Introduction: Centrofacial granulomas have several etiologies, which poses diagnostic difficulties and delays in management. Herein, we report a confusing case revealing granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) in its localized form.
Case Presentation: A 76-year-old man presented with a pruritic centrofacial placard that had been evolving for 3 years.
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August 2020
White sponge nevus is an autosomal dominant skin disorder characterized by white, irregular, diffuse plaques mainly affecting the oral mucosa. Histological findings of white sponge nevus are characteristic but not pathognomonic. We report a case of an oral white sponge nevus in a 6-year-old girl, which poses a problem in differential diagnosis with oral candidiasis.
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February 2020
Background: Cutaneous leishmaniasis is endemic in Morocco. Mucosal involvement is rare. We report a case in Morocco of cutaneous leishmaniasis of the vermilion border of the upper lip extending to the oral mucosa due to Leishmania tropica.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGiant condyloma acuminatum is rare in infants. We report a case of giant perianal condyloma in a 10-month-old infant without sexual abuse. The patient was treated by surgical excision associated with electrocoagulation with no recurrence after 2 years.
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Background: Nicolau syndrome is a rare condition consisting in tissue ischemia and necrosis following intramuscular, intra-articular or subcutaneous injection.
Patients And Methods: Immediately after gluteal intramuscular injection of benzathine-penicillin, a 10-year-old male child presented an extensive painful violaceous lesion on the left buttock associated with urinary incontinence and left lower-limb paresis. Additional underlying muscular damage was supported by high serum levels of creatine kinase and lactate dehydrogenase.
Hypotrichosis with juvenile macular dystrophy is a rare congenital disease mainly found in the Druze population of Northern Israel. This disorder is caused by the CDH3 mutation encoding P-cadherin, which is expressed in retinal pigment epithelium and hair follicles. An 11-year-old girl who was born to related Portuguese parents, had hypotrichosis since birth and macular dystrophy diagnosed at age 5.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Psoriatic lesions are rarely complicated by recurrent infections. The aim of our study is to determine skin colonisation and nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus in patients with psoriasis and in healthy persons.
Patients And Methods: a comparative study that include 33 patients with psoriasis and 33 healthy persons.
We report a skin localization of systemic sarcoidosis, which presented with lesions that resemble porokeratosis of Mibelli. Skin biopsy showed non-caseating sarcoidal granuloma. Whereas cutaneous sarcoidosis is present in up to one-third of cases and may present with a wide variety of lesions, our presentation is uncommon.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: In-transit metastases in cutaneous melanoma are common and difficult to manage. Therapy is mainly palliative. Use of topical imiquimod has been assessed for surface metastases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Cutaneous nodular amyloidosis is rare, and association with Sjögren's syndrome has been reported. We discuss the possible link between these two diseases based on a case we saw.
Patients And Methods: A 78-year-old woman with Sjögren's syndrome ongoing for 17 years presented for evaluation of a waxy infiltrated lesion on her left leg that had appeared 6 months earlier.
Syringocystadenocarcinoma papilliferum (SCAP) is rare. We describe a 55-year-old man with a partially eroded lesion on the trunk that developed over one year. Histopathological examination revealed syringocystadenoma papilliferum.
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