A 25-year-old female was seen because of rnultiple, asymptornatic papular eruptions on the vulvar area since 1 year ago. She had been suffered from palmar hyperhidrosis for 3 years. A skin biopsy specimen from the vulval lesion revealed characteristic findings of syringoma.
Adult ; Biopsy ; Female ; Humans ; Hyperhidrosis ; Skin ; Syringoma*

A 72 years old man had an 1 x 1cm sized, solitary glomus tumor on the right knee joint and had suffered from sharp, episodic pain and tenderness, radiating to the right thigh and the buttock for about 20 years. Simple surgical excision was performed for removal of the tumor mass and the subjective symtoms. There is no recurrence until now.
Aged ; Buttocks ; Glomus Tumor* ; Humans ; Knee Joint ; Recurrence ; Thigh

Dermatologist should be aware of the practical importance of proper selection of ski.n lesions for histologic examination, the correct methods for performing biopsy, and steps involved in tissue preparation. They should be acquainted with factors producing various artifacts and ways to prevent these changes. This study was undertaken to investigate the artifacts of 300 dermatopathologic tissue sections which prepared by 3 general hospitals in Seoul in 1983. The results were summarized as follows. [.The percentage of artifacts produced by selection of inapropriate lesion was 4. 0% artifacts during biopsy procedure was 18. 3% inadequate size and depth of specimen was 7. 3%, faulty embedding was 12. 0%, tissue tearing or loss was 49. 3% artifactal dermoepidermal separation was 3.0%, linear knife marking was 17.0% thick or thin section was 8. 3% tissue overlapping was 12. 0% uneven stiining or precipitation was 3. 7%, and foreign body contamination was 3, 7% The percentage of good specimen was 21, 7% diagnostic was 56. 3% not diagnostic but suggestive was 8.7% and reading impossible was 13. 3% 3. The major causes of reading impossible specimen which attributed to the procedures of dermatologist were 40.0% to the proccss of technician were 47.5% and to both were 12. 5%
Artifacts* ; Biopsy* ; Foreign Bodies ; Hospitals, General ; Seoul ; Skin*

Although we made a comparision of fingertip dermatoglyphic patterns between R7 patients with atopic dermatitis(Femals: 54, Male: 35) and 73 their families without atopic dermatitis, no significant results were obtained. So, we compared secondly our results of 2 groups with those of two thousand nonatopic, normal Koreans, as control. Results are as follows: ] In comparison with control, a significant increase in the ulnar loop pattern was detected in families(p<0, ()5), not atopic dermatitis. p. No significant differ ence between right hands and left hands in all three g f OUpS. In atopic dermatitis and control groups, 1 st and 4 th digits showed mostly whorl pattern, and 3 rd and 5 th digits had more ulnar loop pattern than others. Rut families had mostly ulnar loop pattern at all digits except 4 th digit, wl..orl pattern. 4. Each of atopic dermatitis, family and control group had 13, 79% (whor1: 8. 05% ulnar loop: 5 75%), 15. 49p; (whorl: 4. 23%, ulnar loop: 11. 27%), 15. 78%(whorl: 8, 52% ulnar loop: 7. 1 %, arch: 0. 05%), of same dermatoglyphic pattern on all ten digits. Especially, ulnar loop pattern in fanilies was detected significantly higher than other two groups(p<0. 05). Average incidences of bilateral symmetry of pattern type between right and left digits were 78.57%, 74. 67% and 78.74% respectively in atopic dermatitis, family and control group.
Dermatitis, Atopic* ; Dermatoglyphics* ; Hand ; Humans ; Incidence ; Male

We report one case of hair follicle nevus, benign highly differentiating appendageal skin tumor of hair follicle. It arises from pluripotential cells that have formed during life. This patient is a 40-year-old woman who had a localized brownish plaque on the leht cheek for three years. Histologic study revealed many small but mostly mature hair follicles consistent with hair follicle nevus.A Case of Cutaneous Periarteritis Nodosa
Adult ; Cheek ; Female ; Hair Follicle* ; Hair* ; Humans ; Nevus* ; Polyarteritis Nodosa ; Skin

The statistical study of new outpatients of skin problems seen in dermatologic department of Seoul Red Cross Hospital from l976 to 1980 was done and the 10 most common dermatoses were analysed in detail, The results were summarized as follows: 1) Of 19,679 outpatients, males were 10,530(53.5%) and females were 9,149(46.5%). The sex ratio of male to female was 1. 15: l. 2) The most common dermatoses were atopic dermatitis/eczema(16. 9%), fungal infection(16. 2%), contact dermatitis(15. 3%), scabies(10. 7%), urticaria(10. 6%), acne(9. 5%), pyoderma(8. 3%), insect bite(5. 6%), syphilis(4. 1%) and psoriasia (2. 8%). 3) Of 10 most common dermatoses, contact dermatitis, acne, scabies and urticaria were revealed to have a tendency to increase year by year, syphilis and psoriasis were constant pattern and other common dermatoses showed irregular pattern in their incidence. 4) The sex ratio of male to female of l0 most common dermatoses was l. 23: l. Fungal infection, scabies, pyoderma, insect bite, syphilis and psoriasis wereoutnumbered in male and atopic dermatitis/eczema, contact dermatitis, urticaria and acne were outnumbered in female. 5) Atopic dermatitis/eczema & scabies were prevalent in winter, acne, fungal infection, urticaria and pyoderma in summer, and contact dermatitis in spring and summer. 6) The most frequent age groups of atopic dermatitis/eczema were 1 to 10 years, acne and fungal infection, 11 to 30 years, and contact dermatitis and fungal infection, 31 to 50 years.
Acne Vulgaris ; Dermatitis, Contact ; Female ; Humans ; Incidence ; Insect Bites and Stings ; Insects ; Male ; Outpatients* ; Psoriasis ; Pyoderma ; Red Cross ; Scabies ; Seoul ; Sex Ratio ; Skin ; Skin Diseases ; Statistics as Topic* ; Syphilis ; Urticaria

A 32-year-old male patient with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus was affected with hyperlipoproteinemia type II His skin lesion showed yellowish papulsr tuberoruptive xanthoma on forearm, shoulder, elbow and knee. Besides skin eruption, he showed abnormal liver function test and right bundle branch block on EKG. The laboratory examinations revealed increase of serum cholesterol, triglycerides. and fasting blood sugar, and slight turbid color of fasting blood serum which had been kept standing at 4C for 24 hrs. On the agarose electrophoresis, bands of different densities of LDL and VLDL in beta and pre-beta position Were noted. Authors discussed here about laboratory characteristics, clinical manifestations and differential diagnosis of hyperlipoproteinemia type II and III.
Adult ; Blood Glucose ; Bundle-Branch Block ; Cholesterol ; Diabetes Mellitus* ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Elbow ; Electrocardiography ; Electrophoresis ; Fasting ; Forearm ; Humans ; Hyperlipoproteinemia Type II* ; Hyperlipoproteinemias* ; Knee ; Liver Function Tests ; Male ; Sepharose ; Serum ; Shoulder ; Skin ; Triglycerides ; Xanthomatosis

Nevus lipomatosus cutaneous superficialis is a very rare skin disease, which usually is present at birth. The lesion shows groups of asymptomatic soft papules or nodules, which have a smooth or folded surface and are skin colored or yellowish. The area of predilection is the pelvic girdle (especially the buttock and sacrococcygeal areas). Microscopically, nevus lipomatosus cutaneous superficialis reveals groups of etopic fat cell nests within the dermis. Only one case was reported in Korea(1969). The authors observed a case of typical nevus lipomatosus cutaneous superficialis. The patient was 19 year-old male, who ha,ve had asymptomatic soft papules and nodules on the buttock, lower back and scalp since 14 years of his age. Routine laboratory findings were within normal limit. Histopathological findings showed etopic fat cell nests within mid and lower dermis (Fig. 3) Diagnosis was confirmed by clinical and histopathological findings. Litercature was briefly reviewed for the discussion.
Adipocytes ; Buttocks ; Dermis ; Diagnosis ; Humans ; Male ; Nevus* ; Parturition ; Scalp ; Skin ; Skin Diseases ; Young Adult

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Postoperative Complications*

Colloid Milium is a degenerative disease in the dermal connective tissue characterized by the development of yellowish translucent papules or plaques on sun exposed skin. Clinically, there are two types of colloid milium namely, a juvenile type which starts before puberty and an adult type which involves sun exposed areas of adults. In both types the lesion is limited to the skin. Histologically colloid milium, like amyloid, shows homogenous, fissured aggregates, staining faintly eosinophilic, and occupying most or all of the involved. dermal papillae. A case of colloid. milium in 46 year old female is reported. About 4 years ago numerous yellowis4 translucent papules, 0. 1~0. 2cm in diameter developei on nose and lateral aspects of both eyes, which were gradually increasing in its size. Diagnosed confirmed by clinical features and histopathologic finding. Literature were reviewed.
Adolescent ; Adult ; Amyloid ; Colloids ; Connective Tissue ; Eosinophils ; Female ; Humans ; Middle Aged ; Nose ; Puberty ; Skin ; Solar System