Prevalence of dermatoses in dermatologic evaluation requests from patients admitted to a tertiary hospital for 10 years

AUTOR(ES)

Dantas, Lia Dias Pinheiro, Bakos, Lucio, Balbinot, Gabriela, Drechsler, Carine Elisabete Rost, Eidt, Letícia Maria

FONTE

An. Bras. Dermatol.

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2015-10

RESUMO

AbstractSkin diseases are common in hospitalized patients. However, there is a lack of data concerning their frequency. The objective of this study is to evaluate the prevalence of dermatological diagnoses in hospitalized patients after consultation requested by nondermatologist physicians to the Department of Dermatology, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre period of 10 years. A total of 5685 patients were evaluated, representing an average of 48.2 patients per month. The five most frequent groups were infectious dermatoses(33.25%), eczematous dermatoses (11.49%), drug reactions (11.43%), vascular dermatoses (6.81%) and group of pruritus, prurigo nodularis and urticaria (hives) (4.71%).

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