This content is machine translated Folliculitis Infectious or sterile folliculitis? Folliculitis can be distinguished from each other by subtle nuances. The approach is simple: look for the follicular attachment, decide and investigate whether it is infectious or sterile folliculitis; it…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Allergo Update 2017, Berlin Food allergies are often lost, contact allergies remain Allergies are among the most widespread diseases. Most of those affected suffer from hay fever, pollen asthma and contact allergies. In early childhood, apart from atopic eczema, food allergies are…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Palmoplantar warts - not to be underestimated Wart beds: Banal infection or is there more to it? Case report: A 6 11/12 year old girl presented to our consultation with marked verrucae vulgares on hands and feet. The warts had been present for >3 months and had…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Laser Congress SGML 2017 Laser therapy – a broad field that is developing rapidly At the annual congress of the Swiss Society for Medical Laser Applications, which took place as every year at the Hilton Airport Hotel Zurich, one could attend lectures on nevus…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Bullous autoimmune dermatoses When the skin and mucous membrane come off Bullous autoimmune dermatoses are a clinically and immunopathologically heterogeneous group of rare autoimmune diseases. In patients of older age with pruritus and bulging blisters, bullous pemphigoid is at the top…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Swiss Derma Day 2017 The fear of hair loss As every year, the Swiss Derma Day covered a broad spectrum of lectures in dermatology and venereology. We would like to introduce two presentations in more detail. On the one…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Dermatophytoses Update on clinic, epidemiology and diagnosis. Dermatophytes cause infections of the exposed skin, nails or hair. T. rubrum and T. interdigitale are the most common dermatophytes, are anthropophilic and causative agents of tinea pedis, nail mycoses…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Herpes simplex virus & Co. Common cutaneous diseases caused by viruses in family practice. Viral infections of the skin organ often show a pathognomic clinic as well as a characteristic course. This usually allows a rapid diagnostic classification and an immediate start of therapy.…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Genital precancerous lesions Human papillomaviruses as the most important risk factor In cases of chronic genital symptoms and exclusion of infectious causes, early biopsies should be taken to exclude genital precancerous lesions. Lichen sclerosus should be considered a facultative precancerous condition.…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Congenital gingival papules Whitish enoral nodules in an infant Case report: At the two-month check-up, a healthy female infant shows multiple small whitish nodules on the maxillary gingiva. The child was drinking well and did not appear to be…
View Post 11 min This content is machine translated Memories of an allergist Nocturnal asthma attacks instead of “dreamy and cozy sleep”. Case history: 28-year-old M. Janine, with no family or personal history of atopic disease, had been suffering from a persistent cough for several months, especially at night. Various therapy attempts…
