Alakloby Omar M
Department of Dermatology, King Fahd Hospital of the University, Al-Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Med J. 2005 Oct;26(10):1607-10.
To describe the pattern of skin disease in the Eastern Province and compare it with similar studies carried out in other regions of Saudi Arabia.
All new dermatology cases reporting at King Fahd Hospital of the University in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia, seen between August 2002 to July 2003 were reviewed.
One thousand and seventy-six new patients within the period of the study were seen. Dermatitis/ eczema was the most frequent dermatosis (19.6%) with atopic dermatitis forming 35.9% among eczemas, followed by acne (13.8%), viral infection (13.5%), of which 11.9% had viral warts; pigmentary disorders (9.7%) with vitiligo comprising 5% of the total. In fungal infections (9.6%), dermatophytoses formed 6.3% of the total patients, alopecias 7.2%, papulosquamous disorders 6.4%, of which 3.4% had psoriasis and 1.7% had lichen planus; urticaria 5.7%, pyoderma 4.8%, and the parasitic infections, 1%.
This comparative study showed that eczema was the most frequent diagnosis among all skin diseases and parasitic infections were the least frequent diseases. Generally, the Eastern Province study is closely comparable to other studies in the country with higher frequencies of viral and fungal infections and acne.
描述东部省皮肤病的发病模式，并将其与沙特阿拉伯其他地区开展的类似研究进行比较。
对2002年8月至2003年7月期间在沙特阿拉伯胡拜尔法赫德国王大学医院就诊的所有新皮肤科病例进行了回顾。
在研究期间共诊治了1076例新患者。皮炎/湿疹是最常见的皮肤病（19.6%），其中特应性皮炎占湿疹的35.9%，其次是痤疮（13.8%）、病毒感染（13.5%），其中11.9%患有病毒疣；色素沉着紊乱（9.7%），白癜风占总数的5%。在真菌感染（9.6%）中，皮肤癣菌病占总患者数的6.3%，脱发占7.2%，丘疹鳞屑性疾病占6.4%，其中3.4%患有银屑病，1.7%患有扁平苔藓；荨麻疹占5.7%，脓皮病占4.8%，寄生虫感染占1%。
这项比较研究表明，湿疹是所有皮肤病中最常见的诊断，而寄生虫感染是最不常见的疾病。总体而言，东部省的研究与该国其他研究密切可比，病毒和真菌感染以及痤疮的发病率较高。
