Emerging infections in dermatology.

abstract：:Idiosyncratic reactions (type B) are a major complication of drug therapy, because they are related to both the drug and to individual factors in the host. In comparison with other organs, the skin is quite frequently a target of allergic reactions, which are mainly elicited by small molecular weight compounds. This i...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Merk HF,Hertl M

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prognosis and survival for patients diagnosed with melanoma depends on a number of interrelated factors, including histological, clinical, immunologic, and surgical parameters. Tumor thickness and depth of invasion is the most important prognostic factor, and helps to guide treatment and management plans. Besides tumo...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Brown M

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hair shaft abnormalities are fascinating and can provide a diagnostic challenge. Current knowledge of structural changes in hair has been amplified by scanning and transmission electron microscopy (SEM and TEM). Dermatologists using the light microscope and polarization in the office can diagnose the great majority of...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Whiting DA,Dy LC

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artecoll was developed about 20 years ago and underwent a number of production changes until it recently became FDA approved under the new name of Artefill. This product contains 20% polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) microspheres with a diameter of 30 to 40 microm, which are suspended in a 3.5% atelo-collagen solution. T...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Haneke E

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lasers frequently are used by dermatologists for their multiple aesthetic applications, but they also can be used to treat a variety of medical dermatology conditions. Conditions such as acne vulgaris, psoriasis, and vitiligo can all be successfully treated with laser, thereby providing the patient with additional the...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Railan D,Alster TS

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of treating the aging face is to restore facial balance and modify shadows. A facial evaluation should focus on areas of volume loss and opportunities to use neuromodulators (eg, botulinum toxin A) and the use of fillers. A thorough understanding of facial anatomy, including muscles, nerves, bone, and fat pad...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Solish N

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Safety remains paramount to the clinical utility of a therapy. Evaluation of safety is an ongoing process that does not end when a therapy becomes commercially available. This article reviews recent data pertaining to the safety profile of two therapeutic classes widely used in the treatment of psoriasis: inhibitors o...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Leonardi CL

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intraepidermal vesiculobullous disorders constitute a wide variety of pathogenically unrelated disorders that share in common the formation of cleft or bullae formation within the epithelium. The etiologic, pathogenic, clinical and, in particular, the histopathologic attributes of the most important intraepidermal...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Cassandra M,Morgan M

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review highlights important considerations in obtaining good skin biopsy specimens to optimize results of direct immunofluorescence (IF) studies and also summarizes the various patterns of cutaneous IF deposition and their associated diagnoses. IF findings of immunobullous diseases, lupus erythematosus, vasculiti...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Morrison LH

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Propionibacterium acnes is a key pathogenic factor in the development of acne. Antibiotics are the first choice of treatment for mild-to-moderate, mixed, papular/pustular, and moderate nodular acne, and an alternative choice in severe, nodular/conglobate acne. The emergence of resistance to the currently available ant...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Sinha M,Sadhasivam S,Bhattacharyya A,Jain S,Ghosh S,Arndt KA,Dover JS,Sengupta S

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermoscopy increases the clinician's diagnostic accuracy by as much as 30% over that of unaided visual clinical inspection alone and has been confirmed in 3 separate evidence-based publications using a meta-analysis of the literature. It can be viewed as an in vivo bridge between clinical morphology and histopathology...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Braun RP,Rabinovitz H,Tzu JE,Marghoob AA

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanoma is a particularly aggressive type of skin cancer, and its incidence has been increasing steadily since the 1970s. This article will review the extensive epidemiologic data demonstrating that ultraviolet radiation (UVR) exposure, from the sun or artificial tanning beds, is the most important environmental risk...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Kanavy HE,Gerstenblith MR

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several nonsurgical strategies for managing hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) are used that are successful in many patients. The overall goals of pharmacologic therapy are to clear or reduce the number and extent of current lesions and to prevent new lesions from forming. No pharmacologic agent is universally effective in...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Kerdel FA

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital hemangiomas are rare solitary vascular tumors that do not proliferate after birth. They are characterized as either rapidly involuting congenital hemangiomas (RICHs) or noninvoluting congenital hemangiomas (NICHs) based on their clinical progression. NICHs have no associated complications, but are persisten...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Boull C,Maguiness SM

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of fractional photothermolysis is a milestone in the history of laser technology and cutaneous resurfacing. Based on the concept that skin is treated in a fractional manner, where narrow cylinders of tissue are thermally heated and normal adjacent skin is left unaffected, the fractional devices have sh...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Saedi N,Jalian HR,Petelin A,Zachary C

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bathing and moisturization to control dryness, applications of topical anti-inflammatory agents (including corticosteroids and calcineurin inhibitors [TCIs]) to control flares, minimization of the risk for infection, and relief of pruritus are the cornerstones of effective therapy for atopic dermatitis. Education of p...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Paller AS,Simpson EL,Eichenfield LF,Ellis CN,Mancini AJ

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, DNA microarray technology has been used for the analysis of gene expression patterns in a variety of skin diseases, including malignant melanoma, psoriasis, lupus erythematosus, and systemic sclerosis. Many of the studies described herein confirmed earlier results on individual genes or functional gro...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Kunz M

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been a dramatic increase in the incidence of malignant melanoma in most parts of the world. Because the tumor thickness is the most important prognostic factor for the prognosis of the malignant melanoma, the early detection of thin melanomas is essential. Dermatoscopy allows the physician to discriminate be...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Stolz W,Semmelmayer U,Johow K,Burgdorf WH

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical imaging has dramatically transformed the practice of medicine, especially the field of dermatology. Imaging is used to facilitate the transfer of information between providers, document cutaneous disease, assess response to therapy, and plays a crucial role in monitoring and diagnosing skin cancer. Advancement...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Hibler BP,Qi Q,Rossi AM

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ThermaCool TC system is a radiofrequency device capable of delivering higher energy fluences to a greater volume of tissue than nonablative lasers, with no epidermal injury. It has been successful in treating periorbital rhytides and lifting eyebrows. Given these positive finding for treatment of the upper face, t...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Hsu TS,Kaminer MS

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellulite is a common dermatologic condition and frequent cause of cosmetic concern among women. This paper aims to update what is known about the pathogenesis of cellulite and reviews targeted treatment modalities that address its underlying components of microvascular dysfunction, endocrine-mediated inflammation, an...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Hogan S,Velez MW,Kaminer MS

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superficial chemical peels and microdermabrasion are used for many dermatologic conditions. A common condition treated with these modalities is acne vulgaris. In this review, we discuss the theory behind the technique of these procedures and describe the application and complications of each of these procedures in the...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Kempiak SJ,Uebelhoer N

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most interesting medical conditions that now afflicts the baby boomer generation is photoaging. Clinical signs of photoaging of the skin include rhytids, lentigines, keratoses, telangiectasia, loss of translucency, loss of elasticity, and sallow color. A systematic classification of patient photoaging types...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Glogau RG

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psoriasis is now recognized as an immunologically mediated systemic disease that may be expressed in cutaneous and joint symptoms. Medications that were once thought to control psoriasis by reducing keratinocyte proliferation are now known to act on immunologic pathways. In recent years, the emerging understanding of ...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Gordon KB,Strober BE

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections with organisms of the genus Bartonella, for many years important only in South and Central America, have assumed significance in developing countries, especially in conjunction with the advent of the pandemic of the human immunodeficiency virus infection. New molecular and culture techniques have determined...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Wong R,Tappero J,Cockerell CJ

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stromal relationships are crucial to metastatic spread of solid malignancies. Some aspects of this stroma interaction are obviously associated with particular morphological features, which may carry prognostic significance. In cutaneous melanoma, level of invasion, arrangement of cells (horizontal or vertical growth p...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Smolle J,Hofmann-Wellenhof R,Fink-Puches R

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiology of atopic dermatitis (AD) is complex, and future treatment options will likely be incorporated in a multimodal approach to management. The new, directed therapies that have been developed will likely be used in conjunction with concomitant continuous or intermittent use of standard therapies; the g...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Friedlander SF Md,Simpson EL Md McR,Irvine AD Md,Eichenfield LF Md

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article discusses the approach to the acute, generalized, blistering patient from the perspective of the dermatologic consultant. Initially, a case is presented, followed by a discussion of the relevant evaluation, differential diagnosis, and treatment options. ...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Carr DR,Houshmand E,Heffernan MP

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soft tissue augmentation has become increasingly important as more individuals seek aesthetic improvement without major surgical procedures. The choice of an appropriate subcutaneous implant, whether solid or injectable, requires a thorough understanding of the materials available. This review of the literature addres...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Krauss MC

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hair disorders include hair loss, increased hair growth, and hair structure defects with increased breakage, as well as unacceptable cosmetic appearance, such as reduced shine, strength, curliness, and elasticity. It is the task of the dermatologist to choose the right diagnostic tool depending on the suspected clinic...

journal_title：Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

authors： Hillmann K,Blume-Peytavi U

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00