysis.

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Pterygium inversum unguis (PIU) is a rare nail abnormality in which the distal nail bed adheres to the ventral surface of the nail plate, with obliteration of the distal groove. Because of the rarity of this condition, its exact origin is unknown. This disorder can be either congenital or acquired, with or without a family history.

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Background: Erythroid differentiation regulator 1 is decreased in malignant melanoma. However, the expression of erythroid differentiation regulator 1 has not been reported in normal epidermis, vessel, nerve, dermal adnexae, and various skin tumors.

Methods: To investigate the expression of erythroid differentiation regulator 1 in normal skin and various skin tumors, immunohistochemical analysis of normal skin, epidermal tumors, sebaceous tumors, and eccrine tumors was performed.

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Soft tissue chondroma is a rare benign tumor of the cartilage. It occurs commonly in distal extremities of middle-aged patients. It is usually asymptomatic and grows slowly, making early diagnosis difficult.

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