ABSTRACT
Over the past 10 years Spain has become an important immigrant receiver country as the proximity with Africa and the cultural facilities with Latino-American countries have made of Spain a very attractive place to settle down for immigrants. From 1st January 2007 to 31st December 2007, all the pediatric patients visits (0-14 years old) seen in the units of the Dermatology Section of the University General Hospital of Alicante (Spain) were prospectively recorded. During the study period 3,108 visits were recorded. Of these, 447 (14.3 %) were generated by immigrant children, 243 (54.3 %) being episodes requested by 167 Latin American patients. Latin children consulted mainly in the outpatient clinic, like Spanish children. The most frequent type of dermatoses in these patients was eczema/atopic dermatitis. Infectious dermatitis showed no differences between them and Spaniards, but scabies was six times more frequent in the formers.
Subject(s)
Emigrants and Immigrants/statistics & numerical data , Skin Diseases/ethnology , Adolescent , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Infant , Infant, Newborn , Latin America/ethnology , Male , Spain/epidemiologyABSTRACT
Europe, and in particular Spain, has become the destination of a considerable number of immigrants, 50% come from Latin America. The purpose of this study was to describe the cases of dermatoses seen in the immigrant Latin American population and compare them with those found in the control Spanish population. Over a year all the visits of economic immigrants seen in the Dermatology Section of the Hospital General Universitario de Alicante were prospectively recorded. During the study period 706 Latin American patients were seen. The most frequent dermatoses were eczema (18.2%), acne (6.5%) and non-genital viral warts (6.3%). The comparative study of dermatoses adjusted for age and sex, found a greater frequency of eczema, alopecia, melasma, herpes simplex, pilar keratosis, xerosis, and scabies (p < 0.01) in the Latin American population. On the other hand, melanocytic nevi and melanoma were less frequent in these patients (p < 0.05). We may say that the skin type and socio-sanitary conditions of the Latin American immigrant population lead to a greater frequency of eczema, melasma and scabies. In addition, the skin type and younger age favour a lower frequency of skin tumours.
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Skin Diseases/epidemiology , Adolescent , Adult , Case-Control Studies , Chi-Square Distribution , Child , Child, Preschool , Emigrants and Immigrants , Female , Humans , Infant , Infant, Newborn , Latin America/ethnology , Male , Prospective Studies , Risk Factors , Spain/epidemiologyABSTRACT
Una mujer de 64 años, diabética tipo 2, presentaba múltiples pápulas eritematosas en la cara y el cuello. La biopsia mostró que se trataba de siringomas de células claras. Destacamos el aspecto atípico y distribución inusual de las lesiones en nuestra paciente; revisamos la histopatología de esta variedad de siringomas, así como su relación con la diabetes mellitus (AU)
