Hair lightening in an hemodialysis patient treated by heptaminol (heptamyl).

Hair lightening occurred in a patient treated with heptaminol (heptamyl). This patient had chronic renal failure and had been undergoing hemodialysis since 2003. The hair hypopigmentation reversed after stopping the drug.

Cutaneous tuberculosis in Morocco.

Objective: To describe the salient epidemiologic, clinical, histopathologic, and bacteriologic aspects of cutaneous tuberculosis in Morocco.

Methods: A retrospective review of all cases of cutaneous tuberculosis at our hospital from January 1981 through December 2004.

Results: Two-hundred and sixteen cases of cutaneous tuberculosis were identified and included.