The Study of Clinical , Pathological and Laboratory Finding of Forty-Eghit Erythroderma Patients
Erythroderma is a term applied to any inflammatory skin disease which affects more than about 90% of the body surface. It is determined by erythema, scaling and pruritus. Clinical , pathological and laboratory finding of erythrodermic patients admitted in dermat...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fas |
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Hamadan University of Medical Sciences
2000-12-01
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| Series: | پزشکی بالینی ابن سینا |
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| Online Access: | http://sjh.umsha.ac.ir/article-1-919-en.html |
| Summary: | Erythroderma is a term applied to any inflammatory skin disease which
affects more than about 90% of the body surface. It is determined by
erythema, scaling and pruritus. Clinical , pathological and laboratory
finding of erythrodermic patients admitted in dermatologic ward of
Sina hospital, Hamadan - Iran , between 1993-1997 (4years)were studied.
This retrospective-cross sectional study was done by preparation of
the a checklist of necessary information getting from the patients file
and then analysis the data with EPI6 software.
Among 1107 patients were admitted in the hospital, only 48(4.3%)cases
had erythroderma. The most common cause of erythroderma in these
patients was preexisting cutaneous disease (56.3%). In this group eczema
was most frequent cause of erythroderma ( 27.1% ) and then followed by
psoriasis (10%). Other underlying causes of erythroderma in order of
frequency were drugs (25%) lymphoma and leukaemias (10.4%) , and
idiopathic(8.3%). Antiepileptic drugs were the most frequent drug causes.
Age of the most patients was above 40and the ratio of male to female
was. Among laboratory finding eosinophilia was reported in more than
half of patients (57.7%) with eczema. The most pathologic diagnosis was
chronic dermatitis. Clinical finding along with one or more skin biopsis
were diagnostic or suggestive of the underlying disease in 69.6% of the
cases . Relapse was seen in 11 cases of 34 followed patients , that
psoriasis was the most frequent cause of relapse.
The prevalence and relapse of erythroderma in this study was more
than the other studies which was done in other countries. |
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| ISSN: | 2588-722X 2588-7238 |