Kayoko Matsunaga

A 78-year-old man was referred to our department via the Department of Surgery at our hospital due to a recurrent thyroid tumor. He had undergone surgery for thyroid cancer at another hospital 15 years earlier, and resection of a local recurrence 12 years ago. He had received a total of 85 Gy of radiation for two other local tumor recurrences, 11 and 5 years ago respectively. He had been referred to the Department of Surgery due to a subsequent increase in tumor size as well as an increase in bleeding from 1 year ago.<br>A hemorrhagic and malodorous mass was observed on the right side of the anterior neck region on initial examination. As the tumor was highly hemorrhagic, embolization of the right superior thyroid artery was performed four times, and Mohs chemosurgery was performed to stop the bleeding from the tumor surface and to reduce the tumor size. Mohs chemosurgery reduced the amount of bleeding from the tumor region as well as the tumor size, results which improved the patient's quality of life (QOL).[Skin Cancer (Japan) 2011 ; 26 : 210-214]

2007〜2010年に眼瞼の皮疹を主訴とした30例を対象にパッチテストを施行した。その結果、硫酸フラジオマイシン陽性は16例(53.3%)、陰性が9例(30.0%)、点眼薬では陽性が2例(6.6%)、金属に陽性が1例(3.3%)で、内訳はポリエチレングリコール1例(3.3%)、ラノリン1例(3.3%)であった。抗生剤含有外用薬を使用していた症例は23例と多く、うち硫酸フラジオマイシン陽性であったのは15例であった。この15例のうち外用薬を貼布したのは8例で、うち製品自体に反応を示したのは3例であった。最終臨床診断は、外用薬による接触皮膚炎12例、刺激性皮膚炎9例、点眼薬による接触皮膚炎3例、アトピー性皮膚炎2例、花粉症による皮膚炎2例、ラノリンのアレルギー1例、ビューラーの金属と抗生剤含有外用薬による接触皮膚炎の合併1例であった。

We carried out a four-week study of female patients with acne vulgaris in order to assess the safety of make-up cosmetics for sensitive skin, consisting of powder foundation, liquid foundation, and loose powder in the "d Program^&reg;" series developed by Shiseido Co., Ltd. Eighty-five subjects completed the study. We found adverse skin reactions in 2.1% of the subjects who used the powder foundation. On the basis of these findings, it was concluded that these make-up cosmetics for sensitive skin can be used safely by the great majority of female patients with acne vulgaris.Skin Research, 10: 170-182, 2011