Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to T Merkle.
A 35-year-old male patient affected with extensive, itching skin lesions of reticulate porokeratosis is reported. He was successfully treated by CO2-laser vaporization.
Unusual courses of infections with borrelia burgdorferi can make diagnosis problematic, but early and adequate therapy is mandatory to avoid further complications. In this paper a patient is presented who developed urticarial erythemas and hyperpigmentation with slack skin atrophy. Positive serological findings and the regression of the skin eruptions under antibiotic therapy confirmed the diagnosis of an unusual manifestation of Lyme borreliosis.
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Prompted by the development of the lightweight, inexpensive and simple to use dermatoscopy, skin surface microscopy can now be applied in daily practice. The case reports presented here document the diagnostic improvement achieved with dermatoscopy in pigment skin lesions of children.
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This article reports the aggravation of preexisting acne vulgaris in a 21-year-old male patient due to the abuse of anabolic drugs during body-building training. After cessation of anabolic drugs the acne healed, leaving hypertrophic scars. This case report shows that the acute aggravation of an acne vulgaris should cast suspicion on the use of hormone preparations.
The poor prognosis of thick malignant melanomas emphasizes the importance of their early detection. Skin microscopy using a stereomicroscope has been shown to increase the accuracy of clinical diagnosis significantly in pigmented skin lesions. Owing to the development of the Heine Delta 10 dermatoscope, skin microscopy has become less difficult and more rapid. Therefore, this technique can now be applied routinely in daily office practice.
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