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Daily topical sequential triple therapy(tretinoin, betamethasone valerate and hydroquinone), as proposed by Kligman et al and Gano et al, has been performed on 29 Korean female patients with melasma. After 4 weeks treatment with 2% hydroquinone cream, only three of eight patients (37. 5%) showed good to excellent results. However, after 4 weeks treatment with 4% hydroquinone cream, twelve of twentyone patients (57. 1%) showed good to excellent results and its therapeutic effects appeared more rapidly than the former group. Overall, after 4 weeks treatment. 96.6% of the total group showed fair to excellent results of which 57. 7% had a good to excellent rating. The fair-com- plexioned Koreans had a better response than dark-complexioned.
Betamethasone Valerate* ; Betamethasone* ; Female ; Humans ; Melanosis* ; Tretinoin*

A case of hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia was seen at the Dermatological Clinic of Chosun Univeraity Hospital, with a classical symptom triad consisting of hypohidrosis to anhidroais, hypotrichosis and hypodontia, and characteristic facial appearance. He was a 20 year-old male patient who presented, in addition, milium-like papules of sebaceous hyperplasia located on the nose and cheeks, supernumerary nipples of right breast, ceruminosis since childhood, and absence of apocrine glands on the axilla and pubic area, all of which are not frequently observed in hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia. Dermatoglyphics of this patient revealed that the axial triradius of the left palm was t, its atd angle was 42 degree, and the total ridge count of finger print was 5. This patient has no relatives showing the symptoms of hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia and the genetics was discussed in relation to this disease.
Anodontia ; Apocrine Glands ; Axilla ; Breast ; Cheek ; Dermatoglyphics ; Ectodermal Dysplasia 1, Anhidrotic* ; Fingers ; Genetics ; Humans ; Hyperplasia ; Hypohidrosis ; Hypotrichosis ; Male ; Nipples ; Nose ; Young Adult

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Primary cutaneous monomorphous lymphoma is rare compared to the more usual involvement of skin secondary to internal monomorphous lymphoma. The histopathological diagnosis of the primary cutaneous monomorphous lymbhoma (PCML) requires differentiation from cutaneous lymphoid hyperplasia. The authors observed 3 cases of PCML. Case 1 was 21 year-old woman, who had an initial lesion on her left arm. Histopathologically it was diagnosed as poorly differentiated. lymphocytic lymphoma and was treated by surgical excision. Six months after onset she developed new lesions on her skin elsewhere, histopathologically diagnosed as well differentiated lymphocytic lymphoma. She died of infiltration of the bone marrow 19 months after the initial onset, even though combination of radiotherapy and chemotherapy resulted in clinical improvernent. Case 2 was a 70 year-old woman having an unusual cutaneous manifestation of an adult palm sized ulcerative, indurated tumor on her right forearm, histopathologically diagnosed as histiocytic lymphoma. There was no evidence of extracutaneous in volvement except right axillary lymphadenopathy. Case 3 was 72 year-old man, who had a clinical manifestation to that of case 2, histopathologically diagnosed as histiocytic lymphoma and received radiotherapy with good improvement. The patient did not show any evidence of extracutaneous involvement five months after the onset.
Adult ; Aged ; Arm ; Bone Marrow ; Diagnosis ; Drug Therapy ; Female ; Forearm ; Humans ; Hyperplasia ; Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell ; Lymphatic Diseases ; Lymphoma* ; Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse ; Radiotherapy ; Skin ; Ulcer ; Young Adult

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Esophageal Neoplasms*

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Heart Valves* ; Heart*

Recently the frequency of Microsporum canis, as a causative dermatophyte of tinea capitis, is increasing in our country. We herein report a case of tinea capitis caused by Microsporum canis in an eight-day-old infant. Infection was contracted, presumably, from a kitten who had tinea corporis caused by the same species of Microsporum and who lived in the patients house. It is extremely rare for tinea capitis to occur in the neonatal period. Although only one case had been reported in the foreign literature, to our knonwledge, a case has never been reported in Korea. We believe that this patient is the youngest patient with Miicrosporum canis infection of the scalp yet reported, and it is also of interest that he has atypical lesions with black-dot-like non-inflammatory alopecic patches on the scalp.
Arthrodermataceae ; Humans ; Infant ; Korea ; Microsporum ; Scalp ; Tinea Capitis* ; Tinea*

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Korea* ; Thoracic Surgery*