Publications by authors named "Keiko Wakumoto"

We report a case of subcutaneous panniculitis-like T-cell lymphoma with diffuse indurated lesions without erythema. A 27-year-old man was referred to us with a 1-month history of fever, general fatigue and indurated skin lesions. The initial examination revealed indurated skin lesions without erythema and subcutaneous tumors in the right lower abdomen, back and buttocks.

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We report a case of X-linked recessive ichthyosis with basal cell carcinoma. An 86-year-old man was referred to our department for evaluation of a 1-year history of an ulcer on his left leg. He had suffered from dry skin with scales on his entire body since childhood.

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Electron microscopic techniques have been widely used to investigate the pathogenesis of dermatophytosis. In this article, morphological studies by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) concerned with the dermatophyte infection process are literary reviewed and we introduced our morphological study observing the parasitic form of dermatophytes in the lesional cornified layer. Various experimental models have been established to study fungal adhesion and invasion to the skin surface in the early stage of infection by several authors.

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