Search

everythinglearnresearchcommunity

for

Search:↓

A thorough history and examination are crucial for diagnosing skin diseases, which affect up to a third of people. This includes details about skin lesions, medication, general health, lifestyle, family, and contacts, as well as examining the rash, hair, nails, and mucous membranes. Changes in hair and nails can also indicate other medical and skin disorders.

Oral lichen planus can appear before lichen planopilaris.

Testing hair roots with a special dye is a simple, non-invasive way to check disease progress in pemphigus vulgaris patients.

Skin fungal infections are more common in older adults due to factors like obesity, poor circulation, reduced mobility, and weakened immune defenses from certain medications.

A woman developed a skin condition called Pemphigus Vulgaris after a treatment to help with hair loss.

Some nail changes in chilblains can look like lichen planus and may be severe and long-lasting.

Oreo the dog got better from skin and worm infections after treatment and cleaner living conditions.

The dog's condition improved after 21 days of treatment.

Tranexamic acid effectively reduced swelling episodes in a girl with a rare form of hereditary angioneurotic edema.

Most pregnant women experience skin darkening and hair changes, with these effects usually going away after giving birth.

The guidelines help doctors manage skin problems from certain cancer treatments to improve patients' lives.

Cancer therapy can cause various skin problems, including hair loss, skin darkening, painful hand-foot syndrome, and severe skin damage.

Pregnancy can cause skin pigmentation, stretch marks, and changes in hair, nails, and sweat glands, with most resolving after birth.

Tattooing helps treat skin conditions, reconstruct nipple-areola, mark radiation fields, and locate lesions.

Syphilis can cause hair loss that looks like other conditions, but it improves with treatment.

Alefacept may effectively treat severe lichen planus, with patients showing significant improvement and no side effects.

Doctors have known about fungal skin infections for a long time, but only made major progress in understanding and treating them since the mid-1800s.

Trichoscopy helps tell apart scalp lesions in pemphigus vulgaris and pemphigus foliaceus and is useful for choosing biopsy locations.

Acitretin significantly reduced inflammatory attacks in a woman with Naevus Comedonicus Syndrome but caused side effects.

Phenobarbitone can cause severe and sometimes fatal skin reactions.

A man with Cronkhite-Canada syndrome had all 20 nails detach but improved with treatment.

A patient with zinc depletion improved after zinc supplementation during parenteral nutrition.

Syphilis can cause hair loss and treating the infection can reverse it.

A girl with Netherton syndrome was able to eat wheat without allergies after a special treatment.

Scalp involvement in pemphigus means the disease is more severe and harder to treat.

Syphilis can cause hair loss and should be considered in unexplained cases.

Dexpanthenol improves hair growth and satisfaction in women without side effects.

A woman had a severe skin reaction from the drug imiquimod, used for skin cancer, highlighting the need for awareness of rare but serious side effects.

A rare skin disorder affecting the face was found in a 28-year-old Saudi man.

People with Lichen Planus have thicker carotid artery walls, but it's not solely due to Lichen Planus when other factors are considered.