by Claudia Paoletto | Aug 12, 2019 | Psoriasis
Psoriasis is a common, chronic, recurrent inflammatory disease of the skin characterized by well circumscribed, erythematous, dry, scaling plaques that are usually covered by silvery white scale (plaque type, the most common form). The lesions tend to be symmetric...
by Claudia Paoletto | Aug 8, 2019 | Purpura
The terminology “Senile Purpura” is a bit offensive to some but it is maintained by tradition. Patient’s that have it are not necessarily senile. It is very, very common. Essentially it is bruising in the elderly. Purpura in the elderly is caused...
by Claudia Paoletto | Aug 7, 2019 | Warts
Plantar warts occur on the soles of the feet, particularly over pressure points, such as the balls of the feet. Often patients will tell me that they have “seed warts” on their foot. They say this because they see black dots within the wart…which...
by Claudia Paoletto | Aug 5, 2019 | Warts
There are over a 150 different types of human papilloma virus, the virus that causes verruca vulgaris, more commonly referred to as warts. Warts are very common…in Australia 22% and in the Netherlands 33% of children were found to have cutaneous warts. Human...
by Claudia Paoletto | Aug 2, 2019 | Acne
Many of my photographs have been used in the Dermatology textbook Andrews’ Diseases of the Skin. If you look at the latest edition you will see these first two images. Pyoderma Faciale is an uncommon eruptive facial disorder consisting of a very fulminant onset...
