Current issue
Volume 18, Number 5, September-October 2008




Review article

The role of streptococcal hypersensitivity in the pathogenesis of Behçet’s Disease
Fumio Kaneko, Noritaka Oyama, Hirokatsu Yanagihori, Emiko Isogai, Kenji Yokota, Keiji Oguma

Investigative report

Tracing of the molecular remnants of herpes virus infections in necrotic skin tissue
Takenobu Yamamoto, Akiko Yamada, Kazuhide Tsuji, Keiji Iwatsuki

Supplementation with oral probiotic bacteria protects human cutaneous immune homeostasis after UV exposure-double blind, randomized, placebo controlled clinical trial
Josette Peguet-Navarro, Colette Dezutter-Dambuyant, Timo Buetler, Jacques Leclaire, Hans Smola, Stéphanie Blum, Philippe Bastien, Lionel Breton, Audrey Gueniche

Thiopurine S-methyltransferase genotypic analysis in autoimmune bullous diseases
Maud Bezier, Ziad Reguiai, Fabien Vitry, Franck Broly, Philippe Bernard

Expression of the hair stem cell-specific marker nestin in epidermal and follicular tumors
Maho Kanoh, Yasuyuki Amoh, Yuichi Sato, Kensei Katsuoka

Adapalene 0.1% and benzoyl peroxide 2.5% as a fixed-dose combination gel is as well tolerated as the individual components alone in terms of cumulative irritancy
Christian Loesche, Colette Pernin, Michel Poncet

CD40 expression on antigen presenting cells and correlation with disease severity in atopic dermatitis
Ezogelin Oflazoglu, Eric L Simpson, Rodd Takiguchi, Jon M Hanifin, Iqbal S Grewal, Hans-Peter Gerber

Anti-basement membrane zone antibodies in elderly patients with pruritic disorders and diabetes mellitus
Hana Jedlickova, Jana Racovska, Andrea Niedermeier, Josef Feit, Michael Hertl

Therapy

Real-life practice study of the clinical outcome and cost-effectiveness of photodynamic therapy using methyl aminolevulinate (MAL-PDT) in the management of actinic keratosis and basal cell carcinoma
L Annemans, Karin Caekelbergh, Rik Roelandts, H Boonen, Christoph Leys, Arjen F Nikkels, V van Den Haute, L van Quickenborne, E Verhaeghe, Bernard Leroy

Topical methyl aminolaevulinate photodynamic therapy versus cryotherapy for superficial basal cell carcinoma: a 5 year randomized trial
Nicole Basset-Seguin, Sally H Ibbotson, Lennart Emtestam, Mikael Tarstedt, Colin Morton, Marianne Maroti, Piergiacomo Calzavara-Pinton, Sandeep Varma, Rik Roelandts, Peter Wolf

Successful treatment of calciphylaxis with pamidronate
Stefan Schliep, Gerold Schuler, Franklin Kiesewetter

Severe pemphigus vulgaris: successful combination therapy of plasmapheresis followed by intravenous high-dose immunoglobulin to prevent rebound increase in pathogenic IgG
Yumi Aoyama, Chikako Nagasawa, Miki Nagai, Yasuo Kitajima

Clinical report

Hypersensitivity to cyclooxygenase inhibitory drugs in children: a study of 164 cases
Amale Hassani, Claude Ponvert, Chantal Karila, Muriel Le Bourgeois, Jacques De Blic, Pierre Scheinmann

Skin problems associated with pegylated liposomal doxorubicin-more than palmoplantar erythrodysesthesia syndrome
Joanna Mangana, Marie C Zipser, Curdin Conrad, Patrick A Oberholzer, Antonio Cozzio, Alexander Knuth, Lars E French, Reinhard Dummer

Association factors for atopic dermatitis in nursery school children in Ishigaki islands – Kyushu University Ishigaki Atopic Dermatitis Study (KIDS)
Noriko Fukiwake, Norihiro Furusyo, Hiroaki Takeoka, Kazuhiro Toyoda, Norihiko Kubo, Makiko Kido, Sayaka Hayashida, Hiroshi Uchi, Yoichi Moroi, Kazunori Urabe, Naoko Kinukawa, Yoshiaki Nose, Jun Hayashi, Masutaka Furue

Laddering melanotic pattern of Langer’s lines in skin of colour
Pascale Quatresooz, Jean-François Hermanns, Trinh Hermanns-Le, Gérald E Pierard, Jean-Luc Nizet

Severe local skin reactions to interferon beta-1b in multiple sclerosis-improvement by deep subcutaneous injection
Yoshiyuki Nakamura, Yasuhiro Kawachi, Junichi Furuta, Fujio Otsuka

Pyoderma gangrenosum with pulmonary involvement?
Ze-Hu Liu, Xue-Lian Lu, Mei-Hua Fu, Guo-Yi Zhang, Wei-Da Liu

Cellular blue nevus with nevus cells in a sentinel lymph node
Noriyuki Misago, Kohtarou Nagase, Shuji Toda, Yohsuke Shinoda, Shinich Koba, Yutaka Narisawa