Lichen striatus is an inflammatory papular eruption that affects mainly children. It has an unknown etiology and a low prevalence. It arises in adulthood less frequently, and is characterized by abrupt onset of asymptomatic scaly papules in linear arrangement, sometimes following the Blaschko lines, usually unilateral and on the extremities. It is important to consider on the differential diagnosis other dermat...
During the last decades methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections occurring within communities - previously documented only in nosocomial environments - increased, in relation with the development of bacterial resistance to alterations coded by mecA gene. We present the case report of a patient with recurrent furunculosis, confirmed by culture and antibiogram to be a methicillin-resistant St...
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Juvenile scleroderma is a disease that has different features in comparison to scleroderma in adults. Its incidence is rare on infancy. It can be systemic or localized and, this last form is more frequent. We report a case of juvenile scleroderma in a 3-year-old female child presenting with a yellow plaque on the trunk simulating a xantomathous lesion. The lilac ring around the lesion contributed to the constru...
Lichen striatus is a papulous dermatosis with low prevalence, affecting mainly children and it is more frequent on the female population. Clinically, it evolves with abrupt onset with erythematous violaceous or hypopigmented papules, generally with non-pruritic and with unilateral distribution, with predilection for the extremities, following the Bhlaschko lines. We report a case of lichen striatus with atypica...