Marketplace's "This Is Uncomfortable" podcast highlights a daughter going to unexpected lengths to navigate USA's healthcare system, and its costs, in order to help her mom with extramammary Paget’s disease (EMPD).
Medical mysteries: 'Pimple' that was actually cancer
Today at 3 p.m. we'll talk to a man whose pesky rash was actually a form of cancer. Watch it on Facebook Live.
Doctors thought he just had jock itch. Then it spread.
Late Friday afternoon on Dec. 4, 2014, Stephen Schroeder was waiting to board his packed flight from Philadelphia to Las Vegas for a much anticipated long weekend with his son when his cellphone rang. On the line was an unexpected caller: his doctor, reporting test results sooner than Schroeder had expected.
Listening intently, Schroeder was flooded with disbelief as he struggled to comprehend what he was hearing. Using the lip of a trash can as a writing surface, he scribbled notes on the back of his boarding pass, making the doctor spell out each unfamiliar word. Then he sent a terse text to his wife, who was at their home in the Philadelphia suburbs, and got on the plane.
Onboard, Schroeder, then 55, fired up the balky in-flight Internet, desperate for information.
What he read over the next five hours left him alternately terrified, stunned and then, as denial took over, skeptical. “I kept thinking this must be some kind of really stupid mistake,” he recalled. “The diagnosis had to be wrong.”
胯下好癢可以到藥房買成藥嗎？醫生提醒：小心擦出問題！
臺北市立聯合醫院和平婦幼院區皮膚科醫師李孟穗表示，胯下癢是皮膚科門診中常見的求診症狀，常見的發作部位包括大腿內側或股溝處，或是女性私密處、男性陰囊等。
「胯下癢發作時會搔癢無比，讓人坐立難安，不抓難受，抓了又不雅觀，但由於病灶在隱私部位，不少病患不願意就醫，而選擇自行到藥局購買外用藥膏來塗抹，結果常因擦了不適當的藥膏，造成病情惡化時，才向醫師求助，」李孟穗指出。
李孟穗表示，很多皮膚病都會出現胯下癢的情形，可能是黴菌或細菌、病原蟲感染造成的，也可能因皮膚受到持續摩擦刺激，再加上衣褲包覆悶熱導致，包括：股癬、念珠菌感染、紅癬、疥瘡、陰蝨、濕疹、對磨疹或少見的乳房外柏杰氏病(Extramammary Paget’s disease, EMPD)等疾病。
冬天也會"胯下癢"! 自行買錯藥皮膚恐變薄
Living with a rare skin disease
David Kendall shares his story
David Kendall has Extramammary Paget’s disease (EMPD), a rare cancer-related condition which is characterised externally by a chronic eczema-style rash of the skin in the anogenital regions or as is the case with David, the groin area.
Doctors described David’s EMPD case as “one in a million” due to its rarity, with the result being that he has found it difficult to access definitive information about it online.
Il morbo di Paget extramammario
Il morbo di Paget extramammario è una neoplasia spesso non diagnosticata clinicamente e che deve essere conosciuta per poterla porre in diagnosi differenziale. Si tratta istologicamente di un carcinoma intraepidermico a differenziazione ghiandolare apocrina, di solito localizzato in aree ove sono presenti ghiandole sudoripare.
East Kilbride family man takes on Men's 10K on Father's Day for charity based on his own experiences with skin cancer
An East Kilbride dad will take on a charity 10K on Father’s Day as he bids to raise money based on his own experiences with skin cancer.
Dad-of-two David Kendall (57), who suffers from a skin condition called Extramammary Paget’s disease (EMPD), hopes his efforts will boost the funds of the British Skin Foundation by £1000.
The illness is a rare cancer-related condition which is characterised externally by a chronic eczema-style rash of the skin in the anogenital regions, and in David’s case, the groin area.
Jangan Anggap Remeh Gatal-Gatal Di 5 Area Vital Laki-Laki Ini
Skrotum atau area kulit testis, atau lebih awam dikenal dengan istilah area buah zakar, kerap juga menjadi sasaran keluhan gatal pada area alat vital pria. Berikut beberapa pencetus keluhan gatal pada area buah zakar:
- Eksim: merupakan suatu penyakit kulit kronis yang ditandai dengan gatal, peradangan dan kemerahan pada kulit
- Extramammary Paget’s disease: merupakan suatu keganasan kulit pada kulit skrotum yang terlihat serupa dengan eksim.
Penting diketahui, karena kondisi gatal yang muncul pada area skrotum seringkali kronis (menahun) jangan menunda untuk melakukan pemeriksaan untuk pengobatan.
Jangan Sepelekan Gatal di Sekitar Kemaluan Pria!
Skrotum atau area kulit testis, atau lebih awam dikenal dengan istilah area buah zakar, kerap juga menjadi sasaran keluhan gatal pada area alat vital pria. Berikut beberapa pencetus keluhan gatal pada area buah zakar:
Eksim: merupakan suatu penyakit kulit kronis yang ditandai dengan gatal, peradangan dan kemerahan pada kulit
Extramammary Paget’s disease: merupakan suatu keganasan kulit pada kulit skrotum yang terlihat serupa dengan eksim.
Penting diketahui, karena kondisi gatal yang muncul pada area skrotum seringkali kronis (menahun) jangan menunda untuk melakukan pemeriksaan untuk pengobatan.
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Extramammary Paget's Needs More Than Mohs
Extramammary Paget’s disease poses a particular challenge because of its multifocal/multicentric nature.
"What you see with extramammary Paget’s is not necessarily what you get," Dr. Theodore Rosen cautioned at the Hawaii Dermatology Seminar sponsored by Skin Disease Education Foundation (SDEF).
This is an uncommon neoplasia that’s typically described as an erythematous, erosive, itchy patch or plaque having a strawberries-and-cream appearance. Yet there may be other areas of subclinical involvement at a distance from the obvious lesion.
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Immunostaining Can Help Classify Paget Disease
EMPD is an uncommon condition occurring primarily in the elderly, with more women than men affected. It arises as a cutaneous adenocarcinoma with a proclivity for sites rich in apocrine glands. Patients with EMPD often present with a prominent solitary plaque lesion in the anogenital or vulvar region. The lesion is erythematous, eczematous, and often pruritic. The course is often locally aggressive, with frequent recurrences.
What Caused this Patient’s Groin Itch?
Case Presentation A 67-year-old white man presented with a 6-month history of a slowly increasing in size, slightly pruritic, erythematous rash in his right lower abdominal quadrant extending to his inguinal fold and right side of his scrotum. He reported having a similar lesion in his right axilla 7 years earlier that was surgically excised with no clinical evidence of recurrence. Otherwise, he was healthy with no history of systemic diseases. On examination there was an 8-cm by 6-cm erythematous, slightly elevated, papillomatous plaque extending from his right pubic area to the right lateral scrotal wall. No alopecia was noted overlying the plaque. No inguinal lymphadenopathy was appreciated on nodal examination. A well-healed scar was present in the right axilla, but no axillary adenopathy was noted. A KOH preparation of the lesion was negative for hyphae. Histologic examination of a 4-mm punch biopsy specimen taken from the inguinal plaque revealed an atypical cellular proliferation composed of clear cells ascending through the epidermis. These cells were positive for carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), epithelial membrane antigen (EMA) and mucicarmine stains. The S-100 stain did not stain these cells. What’s Your Diagnosis? Turn to page 98 for an answer and for more details.