Skin diseases in tourists to Hawaii.
This is the first report of travellers' skin diseases from the Hawaiian archipelago. The diagnoses of all tourists who presented to a dermatology practice on Kauai, Hawaii, were recorded over six years. The cutaneous disorders tabulated in visitors differed significantly from those observed in the local population. In visitors, over one-third of the diagnoses were of light-induced disorders. The most common disease observed was the papulovesicular variant of polymorphous light eruption. This report should serve as a guide to the skin diseases that travellers to Hawaii frequently experience.
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Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
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D006254:Hawaii; D006801:Humans; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D014195:Travel