General features and treatment of notalgia paresthetica.

Notalgia paresthetica is a neurocutaneous disorder that most commonly manifests as pruritus and a brownish macula in the patient's upper back. Pain, burning, and paresthesias to a variable degree have also been reported. Although the physiopathology of notalgia paresthetica is still obscure, it is currently considered a sensory neuropathy caused by damage to the spinal nerves.

[Clinically-amyopathic dermatomyositis: presentation of three cases].

Dermatomyositis is a connective tissue disease which has several factors involved in its etiology. Recently, the existence of a sub-type called amyopathic dermatomyositis has been accepted, whose cutaneous manifestations are indistinguishable from the ones that appear in the classic form of the disease. However, it is different from the classic form in that clinical findings of muscular involvement are initially absent.