[Erosive pustular dermatosis of the scalp. A new entity or a variant of pyoderma vegetans].
We report on a 69-year-old woman suffering from an erosive pustular and crusted lesion of the scalp having persisted over years. There could not be found any external cause, and a large number of different physical and medicamental therapies failed. Prompt healing was achieved, however, after a low serum zinc level was corrected by a zinc preparation administered orally.-The dermatosis described closely resembles the so-called "erosive pustular dermatosis of the scalp". A search of the earlier dermatological literature supported our view that this is not a new disease, but rather a variant of pyoderma vegetans, a disease showing extremely variable clinical and histopathological features.
D000368:Aged; D001224:Aspartic Acid / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011711:Pyoderma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012008:Recurrence; D012536:Scalp Dermatoses / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D009626:Terminology as Topic
D001224:Aspartic Acid
Erosiv-pustulöse Dermatose des Kopfes (EPDS). Neue Entität oder Variante einer vegetierenden Pyodermie?