Childhood granulomatous perioral dermatitis is a distinctive granulomatous process of unknown cause with a benign and self-limited course and no associated systemic manifestations. We herein report a case of a 12-year-old Korean girl with multiple, discrete, monomorphic, flesh-colon, papular eruptions on the perioral, periocular, and perinasal areas of 7-month duration. Histopathologic examination revealed upper dermal and perifollicular granulomatous infiltrate.
Child ; Dermatitis, Perioral* ; Female ; Humans

Diffuse plane xanthoma characteristically presents with asymptomatic, yellow-orange plaques that usually involve periorbital areas, neck, upper trunk and flexural folds. Al-though most cases of diffuse plane xanthoma are associated with multiple myeloma, several cases have been described with different lymphoproliferative disorders and other miscellaneous diseases. We report herein two cases of diffuse plane xanthoma which are not associated with underlying disease.
Lymphoproliferative Disorders ; Multiple Myeloma ; Neck ; Xanthomatosis*

Preoperative diagnosis of heterotopic pregnancy is difficult, especially when ectopic component is chronic and the precise effect of chronic tubal pregnancy on coexisting intra-uterine pregnancy or ongoing pregnancy rates is not known. We present the case of heterotopic pregnancy with a chronic tubal pregnancy incidentally diagnosed during term cesarean delivery in infertile woman conceived after ovulation induction using sequential clomiphene citrate and human menopausal gonadotropin, and timed coitus. Chronic tubal pregnancy might not affect the intrauterine gestation or the mother negatively in non-ruptured cases.
Clomiphene ; Coitus ; Female ; Gonadotropins ; Humans ; Mothers ; Ovulation ; Ovulation Induction ; Pregnancy ; Pregnancy Rate ; Pregnancy, Heterotopic ; Pregnancy, Tubal

Preoperative diagnosis of heterotopic pregnancy is difficult, especially when ectopic component is chronic and the precise effect of chronic tubal pregnancy on coexisting intra-uterine pregnancy or ongoing pregnancy rates is not known. We present the case of heterotopic pregnancy with a chronic tubal pregnancy incidentally diagnosed during term cesarean delivery in infertile woman conceived after ovulation induction using sequential clomiphene citrate and human menopausal gonadotropin, and timed coitus. Chronic tubal pregnancy might not affect the intrauterine gestation or the mother negatively in non-ruptured cases.
Clomiphene ; Coitus ; Female ; Gonadotropins ; Humans ; Mothers ; Ovulation ; Ovulation Induction ; Pregnancy ; Pregnancy Rate ; Pregnancy, Heterotopic ; Pregnancy, Tubal

Cutaneous larva migrans(creeping eruption) is a rare cutaneous serpiginous erution caused by the accidental invasion of the skin by parasites. We report herein a 27 year-old female with a mild pruritic erythematous serpiginous linear skin lesion located on the patient's back for a month. Histopathologic examination revealed a larva in the dermis with dense iinfiltrates of eosinophils and lymphocytes. After treatment with oral anitiparasitics, the skin lesions resolved with post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation. This is the first case of larva migrans showing the larva on the biopsy specimen in Korea.
Adult ; Biopsy* ; Dermis ; Eosinophils ; Female ; Humans ; Hyperpigmentation ; Korea ; Larva Migrans* ; Larva* ; Lymphocytes ; Parasites ; Skin

The Cronkhite-Canada syndrome is a rare, non-neoplastic, non-hereditary condition which consists of gastrointestinal polyposis associated with alopecia, onychodystrophy and hyperpigmentation of the skin. It usually encountered with severe diarrhea, weight loss and other malabsorption symptoms. The etiology of the condition is unknown. Usually, this syndrome is associated with a poor prognosis due to the effect of malabsorption and generalized debility. We report a case of this syndrome showing unusually rapid improvement after 3-month following only conservative treatment. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of Cronkhite-Canada syndrome in the Karean dermatologic literature.
Alopecia ; Diarrhea ; Hyperpigmentation ; Intestinal Polyposis* ; Prognosis ; Skin ; Weight Loss

No abstract available.
Immunoglobulins*

No abstract available.
Humans ; Infant, Newborn*

Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) is a very rare disease which combines the features of asthma, hypereosinophilia, multisystem necrotizing vasculitis and extravascular granuolma. To our knolwedge, there have been four reports in Korean journals, but none in dermatology journals. We report a 37-year-old male who had allergic rhinitis, pansinusitis, a history of atopic dermatitis, multiple prurigo-nodularis like skin lesions, non-fixed interstitial lung in-filtration, hypereosinophilia and subclinical asthma. Clinical and histopathological features of his skin lesions were nonspecific where perivascular lymphocytic infiltration and mild lymphocytic vasculitis were shown. The presence of a pituitary mass and proximal myopathy as op-posed to peripheral neuropathy have not been reported in previous reports of CSS. However, other features of our patient met the criteria of CSS.
Adult ; Asthma ; Churg-Strauss Syndrome* ; Dermatitis, Atopic ; Dermatology ; Humans ; Lung ; Male ; Muscular Diseases ; Peripheral Nervous System Diseases ; Rare Diseases ; Rhinitis, Allergic ; Skin ; Vasculitis

Mucinous carcinoma can occur in non-cutaneous visceral sites and may metastasize to the skin. Thus it is important to exclude the possibility of a non-cutaneous visceral primary tumor before diagnosing primary mucinous carcinoma of the skin (PMCS). We describe a PMCS with unusual histopathological 6ndings. Although the microscopical, immunohistochemical, and ultrastructural characteristics of PMCS have been well defined, only less than sixty cases have been published since the disease was first reported by Lennox. This is an unusual case where combined features of apocrine carcinoma and predominant cribriform patterns reminiscent of adenoid cystic carcinoma exist in part, with highly anaplastic cellular features and frequent mitosis. To our knowledge, there have been no reports of this rare neoplasm in Korea.
Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous* ; Carcinoma, Adenoid Cystic ; Korea ; Mitosis ; Mucins* ; Skin*