Publications by authors named "Castineiras I"

El acantoma de la vaina pilosa es un tumor benignode piel muy poco frecuente. Suele presentarse comouna pápula asintomática, con un orificio central y lalocalización más frecuente es la cara. Presentamos unnuevo caso de acantoma de vaina pilosa, apoartandoimagen dermatoscópica del tumor.

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Cutaneous metastases of prostate cancer are extremely rare. We present 2 cases of distant cutaneous metastases at atypical locations of prostate adenocarcinoma, and highlight the value of 2 immunohistochemical stains-prostatic acid phosphatase and prostate-specific membrane antigen-that can aid diagnosis, particularly in cases with negative staining for prostate-specific antigen.

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Although still very rare, drug-related cases of Sweet's syndrome have been reported. The more frequent associated medications with drug induced Sweet´s syndrome was: tetracyclines, trimethoprim-sulphamethaxazol, azatioprine, all trans retinoic acid, nitrofurantoin, granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, hydralazine, tripharil, lithium, oral contraceptives, furosemide, celecoxib and azathioprine. We only found one case of drug-induced Sweet´s syndrome secondary to pegylated interferon-alpha in combination with ribavirin reported in literature.

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Background: Milia are a usual consultation in dermatologic practice and optimal treatment modalities are not established.

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and the safety of CO(2) laser vaporization in the treatment of milia.

Methods: We report four patients, aged from 12 to 50 years old, with different variants of milia: milia en plaque, milia post-photodermatitis, multiple eruptive milia and milia post-trauma.

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Treatment of eruptive vellus hair cysts (EVHC) is often unsatisfactory. Laser treatment has been described as an adequate treatment in a few reports. Pulsed carbon dioxide (CO(2)) laser has been used effectively for facial EVHC and erbium:yttrium-aluminium-garnet laser has been used to treat truncal EVHC with variable outcomes.

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Background: Actinic cheilitis (AC) is a precancerous lesion of the lip. Treatment of AC is indicated for prevention of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), although the exact transition rate of AC to SCC is unknown. Carbon dioxide (CO(2)) laser vaporization seems to be an adequate therapy for AC, but there are no references about the evolution rate of AC to SCC after this treatment.

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Primary cutaneous mucinous carcinoma is a rare adnexal sweat gland neoplasm that mainly affects elderly people. Differential diagnosis includes mammary and gastrointestinal metastatic mucinous carcinoma (MC) and secondary cutaneous involvement by underlying neoplasms. An 83-year-old woman presented with an 8-year history of slow-growing infiltrate plaque in her right hemithorax, with ulceration on supraclavicular area, right upper limb edema and palpable axillary lymphadenopathies.

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Background: Ulceration is the most common complication of infantile haemangiomas and constitutes an authentic therapeutic challenge because of associated pain, infection, haemorrhage and subsequent scarring.

Objective: To report our experience with an intense pulsed light (IPL) system in the treatment of ulcerated haemangiomas.

Methods: Case 1: A 4-month-old girl, with haemangioma affecting the entire cutaneous surface of the left limb, developed four ulcerations on the inner aspect of this extremity.

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Pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (PLD) is usually used in disseminated HIV-related Kaposi's sarcoma (KS). It is the first-line treatment or second-line therapy in patients who do not tolerate or do not respond to polychemotherapy since 1995, when it was approved by the FDA. We report two cases of disseminated classic KS not associated with immunosuppression in which HHV-8 infection was demonstrated.

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The term "Acute Syndrome of Apoptotic Pan-Epidermolysis" (ASAP) designs clinical entities characterized by massive cleavage of the epidermis resulting from hyperacute epidermal basal cell apoptotic injury. It can be seen typically in classic toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN), but occasionally occurs in non-drug-induced entities called "TEN-like" diseases (e.g.

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