Postepy Dermatol Alergol
February 2020
Introduction: Pemphigus is an autoimmune intra-epidermal bullous disease of the skin and mucosae.
Aim: To retrospectively evaluate the course, prognosis and clinical features of pemphigus.
Material And Methods: The files of 196 pemphigus patients admitted to our clinic between December 1995 and December 2014 were collected and analysed.
Myxoid melanoma is a rare variant of melanoma, which is characterized by atypical spindle cells and dense mucin deposition in dermis. This tumor is usually seen in elderly people with a similar progress in other variants of melanoma. A 28-year-old male presented to our outpatient clinic with a 6-month history of a slowly growing asymptomatic pink lesion on his arm.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMolluscum contagiosum is a benign cutaneous viral infection which is caused by double- stranded DNA poxvirus. It affects mainly children and young adults and usually presents with single or multiple umblicated papules or nodules on face, arms, legs and anogenital regions. It may present in atypical size and clinical appearance in patients with altered or impaired immunity and rarely in immuncompetent patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: In our study, we aimed to evaluate retrospectively histopathological diagnoses of children based on their skin biopsies, and determine the prevalence of the disease in question.
Methods: Among patients who applied to Medeniyet University Goztepe Training and Research Hospital between January 2011 and February 2014, we retrospectively evaluated demographic data and histopathological diagnoses of patients aged between 0-17 years whose skin punch biopsy samples were obtained.
Results: The study population (n=566) with skin biopsy results consisted of 287 (50.