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A-Z Patient Information Leaflets (PILs)

Patient Information Leaflets prepared by the British Association of Dermatologists. These are also available in PDF format for downloading and printing. Includes the "How to..." series, intended to explain certain treatments and what happens when particular treatments take place.

Photographs of the conditions below can be accessed using the image databases in the NHS Evidence database. 

A compressed folder containing ALL the Patient Information Leaflets is available here (Caution: file size is more than 9 megabytes).

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ACNE  (Available as a booklet - order now)

ACTINIC KERATOSIS

ADALIMUMAB  NEW FEB 2009

ALOPECIA AREATA 

AZATHIOPRINE

BASAL CELL CARCINOMA 

BOILS

BOWEN'S DISEASE 

CHONDRODERMATITIS NODULARIS

CICLOSPORIN  UPDATED JAN 2010

CONGENITAL ERYTHROPOIETIC PORPHYRIA  NEW SEP 2009

CONTACT DERMATITIS  (Available as a booklet - order now)

CRYOTHERAPY 

CYSTS - EPIDERMOID AND PILAR 

DAPSONE

DARIER'S DISEASE

DERMATITIS HERPETIFORMIS  UPDATED OCT 2009

DERMATOFIBROMA

DIGITAL MYXOID CYST  NEW JUL 2009

DISCOID ECZEMA  UPDATED DEC 2009

DISCOID LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS  

DYSTROPHIC EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA  NEW JAN 2009

ECZEMA (ATOPIC ECZEMA) UPDATED APR 2009 (Available as a booklet - order now)

ECZEMA (ATOPIC ECZEMA) - LEAFLETS BY THE NOTTINGHAM SUPPORT GROUP FOR CARERS OF CHILDREN WITH ECZEMA

EFALIZUMAB

EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA SIMPLEX  

ERYSIPELAS  

ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME

ERYTHROPOIETIC PROTOPORPHYRIA 

ETANERCEPT  UPDATED SEP 2009

FOLLICULITIS BARBAE 

FUNGAL INFECTION OF NAILS

GRANULOMA ANNULARE  UPDATED JAN 2010

HAILEY-HAILEY DISEASE 

HEAD LICE  

HERPES SIMPLEX  

HIDRADENITIS SUPPURATIVA  

HIRSUTISM

"HOW TO" SERIES: EpiPen, PASTE BANDAGES, PDT, POTASSIUM PERMANGANATE, PUNCH BIOPSY, SHAVE EXCISION, SKIN BIOPSY

HYDROA VACCINIFORME  NEW SEP 2009

HYDROXYCARBAMIDE

HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE

HYPERHIDROSIS

ICHTHYOSIS  (Available as a booklet - order now)

IMMUNISATION

IMPETIGO  

INFLIXIMAB  UPDATED SEP 2009

INTRALESIONAL STEROID THERAPY  

KELOIDS  

KERATOACANTHOMA

KERATOSIS PILARIS  

LICHEN PLANUS   UPDATED DEC 2009

LICHEN SCLEROSUS

LINEAR IGA

MELANOCYTIC NAEVI (MOLES)

MELANOMA  

MELASMA  NEW FEB 2009

MEPACRINE

METHOTREXATE

MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM  

MORPHOEA

MYCOPHENOLATE MOFETIL

MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES  UPDATED SEP 2009

NECROBIOSIS LIPOIDICA   UPDATED FEB 2009

NITROGEN MUSTARD A PREPARATION APPLIED TO THE SKIN

NODULAR PRURIGO

ORAL CORTICOSTEROIDS

ORAL LICHEN PLANUS  NEW OCT 2009

ORAL PEMPHIGOID  NEW OCT 2009

PARONYCHIA - CHRONIC

PEMPHIGOID

PEMPHIGOID (HERPES) GESTATIONIS

PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS

PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY  NEW SEP 2009 

PHOTOTHERAPY  NEW JAN 2009

PITYRIASIS LICHENOIDES

PITYRIASIS ROSEA  

PITYRIASIS RUBRA PILARIS

PITYRIASIS VERSICOLOR  

PLANTAR WARTS (VERRUCAS)  UPDATED FEB 2009

PLANTAR WARTS (VERRUCAS) - MANDARIN TRANSLATED JAN 2010

POLYMORPHIC ERUPTION OF PREGNANCY (PEP)

POLYMORPHIC LIGHT ERUPTION

PORPHYRIA CUTANEA TARDA (PCT)

PREGNANCY AND SKIN DISEASES - LEALFETS BY THE EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY AND VENEREOLOGY (EADV)

PRURIGO NODULARIS

PRURITUS ANI

PSEUDOFOLLICULITIS 

PSORIASIS - AN OVERVIEW  UPDATED MAR 2009  (Available as a booklet - order now)

PSORIASIS - TOPICAL TREATMENTS  (Available as a booklet - order now)

PSORIASIS - TREATMENTS FOR MODERATE OR SEVERE PSORIASIS  (Available as a booklet - order now)

PYOGENIC GRANULOMA  

ROSACEA 

SARCOIDOSIS 

SCABIES

SEBORRHOEIC DERMATITIS 

SEBORRHOEIC WARTS  

SEBORRHEIC WARTS - MANDARIN TRANSLATED JAN 2010

SHINGLES

SKIN CANCER: HOW TO REDUCE THE RISK OF GETTING A SECOND ONE

SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA 

STAPHYLOCOCCAL SCALDED SKIN SYNDROME  UPDATED DEC 2009

SUBACUTE LUPUS ERYHTEMATOSUS (SCLE)

TRANSPLANT PATIENTS - INFORMATION ABOUT SKIN CANCER 

TRANSPLANT PATIENTS - INFORMATION ABOUT SKIN CANCER FOR PATIENTS AWAITING AN ORGAN TRANSPLANT 

URTICARIA & ANGIOEDEMA  UPDATED MAR 2009  (Available as a booklet - order now)

URTICARIA PIGMENTOSA  

VASCULAR BIRTHMARKS  (Available as a booklet - order now)

VENOUS LEG ULCERS

VESTIBULODYNIA 

VULVAL SKINCARE  NEW MAR 2009

VULVODYNIA

VITILIGO 

 

 
 
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