(a.) Of or pertaining to pustules; as, pustular prominences; pustular eruptions.
(a.) Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustulate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two subjects with Ph-positive chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in whom pustular Sweet's syndrome was diagnosed are reported.
(2) Clinical diagnosis of grey patch, black dot, seborrheic, kerion, and pustular inflammatory varieties was made.
(3) Pustular eruptions on both skin and mucous membranes occur in the various forms of generalized pustular psoriasis.
(4) However, histologic features examined by serial sections totally lacked those of pustular psoriasis; there were no neutrophils in the epidermis where massive T lymphocyte infiltration existed instead, in a fashion similar to that of early psoriatic lesions.
(5) The results confirmed the efficacy of the drug on pustular, nodular and cystic acne even with low-dose treatment.
(6) This coincidence of manubriosternal joint arthritis and pustular psoriasis is unusual in western populations.
(7) His subcorneal pustular dermatosis subsequently flared and was troublesome for 2 years until he was commenced on PUVA, with excellent response.
(8) The pustular patch test reactions seldom occurred in the normal-appearing skin of these patients.
(9) Precipitation of generalized pustular psoriasis was manifested in a patient with previously stable psoriasis vulgaris following lithium carbonate therapy for manic-depressive psychosis.
(10) The majority of these reactions, such as urticarial, purpuric, maculo-papular, and pustular exanthemas as well as photallergic reactions, generally do not endanger the life of the patient.
(11) Excellent results were obtained in 16 patients (64 p. 100) particularly in severe erythrodermic and pustular psoriasis.
(12) Extensive examinations and cultures of both pustular material and tissue revealed no organisms, except Staphylococcus epidermidis.
(13) Etretinate therapy may prove to be a viable treatment option for the child with intractable pustular psoriasis that seriously impairs quality of life.
(14) -This pustular eruption most commonly develops on the face and scalp but may subsequently become generalized.
(15) A 51-year-old woman had a severe pustular contact hypersensitivity reaction to fluorouracil used to treat actinic keratoses on the face.
(16) Eosinophilic pustular folliculitis was first defined by Ofuji et al.
(17) Pyoderma gangrenosum should be considered in the differential diagnosis of pustular disorders in children with underlying conditions such as ulcerative colitis.
(18) An unusual case of disseminated pustular eruption associated with polycythemia vera is described.
(19) All the patients were elderly women who developed chronic, extensive, pustular, crusted and occasionally eroded lesions of the scalp which produced scarring alopecia.
(20) Even though 11 of these cases occurred in patients with a history of psoriasis, AGEP appeared distinct from pustular psoriasis based on several slight pathologic differences, drug induction in most cases, and a more acute course of fever and pustulosis, with rapid spontaneous healing.
Pustule
Definition:
(n.) A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Preliminary the statistical data are reported about human malignant pustule denounced in Italy in different Districts, in Lombardia and in Province of Milan.
(2) This study indicates that small pustules underwent the consecutive changes related to the generalized polymorphous exanthem in KD.
(3) In this patient's farm, the disease was present for the first time and affected only 2-month old lambs in the form of numerous papulo-pustules located on the lips and later covered by hard and thick scabs.
(4) The morphological changes of the epidermis depented on the place examined and were most evident near fully developed pustules in the upper layers.
(5) The microscopic pathology of the abscesses revealed penetration of the epidermis by Candida pseudohyphae; the tips of the hyphal processes were seen within the pustules when sections were stained by the periodic acid-Schiff method.
(6) Seven patients are described, who had generalized toxic erythema with sterile pustules.
(7) All attachment sites showed acute inflammatory lesions, and sites of both tick species on high resistance cattle showed delayed hypersensitive reactions with intra-epidermal pustulation and significant increases in the numbers of granulocytes.
(8) Histology was not very specific, except for the presence of necrotic areas in the stratum germinativum, sometimes associated with small subcorneal pustules containing altered polymorphonuclears.
(9) Involvement of the face, neck, scalp, palms, and soles is a consistent finding, as is the tendency for these lesions to form pustules early in the course of the infestation.
(10) Histological findings were otherwise uniform and typical: intra-epidermal, unilocular, well-delineated pustules.
(11) The presence of subcorneal pustules in a solitary, indolent, crusted plaque, or in erythema annulare-like lesions with a trailing scale, is evidence of atypical psoriasis.
(12) Homogenized tissue specimens from lesional skin with and without pustules, and from perilesional, normal-looking skin of PPP and PP were analysed for the presence of chemoattractant(s) for PMN.
(13) This favors the proliferation of Propionibacterium acnes which may initiate inflammation in microcomedos and lead to formation of pustules, papules or nodules.
(14) These lesions subsequently progressed, with superimposed blistering and pustulation.
(15) The reduction in number of papules and pustules was not statistically significant on either treatment.
(16) Dilution of tissue fluids causes formation of some of the mediators of inflammation including those responsible for intraepidermal pustule formation.
(17) erythematous patches studded with crops of small pustules, and isolated large pustules with a red halo.
(18) A 27-year-old woman with a serologically documented human parvovirus infection who presented with a hemorrhagic exanthem and enanthem with areas of pustules and pseudo-pustules is described.
(19) The vesicles progress to pustules, then to crusts that eventually are lost.
(20) In 2 patients leukocytes from pustules were tested by the iodination reaction.