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Male vs. Female disease

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hmtoggle_plus1Majority of patients are women:
•Fox-Fordyce disease (90%) (esp. from puberty to menopause)
•peri-oral dermatitis
•partial lipodystrophy (80%)
•lichen simplex et atrophicus (esp. before puberty or after menopause)
•Sweet’s syndrome (80% in idiopathic Sweets)
•X-linked dominant (IP, CHILD, Goltz)
•primary biliary cirrhosis (90%)
•angioma serpiginosum (90% of cases occur in girls under 16)
•hidradenoma papilliferum
•Gardner-Diamond syndrome
•necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum (men get diabetic dermopathy)
•Sjogren’s syndrome (>90% women ref. Andrews)
•Riehl’s melanosis ?????
•Dercum’s disease?????

 

 

hmtoggle_plus1Majority of patients are men:
•X-linked recessive disorders
•presumably females are less likely to be affected by hemochromotosis given natural iron loss with menstruation
•KS
•Bazex (paraneoplastic acrokeratosis)
•Grover’s disease (??)
•actinic reticuloid (only one case reported in a woman)
•Reiter’s disease - males 20:1
•Hypereosinophilic syndrome (>90% of reported cases are men;  ref Andrews)

 
 

 

(Dr. Halpern says (???) middle aged women don't get Schamberg’s benign pigmented purpura, therefore in women it is cryoglobulinemia until proven otherwise)