MIMS Dermatology is a quarterly medical journal dedicated to healthcare professionals with a special interest in dermatology, whether GPs with a special interest, nurses or consultant dermatologists. To learn more or to subscribe visit mims.co.uk
Dr Jean Watkins outlines some of the commonly presented skin complications of diabetes...Infection Skin infections are common in patients with diabetes. Bacterial infections ... are hairless, dry and scaly skin and thickened nails. Toes are usually affected first but the gangrene may ... and papules over the trunk and limbs. A skin biopsy will confirm the condition. Treatment is not usually ...
with pigmented or black/brown skin, defined broadly here to include people of African, African ... skin disease in pigmented patients: Redness or erythema may be masked by the pigment and difficult ... in pigmented skin. Normal variants Patients with pigmented skin sometimes present with skin problems ...
Lentigines When freckles first appear in later life, they are usually associated with skin ... manifestations in the skin. Obvious signs may be wrinkles, atrophy, dry, thinned skin or yellow/orangey plaques ... years this woman had lived in the Far East. She presented with dry skin and multiple flat, reddened ...
Section 1 Epidemiology Disease in patients with pigmented skin can present a diagnostic ... clinicians increasingly aware of the need to recognise the manifestations of skin disease in darker skin ... of the difficulties in diagnosing even common diseases in darker skin, such as fungal infections and eczema ...
This section of our curriculum guide refers to statement 15.10, Skin Problems, produced...Around 15 per cent of GP consultations involve dermatological problems. Skin problems are a common reason for periods of absence from work. The management of skin problems in primary care ... : Symptoms Acne Eczema Psoriasis Skin infections Skin tumours Other conditions ...
. A history of local skin trauma (UV light, chapping or abrasion) may be given, or the patient may ...
skin condition....should be aware of this. In addition, the patient needs to protect against trigger factors like skin ... or betamethasone valerate) are often sufficient for facial/genital skin or on children. Care should be taken ... /oral administration of a psolaren, a chemically synthesised drug that reacts with UV light to cause skin darkening ...
The case: This elderly man had at first been worried by what he described as itchy skin....to be a chronic autoimmune reaction affecting the basement membrane of the skin. It usually occurs ... . Flaccid blistered lesions on the skin quickly rupture causing painful erosions. Skin biopsy required ...
with well-demarcated white or pale round or oval patches, which may be localised or generalised. Skin itself appears normal. More obvious in dark-skinned patients or after a holiday when areas of skin fail to tan ... . If repigmentation fails, depigmentation of normal skin with 20% monobenzylether of hydroquinone may make ...
and clears. Generally no symptoms but may be slightly itchy. Management Skin scraping to exclude ... of the skin with no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body. May be cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (65 per cent) or cutaneous B-cell lymphoma. Uncommon skin condition. More common in men, rare in children. Cause unknown ...
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