Skin changes and tumours after renal transplantation.
Skin involvement in chronic renal failure is characterised by a multitude of different aspects. Apart from the typical yellow-brown discolouration of the skin, most often patients complain of pruritus and xerosis cutis. A marked actinic elastosis is noticed. Dialysis treatment alters and partly aggravates these pre-existing skin conditions. When chronic renal failure leads to a kidney transplantation, some of the reversible skin pathology, e.g. pruritus, xeroderma, tends to ameliorate, but a high tendency to develop malignancies becomes prominent.
Avermaete
Annelies
A
Department of Dermatology, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. avermaete@hotmail.com
Altmeyer
Peter
P
Bacharach-Buhles
Martina
M
D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology