A Retrospective Study on Alopecia Areata in Children: Clinical Characteristics and Treatment Choices.

Background: Although children are affected frequently with alopecia areata (AA), data are limited on clinical characteristics and treatment choices.

Materials And Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the records of the pediatric dermatology department over a 12-year period to identify children with AA. Clinical data were collected.

Skin diseases in Greek and immigrant children in Athens.

Objectives: This study aimed to characterize the spectrum of skin diseases affecting children in Greece.

Methods: We retrospectively studied data for 4071 children, aged 0-12 years, who were examined and diagnosed with dermatoses at the outpatient clinic of a university dermatological hospital between December 2005 and August 2007. To evaluate changes in disease patterns, these data were compared with data for a cohort of 12,700 children diagnosed with skin diseases at the same clinic two to three decades earlier (in 1977, 1980, and 1983).

Condylomata acuminata in children.

We describe a study on 38 children from 1 to 11 years of age, with anogenital warts, 25 were girls. The disease was primarily perianal. Sexual abuse was confirmed in one 9-year-old boy.

Tacrolimus ointment 0.1% in the treatment of allergic contact eyelid dermatitis.

Background: Tacrolimus inhibits T-lymphocyte activation and dermal Langerhans' cells, without the side-effects of corticosteroids. The safety profile of tacrolimus makes it a promising therapeutic option for dermatitis affecting the delicate periorbital skin.

Objective: To access the efficacy and tolerability of tacrolimus ointment 0.