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Skin behind the bars!

Clinical Dermatology Review, 2021
Background: Prisoners fall in the most vulnerable population group, but the health issue of this group is the most understudied. The various dermatological conditions that hamper their overall health and quality of life needs to be identified and serious
Komal Ramteke, Sumit Kar, Safa Patrick, Ajinkya Sawant, Pooja Manwar, Pratiksha Sonkusale, Subhor Nandwani   +6 more
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Acne is a medical and social problem

Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2023
  Acne is one of the most common dermatoses. It is a chronic inflammatory disease of pilosebaceous units. The pathogenesis of the disease consists of: hyperproliferation of hair follicle opening cells and the formation of microcomedones closing its ...
Nina Lasota, Gabriela Demidowicz, Natalia Trąbka, Klaudia Kowalczyk, Małgorzata Chyćko, Katarzyna Cichoń, Martyna Younes, Wojciech Wiśniewski, Maciej Lambach, Julia Czarnota   +9 more
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Epidermal necrolysis French national diagnosis and care protocol (PNDS; protocole national de diagnostic et de soins)

Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2018
Epidermal necrolysis (EN) encompasses Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS,
Saskia Ingen-Housz-Oro, Tu-Anh Duong, Benoit Bensaid, Nathalia Bellon, Nicolas de Prost, Dévy Lu, Bénédicte Lebrun-Vignes, Julie Gueudry, Emilie Bequignon, Karim Zaghbib, Gérard Royer, Audrey Colin, Giao Do-Pham, Christine Bodemer, Nicolas Ortonne, Annick Barbaud, Laurence Fardet, Olivier Chosidow, Pierre Wolkenstein, the French National Reference Center for Toxic Bullous Dermatoses   +19 more
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Issues occupying our minds: Nomenclature of autoimmune blistering diseases requires updating, pemphigus vulgaris propensity to affect areas adjacent to natural body orifices unifies seemingly diverse clinical features of this disease

Frontiers in Immunology, 2022
In this conceptual analysis, we present our concepts on two issues regarding autoimmune bullous diseases (AIBD), namely (i) current nomenclature of AIBD requires updating by incorporating molecular data and (ii) pemphigus vulgaris (PV) “likes” areas ...
Marian Dmochowski, Magdalena Jałowska, Monika Bowszyc-Dmochowska   +2 more
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Somatic frameshift mutation in PIK3CA causes CLOVES syndrome by provoking PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway

Hereditas, 2021
Background CLOVES syndrome (OMIM# 612918) is a rare overgrowth disorder resulted from mosaic gain-of-function mutations in the PIK3CA gene. All the reported CLOVES-associated PIK3CA mutations are missense mutations affecting certain residues.
Wei Yan, Bin Zhang, Huijun Wang, Ran Mo, Xingyuan Jiang, Wen Qin, Lin Ma, Zhimiao Lin   +7 more
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A cross sectional study of nutritional dermatoses among malnourished children in a tertiary care centre

Indian Journal of Paediatric Dermatology, 2021
Background: Nutritional deficiencies are most prevalent in underdeveloped and developing countries of the world. An impaired nutritional status alters the structural integrity and biological function of the skin, resulting in an abnormal skin barrier ...
Vishalakshi S Pandit, K Udaya
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A clinical study of dermatoses in diabetes to establish its markers

Indian Journal of Dermatology, 2012
Background: Cutaneous manifestations of diabetes mellitus generally appear subsequent to the development of the disease, but they may be the first presenting signs and in some cases they may precede the primary disease manifestation by many years. Aims :
Dependra Kumar Timshina, Devinder Mohan Thappa, Aparna Agrawal   +2 more
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Diagnostic Pitfall in Atypical Febrile Presentation in a Patient with a Pregnancy-Specific Dermatosis—Case Report and Literature Review

Medicina, 2022
Pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy (PUPPP) usually occurs in the third trimester of pregnancy in primiparous women. It is a self-limiting inflammatory disorder with a still unknown pathogenic mechanism. The abdominal wall overdistension,
Claudia Mehedintu, Florin Isopescu, Oana-Maria Ionescu, Aida Petca, Elvira Bratila, Monica Mihaela Cirstoiu, Andreea Carp-Veliscu, Francesca Frincu   +7 more
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Clinical Characteristics, Comorbidities, and Treatment in Patients with Pemphigus—A Single-Center Retrospective Study

Antibodies
Background/Objectives: Pemphigus comprises a diverse group of disorders within the autoimmune bullous dermatoses (AIBDs) spectrum. Among these, pemphigus vulgaris (PV) and pemphigus foliaceus (PF) are the most commonly encountered variants.
Natalia Welc, Sandra Ważniewicz, Paweł Głuszak, Maciej Spałek, Agnieszka Seraszek-Jaros, Magdalena Jałowska, Marian Dmochowski   +6 more
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A Cost-Effective Screening Inflammation Indicator for Atopic Dermatitis Suitable for Primary Care and Self-Assessment

Diagnostics
Background/Objectives: Atopic dermatitis (AD), a chronic inflammatory skin condition, significantly impairs quality of life but remains underdiagnosed in primary care.
Chengbin Ye, Xuyang Zhou, Ying Zou
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