Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (dermatology)

Subacute eczema

Subacute eczematous inflammation presents as itchy, scaly red patches, papules, and plaques of varying sizes and shapes.

Acute eczema

Acute eczema is an acute eczematous inflammation, clinically characterized by erythema, edema and vesicle formation, weeping lesions, and sometimes severe itching.

Phthyriasis: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Phthiriasis (synonyms: Pubic pediculosis, crabs, phthiriasis) is a disease caused by pubic lice, which live mainly on the pubis, sometimes on the chest, in the armpits, on the eyelashes of the upper eyelids.

Bedpost pediculosis

Pediculosis corporis is caused by body lice, which live in the seams of clothing and cause skin lesions in the form of papules, hyperemic spots or blisters with a bloody crust in the center.

Head pediculosis

Head lice (synonyms: pediculosis, lice infestation) is a disease caused by head lice, which parasitize the scalp and neck.

Ecthyma: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Ecthyma is a deep streptococcal ulcerative lesion of the skin. At the onset of the disease, a large, hazelnut-sized, single pustule with serous-purulent contents appears, after which a deep ulcer is formed, covered with a dense purulent crust of brown-brown color.

Vesiculopustulosis: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Vesiculopustulosis is a purulent inflammation of the orifices of the merocrine sweat glands. The disease vesiculopustulosis begins with the orifice of the sweat glands. The main symptoms of vesiculopustulosis are the formation of pustules the size of a pinhead in the orifice of the sweat glands, surrounded by a rim of hyperemia with a dense cover.

Folliculitis and perifolliculitis of the head abscessing subversive Hoffmann's: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

The disease often occurs in young men. On the scalp, usually in the crown and back of the head, nodes of an oblong or kidney shape, yellowish-white or cherry-red in color, soft or fluctuating in consistency are formed.

Impetigo

Causes and pathogenesis of impetigo. The causative agent of the disease is streptococci, staphylococci. The development of the disease is facilitated by microtraumas, poor skin hygiene, weakened immunity, or it occurs as a complication of various dermatoses (eczema, dermatitis, scabies, etc.)

Hidradenitis: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Hidradenitis is an acute, purulent inflammation of the sweat glands. Children before puberty and the elderly do not suffer from hidradenitis, since their apocrine sweat glands do not function.