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Purpura Fulminans in a 20-Year-Old Female
Alves,Francisca; Brites,Maria Manuel; Coutinho,InêsABSTRACT A previously healthy 20-year-old female presented with extensive retiform purpura located at the face, upper and lower limbs, one week after an episode of acute tonsillitis. Despite the exuberance of the cutaneous findings and progression to skin necrosis she had no accompanying symptoms. Laboratory investigation revealed a heterozygous protein C mutation (exon 9, c.1332G> C, p.Trp444Cys), accounting f...
Bullous pemphigoid and comorbidities: a case-control study in Portuguese patients
Teixeira,Vera Barreto; Cabral,Rita; Brites,Maria Manuel; Vieira,Ricardo; Figueiredo,AméricoBACKGROUND: aAlthough rare, bullous pemphigoid (BP) is the most common autoimmune blistering disease. Recent studies have shown that patients with bullous pemphigoid are more likely to have neurological and psychiatric diseases, particularly prior to the diagnosis of bullous pemphigoid. OBJECTIVE: The aims were: (i) to evaluate the demographic and clinical features of bullous pemphigoid from a database of patie...
Epidemiology of basal cell carcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas in a Departm...
Andrade,Pedro; Brites,Maria Manuel; Vieira,Ricardo; Mariano,Angelina; Reis,José Pedro; Tellechea,Oscar; Figueiredo,AméricoBACKGROUND: Non-melanoma skin cancer, a common designation for both basal cell carcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas, is the most frequent malignant skin neoplasm. OBJECTIVE: Epidemiologic characterization of the population with Non-melanoma skin cancer. METHODS: Retrospective analysis of all patients diagnosed with Non-melanoma skin cancer based on histopathologic analysis of all incisional or excisional ski...
Synchronous pyoderma gangrenosum and inflammatory bowel disease, healing after ...
Andrade,Pedro; Brites,Maria Manuel; Figueiredo,AméricoWe present a female patient observed with painful violaceous plaques with central bullae and pustules on the lower limbs, rapidly transformed into ulcers, associated with bloody diarrhea, recurrent oral erosions and hyperthermia in the previous 3 months. Cutaneous biopsy was consistent with pyoderma gangrenosum, and intestinal diagnostic procedures revealed a non-classifiable inflammatory bowel disease with hig...
Papilomatose cutânea florida e acantose nigricante maligna reveladoras de neopl...
Brinca,Ana; Cardoso,José Carlos; Brites,Maria Manuel; Tellechea,Óscar; Figueiredo,AméricoApresenta-se o caso clínico de um doente de 57 anos, previamente saudável, sem sintomatologia sistêmica, que, num curto intervalo de tempo, desenvolve múltiplas lesões semelhantes a verrugas virais no tronco, membros e face, lesões típicas de acantose nigricante nas grandes pregas e uma queratodermia difusa palmar com paquidermatoglifia. Os exames complementares de diagnóstico revelaram uma neoplasia gástrica m...