Publications by authors named "Katherine Rupley"
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- Pigmented purpuric dermatosis (PPD) is a rare, poorly understood skin condition characterized by inflammation of capillaries leading to bleeding into the soft tissue, often triggered by medications or excessive exercise.
- * A 77-year-old man underwent treatment for PPD after traditional therapies failed; he experienced improvement with excimer laser therapy, maintaining remission for about a year.
- * Despite the historical challenges of treating PPD and potential side effects from existing treatments, recent studies suggest phototherapy methods, including excimer lasers, show promise for managing this condition.
Malignant proliferating trichilemmal tumors are rare adnexal neoplasms that most commonly occur on the scalp in elderly women. These tumors are associated with recurrence and even nodal or distant metastatic spread. Here we describe a 38-year-old patient who presented with a scalp nodule that was diagnosed as a high-grade malignant proliferating trichilemmal tumor.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGranuloma annulare (GA) and necrobiosis lipoidica (NL) are granulomatous diseases of undetermined etiology. Rarely, both dermatoses have been reported to occur concomitantly in patients. GA and NL are characterized histologically by areas of necrobiosis of collagen.
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