Samy Fenniche

..The association of maternal pemphigus vulgaris with neonatal disease pemphigus vulgaris has been only rarely reported. We describe an infant with pemphigus vulgaris born to a mother whose disease was in remission...

..Although this is the first report of acebutolol-induced SCLE, we should be aware of this occurrence, and avoidance of acebutolol is recommended in patients with stigmata of lupus erythematosus...

..We report two cases of subcutaneous fat necrosis and discuss the clinical features, etiology, and complications of the disease...

..Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma is a tumor of soft tissues arising from the vascular endothelium. It is considered as a low-grade malignant tumor. Cutaneous involvement is rare and often associated with multi-systemic localizations...

..In order to study the epidemiology, the most frequent anatomoclinical forms and the progressive features of cutaneous tuberculosis, we conducted a study in the area of Tunis over a 20-year period...

..In situ hybridization investigations for the presence of EBV-encoded RNA showed negative results. Our findings suggest that LELCs is not related to EBV among North African patients...

..Improvement was obtained with acitretin (25 mg/day) within 3 months. Conclusion: Our case has some specificities: cephalic involvement, resistance to dapsone and favourable outcome to a low dose of acitretin...

..The aim of this study is to evaluate the various clinical pictures of RCM, their epidemiologic characteristics as well as the different causative drugs, through a retrospective hospital series...

..After excision a primary cutaneous large B-cell lymphoma was diagnosed. The tumor was excised with clear margins and the patient has shown no recurrence over two years...

..The patient was lost to follow up, but returned two months later with generalized cutaneous involvement without mucosal involvement. He responded rapidly to oral corticosteroid therapy...

..Pemphigus is an autoimmune intraepidermal blistering disease mediated by autoantibodies targeting desmosomes. It can be induced by many triggers, such as ionizing radiation...

..Necrobiosis lipoidica appears to be a rare disorder in diabetic people and this association seems to be over estimated...

..The involvement of the vermilion lip, devoid of hair follicles and sweat glands, contrasts with the concept of its origin from pilar structures. We report a case of basal cell carcinoma developed on the vermilion upper lip...

..An average follow-up time was 18.1 months (1-96 months). The severity of onset of SLE is usually greater in children than adults. We note that lupus erythematosus is not a static disease and progression from DLE to SLE is possible...

..Bone scan is the diagnostic procedure of choice in RSDS, but it may be normal. Physiotherapy should be preferred in pediatric cases...

..In Tunisia, apart from isolated reports of malignant AN, few epidemiologic data are available...

..Sarcoidosis is a systemic disease, of unknown etiology, characterized by noncaseating epithelioid granulomas. It may affect many organs mainly lungs, lymph nodes and skin...

..All children had localized disease and responded to antimycobcterial chemotherapy...

..Mixed tumors have a slow course; their progress to malignancy is rare but possible. The best treatment remains surgical allowing a histological diagnosis with a control of the lesion edges...

..The lower legs are the most commonly affected sites. The recurrence rate in our study was about 46% regardless of the treatment prescribed. Pulmonary involvement was fatal in two patients...