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J Ferrando

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PubMed1986

[Clinical trial of a topical preparation containing urea, sunflower oil, evening primrose oil, wheat germ oil and sodium pyruvate, in several hyperkeratotic skin conditions].

A topical clinical trial with preparations containing urea and sodium pyruvate has been made. It was used for diverse hyperkeratotic skin conditions (psoriasis, xerosis, pityriasis rubra pilaris, stuccokeratosis, seborrheic dermatitis, stasis dermatitis, pityriasis lichenoides chronica). A month later a clinical improvement was evident in all cases except in pityriasis lichenoides.

Administration, Topical↗
PubMed1985

[Merkel-cell tumor].

A Merkel cell tumor of the preauricular region in a seventy-seven years old woman is described. Histological, electronmicroscopic and tissular hormonal studies, were made. From the pathological point of view, a nodular and trabecular pattern of oval or elongated cells with poor basophilic cytoplasma is characteristic. Large nuclei with irregular, oval prominent nucleoli are also present. Electron microscopy shows oval and polygonal cells of irregular nuclei with one or multiple prominent nucleoli. In the cytoplasm of these cells, microfilaments and dense core granules with clear halo are found. The tissular hormonal determinations were normal. Two years after the surgical treatment, the patient remains asymptomatic.

Adenocarcinoma↗
PubMed1985

[Keratosis follicularis spinulosa decalvans (Siemens' syndrome) associated with other abnormalities].

Keratosis follicularis spinulosa decalvans (ichthyosis follicularis or Siemens's syndrome) is considered a general form of keratosis pilaris decalvans. Localized types are keratosis pilaris atrophicans and atrophoderma vermicularis. A case of this unusual process is presented. Clinical, histological and scanning electron microscopic studies of the hair were performed. Clinically, a generalized hypotrichosis with hyperkeratotic follicular plugs is observed; especially in the scalp and the eyebrows. Other interesting clinical findings were cutis hyperelastica, gingival hypertrophy, mongoloid palpebral fissures, big pinnae and clinodactyly of the 5th finger. From the histological point of view we observed follicular plugging, dystrophic pilosebaceous follicles, absence of sebaceous glands, perifollicular fibrosis and minimal lymphomonocytic infiltrate. Scanning electronmicroscopy shows a brittle hair with cuticular abnormalities. Siemens's syndrome can be considered a specific pilosebaceous dysplasia because the absence or hypoplasia of sebaceous glands; which produces follicular hyperkeratosis and pilar atrophy with perifollicular fibrosis and alopecia.

Abnormalities, Multiple↗
PubMed1983

[Polypoid pseudosarcoma of the tongue].

Polypoid pseudosarcoma (PP) is a rare type of squamous-cell carcinoma of mouth, fauces and larynx with sarcoma-like reaction. Clinically PP is characterized by large pedunculated or sessile masses of rapid growing. This tumour recurs easily but rarely provokes metastasis. A case of polypoid pseudosarcoma of the tongue is reported. Differential diagnosis with spindle-cell carcinoma can be made following the criteria: a) the frequency and the sarcomatous appearance of the metastasis in the spindle-cell carcinoma, while PP rarely provokes metastasis which have a squamous-cell pattern; b) the gradual transition within the epithelial and the sarcomatous aspects in the spindle-cell carcinoma, not present in PP; and c) the presence of tonofilaments and desmosomes in the sarcomatous cells of the spindle-cell carcinoma, which lack in the sarcoma-like masses of PP.

Aged↗
PubMed1983

[Woolly hair. Apropos of 5 cases].

Five cases of Woolly hair, three generalised, and two localised are reported. On the first two, we carried out trichogrammes which were studied with polarized light, and on all five, SEM (Scanning Electron Microscopy). The data obtained coincided with previous descriptions (Pseudomonilethrix images, Pili torti, Trichorrhexis nodosa, reduced hair diameter, oval section following transversal cut, and a wavy-line disposition), although we emphasize the smaller number of layers of cuticle cells following the transversal cut, and the presence of Trichonodosis, not previously refered.

Child↗
PubMed1982

Specific cutaneous manifestations of Waldenström's macroglobulinaemia. A report of two cases.

Patients affected by Waldenström's macroglobulinaemia may rarely present specific cutaneous manifestations. The violaceous plaques or tumours infiltrated by lymphoplasmocytoid cells, and the pink, translucent, shiny papules composed of deposits of hyaline monoclonal IgM possess definite clinico-pathological characteristics that may permit the diagnosis before any other data were available. The immunopathological and ultrastructural features of these lesions are described.

Aged↗
PubMed1982

[Self-healing childhood histiocytosis X (Illig-Fanconi disease). Comments on ultrastructural aspects and etiopathogenic classification of histiocytosis].

Two cases of cutaneous self-healing histiocytosis X in a 6 and a 16 months-old children, are reported. Clinically, the lesions were characterized by few, small, translucent and confluent papules, sometimes purpuric. The scalp lesions were seborrheic eczema-like; the elements on the groins were erosive. Systemic examinations, laboratory data and general development were completely normal. The histological pattern, in both cases, were identical of that in histiocytosis X (atypic mononuclear cells with glassy eosinophilic cytoplasm and excentric kidney-shaped nucleus). Electron microscopy of the second case showed a proliferation of histiocytes containing Langerhans bodies. Ten per cent of these cells showed multivesicular, myelin and dense laminar bodies. The latest had been specially described in other selfhealing histiocytic syndromes: congenital reticulohistiocytosis (Hashimoto-Pritzker) and generalized eruptive histiocytoma. Since the clinical behaviour and prognosis of the histiocytic proliferations can not be assumed on clinical and histological data, an attempt, of classification and understanding of these processes is presented. The possibility that histiocytosis represent a proliferation of the mononuclear-phagocytic system at different levels of cellular maturation, is considered. So it would be possible to consider: 1) Acute malignant processes: xantholeukaemia, malignant histiocytosis syndromes (histiocytic medullary reticulosis . . .), and Letterer-Siwe disease; 2) Chronic and severe processus: xanthoma disseminatum, necrobiotic xanthogranuloma, disseminated plane xanthoma, multicentric reticulohistiocytosis, localized reticulohistiocytoma of Crosti and Hand-Schüller-Christian disease; and 3) Benign processus, some of them being involutive: juvenile xanthogranuloma, regressing atypical histiocytosis, eosinophilic granuloma of the bone, Illig-Fanconi disease, Hashimoto-Pritzker disease, benign cephalic histiocytosis and generalized eruptive histiocytoma. These groups include classic X-histiocytosis, self-healing X-histiocytosis, non-X malignant histiocytosis and non-X benign or auto involutive-histiocytosis (some with intracellular lipid storage: xanthohistiocytosis) (see table II). The ultrastructural cytoplasmic markers of histiocytosis (table I) are consistent features in the accuracy of diagnosis of these conditions.

Female↗
PubMed1982

[Juvenile Duhring's disease. Apropos of 7 cases].

Chronic non hereditary subepidermal blistering diseases are in childhood and present mainly problems on its clinical and histological diagnosis. Immunopathologic, immunogenetic and ultrastructural studies play a definitive role in the classification of this group of entities. In this paper we report and comment seven children affected of dermatitis herpetiformis. The clinical diagnosis was assessed by direct immunofluorescence studies of the skin, which showed granular Ig A deposits at the MBZ. In five out of our seven patients we were able to demonstrate by clinic and laboratory malabsorption syndrome. A bibliographic review of the subject is carried out, stressing specially the differential aspects with other subepidermal blistering disease of the childhood (i. e. bullous pemphigoid and chronic benign blistering disease of the childhood) as well as some other acute and chronic infantile blistering entities.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1981

Histopathology of the saburral tongue.

Optical microscopical studies were carried out on biopsies from 22 patients affected by saburral tongue (ST). The histopathological pattern consisted of a papillomatous acanthosis covered with a very thick horny layer. Abundant colonies of banal germs were seen in the keratin. There was an alternation of suprapapillary orthokeratosis and interpapillary parakeratosis. Under the keratin layer all the keratinocytes were large and clear with a glycogen-filled cytoplasm. Two specimens, studied with a transmission electron microscope, only showed that the keratinocytes were filled with glycogen. The clear glycogen-filled epithelial cells are common either in normal lingual epithelium or in some pathological conditions. The microscopic field of ST is quite similar to that of the hairy black tongue; but these peculiar clinical aspects of the tongue do not evolve one through the other.

Adult↗
PubMed1981

[Neviform hyperkeratosis of the mammary areola].

A case of neviform hyperkeratosis of the areola is reported. This case may be identified as type III of the Lévy-Franckel classification: not associated to other cutaneous alterations. A review of the literature is made. The authors emphasize the importance of the hormonal factors in the development of these lesions.

Adult↗
PubMed1981

[Trichorhinophalangeal syndrome (Giedion)].

Three cases of the Tricho-rhyno-phalangeal syndrome (TRF) are described. Two cases were in the same family with some affected membres (Camacho et al., 1978). The third case, of sporadic presentation, showed radiological signs of Perthes' disease. All cases presented the main clinic and radiologic alterations of the TRF syndrome: hypotrichia, pear-shaped nose and cone shaped epiphyses. Some of them presented other characteristic features such as: darwism, prominent nose, elonged philtrum, thin upper lip, baldness of the external 1/2 eyebrows, prominent ears of low implantation, shortening of some fingers (of metacarpals and metatarsal), onicodystrophy, etc. The differential diagnosis must be stablished with: a) congenital processes which present facial abnormalities, specially of the nose, b) congenital atrichias o hypotrichias associated to osteoarticular troubles of the growth and c) congenital syndromes with epiphyses in cone (peripheric dysostosis). Finally, we find, by scanning electron microscope studies, an increase of the cuticular cells in detachment, an inespecific sign that denotes a special lability of these patients' hair to the action of the outside agents on it.

Adolescent↗