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Saya hanya boleh menulis dan memegang beban tidak melebihi 500gram. Lebih daripada itu memang saya tidak mampu," kata Siti Hawa Apandi, 24, dari Taman Mahkota Aman, di sini

Comment: Psoriasis Uncovered – Comorbid Conditions with Special Reference to Metabolic Syndrome

The association of psoriasis with cardiovascular disease, in particular, has been subject of research for many years, however, inconclusive results were always obtained as cardiovascular disease risk factors could act as confounders. Recently the topic have caught more attention as better designed studies have been performed thus confirming its association. Among these studies, it is very interesting to cite the meta-analysis performed by Miller et al [1] where they revised 75 relevant articles including more than 500,000 cases and found that psoriasis was associated with cardiovascular disease, ischemic heart disease, peripheral vascular disease, atherosclerosis, diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, obesity by body mass index and by abdominal fat and metabolic syndrome but not associated with cerebrovascular disease and cardiovascular mortality

Central Centrifugal Cicatricial Alopecia in the Adolescent Population: An Overview of Available Literature

Central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia (CCCA) is a lymphocytic scarring alopecia that predominantly affects women of African descent. Recent studies have demonstrated prevalence in children and adolescents, as well as Asian populations. A thorough search of Pubmed, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, OVID Medline and Google Scholar was conducted using keywords such as “central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia”, “scarring hair loss”, “scarring alopecia”, “hot comb alopecia”, “pediatric” and “adolescent”. The results yielded few articles in the literature that directly addressed CCCA in the adolescent population, with three articles providing details of the presentation in the form of case series and retrospective reviews. The presentation in the adolescent population was found to be varied, ranging from asymptomatic to symptomatic and involving diffuse to patchy hair loss in only the vertex and/or frontal and parietal scalp. Genetic and environmental etiologies were found to be statistically significant, and markers of metabolic dysregulation predisposing patients to diabetes mellitus and breast cancer were also uncovered. The differential diagnosis of patients who present with hair loss in the adolescent population should therefore be broad, and a low threshold for biopsies should be adopted to confirm CCCA in suspected patients. This will have future implications for reduced morbidity and public health

State-of-the-art lasers and light treatments for vascular lesions: from red faces to vascular malformations.

Notable milestones in the treatment of vascular lesions have been achieved over the past century. Many cutaneous vascular lesions can be successfully treated with lightbased devices. In this review, we will discuss the treatment of port-wine birthmarks, lymphatic malformations, infantile hemangiomas, rosacea, venous lakes, pyogenic granulomas, cherry angiomas, and angiofibromas using lasers, total reflection amplification of spontaneous emission of radiation, intense pulsed light, and photodynamic therapy. In addition, for several of these diagnoses, we will review medical therapies that can be combined with light-based devices to provide enhanced results

Multiple eruptive eccrine poromas associated with chemotherapy and autologous bone marrow transplantation

Eccrine poroma is a benign adnexal tumor that originates from the uppermost portion of the intraepidermal eccrine duct. It usually presents as a solitary tumor. Histopathology shows a monomorphic proliferation of cuboidal cells, which radially extend from the basal layer to the dermis. Here, we present a rare multilesional eruption of eccrine poroma after chemotherapy and bone marrow stem cell transplantation for acute promyelocytic leukemia along with a description of clinical, pathological, and dermoscopic findings