Volume : II, Issue : VII, July - 2013

Study of Dermatological Lesions in Indian Neonates

Asvin Panchal, Snehal Patel

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The science of dermatology deals with skin, hair, nails,subcutaneous tissue,sweat glands,sebaceous glands and the apocrine glands.Here is an amalgam of two faculties of medical science,pediatrics and dermatology. Pediatric skin differs from its adult counterpart anatomically,physiologically, pathologically and in response to treatment.Skin diseases account for 10-35% of pediatric patients seen in general and institutional practice. Among the 300 neonates studied with dermatological lesions,65% lesions were physiological; 19.33% were pathological; 16% were miscellanous lesions. Among the physiological lesions,commonest lesion was Mongolian spot which was seen in 81(41.54%) and also found were transient skin conditions like Erythema neonatorum (18.97%),Milia (16.41%), Miliria (7.69%), Sebaceous gland hyperplasia(11.80%).Among the pathological lesions, 78.95% were bacterial;17.54%were fungal and 5.26% were parasitic etiology.

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Asvin Panchal, Snehal Patel Study of Dermatological Lesions in Indian Neonates International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 2, Issue : 7 July 2013

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