Psychosocial stressor Predisposing factors Precipitating factors Perpetuating factors Dermatologic disease – related stress, i.e., stress and daily hassles from impact of skin disorder upon the quality of life. Children and…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017Katlein França and Mohammad Jafferany (eds.)Stress and Skin Disorders10.1007/978-3-319-46352-0_9 9. The Role of Stress in Dermatitis Artefacta Zeba Hasan Hafeez1 (1) Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Vallejo, CA, USA …
Fig. 8.1 Emotional dysregulation, autonomic nervous system reactivity and cutaneous self-manipulation (including skin picking) (Adapted from Gupta [28]) Skin Picking Disorder (Excoriation Disorder) In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of…
A. Five (or more) of the following symptoms have been present during the same 2-week period and represent a change from previous functioning; at least one of the symptoms is…
Fig. 7.1 Ear keloid in an Afro-American patient In this chapter we aim to show evidence that stress can affect wound healing producing unaesthetic scars, such as keloids, and suggest…
Category Examples of diseases I – Dermatological Atopic dermatitis, urticaria, eczematous disorders, psoriasis, scabies II – Systemic Chronic kidney disease, primary biliary cirrhosis, Hodgkin’s disease, drug-induced itch III – Neurological…
Organ or site Diagnostic (sufficient to establish the diagnosis of chronic GVHD) Distinctive (seen in chronic GVHD, but insufficient alone to establish a diagnosis) Other features or unclassified entities Skin…
Fig. 3.1 Erythema of the face with accentuation of the ear Fig. 3.2 Erythema of the ear Fig. 3.3 Palmar erythema Fig. 3.4 Palmar erythema (Note microvesicles that herald edema.)…
Host variables Recipient age <1 or >10 years [10] Malignancy as indication for transplant, as well as features of more advanced disease (WBC >50 × 109/L and cytogenetic abnormalities t(4;11),…
Fig. 8.1 Shiny, hypopigmented plaques with satellite plaques over the gluteal fold, representing superficial dermal chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) of the lichen sclerosus type Deep Dermis: Morpheaform Type The classic…
