Skin Conditions: Overview

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Dupuytren's Disease - Topic Overview
Article
04/03/06, Healthwise
What is Dupuytren's disease?
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Necrotizing Fasciitis (Flesh-Eating Bacteria) - Topic Overview
Article
10/16/07, Healthwise
Necrotizing fasciitis is a rare bacterial infection that can destroy skin and the soft tissues beneath it, including fat and the tissue covering the muscles (fascia). Because these tissues often die rapidly, a person with necrotizing
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Birthmarks - Topic Overview
Article
04/18/07, Healthwise
A birthmark is a colored mark on or under a newborn baby’s skin. Some birthmarks show up soon after a baby is born. Most birthmarks are obvious at birth. Some kinds of birthmarks fade or go away as a child gets older. Others sta
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Lice - Topic Overview
Article
11/24/06, Healthwise
Lice are tiny insects that live on humans and feed on blood. When a large number of lice live and multiply on a person, it is called an infestation.
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Skin Cancer, Nonmelanoma - Topic Overview
Article
11/22/06, Healthwise
This topic is about nonmelanoma skin cancer, including basal cell cancer and squamous cell cancer. For information about melanoma skin cancer, see the topic Skin Cancer, Melanoma.
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Venous Skin Ulcer - Treatment Overview
Article
09/17/07, Healthwise
The key to treating venous skin ulcers is using compression stockings and elevating your legs. Compression reverses the underlying circulation problem in the legs and helps control painful swelling from fluid buildup (edema). Peop
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Tinea Versicolor - Topic Overview
Article
11/19/07, Healthwise
Tinea versicolor (say “TIH-nee-uh VER-sih-kuh-ler”) is a fungal infection that causes many small, flat spots on the skin. The spots can be flaky or mildly itchy. The many small spots may blend into large patchy areas, usu
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Venous Skin Ulcer - Topic Overview
Article
09/17/07, Healthwise
A venous skin ulcer, also called a stasis leg ulcer, is a shallow wound that develops when the leg veins do not move blood back toward the heart normally (venous insufficiency).
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Rosacea - Topic Overview
Article
07/24/07, Healthwise
Rosacea (say “roh-ZAY-sha”) is a skin disease that causes redness and pimples on your nose, cheeks, chin, and forehead. The redness may come and go. People sometimes call rosacea "adult acne" because it can cause outbreaks
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Folliculitis - Topic Overview
Article
06/26/07, Healthwise
Folliculitis is an infection of the hair follicles. Each hair on your body grows out of a tiny pouch called a follicle. You can have folliculitis on any part of your body that has hair. But it is most common on the face, scalp, and are
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