title: Skin diseases in tourists to Hawaii.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Funaki
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Elpern
mesh_terms: D006254:Hawaii; D006801:Humans; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D014195:Travel