Sentences with word «lichenification»

Elephant skin would be consistent with long term irritation leading to lichenification of the skin which causes hair loss and the elephant skin appearance; the irritation may be caused by allergies, parasites, infections (particularly Malassezia dermatitis) or endocrine disorders.

The white arrow points to mild hair loss, hyperpigmentation, and lichenification in a Yorkie.

Chronic changes to the skin can occur, especially lichenification and hyperpigmentation.

Limited studies show that acupressure can help relieve the symptoms of itch and lichenification — thick, leathery skin.

Other lesions include crusts, erythema, hyperpigmentation, and lichenification.

In chronic cases the ears can change color (hyperpigmentation) and a thickening and hardening of the skin (lichenification) can occur.

In chronic some skin areas will suffer from hyperpigmentation (darkening of the skin) and thickening (lichenification).

Lichenification (dark tough skin) is a common finding with chronic fungal infections or continuous scratching from allergies; it is important to determine an underlying cause but if the cause is an allergy, then finding the specific allergen can be difficult and unrewarding.

Chronic cases may develop seborrhea, alopecia, crusting, lichenification, acral lick granulomas, and pyotraumatic dermatitis (FIGURE 3).

Dermatological lesions included alopecia, erythema, papulae, crusting and lichenification.

The gross appearance of skin lesions was as follows: focal or multifocal alopecia (n = 17; 90 %)(Fig. 1), erythema (n = 15; 79 %), papulae (n = 11; 57.9 %), crusting (n = 5; 26.3 %) and lichenification (n = 2; 10.5 %).

Lesions that develop secondary to self - trauma include alopecia, erythema, scaling, salivary staining, hemorrhagic crusts, excoriations, lichenification, hyperpigmentation, superficial staphylococcal pyoderma, Malassezia and bacterial overgrowth, and allergic otitis externa.