Acquired cold contact urticaria (ACU) is a putatively serious condition, because of the risk of anaphylactic shock whenever patients are massively exposed to cold atmosphere/water, raising the question of the prescription of an "emergency kit" with oral antihistamines and epinephrine auto-injector. We performed an online survey to evaluate how French-speaking urticaria experts manage ACU. According to the 2016 consensus recommendations on chronic inducible urticarias, all the participants perform at least 1 of the available provocation tests and 84.
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January 2010
Background: While many cases of DRESS reaction to minocycline have been described, few of these involve doxycycline.
Case Study: A 59-year-old woman of African origin was repatriated after a journey to Ghana for hyperthermia with infiltrated maculopapular exanthema, facial oedema (no mucosal involvement) and polyadenopathy. Laboratory tests revealed hypereosinophilia, hepatic cytolysis and mononucleosis syndrome.
Eur J Dermatol
December 1999
A 16-year-old girl presented painful, red, nodular lesions on the abdomen. A cutaneous biopsy showed inflammatory cell infiltrate and fibrosis in the dermis and in the septa with isolated adipocyte lobules. alpha1-antitrypsin level was found to be normal but M1S phenotype of alpha1-antitrypsin was determined by isoelectric focusing in polyacrylamide gel.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: We report an unusual case of cutaneous CD30-positive lymphoma with pilar tropism and circulating Sezary cells which had a rapidly fatal course.
Case Report: A 78-year-old man presented erythematous infiltration of the face, a pruriginous eruption on the trunk and proximal portions of the limbs with small erythematopurpuric follicular papulae, and node enlargement in the inguinal and axillary areas. The rest of the clinical examination was normal.
Unlabelled: INTRODUCTION This case report of benign summer light eruption emphasizes the importance of phototests in the diagnosis of photosensitive dermatoses.
Case Report: A 25-year-old man, phototype II, had experienced a pruriginous papulovesicular erythematous eruption of the axillary and inguinal regions each summer for 12 years. A high-dose UV phototest (40 J/cm2 x 3 days) directed on the right posterior axillary area and a whole body exposure test (4 J/cm2 UVA, 20 mJ/cm2 UVB x 3 days) were positive both clinically and histologically on day 4.