Paradoxes in dermatology

Abstract

Many paradoxical phenomena related to clinical, immunological, and therapeutic dermatology have been described. While some of them can be explained logically, the cause for others can only be speculated. Whenever encountered in clinical practice, background knowledge of such paradoxes may be useful to the clinician.

Keywords

• Granuloma paradox
• paraben paradox
• paradoxical hypertrichosis