Advanced squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) can easily be discriminated from actinic keratosis (AK), based on clinical and dermatoscopic features. However, at the initial stage of dermal invasion, an SCC might …
United States Burden of Melanoma and Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer from 1990 to 2019.
Skin cancer is the most common cancer worldwide.To evaluate burden of skin cancer in the US from 1990 to 2019.Age-standardized incidence, prevalence, disability adjusted life years (DALY) and mortality rates …
In-Vitro Diagnostics for the Medical Dermatologist: Part 2: Hypercoagulability Tests.
The skin often provides initial clues of hypercoagulability with features such as livedo reticularis and racemosa, retiform purpura, necrosis and ulcerations. As these cutaneous manifestations are nonspecific, laboratory testing is …
Unilateral clubbing-like digital thickening as a clinical manifestation of low-flow vascular malformations: a series of 13 cases.
Digital clubbing is a well-known clinical sign characterized by thickening of the distal phalanges of the fingers and toes. Unilateral clubbing occurs less frequently. A previous report showed for the …
Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis in a referral center in Taiwan.
Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) are potentially fatal adverse drug reactions. The characteristics of these diseases are changing with the use of novel drugs, posing new challenges …
Comparison between cutaneous leishmaniasis patients with facial and non-facial lesions.
We compared demographic, clinical, treatment, and outcome characteristics of facial cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) and non-facial CL.In this retrospective cohort study, polymerase chain reaction confirmed Leishmania major CL patients with ≥2 …
Thiazides May Up Risk for Skin Cancer in Older Adults
Increased exposure linked to significantly increased rates of incident keratinocyte carcinoma, melanoma in adults ≥66 years
Banning Youth Use of Tanning Bed Would Be Cost-Effective
Ban could reduce the number of melanoma cases and decrease lifetime health care costs, despite compliance costs
Skin Reactions Usually Mild After COVID-19 Vaccination
Most common were delayed large local reactions, followed by local injection site reactions, urticarial eruptions, morbilliform eruptions
NB-UVB phototherapy is associated with a reduction in topical corticosteroid and clinical improvement in atopic dermatitis – a historical inception cohort study.
Despite decades of use, the magnitude of efficacy of narrowband-ultraviolet B phototherapy (NB-UVB) for atopic dermatitis (AD) outwith industry-sponsored trials remains unclear.To evaluate the clinical efficacy of NB-UVB in AD …