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Rosacea fulminans: unusual clinical presentation of rosacea
Coutinho,Jessica Castiel; Westphal,Danielle Cristine; Lobato,Laís Cruz; Schettini,Antônio Pedro Mendes; Santos,MônicaAbstract Rosacea fulminans or pyoderma faciale is a rare cutaneous disorder that usually affects women usually between the ages of 15-46. The disease is characterized by sudden onset of papules, pustules, cysts, and painful coalescing nodules with red-cyanotic centrofacial erythema. Although its etiology remains unknown, hormonal, immunological, and vascular factors have been reported. Early diagnosis and promp...
Generalized pustular psoriasis induced by systemic steroid dose reduction
Westphal,Danielle Cristine; Schettini,Antonio Pedro Mendes; Souza,Petra Pereira de; Castiel,Jessica; Chirano,Carlos Alberto; Santos,MônicaAbstract: Generalized pustular psoriasis, or psoriasis of von Zumbusch, is an acute and severe clinical form of psoriasis, which usually occurs in patients with psoriasis undergoing aggravating factors. In this work, we report the case of a female patient, 70 years old, who developed generalized pustular psoriasis symptoms while reducing the dose of oral corticosteroids, improperly introduced for the treatment ...
Lacaziosis - unusual clinical presentation
Sousa,Pétra Pereira de; Schettini,Antonio Pedro Mendes; Rodrigues,Carlos Alberto Chirano; Westphal,Danielle CristineLacaziosis or Jorge Lobo's disease is a fungal, granulomatous, chronic infectious disease caused by Lacazia loboi, which usually affects the skin and subcutaneous tissue. It is characterized by slow evolution and a variety of cutaneous manifestations with the most common clinical expression being nodular keloid lesions that predominate in exposed areas. We report the case of a patient who had an unusual clinica...
Mycobacterium abscessus skin infection after tattooing - Case report
Sousa,Pétra Pereira de; Cruz,Rossilene Conceição da Silva; Schettini,Antonio Pedro Mendes; Westphal,Danielle CristineAbstractMycobacterium abscessus is a rapidly growing mycobacterium that has been affecting people undergoing invasive procedures, such as videosurgery and mesotherapy. This bacterium has global distribution, being found in numerous niches. The frequency of published reports of infection by rapidly growing mycobacteria associated with tattooing procedures has increased in recent years. However, in Brazil there w...
Follicular mucinosis: an important differential diagnosis of leprosy in an ende...
Westphal,Danielle Cristine; Pennini,Silmara Navarro; Souza,Petra Pereira de; Maquiné,Gustavo Ávila; Schettini,Antônio Pedro Mendes; Santos,MônicaAbstract Primary follicular mucinosis is a rare dermatosis characterized by the accumulation of mucin in the follicular epithelium and sebaceous glands. Clinically, it is characterized by the presence of papules or well-circumscribed and infiltrated plaques. In this paper, we report the case of a female patient, seven years old, evolving for three months with an asymptomatic, erythematous and infiltrated plaque...
Tumor carcinoide e sequestro pulmonar
Westphal,Fernando Luiz; Lima,Luís Carlos de; Lima Netto,José Corrêa; Cardoso,Maria do Socorro Lucena; Silva,Márcia dos Santos daO sequestro pulmonar é definido como uma massa de tecido pulmonar separada da árvore traqueobrônquica e irrigada por uma artéria sistêmica anômala. Sua associação com neoplasias pulmonares é rara. Relatamos o caso de uma paciente de 39 anos com o diagnóstico de tumor carcinoide localizado no brônquio intermediário, associado a alterações caracterizadas como bronquiectasias em lobo inferior direito. A paciente f...
Trauma torácico: análise de 124 pacientes submetidos à toracotomia
Westphal,Fernando Luiz; Lima,Luiz Carlos de; Lima Netto,José Correa; Silva,Jeancarllo de Souza da; Santos Júnior,Vítor Lazarini dosOBJETIVO: Analisar os pacientes submetidos à toracotomia para o tratamento de traumatismo torácico. MÉTODOS: Estudo retrospectivo por meio da análise de prontuários nos dois principais hospitais de referência para trauma em adultos desta cidade, por um período de cinco anos, interessando dados epidemiológicos, agente causal, indicações, tipo de incisão, classificação do escore anatômico do trauma, fatores progn...