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Cutaneous Mastocytosis Exacerbated by Pinworms in a Young Boy
No full textCutaneous mastocytosis in children has an indolent course and undergoes spontaneous regression. Many triggering factors may cause mast cell degranulation and clinical manifestations. Knowledge of these factors is important for patients and their families. We report a case of exacerbation of urticaria pigmentosa due to mast cell degranulation caused by Enterobius vermicularis, which has not been reported before as a triggering factor
Molluscum contagiosum infection on a congenital intermediate melanocytic naevus
No full textA 2-year-old girl presented with a 3-month history of several small painless papules, growing on the surface of an abdominal congenital melanocytic naevus (MN).
Her mother noted that the lesions were significantly increasing in number and size. There was no history of trauma and her medical and family histories were unremarkable.
Physical examination revealed multiple skin-coloured, translucent, glossy, dome-shaped papules, ranging from 1 to 3 mm, localised exclusively on the surface of a macular, smooth, light to dark brown, non-hypertrichotic congenital intermediate MN (2×4 cm) (see figure 1).
The dermoscopic examination of the papules suggested the diagnosis of molluscum contagiosum (MC), which was histologically confirmed.
MC is a common viral skin infection, which is seldom associated with other skin diseases (eg, epidermoid cyst and nevocellular naevus).1
The localisation of MC on an MN is extremely rare, and only a few case reports have been published in the literature until now; in all reported cases, the lesions are strictly confined to the MN and did not affect the remaining skin.2 ,3
A possible explanation of the occurrence of viral lesions on an MN may be represented by the Meyerson’s phenomenon, an eczematous reaction occurring in MN.4 We could hypothesise that this resulted in a barrier dysfunction predisposing the patient to develop MC locally.
Even though congenital intermediate MN is recognised to have a low malignancy potential during childhood,5 melanoma can develop. Therefore, the physician should be aware of the appearance of MC superinfection on MN, but the occurrence of new lesions within a congenital MN requires a dermatological evaluatio
Corrigendum: The Italian Mastocytosis Registry: 6-year experience from a hospital-based registry (Future Oncology (2018) 14:26 (2713-2723) DOI: 10.2217/fon-2018-0291)
No full textFollowing publication of the Research Article by SerenaMerante, Virginia V Ferretti, Chiara Elena, Valeria Brazzelli, Roberta Zanotti, Iria Neri, DiomiraMaglicane, Anna Belloni Fortina, Forer Ingeborg, Elide A Pastorello, Lisa Pieri, Cristina Papayannidis, Marina Mauro, Federica Grifoni, Roberto Minelli, Elena Guggiari, Elisa Difonzo, Monica Bocchia, Francesca Caroppo, Sergio DiNuzzo, ElenaMaria Elli,Michaela Rondoni, Rachele Ciccocioppo,Michele Di Stefano, Grazia Bossi, Emanuela Boveri, Patrizia Bonadonna, Fiorina Giona, Peter Valent &Massimo Triggiani, titled 'The Italian Mastocytosis Registry: 6-year experience from a hospital-based registry', which appeared in the November 2018 issue of Future Oncology (Future Oncology [Lond.] 14[26], 2713-2723 [2018]; DOI: 10.2217/fon-2018-0291), it has been brought to our attention that the name of Iria Neri has been corrected as follows: The author name was originally published as Iria Ner, and has been corrected to Iria Neri. The authors and editors of Future Oncology would like to sincerely apologise for any confusion or inconvenience this may have caused our readers
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