In this website, all these actors may find a satisfactory interaction. Especially, the members of the ESPD, thanks to their supporting fees, may obtain important benefits. The ESPD needs new members to keep on growing and provide even more opportunities and benefits for them. Especially, I make a call to the young colleagues who are attracted by the specialty and those who want to develop a career in Pediatric Dermatology. Our children are our future. Pediatric Dermatology is our passion. My predecessors have made impressive advances in the field, and the new Executive Board that I will be leading for the next two years is committed to continue this job, with the help of the ESPD members.
If you wish to find out more, please see the offer here. This is a wonderful opportunity because the person who takes this position will start the first pediatric dermatology fellowship in East Africa. Please see the job description here. In the same time, organizators are happy to receive the abstracts for the presentations from six ESPD members subject in the field of pediatric dermatology.
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Full conference registration, 2 nights accommodation in a 5 stars hotel, dollars refund. To evaluate serum vitamin D levels in pediatric alopecia areata cases. A comparative case-control study with 30 cases of pediatric alopecia areata and 30 age and sex matched healthy controls was conducted between Feb to July All subjects underwent complete evaluation and laboratory investigations including serum vitamin D was done.
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Mean serum vitamin D level of pediatric alopecia areata cases There was decreased vitamin D levels observed in cases suggesting a possible role of vitamin D in alopecia areata and treating the deficiency may prevent the chronicity of the disease in children. Neonatal dermatoses by definition encompass the spectrum of cutaneous disorders that arise during the 1 st 4 weeks of life. The appreciation of normal phenomena and their differentiation from the more significant cutaneous disorders of the newborn is critical for the dermatologists and pediatricians.
The aim of the study is to estimate the prevalence of various neonatal dermatoses and identify varying patterns of various physiological and pathological dermatoses. This was a hospital-based, cross-sectional study conducted during a period of 6 months. A total of neonates were examined and data were collected, and results were analyzed statistically.
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Among them, 79 Of these, Physiological skin lesions were most common features seen in A good knowledge of neonatal dermatoses is necessary for the treating dermatologists and pediatricians as many of cutaneous conditions are transient, appearing in the 1 st few days to weeks of life, only to disappear shortly thereafter. However, their occurrence makes the parents worrisome.
Proper diagnosis of the conditions helps in relieving the anxiety of parents and caregivers. In the pathogenesis of atopic dermatitis AD , immune sensitization to food-derived allergens has a role. However, the evidence of allergen sensitization is not a proof of clinically relevant allergy and it has to be confirmed by food challenges so that unnecessary food restrictions in growing children can be avoided. This study was conducted to assess the clinical severity of AD in children after certain dietary modifications and to correlate absolute eosinophil count AEC with dietary modification.
A total of thirty AD children were enrolled randomly into a trial period of egg and cow's milk exclusion diet or control period of egg and cow's milk inclusion diet of 3 weeks. At the end of 3 weeks, patients resumed their normal diet to minimize any carryover effect for next 3 weeks. In the last 3 weeks, the trial and the control groups were crossed over. The data were analyzed using paired t -test. The mean AEC at the end of control and trial period was Our study could not confirm the beneficial effects of an allergen avoidance diet in AD. We propose that dietary elimination advices should be given only to patients with a definite history of food-induced exacerbations of the disease.
Dermoscopy is a technique involving the rapid and magnified observation of the skin.
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Infection with Sarcoptes scabiei in children usually presents with pruritus. Primary scabetic lesions consist of small, erythematous papules, and burrows. The definitive diagnosis of scabies is by visualizing the mites, eggs, or feces under the microscope. The aim of the study was to compare the diagnosis of scabies in children with naked eye examination and a dermoscope.
The objective was to find out if there was a significant difference between the two methods of diagnosis of scabies. A cross-sectional study was done.
Fifty children aged between 1—15 years with symptoms clinically suspicious of scabies from May 15, to May 14, were taken. Thirty were male and 20 were female. After taking history, the lesions were examined clinically and with Dermalite DL4 and photographs were taken. A triangular structure with a furrowing burrow was considered to indicate the presence of a mite. Among 50 children, 37 children had clinical features of scabies: Among 50, 45 children had dermoscopic features of scabies: The data were analyzed using Z- test using MS Excel A handheld dermoscope can be a useful tool to rapidly and non invasively diagnose scabies with high sensitivity compared to Clinical Examination.
The incidence of fungal infections is increasing at an alarming rate, presenting an enormous challenge to healthcare professionals. Apart from the resistance of the causative organisms, there are many modifiable environmental factors contributing to this sudden pandemic. The prevalence of the disease and the associated environmental factors need to be evaluated further.
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The aim of this study was to ascertain the epidemiological features of dermatophyte infection in children such as its incidence, clinical presentation, knowledge regarding over-the-counter drugs, compliance to therapy, and steroid abuse among others. All children with dermatophytic infections up to the age group of 18 years were studied for the pattern of infection and various environmental associations. This study attempts to highlight the clinicoepidemiological features of dermatophytic infections and the various social and environmental factors associated with it. There are three types of congenital hemangioma - rapidly involuting congenital hemangioma RICH , partially involuting congenital hemangioma, and noninvoluting congenital hemangioma.
We report a case of RICH on the back of a 4-month-old Caucasian male infant, based on ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging findings in the antenatal period, skin changes at birth, and a normal ultrasound after birth. He was born with an atrophic plaque at the site of the vascular swelling depicted on the scans, suggesting the complete involution of the lesion in the antenatal period.
The trunk is most commonly affected site.
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It usually affects the body in a bilaterally symmetrical distribution, although asymmetric involvement has also been reported. Very few cases occurring in a zosteriform distribution have been reported. In this article, the author reports a rare case of IAPP in an year-old male where the lesions are distributed in a zosteriform distribution on the trunk. Hyaline fibromatoses syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder with very few cases reported from India till date.
It is characterized by the deposition of amorphous hyaline material in the skin, bones, and viscera. It represents a disease spectrum with infantile systemic hyalinosis as the most severe form and juvenile hyaline fibromatoses JHF being the mild form. Identification of this condition by the treating dermatologist is important to facilitate an early diagnosis and a multidisciplinary follow-up. We report one such case of this uncommon condition— JHF. We report a case of year-old-child with yellowish pebbled skin over axilla and umbilicus. Angioid streaks were present on ophthalmological examination.
On histopathology, fragmented and curled fibers were present in the dermis giving ravelled wool appearance. Von Kossa and Verhoeff-van gieson stain fibers stains showed calcified and fragmented elastic fibers in the mid-dermis. We report two cases of dyskeratosis congenita.
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An year-old male child presented to us with severe anemia and pancytopenia resulting in cardiac failure, in addition to the classical clinical triad including skin atrophy with mottled pigmentation, nail dystrophy, and oral leukoplakia; he also had palmoplantar keratoderma, adermatoglyphia, mucosal involvement resulting in epiphora, and urethral stricture. Urethral involvement is usually a rare presentation.
A 5-year-old female child presented with mottled pigmentation, oral leukoplakia, palmoplantar keratoderma with adermatoglyphia, delayed milestones, mental retardation, repeated skin and pulmonary infections, and dental caries along with anemia.