XXXX . A clinical and histopathological study.

@entity1 @entity9338 @entity1910 @entity272
OBJECTIVES: A distinctive skin problem has been observed for the last 10 years that appeared on the neck of a young adult. This encouraged us to conduct this study, to evaluate its clinical and histopathological picture. METHOD: Thirty @entity1 were studied in the Department of Dermatology, Baghdad Teaching Hospital, Iraq during a one-year period from November 1998 through to November 1999. There were 29 males and a female, their ages ranged from 11-50 years (mean 25 years). @entity1 complained of @entity1910 on the back and sides of the neck, they were fully interrogated and examined and skin biopsy was carried out in 10 @entity1 . RESULTS: The study showed that this disease has well defined clinical pictures, which affect young males mainly and appeared in summer time. The @entity1910 was located mostly on the back of the neck; it had dark-red to red-violeceous, rounded to oval, single or multiple plaques. The @entity1910 was mainly asymptomatic a part from appearance. The histopathological picture has many similarities with that of @entity9338 , but with striking increased vascularity of the dermis. CONCLUSION: From the clinical and histopathological study, this skin problem deserve its own name @entity272 , which was induced by solar radiation and has many similarities with @entity9338 and could be confused with lichen simplex chronicus.
