[Treatment of scabies and Ascabiol(®) supply disruption: what about the pediatric population?].

Scabies is a disease in steady increase in Île-de-France region. Standard treatment, Ascabiol(®) (benzyl benzoate/sulfiram), is back-order for several months and its return remains uncertain. Facing this drug shortage, French Drug Agency (ANSM) has imported a drug from Germany, Antiscabiosum 10 % (benzyl benzoate), to treat patients having contraindications for other scabicides available in France (ivermectin, esdepallethrine).

[Cancers of the oral and genital mucosa].

Squamous cell carcinomas account for over 90 % of cancers of the oral cavity in France. Alcohol and tobacco are the main risk factors. Delay in diagnosis is unfortunately frequent.

Comparative study of stress and quality of life in outpatients consulting for different dermatoses in 5 academic departments of dermatology.

In this study, perceived stress and quality of life were measured with PCV-Metra and SF-12 scales in outpatients consulting for different dermatoses in 5 academic dermatology departments for 5 consecutive days. 658 patients were enrolled in the study. Perceived stress was higher in women and the mental component of their quality of life was more altered.

[Presenting skin disorders in black Afro-Caribbean patients: a multicentre study conducted in the Paris region].

Background: There have been few studies in France concerning the specific features of dermatological practice regarding dark skin (Fitzpatrick's phototype V and VI) or the special requirements of black African and Afro-Caribbean patients.

Aim: To determine the principal reasons for dermatological consultation among black patients of African or Afro-Caribbean descent in the Paris region.

Methods: This was a prospective clinical study conducted between 15 February and 15 May 2004.

Accuracy of standard dermoscopy for diagnosing scabies.

Background: Scabies is a contagious skin infestation caused by the human mite Sarcoptes scabiei. The usual reference method for definitive diagnosis is ex vivo identification of the mite with microscopic examination of skin scrapings. We compared diagnostic accuracy of in vivo dermoscopic (DS) mite identification using a pocket handheld low-magnification DS with the reference method.

[Dermatosis and depressive symptoms].

Background: Dermatological diseases modify and impair patients' self-image and can result in considerable psychological suffering. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of depressive symptoms in patients consulting for dermatological diseases.

Patients And Methods: A prospective study was carried out on 5 successive days at the dermatology department of the Saint-Louis Hospital in Paris.

High seroprevalence to Bartonella quintana in homeless patients with cutaneous parasitic infestations in downtown Paris.

Bartonella quintana infections have recently been reported in homeless patients. We prospectively studied the prevalence of and the factors associated with a positive serology to B quintana in the homeless population of downtown Paris. The following data were recorded: ongoing cutaneous parasitic infestation, years of homelessness, living status, previous episodes of body pediculosis and scabies, alcoholism, intravenous drug use, known immunodepression (including undernutrition and known HIV infection), and contacts with animals.

[Alpha interferon-induced eczema in atopic patients infected by hepatitis C virus: 4 case reports].

Objectives: We report four cases of eczema induced by alpha interferon in atopic patients treated for chronic hepatitis C.

Case Reports: Eczema developed in 4 patients with certain (3 cases) or possible (1 case) atopy treated by subcutaneous injections of alpha interferon for hepatitis C virus infections. Delay to onset was 3 weeks to 6 months.

[Dermatologic consultation in a precarious situation: a prospective medical and social study at the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris].

Introduction: The aim of our study was to evaluate the outcomes and the cost of the dermatological consultation for poor and destitute patients, in Saint-Louis Hospital.

Patients And Methods: We carried out a prospective study from May to October 1996. One hundred and eighty-nine patients (237 consultations) who had no social welfare, were examined.

Chronic radiodermatitis following cardiac catheterisation: a report of two cases and a brief review of the literature.

Cardiac angiography produces one of the highest radiation exposures of any commonly used diagnostic x ray procedure. Recently, serious radiation induced skin injuries have been reported after repeated therapeutic interventional procedures using prolonged fluoroscopic imaging. Two male patients, aged 62 and 71 years, in whom chronic radiodermatitis developed one to two years after two consecutive cardiac catheterisation procedures are reported.

Internal involvement in localized scleroderma.

We studied 76 consecutive patients with localized scleroderma (morphea with or without linear scleroderma) and analyzed the frequency, prognosis, and predictors of internal involvement in a subset of 53 patients systematically investigated for the presence of such involvement. Internal involvement was found by systematic examination in 16 patients. Only 2 of them, including 1 patient who developed systemic scleroderma, had symptomatic and severe visceral disease.

[Comparative study of the development and prognosis of pemphigus vulgaris and seborrheic pemphigus].

Traditionally, the prognosis of pemphigus erythematosus is thought to be more favourable than that of pemphigus vulgaris. A retrospective study of the records of 10 patients with pemphigus erythematosus and 13 patients with pemphigus vulgaris was set up to compare the courses of the two diseases. This comparison, carried out in populations with similar age, sex ratio, pretreatment duration of the disease and treatment received, showed that relapses were more frequent in the course of pemphigus erythematosus, whereas remissions, mean duration of the disease and iatrogenic complications were the same in both groups.