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Copyright of Journal of Young Intellectuals / Genç Mütefekkirler Dergisi is the property of Journal of Young Intellectuals and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Background: Patch testing with the European Baseline Series (EBS) is an essential diagnostic tool for the assessment of allergic contact dermatitis. Objective: The aims of the study were to describe the most common contact allergens identified with patch testing in Turkey and to establish the distribution of contact allergens among different regions in Turkey. Patients and Methods: Twelve centers consisting of tertiary health care institutions were included in the study. A total of 1169 patients were patch tested with the EBS from 2015 to 2017. Results: A total of 596 patients (51.0%) had 1 or more positive patch test reactions to the EBS. A total of 30.2% (n = 353) of those tested had clinical relevance. Contact sensitivity was more common in young patients. The most common 10 allergens were nickel sulfate (20.4%), followed by textile dye mix (8.6%), cobalt chloride (8.3%), potassium dichromate (8.0%), p -phenylenediamine base (4.5%), balsam of Peru (4.3%), methylchloroisothiazolinone/methylisothiazolinone (3.8%), thiuram mix (3.6%), fragrance mix I (3.0%), and methylisothiazolinone (2.9%). Conclusions: This study provides a comprehensive profile of patch test results with the EBS in Turkey. An ongoing decrease in contact allergy to methylchloroisothiazolinone/methylisothiazolinone and methylisothiazolinone was observed. Textile dye mix and p -phenylenediamine are beginning to pose a new risk in Turkey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Copyright of Türkiye Klinikleri Kozmetik Dermatoloji Özel Dergisi is the property of Turkiye Klinikleri and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Context: Studies on occupational skin diseases in workers of the automotive industry are few. Aim: To investigate the prevalence of occupational skin diseases in workers of the automotive industry. Materials and methods: Between September and December 2011, a total of 405 workers from the automotive repair industry in Diyarbakır were interviewed. They were active workers in the repair industry who had been employed for at least six months. Business owners, sellers of spare parts and accounting officers were not included. The employees were examined at their workplaces and the working conditions were observed. Detailed dermatological examination was performed. Results: The mean age of the 405 workers who participated in the study was 27.7 ± 10.3. The mean working time of employees was 13.3 ± 10.4 years. All of the employees were male. Dermatological diseases were not detected in 144 out of 405 workers (35.6%) and at least one condition was diagnosed in 261 (64.4%). The most frequent diagnosis was callus, hyperkeratosis, clavus (27.7%), followed by nail changes (16.8%) and superficial mycoses (12.1%). Contact dermatitis was seen at a rate of 5.9%. Discussion: Traumatic lesions such as hyperkeratotic lesions and nail changes were found most frequently. Traumatic lesions were common among individuals who did not use gloves. Most nail changes were localized leuconychia, a finding not reported in the studies on automotive industry workers. In accordance with the literature, irritant contact dermatitis was observed in patients with a history of atopy and who had been working for a long time. Conclusion: Occupational skin diseases comprise an important field in dermatology, deserving much attention. Further studies on occupational dermatology are necessary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Anesthesia dolorosa (AD) is an uncommon complication of surgical treatments for trigeminal neuralgia. Its incidence is around 0.8%. To our best knowledge, AD caused by a penetrating cranial injury has not been reported previously. We report the case of a 31-year-old male patient with left-sided neuropathic keratitis and AD that began 18 years earlier, following a penetrating cranial injury with a knife to the left postauricular area. The patient was successfully treated by a carbamazepine and gabapentin combination. In conclusion, penetrating cranial injury is uncommon but may cause a serious neurologic disturbance. In the differential diagnosis of AD, a penetrating injury should be kept in mind. In these cases, treatments should be effective and immediate; otherwise, this may result in catastrophic consequences such as neurotrophic keratitis and blindness. Ophthalmologists should be aware of these potential problems. Copyright © 2006 S. Karger AG, Basel [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective To detect temporal case clustering in patients with pityriasis rosea in different geographic locations. Design Regression analysis of dates on which 1379 patients were diagnosed as having pityriasis rosea in 3 different geographic locations. The control data consisted of dates of diagnosis of patients with psoriasis in the same settings. Setting Dermatology clinics in Kuwait, Minnesota, and Diyarbakir, Turkey. Patients Patients with pityriasis rosea and psoriasis seeking care in the clinics. Results Three significant positive clusters (P = .005, P =.001, and P =.01, respectively) and 1 significant negative cluster (P<.001) were detected in these series of patients. No cluster was detected in 2 corresponding series of patients with psoriasis in Kuwait and Turkey. Conclusion Temporal case clustering exists in pityriasis rosea. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The etiology of Behçet's disease, a systemic vasculitis, is unknown. Vascular involvement may be seen in 25% of patients with Behçet's disease. Vasculitis make the prognosis of Behçet's disease severe. The aim of this study is to examine the structural and functional changes and relations of these changes with progression and prognosis of Behçet's disease. For this purpose, 40 patients with Behçet's disease and 40 healthy volunteer control subjects were analyzed, additionally patients with Behçet's disease were divided into 2 subgroups as those with vascular complications and those without vascular complications. Intima-media thickness and arterial distensibility were measured in all subjects with carotid artery ultrasonography. Carotid artery distensibility was significantly lower in the patient group compared to the control group (0.67±0.2, 0.93±0.4, p<0.05), and carotid artery IMT was significantly higher (0.59±12, 0.80±0.11, p<0.05). A statistically significant increase in IMT has been detected (0.77±11, 0.86±11, p<0.05) in patients with Behçet's disease with vascular involvement compared to patients with Behçet's disease without vascular involvement, arterial distensibility in patients with vascular disease was similar with those who has no vascular disease (0.69 ±0.25, 0.63±0.25, p>0.05). There was a significant negative linear regression between arterial distensibility and systolic blood pressure (SBP) (B=-1×10-2, p<0.05), and a significant positive linear regression has also been found between IMT and SBP and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and pulse pressure (PP) (B=6.8×10-3 for SBP, p<0.05, B=6.9×10--3 for DBP, p<0.05, B=6×10-3 for PP, p<0.05). As a result, IMT increases and AD decreases in patients with Behçet's disease compared to results in the control group. Although more studies are required for this subject, use of noninvasive parameters such as IMT and AD, which reflect the structural and functional characteristics of vasculature, may be useful to define disease progression and subjects at high risk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Basaloid follicular hamartoma is not a well-recognized clinical entity and has often diagnosed as trichoepithelioma or basal cell carcinoma. It is a unique benign follicular tumour which comprises a variety of clinical manifestations. We present the case of a 24-year-old male with unilateral basaloid follicular hamartoma present at birth and later misdiagnosed as basal cell carcinoma. Histological features of basaloid follicular hamartoma are not always diagnostic and clinico-pathological correlation is particularly important to distinguish this benign hamartoma from other basaloid tumours including basal cell carcinoma. Continuous follow-up of our patient did not reveal any clinical or histological malignant transformation. 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mycosis fungoides rarely involves the oral cavity. To our knowledge only 29 cases of oral cutaneous T-cell lymphoma have been described up to 1994. This report presents a case of mycosis fungoides with involvement of the oral cavity in a 57-year- old man who died from septicemia 7 months after the onset of oral involvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a case study of a 34-year-old woman diagnosed with cryoglobulin and antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody positive cutaneous vasculitis caused by propylthioracil. Noted is the initiation of methylprednisolone with limitation of leukocytoclastic vasculities to the skin. Also emphasize in the study is the potential cutaneous adverse reaction of antithyroid drug propylthiouracil in autoantibodies production.

The article presents two case studies related to cutaneous mastocytosis. The first case was a six-month-old male infant with asymptomatic nodular growths on his back and the second case was an 11-month-old male infant with a growing plaque on his chest. The definitive diagnosis of both cases was mastocytoma which is characterized by mast cell proliferation and accumulation within the skin. The definitive diagnosis of the disease is through skin biopsy and slit-skin smear.

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Abstract: Prurigo pigmentosa (PP) is a rare inflammatory skin disease. Neutrophil‐mediated inflammation is considered to be responsible for the etiopathogenesis of PP. We consider that colchicine may be an effective agent in the treatment of PP since it exerts an antiinflammatory effect by inhibiting neutrophil chemotaxis. Further studies are required to verify whether colchicine is an effective treatment option for PP. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a letter to the editor published in March 1, 1999 issue of the periodical "Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology," that informs about coexistence of psoriasis vulgaris and bullous disorders.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the epidemiological features of pityriasis rosea (PR) in the Eastern Anatolia, Turkey. Three hundred ninety-one patients (214 females, 177 males) with PR seen during the years 1992–1995 were analyzed for annual incidence among dermatologic outpatients, sex, age, and distribution by month and year. The average annual incidence was 0.75 per 100 dermatologic patients. PR was reported to be slightly more common in women by margin of 1.2:1.0. Eighty-seven of the cases were between the ages of 10 and 39 years, with a peak in the 20–29 age group. The incidence of the disease was much higher in the rainy and snowy months. No declining incidence was observed over the years. Changes in incidence from year to year, though not great, were statistically significant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lichenoid drug eruption (LDE) is a common cutaneous side effect of drugs including antimalarials, antihypertensives, nonsteroids, anti-inflammatory drugs and diuretics. The physiopathologic relationship between colchicine treatment and LDE is unclear. There is very little documentation of LDE induced by colchicine in the literature. In this report, we present a case that developed LDE on the abdomen and the legs during the colchicine treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the case of a 50-year old man who was presented to a clinic due to a slowly enlarging plague on his back. The wife told the clinicians that his husband had suffered a pimple-sized brownish lesion which continuously enlarging. After further examination using the patient's skin biopsy specimen, clinicians found that the patient had a solitary mastocytoma, which is commonly found in infancy or childhood.

High potency or/and extended use of topical corticosteroids, particularly in children, may cause suppression of the hypothalamopituitary-adrenal axis. However, iatrogenic Cushing's syndrome in infantile age group is very rare and only a few patients have been reported to date in the literature. Here, we report a case of iatrogenic Cushing's syndrome in a 6-month-old male child whose parents have admitted to the hospital for overweight and skin fragility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a letter to the editor commenting on coexistence of chronic discoid lupus erythematosus and sensorineural deafness published in the July 1, 1998, issue of "Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology."

Presents a letter to the editor about Kyrte's disease in diabetes meliltus and chronic renal failure published in the July 1, 1998, issue of "Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology."