title: Skin changes and tumours after renal transplantation.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. avermaete@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Annelies
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Avermaete
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Altmeyer
authors.forename: Martina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bacharach-Buhles
mesh_terms: 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