herpes zoster/potassium

BACKGROUND An isotopic response is the occurrence of a new skin disease at the site of another unrelated, healed skin disorder. METHODS We report three cases of unilateral granulomatous fungal infection in immunocompetent patients at sites of resolved herpes zoster on the face. Diagnoses were made

Ectopic adrenal adenoma causing chronic Cushing's syndrome (CS) is a rare phenomenon. Diagnosis is usually made years after disease onset because of the insidious nature of the ectopic adrenal gland and because it overlaps with common symptoms, such as overweight and hypertension, in the general

We describe a patient with zygomycosis that resembled herpes zoster infection. The diagnosis was readily made with a potassium hydroxide preparation that revealed sparsely to non-septate hyphae. The patient responded to combination antifungal therapy with amphotericin B and fluconazole. The clinical

Although corticosteroid treatment is clearly beneficial to patients with temporal arteritis, its exact risk/benefit ratio in these old and side effects-prone patients is unknown. We have thus surveyed that available French and English literature, in order to pool the published series and to evaluate

Background: Small fiber polyneuropathy (SFN) involves ectopic firing and degeneration of small-diameter, somatic/autonomic peripheral axons. Causes include diabetes, inflammation and rare pathogenic mutations, including in SCN9-11