19 research outputs found
Medical aesthetics – Current trends and a review of its applications
Medical aesthetics is the use of a procedure or product for a therapeutic indication which is conventionally used for aesthetics. Several medical conditions are now being treated with products, procedures or equipment that are conventionally used for aesthetic indications. This has widened the scope of treatment modalities available for dermatologists to treat various indications that fall outside the purview of aesthetic dermatology. The authors present aesthetic treatment modalities and procedures which can be used for medical aesthetics, their present-day status and usefulness in field of therapeutics with a review of published literature from “Medline” (via “PubMed”), “Cochrane,” the Virtual Health Library, and Google Scholar
Reiter's disease in a six-year-old girl
Reiter′s syndrome has characteristically been described in young
males and presents with a triad of urethritis, conjunctivitis and
arthritis. Reiter′s syndrome has been known to affect children,
although they usually do not manifest with the typical triad. Only a
few such cases have been reported and these have described males
predominantly. A case of a six-year-old girl who presented with watery
diarrhea, redness of eyes and joint pains followed by skin involvement
is reported. She was managed with topical salicylic acid and
hydrocortisone, and oral aspirin and showed complete resolution of her
clinical features in three weeks
Relapsing linear acantholytic dermatosis in a four-year-old boy
Linear acantholytic dermatoses are a spectrum of cutaneous disorders
that form a subset of linear dermatoses with distinct clinical features
and histopathologically show acantholysis. The lesions may be
zosteriform or follow the lines of Blaschko. This report describes a
four-year-old boy who, on a follow up of two years, exhibited a
relapsing acantholytic dermatosis along the lines of Blaschko.
Histopathology of a representative lesion revealed epidermal
acantholysis with multiple acantholytic keratinocytes with in the
prickle cell layer and an absence of corp ronds and grains, consistent
with features of Hailey-Hailey disease. This, to our knowledge, is the
third case of relapsing linear acantholytic dermatosis reported