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Our striking result suggests that topical zinc oxide may not only represent a valid, easy, and cheap therapeutic strategy for the maintenance therapy of EPDS, but it can be capable of breaking the vicious cycle of healing and recurrences of EPDS, minimizing the adverse effects of long-term topical steroid therapy. Dear Editor, Erosive pustular dermatosis of the scalp (EPDS), a rare underdiagnosed inflammatory disease with predilection for elderly patients with androgenetic alopecia, severe actinic damage, and/or a history of trauma to the scalp, is characterized by recurrent small pustules, erosions, and more or less thickened gray-yellowish scales that can lead to scarring alopecia secondary to hair follicle destruction.1-3 An 81-year-old man was referred with a 2-month history of multiple painful thick, yellow-brownish crusts on the bald areas of the scalp (Fig. [Extracted from the article]

A 64-year-old Caucasian woman was referred as a result of a 3-year asymptomatic cutaneous pigmented lesion on her genital area. Tumor cells were Ber-Ep4 and p16 negative. GLO:DIF/01mar21:ijd15010-fig-0002.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): 2 (a) A well-circumscribed lesion composed of anastomosing cords of uniform basaloid cells forming sparse duct-like structures and extending from the basal epidermis into the superficial and mid dermis (H&E, ×2). [Extracted from the article]