[Bullous reaction after application of a single dose ingenol mebutate].

Picato (ingenol mebutate) was recently marketed for local treatment of actinic keratosis (AK). Compared to alternative creams and gels, Picato is a quick and efficient treatment, which is applied for only two to three days. A patient developed a bullous reaction to the gel after a single application.

[Squamous cell carcinoma in ulcer after bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccination].

Marjolin's ulcer is an aggressive squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) found in chronically inflamed skin. SCC has been reported in smallpox vaccination sites, whereas basal cell carcinomas are more common in scar after bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination. A 72-year-old man presented with a chronic ulcer at the site of his childhood BCG vaccination.

[Children with infantile haemangiomas should be worked-up for PHACE syndrome].

Infantile haemangiomas are the most common tumours in infants. Large facial haemangiomas are associated with posterior fossa malformations, haemangiomas, arteriel malformations, cardiac defects and eye anomalies (PHACE) syndrome in 20-31%. The diagnosis requires a large facial haemangiom and the minimum of one extracutaneous manifestation.

STAT1 expression and activation is increased in lesional psoriatic skin.

Background: The JAK (Janus kinase)/STAT (signal transducer and activator of transcription) signalling pathway is known to play an important role in many cellular processes including inflammation. The activation of STAT1 is dependent on tyrosine 701 and serine 727 phosphorylation, which leads to the formation of the STAT dimer and modulation of STAT1 activity, respectively.

Objective: To determine STAT1 expression and activation in psoriatic skin.

Caspase-5 expression is upregulated in lesional psoriatic skin.

The inflammasome is a cytosolic multiprotein complex with two major functions: recognizing pathogen-associated molecular patterns and reacting to these through activation of the proinflammatory cytokines IL-1β and IL-18. In this study, we characterized the expression of inflammasome components in psoriatic skin and other common inflammatory skin diseases. Human skin biopsy specimens, cultured primary human keratinocytes, and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were analyzed using quantitative reverse transcriptase-PCR (RT-PCR) and semiquantitative western blotting.