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Cutaneous alterations are common in neonates. Nevertheless, no reliable studies exist to characterize the type and frequency of skin diseases in Mexican newborns. We carried out a prospective study for 6 month on 1,000 children to analyze cutaneous lesions present during the neonatal period in our population. Of these children, 790 (78%) were neonates admitted to the well-baby nursery, and 220 (22%) were in the sick-baby nursery. Comparison was made between the two groups. It was found that all the newborns (100%) from both groups presented from 2 to 10 different cutaneous lesion. A wide variety of skin diseases were found, but most were of a transitory nature. Birthmarks were less common and malformations even more so. By means of the X2 method, there was no statistically-significant difference between the two groups (p > 0.1).
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Doenças do Recém-Nascido/epidemiologia , Dermatopatias/epidemiologia , Fatores Etários , Interpretação Estatística de Dados , Feminino , Humanos , Recém-Nascido , Masculino , México/epidemiologia , Estudos Prospectivos , Fatores Sexuais , Anormalidades da Pele/epidemiologia , Fatores de TempoRESUMO
We present the case of a one-year-old girl with Gianotti-Crosti syndrome not associated with hepatitis-B infection. The authors carried out an extensive review of the literature about this problem and they found that it is not uncommon to see this eruption in relation with many different viral and non-viral infections. All these findings support the concept that this is actually a syndrome and not a specific disease.
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Acrodermatite/diagnóstico , Exantema/diagnóstico , Hepatite B/diagnóstico , Acrodermatite/patologia , Diagnóstico Diferencial , Exantema/patologia , Feminino , Hepatite B/patologia , Humanos , Lactente , Pele/patologia , SíndromeRESUMO
The clinical, histological and laboratory data from a series of 55 pediatric patients with Henoch-Schönlein purpura studied at the Hospital General de Mexico in a 16-years period are presented herein. Even when there are a few clinical features in this example of Mexican children, the clinical presentation and the course of the disease are similar to what is found in the literature.