Current issue
Volume 22, Number 2, March-April 2012

   



Review article

Erythroderma in the era of biological therapies
Edoardo Zattra, Anna Belloni Fortina, Andrea Peserico, Mauro Alaibac

New perspectives on the dynamic behaviour of oral lichen planus
Virginia García-García, Antonio Bascones Martínez, Carla P. Martinelli-Kläy, Emilio Álvarez Fernández, Tommaso Lombardi, Roger Küffer

Genes and skin

Non-bullous congentital ichthyosiform erythroderma associated with homozygosity for a novel missense mutation in an ATP binding domain of ABCA12
Sadia Nawaz, Muhammad Tariq, Ilyas Ahmad, Naveed Altaf Malik, Shahid Mahmood Baig, Niklas Dahl, Joakim Klar

Erythrokeratodermia variabilis: Report of two cases and a novel missense variant in GJB4 encoding connexin 30.3
Haris Kokotas, Konstantina Papagiannaki, Maria Grigoriadou, Michael B. Petersen, Alexandra Katsarou

Therapy

Induction of durable responses by oral etoposide monochemotherapy in patients with metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma
Max Schlaak, Tina Podewski, Wibke Von Bartenwerffer, Nicole Kreuzberg, Christopher Bangard, Cornelia Mauch, Peter Kurschat

Tacrolimus 0.1% vs mometasone furoate topical treatment in allergic contact hand eczema: a prospective randomized clinical study
Alexandra Katsarou, Manolis Makris, Konstantina Papagiannaki, Eirini Lagogianni, Anna Tagka, Dimitrios Kalogeromitros

Successful eradication of Scytalidium dimidiatum-induced ungual and cutaneous infection with voriconazole
Isabel Spriet, Charlotte Lambrecht, Katrien Lagrou, Beatrice Verhamme

Investigative report

Incidence of human papillomavirus infection in male sexual partners of women diagnosed with CIN II-III
Gemma Martín-Ezquerra, Pere Fuste, Fernando Larrazabal, Belen Lloveras, Alex Fernandez-Casado, Beatriz Belosillo, Gemma Mancebo, Emili Masferrer, Sonia Segura, Ramon Carreras, Francesc Alameda, Ramon M Pujol

Effect of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs on the histology of basal cell carcinomas
Husein Husein-El Ahmed, Jose Aneiros-Fernandez, Maria-Teresa Gutierrez-Salmeron, Jose Aneiros-Cachaza, Ramon Naranjo-Sintes

Effects of oral administration of Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens MDT-1 on the development and healing of atopic dermatitis in NC/Nga mice
Tsuneo Hino, Kenta Suzuki, Sou Ohkawara, Takehiro Miwa, Narito Asanuma

Connexin 26 in psoriatic skin before and after two conventional therapeutic modalities: methotrexate and PUVA
Olfat Shaker, Mona Abdel-Halim

Head and neck basal cell carcinoma prevalence in individuals submitted to childhood X-ray epilation for tinea capitis treatment
Paula Boaventura, Rosa Oliveira, Dina Pereira, Paula Soares, José Teixeira-Gomes

Clinical report

A descriptive study of psoriasis characteristics, severity and impact among 3,269 patients: results of a Belgian cross sectional study (BELPSO)
Julien Lambert, Emmilia Assal Dowlatshahi, Michel de la Brassinne, Tamar Nijsten

Costs and quality of life for psoriatic patients at different degrees of severity in southern Sweden – a cross-sectional study
Ola Ghatnekar, Anders Ljungberg, Lars-Erik Wirestrand, Åke Svensson

Port-wine stains are more than skin-deep! Expanding the spectrum of extracutaneous manifestations of nevi flammei of the head and neck
Behfar Eivazi, Marion Roessler, Wolfgang Pfützner, Afshin Teymoortash, Jochen A. Werner, Rudolf Happle

Outbreak of bullous impetigo caused by Staphylococcus aureus strains of phage type 3C/71 in a maternity ward linked to nasal carriage of a healthcare worker
Lidia Piechowicz, Katarzyna Garbacz, Anna Budzyńska, Maria Dąbrowska-Szponar

Correspondence

Congenital benign mesenchymoma on the palm
Kyoko Kudo, Takeshi Nakahara, Junichi Hachisuka, Teiichi Masuda, Sho Miake, Yoichi Moroi, Hiromaro Kiryu, Masutaka Furue

Scutular tinea of the scrotum by Candida guilliermondii
Jiuhong Li, Zhenhai Yang, Yilei Li, Xiuhao Guan, Bo Li, Junping Lin, Huachen Wei

Vaccination with WT-1 (Wilms’ Tumor gene-1) peptide and BCG-CWS in melanoma
Megumi Nishioka, Atsushi Tanemura, Sumiyuki Nishida, Akiko Nakano, Akihiro Tsuboi, Yusuke Oji, Yoshihiro Oka, Ichiro Azuma, Haruo Sugiyama, Ichiro Katayama

Successful treatment of a folliculotropic mycosis fungoides with bexarotene and PUVA
Anna Krönke, Max Schlaak, Meral Arin, Cornelia Mauch, Peter Kurschat

Lupus erythematosus panniculitis treated with tacrolimus
Takashi Ueda, Hiromitsu Eto, Kensei Katsuoka, Yasuo Takeuchi

Mammary fistula could be included in the follicular occlusion tetrad
Juan D. Berná-serna, Juan D. Berná-Mestre

Polymorphic light eruption with unusual neutrophilic infiltration
Majid Foroozan, Brigitte Balme, Laurianne Depaepe, François Skowron

Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease with recurrent fever and erythema multiforme-like lesions
Mikiko Michigami, Kenji Kabashima, Yuko Nonaka, Yoshimasa Kamoda, Takayuki Yoshinaga, Hitoshi Kudo

Multiple epidermal cysts in hemodialysis patients
Kazutoshi Murao, Yoshiaki Kubo

Specific bilateral ear infiltration as an early manifestation of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
Katharina Vester, Regina Treudler, Uwe Paasch, Cornelia Becker, André Liebmann, Jan Christoph Simon, Claudia Wickenhauser, Manfred Kunz

Successful treatment with fluoropyrimidine TS-1 of human papillomavirus type 16-detected multiple oral bowenoid papulosis in an elderly woman
Eiji Nakano, Makoto Kunisada, Tetsuya Ikeda, Ayuko Kikusawa, Masashi Hirose, Yasuyuki Shibuya, Takahide Komori, Chikako Nishigori

Blocking of CTLA-4 on lymphocytes improves the sensitivity of lymphocyte transformation tests in a patient with nickel allergy
Kazunari Sugita, Kenji Kabashima, Yu Sawada, Sanehito Haruyama, Manabu Yoshioka, Tomoko Mori, Miwa Kobayashi, Kouetsu Ogasawara, Yoshiki Tokura

Herpetiform pemphigus with anti-Dsg 1 and full-length BP180 autoantibodies
Yuta Kurashige, Yoshihiko Mitsuhashi, Masuyoshi Saito, Shunpei Fukuda, Takashi Hashimoto, Ryoji Tsuboi

Does treatment of metabolic syndrome components improve psoriasis? Report of three cases.
Tiago Torres, Manuela Selores

Decreased expression of homeostatic chemokine receptors in intravascular large B-cell lymphoma
Akira Kasuya, Toshiharu Fujiyama, Shigeho Shirahama, Hideo Hashizume, Yoshiki Tokura

Late onset of livedo reticularis induced by amantadine treatment concomitant with erythrocytosis
Sachiko Ono, Hideaki Tanizaki, Yoshiki Miyachi, Kenji Kabashima

Verrucous skin lesions on the feet in diabetic neuropathy successfully treated with topical maxacalcitol
Kazutoshi Murao, Mika Oshima, Osamu Miyajima, Yoshiaki Kubo

Coexistence of adult T-cell leukaemia /lymphoma and psoriasis treated with cyclosporine
Monji Koga, Kaori Koga, Kenji Isitsuka, Shinichi Imafuku, Juichiro Nakayama

Subcutaneous lobular capillary hemangioma with sonography and computed tomography findings
Ayuko Kikusawa, Masahiro Oka, Hideki Shimizu, Mariko Tsujimoto, Yumiko Marui, Shusaku Yokogawa, Yasufumi Kita, Makoto Kunisada, Chikako Nishigori

Solitary sclerotic fibroma of the skin: a possible clue for Cowden syndrome
Charlotte Pernet, Luc Durand, Didier Bessis, Bernard Guillot, Olivier Dereure

Seven cases of vitiligo complicated by atopic dermatitis: suggestive new spectrum of autoimmune vitiligo
Atsushi Tanemura, Tomoko Yajima, Mayuko Nakano, Megumi Nishioka, Saori Itoi, Yorihisa Kotobuki, Mari Higashiyama, Ichiro Katayama

Bullous pemphigoid in a transplant recipient: is this a sign of allograft rejection?
Clara De Simone, Giacomo Caldarola, Marina Castriota, Maria Paola Salerno, Franco Citterio

In situ melanoma and palmar spiny hyperkeratoses: coincidence or paraneoplasia?
Heiko Poppe, Hermann Kneitz, Eva-B. Bröcker, Henning Hamm

Intraepidermal neutrophilic IgA pemphigus successfully treated with dapsone
Yu Hirata, Riichiro Abe, Kazuhiro Kikuchi, Asuka Hamasaka, Satoru Shinkuma, Toshifumi Nomura, Wataru Nishie, Ken Arita, Hiroshi Shimizu

Subepidermal blistering disease presenting with anti-plakin antibodies
Makoto Inaoki, Chihiro Nishijima, Bungo Ohyama, Takashi Hashimoto

Intradermal nodular fasciitis
Minako Terai, Masahiro Oka, Makoto Kunisada, Fumi Kawakami, Chikako Nishigori

Transepidermal elimination of sarcoidal granuloma in a patient with sarcoidosis and systemic sclerosis overlap
Toshiyuki Yamamoto, Yoshikazu Motoki

Pityriasis versicolor atrophicans
Óscar Tellechea, Mariana Cravo, Ana Brinca, Margarida Robalo-Cordeiro

Benign fibrous histiocytoma: Particular aspects on confocal laser scanning microscopy
Rita Venina de Amaral Pereira Guedes, Nuno Miguel Noronha de Menezes, Inês Brandão Leite, Manuel Armando Baptista

Pruritic poikilodermatous eruption associated with dermatomyositis: successful treatment with dapsone
Yasuhiro Kawachi, Yasuhiro Fujisawa, Junichi Furuta, Yasuhiro Nakamura, Yoshiyuki Ishii, Fujio Otsuka

Residents’corner

Residents’ editorial choice
Emmanuella Guenova, Laurence Feldmeyer, Tiago Torres, Audrey Nosbaum

Residents’corner March 2012. sQUIZ your knowledge!
Sónia Fernandes, Gabriela Marques Pinto

CarpeDIEM – Dermatological Indications for Electron Microscopy: Orf infection
Emmanuella Guenova, Martin Schaller

Announcements

Residents’ corner

Residents’ corner March 2012. Erratum