Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (dermatology)

Actinic elastosis (elastoidosis): causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Actinic elastosis (elastoidosis) occurs with prolonged exposure to ultraviolet rays, usually observed in senile age (senile elastosis).

Carbohydrate dystrophies: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Carbohydrate dystrophy can be parenchymal and mesenchymal. Carbohydrates, detected in cells and tissues, are identified by histochemical methods of investigation. They are divided into polysaccharides and glucoproteins.

Lipidosis: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Lipidosis refers to accumulation diseases (thesaurismosis), almost always occur with CNS damage, so they are called neyrolipidoses. Skin manifestations are one of the main symptoms only in the diffuse Fabri angiokeratome (glycosphingolipidosis), with other forms they occur infrequently, probably because of an early lethal outcome.

Lipid metabolism disorders: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Hyperlipidemia is found in 10-20% of children and in 40-60% of adults. They can be primary, genetically determined, or develop secondary on the basis of a violation of diet, various diseases leading to metabolic disorders (insulin-dependent diabetes, chronic pancreatitis, alcoholism, cirrhosis, nephrosis, dysglobulinemia, etc.).

Mesenchymal skin dysproteinosis: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

When mesenchymal dysproteinosis in the connective tissue of the dermis and the walls of the blood vessels, protein metabolism is disrupted. At the same time, metabolic products accumulate, which can come with blood or lymph, or are formed as a result of improper synthesis or disorganization of the main substance of the dermis and its fibrous substances.

Fox-Fordyce disease: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

The disease of Fox-Fordis develops, as a rule, in women in young or middle age, but can occur in the menopausal period, as well as in children in the post-pubertal period.

Carbuncle: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Carbuncle - acute, purulent-necrotic inflammation of several hair follicles, actually the dermis and fake cellulose with the formation of extensive infiltration, necrosis. The process has a phlegmonous character and is prone to spread.

Ostiophalliculitis and folliculitis

Ostiophalliculitis or staphylococcal impetigo (syn: Impitch of Bokhard) - acute inflammation of the mouth of the hair follicle caused by staphylococcus. On the skin of the hairy areas, more often the face and head, there are single or multiple, located in the mouths of hair follicles

Bowenoid papulosis: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Bowenoid papulosis is a combination of intraepithelial neoplasia with infection with the human papilloma virus. It is manifested by multiple eruptions in the genital area of a reddish-brownish or cyanotic color

Lewandowski-Lutz verruciform epidermodysplasia

Verrushiform epidermodysplasia of Lewandowski-Lutz (blue verrucosis generalisata) is a rare disease, in some cases familial. Assumed autosomal recessive or X-linked inheritance.

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