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Prevalence of dermatoses in dermatologic evaluation requests from patients admitted to a tertiary hospital for 10
Lia Dias Pinheiro Dantas1, Lucio Bakos1, Gabriela Balbinot2
1Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Abstract:
Skin 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 non-dermatologist 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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