This papers aims at familiarizing psychiatric and nonpsychiatric readers with delusional
infestation (DI), also known as delusional parasitosis. It is characterized by the fixed belief of …

Delusional parasitosis is a monosymptomatic hypochondriacal state that causes great
suffering for the patient and great suffering for those around them. Dermatologists are …

Pruritus and psyche are intricately and reciprocally related, with psychophysiological
evidence and psychopathological explanations helping us to understand their complex …

We review the most characteristic clinical and histopathologic findings of the cutaneous
manifestations of the occlusive nonvasculitic vasculopathic disorders. Clinically, most of …

BACKGROUND: Delusional infestation is the conviction that one's skin is infested with
foreign organisms or materials despite contradictory objective evidence. OBJECTIVE: To …

Milroy CM & Parai JL (2011) Histopathology 59, 579–593 The histopathology of drugs of
abuse The use of drugs for recreational purposes is widespread. The drugs used can be …

In order to describe the clinical and serologic features of a cutaneous vasculitis due to
cocaine contaminated with the adulterant levamisole, we report four new cases of this …

Skin changes associated with alcohol and drug abuse can be the earliest clinical
manifestation of these disorders. The signs associated with these conditions may be …

Itch, also referred to as pruritus, is an unpleasant cutaneous sensation provoking the desire
to scratch. It is often an uncomfortable, subjective sensation responsible for decreased …

The increasing application of aptamers in bioassays has triggered a lot of research interest
for development of highly sensitive and selective sensing platforms. Herein, we report on the …