[Frequency of skin consultations in the activities of internal medicine service at national hospital of Point G in bamako].

OBJECTIVE

To investigate epidemiologic clinical, paraclinical and therapeutic appearances of skin diseases identified in the Internal Medicine Department.

METHODS

This was a retrospective descriptive study on records collected from January 1st, 1997 to September 30th, 2000. Have been selected records of patients who consulted and / or hospitalized for a dermatological reason.

RESULTS

The average age was 36.42 ± 16.52 years. Female sex predominated with 55.06% for a ratio of 0.81. Dermatological consultation represented 30.41% of the activities of Internal Medicine. The pruritic dermatoses predominated (60.12%) among those infectious etiologies (45.46%), inflammatory dermatoses reaction (26.49%), dermatitis tumor (10.39%), autoimmune dermatoses (6.56%) and vasculitis (1.19%). Prurigo, herpes zoster and Kaposi's sarcoma with frequencies of 22.41%, 16.38% and 12.93% were most often associated with HIV / AIDS. The therapy consisted of prescription antiseptic, topical corticosteroids of compounding, antibiotic and antifungal orally.

CONCLUSIONS

Skin conditions are often common in internal medicine, infectious causes and especially reaction. Kaposi's sarcoma because of its association with HIV is common skin tumor identified. The usual drugs remain effective.