ALLMedicine™ Acanthosis Nigricans Center

Jan 1st, 2022 - Acanthosis nigricans (AN) is a common dermatosis that presents with hyperpigmented, velvety thick plaques over intertriginous areas. Though a number of treatment modalities including chemical peels have been used, none provide long-term and sustai...

Nov 10th, 2021 - Oral papillary lesions represent a variety of developmental and neoplastic conditions. Early diagnoses of different papillary lesions are challenging for oral medicine specialists. Malignant acanthosis nigricans (MAN) is a rare cutaneous disorder ...

Oct 22nd, 2021 - Activating mutation in the insulin signal-transducing kinase AKT2 results in severe hypoinsulinemic hypoketotic hypoglycemia and a characteristic phenotype of possible overgrowth and, sometimes, acanthosis nigricans. Herein, we describe a metaboli...

Oct 8th, 2021 - Acanthosis nigricans is commonly associated with obesity. It is characterized by brown-black skin thickening on the neck and the flexural areas. This study aimed to assess the efficacy of topical 20% urea cream compared to 10% urea cream in the tr...

Oct 7th, 2021 - To the Editor: A 40-year-old Somalian man presented to the dermatology clinic with lesions on the eyelids, tongue, lips, and hands of 8 years’ duration. He was a former refugee who had faced considerable stigma from his community due to his appear.

Sep 5th, 2021 - The patient participates in the study for a total duration of approximately four hours. The study nurse will do a nursing assessment, including measuring the patient's height, weight, waist circumference, hip circumference, blood pressure, and pul...

Aug 12th, 2020 - Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common Female endocrine disorder , with a prevalence ranging between 6% to10% based on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) criteria and when the broader Rotterdam criteria are applied it reaches as ...

Apr 24th, 2020 - Each side of the neck pseudo acanthosis nigricans was randomized in to either receiving glycolic acid peel or saline. Evaluation was done at baseline and after 3 sessions 2 weeks apart by percentage involvement and by ANASI score

Mar 3rd, 2020 - Twenty-two provinces of Turkey's seven regions and 26 hospitals from these provinces will be included in the study. The number of samples was specified by the public health specialist on the 2018 census figures. The Turkish population consists of ...

Aug 16th, 2012 - Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a common disease that plagues over 16 million adults in the United States (American Diabetes Association [ADA], 2002). Over the past decade, the number of adults diagnosed with diabetes has risen dramatically. The ...

Oct 7th, 2021 - To the Editor: A 40-year-old Somalian man presented to the dermatology clinic with lesions on the eyelids, tongue, lips, and hands of 8 years’ duration. He was a former refugee who had faced considerable stigma from his community due to his appear.

Jun 14th, 2021 - The Diagnosis: Paraneoplastic Acanthosis Nigricans Histopathologic examination demonstrated verrucous epidermal hyperplasia (Figure, A). Fungal organisms were identified with an Alcian blue and periodic acid-Schiff stain (Figure, B).

Aug 26th, 2020 - Melasma has such a high recurrence rate that, once the facial hyperpigmentation has been cleared, it’s best that treatment never entirely stops, Amit G. Pandya, MD, said at the virtual annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology.

Jun 1st, 2020 - The Diagnosis: Pseudo-Black Hairy Tongue Pseudo-black hairy tongue is a benign and painless disorder characterized by transient hyperpigmentation of the tongue with a substance that can be easily scraped off. In this case, the patient's lingual di.

Jan 7th, 2020 - DM and Diabetic Skin Disease Diabetes mellitus carries with it the risk for skin diseases specific to the diabetic disease process, such as increased risk for bacterial and fungal infections, venous stasis, pruritus (secondary to poor circulation).