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[Botulinum toxin in disabling dermatological diseases]

Abstract

Botulinum toxin could represent nowadays a new treatment modality especially for cutaneous conditions in course of which conventional treatments remain unsuccessful. Besides palmar and plantar hyperhidrosis, botulinum toxin has demonstrated efficacy in different conditions associated with hyperhidrosis, such as dyshidrosis, multiple eccrine hidrocystomas, hidradenitis suppurativa, Frey syndrome, but also in different conditions worsened by hyperhidrosis such as Hailey-Hailey disease, Darier disease, inversed psoriasis, aquagenic palmoplantar keratoderma, pachyonychia congenital. Moreover, different cutaneous conditions associated with sensitive disorders and/or neurological involvements could benefit from botulinum toxin, for example anal fissures, leg ulcers, lichen simplex, notalgia paresthetica, vestibulitis. Endly, a case of cutis laxa was described where the patient was improved by cutaneous injections of botulinum toxin.

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Immunology
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inserm-00484435 , version 1 (18-05-2010)

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R. Messikh, L. Atallah, François Aubin, Philippe Humbert. [Botulinum toxin in disabling dermatological diseases]. Annales de Dermatologie et de Vénéréologie, 2009, 136 Suppl 4, pp.S129-136. ⟨10.1016/S0151-9638(09)74540-5⟩. ⟨inserm-00484435⟩

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