Eosinophilic panniculitis and insect bite-like eruption in a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia: a spectrum of the same entity.

Background. Eosinophilic dermatosis of hematologic disorders is a reactive process that may cause a variety of clinical manifestations. Methods.

Variants of milia successfully treated with CO(2) laser vaporization.

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.

Complications of ambulatory major dermatological surgery in patients older than 85 years.

Background: During the last decades, the progressive ageing of the population has resulted in a rising skin cancer incidence. Although previous studies detected no higher morbidity for dermatological surgery in senior patients, their exclusion from optimal surgical treatment remains as a common clinical practice.

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the diseases treated with ambulatory major dermatological surgery, the surgical morbidity and the associated variables in ≥ 85 year-old patients.

Bowen's disease treated by carbon dioxide laser. A series of 44 patients.

Background: Bowen's disease is a common form of intraepidermal (in situ) squamous cell carcinoma of the skin and mucous membrane. Treatment with destruction of the epidermis by any method is necessary to prevent invasive squamous cell carcinoma.

Objective: To report our experience with CO2 laser vaporization in the treatment of Bowen's disease and try to identify which factors could have any influence on results.

Papular elastorrhexis, a distinctive entity?

Papular elastorrhexis is a rare entity of elastic tissue characterized by multiple white papules usually located on the trunk. We report a case of papular elastorrhexis in a 22-year-old man with sparse lesions and discuss the main controversial facts in this entity: its consideration as an independent disease or as an incomplete form of Buschke-Ollendorff syndrome and the confusion with and its possible inclusion as a variant of elastic tissue naevi.

A case of generalized eruptive histiocytosis.

Histiocytoses are a heterogeneous group of diseases, characterized by the accumulation of reactive or neoplastic histiocytes in various tissues. Generalized eruptive histiocytosis belongs to cutaneous non-Langerhans' cell histiocytoses and is a rare, generalized, self-healing disorder that usually follows a benign clinical course. Herein, we report a case of generalized eruptive histiocytosis in a 41-year-old woman with peculiar clinical and histological features.

Disseminated classic Kaposi's sarcoma. Two cases with excellent response to pegylated liposomal doxorubicin.

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.

Toxic epidermal necrolysis-like acute cutaneous lupus erythematosus.

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.

Epidermal nevi treated by carbon dioxide laser vaporization: a series of 25 patients.

Background: Epidermal nevi are benign proliferations of epidermis. Numerous treatment modalities have been tried, but no ideal treatment is yet available.

Objective: To report our experience with CO(2) laser vaporization in the treatment of verrucous epidermal nevi, and to identify which factors could have influence in long-term results.

Treatment of cutaneous and mucosal telangiectases in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia: Report of three cases.

Introduction: Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) or Rendu-Osler-Weber disease is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by epistaxis, mucocutaneous telangiectases and visceral arteriovenous malformations. Cutaneous telangiectases are the most obvious sign of this disorder and are not a merely cosmetic problem owing to their risk for bleeding, which may constitute an authentic matter of concern to these patients.

Methods: Three patients with type-II HHT disease who presented cutaneous and labial lesions were treated with an intense pulsed light (IPL) system associated with a long-pulsed Nd:YAG laser (Photoderm-Vasculight, Lumenis).