Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada's syndrome has been known as an autoimmune disease which affects the melanocyte-containing tissues. We report a case of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada's syndrome associated with Hashimoto's thyroiditis. IgM-class antibodies against nevus cells were detected in the patient's serum by indirect immunofluorescence test. These clinical and laboratory findings support the autoimmune theory of this rare syndrome.
A patient is described who had eruptive vellus hair cysts with and without sebaceous glands in the cyst walls. An association is suggested between eruptive vellus hair cysts and the condition of steatocystoma multiplex.
We describe a 25-year-old woman with syringoma, clinically manifested by unilateral linear distribution and a plaque formation. Syringoma papules are located on the extensor aspect of the left upper arm, the left antecubital fossa, and the left side of the chest. The papules distributed in linear fashion on the left upper arm, and partially formed plaques on the left upper arm and the left antecubital fossa. Syringoma must be included in the differential diagnosis of unilateral linear papular or plaque skin lesions.
The discrimination between subungual pigmented nevus and subungual melanoma in situ is still a clinical problem. We measured DNA ploidy in six cases of subungual melanotic lesions which exhibited the features of subungual pigmented nevus or lentigo simplex histologically. Five cases presented a diploid pattern with or without a slight increase of hyperdiploid cells. One case presented a polyploid pattern; it also exhibited histologically abnormal melanocytes with large nuclei and pigment-filled elongated dendrites. The DNA ploidy pattern and histologic features suggest that the lesion of this latter case contains abnormal melanocytes which probably have the potential to undergo a malignant transformation into a subungual melanoma. DNA ploidy analysis, therefore, is likely to provide information for evaluating the biologic behavior of subungual melanotic lesions.
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