September 2005 in “Clinics in Plastic Surgery” This article discusses multiple aspects of complex regional pain syndrome, including its diagnosis, pathogenesis, and treatment, but reports no new scientific findings.
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October 1990 in “The Lancet” Some people have a genetic variation that makes them less effective at breaking down drugs.
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August 2012 in “Archives of dermatology” Psoriasis can cause hair growth in areas affected by alopecia areata.
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January 1996 in “Annals of saudi medicine/Annals of Saudi medicine” This study found that severe forms of alopecia areata may be associated with poor treatment response, particularly in cases with extensive hair loss, juvenile onset, or nail changes.
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September 2013 in “TURKDERM” This retrospective study described the demographic characteristics, treatments, and prognosis of children with alopecia areata in a clinical setting, reporting a remission rate of 34.5% and highlighting the need for more comprehensive epidemiological data in this population.
8 citations
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January 2006 in “Dermatology Online Journal” This case report describes a 7-year-old girl diagnosed with multiple eccrine pilar angiomatous nevi, a rare variant of eccrine angiomatous hamartomas, characterized by slow growth and generally benign behavior.
January 2026 in “Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)” In this study, serum vitamin A levels were found to be lower in patients with alopecia areata compared to controls; however, the difference was not statistically significant, possibly due to the mild disease severity among participants.
January 2026 in “Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)” In this study of patients with alopecia areata, researchers found that although serum vitamin A levels were lower compared to controls, the difference was not statistically significant. However, stress levels were significantly higher in the alopecia areata group.
May 2025 in “JEADV Clinical Practice” This case study reports significant improvements in joint pain and hair regrowth in a 31-year-old female with alopecia universalis, psoriasis vulgaris, and psoriatic arthritis using a combination of tofacitinib and methotrexate after other treatments failed.
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November 2016 in “Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine” In this study using guinea pigs, the low-dose 800 nm semiconductor laser was found to effectively treat skin blackheads and coarse pores by promoting hair follicle cell apoptosis, while maintaining PCNA expression levels in sebaceous glands.
August 2020 in “Pakistan Journal of Zoology” This study identified a novel genetic mutation, c.429delC in the hairless gene, associated with atrichia with papular lesions in two Pakistani families.
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January 1999 in “Dermatology” This article reviews different perspectives on nevus comedonicus, discussing its classification and potential associations with systemic findings, but it reports no new results.
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June 2005 in “International Journal of Dermatology” This case report describes a 28-year-old man with widespread pigmented basal cell carcinomas and recurrent infections that were challenging to control, associated with nevus comedonicus and a rudimentary toe.
31 citations
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January 2007 in “Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology” A rare skin growth was successfully removed without recurrence after one year.
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March 2003 in “Acta Dermato Venereologica” Tacalcitol ointment effectively improves bilateral nevus comedonicus.
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January 2015 in “Acta dermato-venereologica” Acitretin significantly reduced inflammatory attacks in a woman with Naevus Comedonicus Syndrome but caused side effects.
12 citations
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April 2004 in “PubMed” This study reports the first known case of multiple type nevus lipomatosus cutaneous superficialis in a 10-month-old girl, with the unique feature of perifollicular fibrosis.
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April 2010 in “JEADV. Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology/Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology” This case report details the first pediatric occurrence of naevus trichilemmocysticus, a newly defined type of organoid naevus.
7 citations
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January 2013 in “Ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery” This case report describes a rare instance of late-onset, bilateral nevus comedonicus of the eyelids in a 79-year-old man, highlighting its clinical and histopathologic features.
6 citations
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February 2020 in “Journal of Cutaneous Pathology” This case report describes the histopathological features of nevus psiloliparus in an 11-year-old girl, noting "shadow" follicular units with loosely arranged collagen and reduced elastic fibers.
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August 2017 in “International journal of molecular sciences” This study observed two cases of pigmented epithelioid melanocytoma suggesting potential differing origins: one from a hair follicle's outer root sheath and another from an intradermal nevus.
3 citations
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December 2014 in “Annals of Laboratory Medicine” In this study, a somatic KRAS mutation was identified in a Korean infant with nevus sebaceus and associated extracutaneous manifestations, suggesting a diagnosis of nevus sebaceus syndrome.
2 citations
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May 2014 in “PubMed” This case report describes a 10-year-old boy with a localized patch of partial alopecia and comedonal lesions, diagnosed as an atypical nevus comedonicus, and treated with topical tretinoin.
2 citations
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April 2012 in “American Journal of Dermatopathology” This report describes two cases of nevus lipomatosus superficialis with the unusual feature of dilated hair follicles, emphasizing the need for precise histopathological diagnosis to differentiate from similar conditions.
2 citations
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May 1991 in “PubMed” This article reviews naevus comedonicus, highlighting potential treatments like retinoic acid application and surgical intervention, but reports no new clinical findings.
1 citations
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December 2019 in “American journal of ophthalmology. Case reports” This case report describes an unusual occurrence of late-onset nevus comedonicus affecting both eyelids, with complications including bilateral ptosis and ectropion.
1 citations
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January 2019 in “Dermatology Online Journal” This case report describes a rare occurrence of nevus comedonicus on the scalp of a 19-year-old woman, highlighting its unusual location and classic appearance.
1 citations
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January 2009 In this case report, a 25-year-old man with nevus comedonicus showed no improvement from keratolytics and topical tretinoin, but had success with surgical excision of the lesions.
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May 2007 in “Chinese Medical Journal” This case report describes a 24-year-old woman with a rare giant cerebriform pigmented nevus on the scalp, which was identified as a giant congenital intradermal nevus based on clinical and pathological findings.
This study observed that nevus melanocytes do not exhibit signs of senescence, suggesting that their growth arrest is due to cell interactions and not directly caused by BRAF activation.