Journal ArticleJAMA Dermatol · July 1, 2019
IMPORTANCE: Cutaneous chronic graft-vs-host disease (cGVHD) is common after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant and is often associated with poor patient outcomes. A reliable and practical method for assessing disease severity and response to the ...
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Journal ArticleJ Drugs Dermatol · July 1, 2019
Recalcitrant plantar warts pose a therapeutic challenge. Cidofovir is a viral DNA polymerase inhibitor that has been used in treatment of verrucae with greater success than traditional treatments in some cases. Laser-assisted drug delivery enhances drug pe ...
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Journal ArticleDermatol Online J · September 15, 2018
Primary cutaneous amyloidosis may be characterized as macular amyloidosis, lichenoid amyloidosis, or nodular amyloidosis. Nodular amyloidosis results from the deposition of immunoglobulin light chains and may rarely be associated with systemic amyloidosis. ...
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Journal ArticleEur J Cancer · May 2013
Twenty-first century cancer is framed by the biomedical revolution. The cancer patient today enters a world dominated by the success and failures of biomedical science from gene to statistic. By any measure, bibliometric, financial, media profile or simply ...
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Journal ArticleAdv Skin Wound Care · January 2011
OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to evaluate a novel infrared imaging device coupled with an intelligent software interface that may provide a more objective means of identifying anatomical sites at risk for pressure ulcer (PrU) development as compared ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Acad Dermatol · May 2002
Vibrio vulnificus is a gram-negative bacteria that can cause septicemia, wound infection, or a self-limiting diarrhea. This infection typically presents as an extremely virulent infection in patients with underlying liver disease 1 to 2 days after exposure ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Trop Med Hyg · May 1999
We describe a patient with African tick-bite fever who acquired his infection while visiting rural areas of South Africa and then became sick after returning to the United States. The dominant clinical feature of his illness was the presence of multiple, u ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Acad Dermatol · May 1998
Follicular mucinosis is often associated with mycosis fungoides and has been rarely observed to occur with other neoplastic and inflammatory conditions. We describe a 60-year-old patient with follicular mucinosis who later developed acute myelogenous leuke ...
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Journal ArticleSouth Med J · September 1997
We describe two patients who had Rocky Mountain spotted fever after they were admitted to the hospital for emergency and elective surgical procedures. We initially thought one patient had a hospital-acquired infection; the correct diagnosis was deduced fro ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Surg · January 1994
Successful therapy of venous ulcers combines local wound treatment modalities and ambulatory hemodynamic support to control the underlying disease. Compression bandaging reduces or eliminates edema, and a moist wound environment not only debrides necrotic ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Gastroenterol · December 1993
Despite multiple invasive diagnostic procedures including exploratory laparotomy and surgical resection, our patient's diagnosis remained an enigma. However, given the clinical scenario and the documented PG, a trial of steroids was warranted. The patient ...
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Journal ArticleDermatol Clin · October 1993
With simple, inexpensive therapy, virtually all venous ulcers heal without the need for hospitalization, skin grafting, growth factors, hyperbaric oxygen, or debilitating bed rest. Although the future promises to yield a greater understanding about the nat ...
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Journal ArticleDermatol Clin · April 1993
Leg ulcers represent the most common chronic wound in our population. This devastating problem often cripples patients, many of whom are in the prime of their working years. The resulting morbidity and financial cost are extraordinary. Fortunately, with th ...
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Journal ArticleClinical Materials · January 1, 1991
Venous ulceration remains the most common wound in our ambulatory patient population. Though precise cellular mechanisms are not yet understood, ambulatory venous hypertension initiates a cascade of events leading in many cases to a persistent non-healing ...
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Journal ArticleCutis · May 1990
We present the case of a patient with lymphangioma circumscriptum that was successfully treated with a flashlamp pulsed dye laser. Dermatologists are aware of the use of the pulsed dye laser for the treatment of port-wine stains and other vascular lesions. ...
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Journal ArticleCutis · October 1989
A case of a rapidly growing Merkel cell tumor occurring on the lower extremity in an 83-year-old woman is reported. A brief review of the clinical characteristics of this tumor as well as its immunohistochemical and ultrastructural features are presented. ...
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Journal ArticleCutis · February 1987
Letterer-Siwe disease, a proliferative disorder of Langerhans' cells, usually affects children during the first year of life. A 67-year-old woman is described here whose initial manifestation was a characteristic skin eruption. The clinical, pathologic, an ...
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Journal ArticleArch Dermatol · October 1986
We report a rare case of primary lymphocutaneous Nocardia brasiliensis infection occurring in an elderly diabetic man maintained on long-term therapy with prednisone. The mode of inoculation was that of a puncture wound caused by a contaminated needle that ...
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Journal ArticleCancer · June 1, 1986
A family with four cases of melanoma, seven cases of basal cell carcinoma, and two cases of gastric adenocarcinoma, is described. The proband, who had three different primary tumors, died of gastric cancer, as did his father. Four of the proband's six sibl ...
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Journal ArticleArch Dermatol · February 1986
Necrotizing sialometaplasia is a benign self-limited intraoral lesion that is easily confused both clinically and histologically with squamous cell carcinoma. It presents as a painless ulceration, frequently on the hard palate, that histologically shows ne ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Acad Dermatol · January 1985
Hyperplasia of sebaceous glands is a common cause of papulonodular facial lesions that occur in middle-aged and older patients. Recently, several cases of premature sebaceous gland hyperplasia have been reported. In these patients the lesions had persisted ...
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