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There are many clinical types of amyloidosis, as many as chemical types of amyloid substance would be its substratum. This clinic-chemical plurality permits us to talk about the amyloidosis. This article is specially guided to those amyloidosis that present cutaneous damages during its clinical course. They are the immunocytic amyloidosis and the keratinocytic amyloidosis.
The typical clinical characteristic of the ashy dermatitis is the fact that in case of light colored skin, the grey colour remains invariable. There is a new clinical form which is called the Brown Cinder Dermatitis which is characterized by a disciplined localization in the center of the face, trunk or upper extremities together with an inexorable change of the grey colour at the beginning to a brown colour at the end on the other it, has be enhanced the existence of the nummular form which is characterized by the existence of many greyish independent spots of circular or oval form mainly at the level of the trunk.
For the first time a case of "onchocercosis " was found in Ecuador. The patient is a coloured person which was examined in the Dermatology Department of the "Luis Vernaza" Hospital. The diagnosis was established on the bases of a biopsy of a thoracic nodule. The principal lesions which were established are the following: intense and generalized pigmentation of violet tones; a very accentuated ictiosiform statey specially on the trunk; hardened accematous plaques in the fore-arms; eruptions on the buttocks nodules in the region of the iliac bone and zones of vitiligo on the anterior part of the legs; linfatic nodules were also observed. Elefantiasis of the penis and scrotum. With this case we have established an endemic focus of onchocercosis in Esmeraldas, Ecuador.
The larva migrans syndrome is superficial and deep. Superficial when it acts at the epidermis level and deep when the larva produces a hipodermic reaction. In the latter, are included the hypodermitis of the paragonimiasis and of the gnathostomiasis, subjects that have been discussed thoroughly in this paper.
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