Category: Diseases

Erysipelas and cellulitis are acute, spreading infections of dermal and subcutaneous tissues, characterized by a red, hot, tender area of skin, often at the site of bacterial entry, caused most

There are several variants of eosinophilic folliculitis, which is also known as ‘eosinophilic pustular folliculitis’ or ‘Ofuji disease’. The name is due to skin biopsy finding of eosinophils (a type

Drug-induced alterations in pigmentation are relatively common, resulting from a variety of endogenous and exogenous pigments, and can be of significant cosmetic concern to the patient. Causes of Drug-Induced Pigmentation

Drug-induced urticaria and angioedema occur due to a variety of mechanisms and are characterized clinically by transient wheals and larger edematous areas that involve the dermis and subcutaneous tissue (angioedema).

Hypersensitivity syndrome is an idiosyncratic adverse drug reaction that begins acutely in the first 2 months after initiation of drug and is characterized by fever, severe disease with characteristic infiltrated

Donovanosis is a mildly contagious, chronic, indolent, progressive, autoinoculable, ulcerative disease involving the skin and lymphatics of the genital and perianal areas. Causes of Donovanosis Poorly understood. Mildly contagious. Repeated

Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is a widespread blood clotting disorder occurring within blood vessels, associated with a wide range of clinical circumstances (bacterial sepsis, obstetric complications, disseminated malignancy, massive trauma),

Disseminated Gonococcal Infection(DGI) ia a systemic infection that follows the hematogenous dissemination of the gonococcus from infected mucosal sites to skin, tenosynovium, and joints and is characterized by fever, petechial

Systemic cryptococcosis is a systemic mycosis acquired by the respiratory route, with the primary focus of infection in the lungs, and with occasional hematogenous dissemination, characteristically to the meninges, and

Coccidioidomycosis is a systemic mycosis characterized by primary pulmonary infection that usually spontaneously. Subsequently, It can disseminate hematogenously and result in chronic, progressive, granulomatous infection in skin, lungs, bone, meninges.