Endocrine Abstracts

Erosio interdigitalis blastomycetica is a special form candidiasis commonly seen in the third web space of digits, but can spread to all web spaces. Diagnosis is clinically suspected in the presence of maceration and ulceration, erythema, sometimes associated with pain. The main predisposing condition is chronic maceration (for example in launderers), irritant chronic agents and prolonged moisture affect skin barrier with subsequent colonization of Candida spp. Direct...

: Sebaceous glands are very sensitive to androgens which can modify the size but not the number of sebaceous glands. Sebaceous hyperplasia is a common benign proliferation of the sebaceous glands seen during the first weeks of life, being reported in 89.4% of 1000 newborns enrolled in across-sectional prospective study in the period of November 2007 to May 2009 in India [1] or in 35% of 2938 neonates aged up to three days of life hospitalized in a Brazilian city [2]. Sebum sec...

Aim: The aim of the study was to evaluate the relation of vitiligo with thyroid autoimmunity.Materials and methods: A cross sectional study was done on 75 patients clinically diagnosed (old and new) with different types of vitiligo. Patients with known thyroid disease were excluded from the study. Serum TSH and anti-TPO antibodies were measured in all patients.Results: The prevalence of anti-TPO antibody positivity was found in 23 ...

Introduction: We studied the relationship between vitamin D deficiency and tuberculin skin test (TST) to assess the delayed cellular immunity in older age home residents.Design: This was a case–control study.Methods: We evaluated TST in 50 nursing home residents (35 women and 15 men, aged 58–89 years) with 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) concentrations <50 nmol. A one-stage TST was performed using 0.1 ml of PPD RT23. An...

A broad spectrum of cutaneous disorders may be diagnosed in patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Some of dermatologic lesions may precede any clinical or biochemical evidence for diabetes, while others are considered well known complications of the metabolic disorder. We highlight typical, rare dermatological manifestations of diabetes, excluding infectious, disorders related to complications of diabetes mellitus and skin conditions induced by treatment of diabet...