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 - Jun 2010).

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ACITRETIN   NEW MAY 2010  

ACNE  (Available as a booklet - order now)  UPDATED JUL 2010

ACTINIC KERATOSES   UPDATED MAY 2010

ADALIMUMAB  

ALOPECIA AREATA   UPDATED MAY 2010

AZATHIOPRINE   UPDATED MAY 2010

BASAL CELL CARCINOMA 

BOILS   UPDATED MAY 2010

BOWEN'S DISEASE   UPDATED MAY 2010

CHONDRODERMATITIS NODULARIS   UPDATED JUL 2010

CICLOSPORIN   UPDATED JAN 2010

CONGENITAL ERYTHROPOIETIC PORPHYRIA 

CONTACT DERMATITIS  (Available as a booklet - order now)

CRYOTHERAPY 

CYSTS - EPIDERMOID AND PILAR 

DAPSONE

DARIER'S DISEASE

DERMATITIS HERPETIFORMIS  

DERMATOFIBROMA

DIGITAL MYXOID CYST 

DISCOID ECZEMA 

DISCOID LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS  

DYSTROPHIC EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA 

ECZEMA (ATOPIC ECZEMA) (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   UPDATED FEB 2010

ERYTHROPOIETIC PROTOPORPHYRIA 

ETANERCEPT  

FOLLICULITIS BARBAE  UPDATED JUL 2010

FUMARIC ACID ESTERS  NEW JUN 2010

FUNGAL INFECTIONS OF NAILS   UPDATED APR 2010

GRANULOMA ANNULARE   UPDATED JAN 2010

HAILEY-HAILEY DISEASE 

HEAD LICE  

HERPES SIMPLEX  

HIDRADENITIS SUPPURATIVA  

HIRSUTISM   UPDATED MAR 2010

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

HYDROA VACCINIFORME  

HYDROXYCARBAMIDE   UPDATED FEB 2010

HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE   UPDATED FEB 2010

HYPERHIDROSIS   UPDATED MAR 2010

ICHTHYOSIS  (Available as a booklet - order now)   UPDATED FEB 2010

IMMUNISATION

IMPETIGO  

INFLIXIMAB  

INTRALESIONAL STEROID THERAPY  

KELOIDS  

KERATOACANTHOMA   UPDATED MAY 2010

KERATOSIS PILARIS  

LICHEN PLANUS   

LICHEN SCLEROSUS   UPDATED MAR 2010

LINEAR IGA DISEASE   UPDATED APR 2010

MELANOCYTIC NAEVI (MOLES)   UPDATED MAY 2010

MELANOMA  

MELASMA 

MEPACRINE   UPDATED MAR 2010

METHOTREXATE   UPDATED APR 2010

MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM  

MORPHOEA   UPDATED MAY 2010

MYCOPHENOLATE MOFETIL   UPDATED MAY 2010

MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES 

NECROBIOSIS LIPOIDICA  

NITROGEN MUSTARD   UPDATED MAY 2010

NODULAR PRURIGO   UPDATED MAY 2010

ORAL CORTICOSTEROIDS   UPDATED MAR 2010

ORAL LICHEN PLANUS 

ORAL PEMPHIGOID 

PARONYCHIA - CHRONIC   UPDATED MAR 2010

PATCH TESTING   NEW JUN 2010

PEMPHIGOID   UPDATED MAR 2010

PEMPHIGOID (HERPES) GESTATIONIS

PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS   UPDATED APR 2010

PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY 

PHOTOTHERAPY 

PITYRIASIS LICHENOIDES   UPDATED MAY 2010

PITYRIASIS ROSEA  

PITYRIASIS RUBRA PILARIS   UPDATED MAY 2010

PITYRIASIS VERSICOLOR  

PLANTAR WARTS (VERRUCAS) 

PLANTAR WARTS (VERRUCAS) - MANDARIN   TRANSLATED JAN 2010

POLYMORPHIC ERUPTION OF PREGNANCY (PEP)

POLYMORPHIC LIGHT ERUPTION   UPDATED APR 2010

PORPHYRIA CUTANEA TARDA (PCT)   UPDATED MAY 2010

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

PRURIGO NODULARIS  UPDATED MAY 2010

PRURITUS ANI   UPDATED MAY 2010

PSEUDOFOLLICULITIS   UPDATED MAY 2010

PSORIASIS - AN OVERVIEW  (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)

PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM   NEW JUN 2010

PYOGENIC GRANULOMA  

RADIOTHERAPY FOR SKIN CANCER   NEW JUN 2010

ROSACEA 

SARCOIDOSIS   UPDATED MAY 2010

SCABIES   UPDATED MAY 2010 

SEBORRHOEIC DERMATITIS 

SEBORRHOEIC WARTS  

SEBORRHEIC WARTS - MANDARIN   TRANSLATED JAN 2010

SHINGLES   UPDATED MAY 2010

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

SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA 

STAPHYLOCOCCAL SCALDED SKIN SYNDROME 

SUBACUTE LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS (SCLE)   UPDATED MAY 2010

TRANSPLANT PATIENTS - INFORMATION ABOUT SKIN CANCER 

TRANSPLANT PATIENTS - INFORMATION ABOUT SKIN CANCER FOR PATIENTS AWAITING AN ORGAN TRANSPLANT   UPDATED MAY 2010

URTICARIA & ANGIO-OEDEMA  (Available as a booklet - order now)

URTICARIA PIGMENTOSA  

USTEKINUMAB   NEW JAN 2010

VASCULAR BIRTHMARKS  (Available as a booklet - order now)

VENOUS ECZEMA   NEW APR 2010

VENOUS LEG ULCERS   UPDATED MAY 2010

VESTIBULODYNIA 

VITILIGO   UPDATED JUL 2010

VULVAL SKINCARE 

VULVODYNIA