Background: Chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) is an underestimated public health problem involving the lower limbs. It exerts a significant impact on patient's quality of life (QoL). The severity of the disease was measured by venous clinical severity score (VCSS) and venous disability score (VDS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by affecting the skin, peripheral nervous system, and other tissues. The disease is associated with social stigma, and the patients sometimes suffer social discrimination because it often leads to visible physical deformities. Hence, leprosy may have severe impact on the quality of life (QoL) of patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEccrine angiomatous hamartoma (EAH) is a very rare benign neoplastic condition characterized by hamartomatous proliferation of eccrine glands and accompanying blood vessels and lymphatics. These lesions are more often present at birth or appear during early infancy and childhood and present as solitary nodule or plaque with occasional pain and sweating. They are generally present on the extremities, mostly the palms and soles.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFXanthogranuloma is a benign, asymptomatic, and self-healing disorder of non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis, affecting mostly infants, children, and rarely adults. Diagnosis is easy in typical cases but become more complex in unusual forms. We report a case of a 28-year-old male patient who presented with multiple diffuse brown-to-yellowish papulonodular eruptions over extremities, ears, face, trunk, and extensors of joints with almost bilaterally symmetrical distribution for a period of one month.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEpidermolytic hyperkeratosis is a rare autosomal dominant genodermatosis that presents at birth as generalised erythema, blisters and erosions. In subsequent periods, erythema and blistering improves but patients go on to develop hyperkeratosis scalingthat is especially prominent along joint flexures, neck, hands and feet. The disease is caused by mutations in either keratin 1 or 10.
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