A twenty-year-old black woman presents to clinic with a two-year history of recurrent nodules and abscesses affecting the groins and axillae. She manages this with intermittent courses of oral antibiotics …
Validation of CP-GEP (Merlin Assay) for predicting sentinel lymph node metastasis in primary cutaneous melanoma patients: A U.S. cohort study.
Approximately 85% of melanoma patients who undergo a sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) are node-negative. Melanoma incidence is highest in patients ≥65 years, but their SLNB positivity rate is lower than …
Who writes dermatology randomized controlled trials? The need to specify the role of medical writers.
Medical writers are non-authors who may make major contributions to the preparation of a manuscript. We assessed the prevalence, affiliation, and role of medical writers in dermatology randomized controlled trials …
The incidence of psoriasis in Chile: an analysis of the national Waiting List Repository.
Psoriasis is a serious, chronic non-communicable disease. However, the fundamental measure of disease occurrence, incidence, has been scarcely reported globally. There are no previous studies of psoriasis incidence in Latin …
CME article Part II. Hair Transplantation: Surgical Technique.
The second part of this Hair Transplantation review concentrates on technical aspects of the surgery. First, we review the two main local anesthetics used in hair transplantation, lidocaine and bupivacaine, …
A Descriptive Evaluation of Resident Prescription Writing Errors and Self-Perceived Learning Needs in Dermatology.
Prescribing errors in medical practice are common and may be preventable in a significant proportion of cases. Literature on dermatologic prescription errors is scarce. We sought to determine the rate …
Mycoplasma induced Steven-Johnson Syndrome/Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis: Case-control analysis of a cohort managed in a specialized center.
Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) infection is associated with extrapulmonary complications such as Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS)/Toxic epidermal necrolysis(TEN).We evaluated the differences in epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and disease outcomes between drug-induced and mycoplasma …
Natural evolution in pediatric cutaneous mastocytosis: 10-year follow-up.
Mastocytosis is a heterogeneous group of myeloproliferative disorders characterized by accumulation of clonal mast cells in various tissues. The aim of this study was to determine the symptoms evolution and …
Hair Transplantation: Basic Overview.
Modern hair restoration surgery is based on a technique known as follicular unit transplantation in which follicular units (FUs) are the exclusive structures used as hair grafts. In Part 1 …
Dermatological Manifestations In Children With Chronic Kidney Disease: A Study from A North Indian Tertiary Care Institute.
Dermatological manifestations due to impaired renal functions in children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are diverse and are an important cause of morbidity. We aimed to determine the prevalence of …