Acne is a frequent skin disease with abnormalities in the process of keratinization, sebaceous gland functioning and inflammation. In this review, our understanding of the pathogenesis of acne has been updated. An overview of efficacy and side effects of available anti-acne treatments is presented.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Only a few publications are available in the literature concerning the treatment of venous leg ulcers by means of medical compression stockings.
Subject: A 59-year-old female patient with longstanding, extensive bilateral leg ulcers due to venous insufficiency, arteriolosclerosis and secondary lymphoedema, was treated successfully by flat-knitted medical compression stockings of compression-class III.
Conclusion: The great advantage of this treatment is the fact that it is comfortable and easy to carry out at home.
Background: To our best knowledge this is the second case ever described of familial primary cryofibrinogenemia (CFG).
Patients: A 29-year-old Moroccan female and two of her three children suffered from painful purpura, slow healing small ulcerations and edema of both feet during the winter season. Laboratory investigations revealed the presence of cryofibrinogen in their blood plasma.
A ten year old boy with linear erythema above the right eyebrow and a groove in the underlying skull bone is described. Histological examination of a biopsy revealed a spotty, periadnexal, perivascular, lymphocytic infiltrate. The papillary dermis was almost absent and the collagen fibres were slightly thickened.
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