The TORCH syndrome: a clinical review.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Given the increasing demographic diversity in the United States, clarifying relationships between race, color, ethnicity, and disease processes is critical. OBJECTIVES:We sought to examine the correlation between objective measures of skin pigmentation, racial identification, and physician-diagnosed and sel...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Chan JL,Ehrlich A,Lawrence RC,Moshell AN,Turner ML,Kimball AB

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There has been considerable controversy about the relation between Kimura's disease and angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia (ALHE). OBJECTIVE:We describe the clinical and histopathologic differences between the two diseases. METHODS:We reviewed clinical findings and histopathologic changes in two c...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Chun SI,Ji HG

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recipients of organ transplant who are immunosuppressed are at greatly increased risk of nonmelanoma skin cancers compared with the general population, but their risk of appendageal tumors is unknown. OBJECTIVE:Our aim was to conduct a systematic examination of cutaneous appendageal tumors arising in recipi...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Harwood CA,McGregor JM,Swale VJ,Proby CM,Leigh IM,Newton R,Khorshid SM,Cerio R

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In several studies, delays in malignant melanoma (MM) diagnosis have been correlated with increased tumor thickness, increased morbidity, and increased mortality. OBJECTIVE:We sought to assess how MM is detected in British Columbia, Canada, and to understand the role of patient education and other factors o...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Tyler I,Rivers JK,Shoveller JA,Blum A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since first reported in 1982, published anecdotal reports have appeared with increasing frequency of patients in whom autoimmune connective tissue diseases developed after mammary augmentation with silicone gel-filled elastomer envelope-type prostheses. Although scleroderma has been reported most often, other diagnose...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Houpt KR,Sontheimer RD

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Actinic keratosis (AK) is the earliest clinical manifestation of squamous cell carcinoma. Metastatic SCC causes the majority of the 1300 to 2300 deaths attributed to nonmelanoma skin cancer in the United States each year. Recent studies have shown that intralesional administration of interferon can be used s...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Persaud AN,Shamuelova E,Sherer D,Lou W,Singer G,Cervera C,Lamba S,Lebwohl MG

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We review our experience with nine patients with partial unilateral lentiginosis (PUL), a rare pigmentary disorder. OBJECTIVE:Our purpose was to define the characteristics of PUL and to discuss the differential diagnosis. METHODS:The records of nine patients with PUL were reviewed. A literature review on d...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Trattner A,Metzker A

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bullous lesions associated with non-01 Vibrio cholerae developed in a patient with hepatic cirrhosis who had recently ingested raw oysters. He died of overwhelming sepsis despite 5 days of aggressive antibiotic therapy. Non-01 V. cholerae was isolated from blood, peritoneal fluid, and bullae. The organism produced a c...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Newman C,Shepherd M,Woodard MD,Chopra AK,Tyring SK

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports the cases of two patients in whom a widespread dermatophyte infection mimicked the cutaneous lesions of their underlying collagen vascular disease. Griseofulvin may be associated with an increased incidence of adverse cutaneous reactions in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. One patient w...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Almeida L,Grossman M

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term penicillamine therapy has been associated with alterations in dermal elastic tissue. Well-described associated dermatoses include pseudo-pseudoxanthoma elasticum, acquired cutis laxa, elastosis perforans serpiginosa, and anetoderma. Histologically, "lumpy-bumpy" or "bramble-bush" morphologic changes of elast...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Lewis BK,Chern PL,Stone MS

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cicatricial pemphigoid is a chronic, presumed autoimmune, blistering disease of the mucous membranes and occasionally of the skin. The characteristic feature is scarring at the sites of healing. We report the use of thalidomide as a therapeutic agent to control previously resistant disease. ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Duong DJ,Moxley RT 3rd,Kellman RM,Pincus SH,Gaspari AA

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The responses to aggressive gluten challenge of two dermatitis herpetiformis patients with normal gut mucosa and negative serum findings for IgA endomysial antibodies while on normal diets indicate that these patients have a latent gluten-sensitive enteropathy. This was shown further by the control of skin lesions in ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Chorzelski TP,Rosinska D,Beutner EH,Sulej J,Kumar V

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Livedo reticularis (LR) is a well-known, relatively common physical finding consisting of macular, violaceous, connecting rings that form a netlike pattern (Fig 1). In most cases, it is a completely benign finding related to cold exposure. However, there are many potential causes (Table I), and this can make the evalu...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Gibbs MB,English JC 3rd,Zirwas MJ

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exposure to ultraviolet radiation (from solar and nonsolar sources) is a risk factor for skin cancer. OBJECTIVE:We sought to summarize recent estimates on sunburns, sun-protection behaviors, and indoor tanning available from national and selected statewide behavioral surveys. METHODS:Estimates of the preva...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Buller DB,Cokkinides V,Hall HI,Hartman AM,Saraiya M,Miller E,Paddock L,Glanz K

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thimerosal, a mercuric derivative of thiosalicylic acid, is a preservative used in several types of consumer products, including cosmetics, ophthalmic and otolaryngologic medications, and vaccines. As a result of allergic reactions and environmental concerns, its use has declined significantly during the past 2 decade...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Suneja T,Belsito DV

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bioflavonoids and ascorbic acid have been shown to increase capillary resistance and to mediate potent antioxidative radical scavenging activities. OBJECTIVE:We evaluated the clinical effect of oral bioflavonoids and ascorbic acid in patients with chronic progressive pigmented purpura (PPP). METHODS:In an ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Reinhold U,Seiter S,Ugurel S,Tilgen W

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Spindle cell melanoma (SCM) including desmoplastic melanoma (DM) is a rare variant of malignant melanoma that may present diagnostic difficulties particularly when staining with S100 is negative, weak, focal, or a combination of these. Conventional melanocytic markers in SCM are usually negative. OBJECTIVE:...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Lazova R,Tantcheva-Poor I,Sigal AC

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UVB irradiation is known to produce DNA damage at mutation hotspots in the p53 tumor suppressor gene, leading to the development of skin cancers. Mutations in the PTCH tumor suppressor gene, which is known to be responsible for the development of nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome, have also been identified in spora...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Ratner D,Peacocke M,Zhang H,Ping XL,Tsou HC

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoatrophic panniculitis likely represents a group of disorders characterized by an inflammatory panniculitis followed by lipoatrophy. It occurs locally in a variety of settings and has been reported in the literature under various terms, including annular atrophic connective tissue panniculitis of the ankles, annula...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Dimson OG,Esterly NB

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Knowledge is limited regarding unknown primary Merkel cell carcinoma (UPMCC). OBJECTIVE:We sought to document the characteristics and behavior of UPMCC, and determine the most appropriate treatment. METHODS:A multicenter, retrospective, consecutive study reviewing patients given a diagnosis of UPMCC betwee...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Tarantola TI,Vallow LA,Halyard MY,Weenig RH,Warschaw KE,Weaver AL,Roenigk RK,Brewer JD,Otley CC

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty patients were treated for tinea pedis with 2% topical ketoconazole cream either once or twice daily. All diagnoses were confirmed mycologically. They were randomly assigned in a double-blind study into three groups on the basis of their clinical lesions, that is, vesicular pedis, interdigital pedis, and hyperker...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Greer DL

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A tense yellow vesicle was noted on the back parietal scalp of a female newborn. This proved to be a bullous variant of aplasia cutis congenita. Only 16 cases of this apparently rare disorder have been previously reported. Histologic evaluation of such lesions reveals a distinct pattern containing fibrovascular stroma...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Colon-Fontanez F,Fallon Friedlander S,Newbury R,Eichenfield LF

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A newly recognized and well-described connective tissue disease, eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome, is thought to relate to L-tryptophan ingestion. The suspect L-tryptophan made in Japan has been distributed in Japan and in the United States. Different from many case reports of eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome in the United ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Mizutani T,Mizutani H,Hashimoto K,Nakamura Y,Kishida M,Taniguchi H,Murata M,Kuzuhara S,Shimizu M

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of fingerprints for personal identification became widespread early in this century. How the fingerprints slowly became standardized involves many persons, including Nathaniel Grew, Johannes Purkinje, William Herschel, Henry Faulds, Charles Darwin, Francis Galton, Mark Twain, Juan Vucetich, Edward Henry, and J...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Caplan RM

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is no effective treatment for progressive macular hypomelanosis. Recent findings indicate that Propionibacterium acnes may play a role in the pathogenesis. OBJECTIVES:We sought to compare the effectiveness of antimicrobial therapy with anti-inflammatory therapy in patients with progressive macular hyp...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Relyveld GN,Kingswijk MM,Reitsma JB,Menke HE,Bos JD,Westerhof W

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Sentinel lymph node biopsy for melanoma was introduced in the early 1990s as a minimally invasive method of identifying and pathologically staging regional lymph node basins in patients with clinical stage I/II melanoma. Numerous large trials have demonstrated that sentinel lymph node evaluation has utility ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Stebbins WG,Garibyan L,Sober AJ

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant melanoma presenting as an inflammatory skin metastasis has been described but is an exceedingly rare phenomenon. We report an unusual case of a patient who developed right leg lesions that were initially thought to be infectious in origin. There was no resolution of these lesions with antibiotic therapy, and...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Cotton J,Armstrong DJ,Wedig R,Hood AF

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical and histopathologic assessment of pigmented skin lesions remains challenging even for experts. Differentiated and accurate noninvasive diagnostic modalities are highly desirable. OBJECTIVE:We sought to provide clinicians with such a tool. METHODS:A 2-gene classification method based on LINC00518 a...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Gerami P,Yao Z,Polsky D,Jansen B,Busam K,Ho J,Martini M,Ferris LK

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Photodynamic therapy (PDT) and imiquimod are the treatments of choice for actinic keratosis (AK). As they have different mechanisms of action, it seems reasonable to assume that applying both treatments sequentially would be efficacious. OBJECTIVES:We sought to determine which of these therapeutic modalitie...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Serra-Guillén C,Nagore E,Hueso L,Traves V,Messeguer F,Sanmartín O,Llombart B,Requena C,Botella-Estrada R,Guillén C

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) is a rare, clinically challenging, soft tissue tumor. The main histologic differential of DFSP is usually a dermatofibroma. In 1990, the first report appeared demonstrating that cells of DFSP express the human progenitor antigen CD34 on their surface. Since then, there have been ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

authors： Haycox CL,Odland PB,Olbricht SM,Piepkorn M

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00