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Venous leg ulcer     What are venous leg ulcers? Venous leg ulcers are the commonest cause of chronic, non-healing ulcers of the leg. They occur in adults of both sexes and can take a long time to heal. There are many other causes of chronic leg ulcers and proper... READ MORE

-It is a cutaneous necrosis occurring following a trauma. -It can appear in bedridden individuals on the areas of pressure. -To read more on Skin Ulcers (all our articles where ulcers can arise), click HERE   Viewed by a Dermatologist, Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst... READ MORE

Il s’agit d’une variante rare de la lèpre lépromateuse normalement retrouvée au Mexique et au Costa Rica. Des cas ont aussi été détectés au Canada, à Singapour, au Brésil et au Myanmar.     Historique: Décrit en 1852 par Lucio et Alvarado     Etiologie: Tous... READ MORE

Increment of subcutaneous adipose tissue is associated with decrease of elastic fibers in the dermal layer. Ezure T, Amano S. Exp Dermatol. 2015 Jul 21. doi: 10.1111/exd.12816. [Epub ahead of print]   Obesity is the big health problem of industrialized countries.It is... READ MORE

Age-related decrease in CD271+ cells in human skin. Akamatsu H, Hasegawa S, Yamada T, Mizutani H, Nakata S, Yagami A, Matsunaga K. J Dermatol. 2015 Aug 24. doi: 10.1111/1346-8138.13048. [Epub ahead of print]   -Stem cells are trendy. To summarize, they can be divided into... READ MORE

Porphyria Cutanea Tarda (PCT) All porphrias are hereditary except PCT type I PCT type I also as symptomatic protoporphria Epidemiology: affects males from 40 onwards, often with a history of alcohol abuse Three categories PCT I: symptomatic protoporphyria, non hereditary, 80% of... READ MORE

The type of disease developed is partially linked to the HLA genes: HLA DR2 and HLA DR3 predispose to tuberculoid disease and HLA–Mt1 to lepromatous disease. Environmental factors such as poor nutrition and poor sanitation play a role through altered immunity in a yet... READ MORE

The importance of leprosy lies in its ability to cause permanent disabilities from damage to nerves and eyes. Nerve damage can be due to granulomatous lesions that result in fibrosis, during reactions when severe inflammation results in nerve destruction and from ischaemia caused... READ MORE

Synomyms: bilharzia, bilharziosis, snail fever. It is due to an infection by a trematode (flatworm or fluke) of the Schistosomia family. It is a disease frequent in Africa, Asia and South America where lakes containing freshwater snails are present. Children playing in the water... READ MORE

Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory disease of the digestive tract. It is clinically characterized by abdominal pain, bloody stools…Histologically, structures called granulomas are found in the inflammatory affected areas. We are interested in the skin problems which can be... READ MORE