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Practical Pearls
Combined Treatment of Disfiguring Facial Angiofibromas in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex With Surgical Debulking and Topical Sirolimus
Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is an autosomal-dominant disorder that causes the formation of hamartomatous tumors such as facial angiofibromas...
Clinical Review
Doctor in a Bottle: Examining the Increase in Essential Oil Use
Understanding the mindset of the essential oil–using community is key to building trust and treating these patients who are often distrusting of...
Case Letter
Symmetric Drug-Related Intertriginous and Flexural Exanthema
Symmetric drug-related intertriginous and flexural exanthema commonly follows a benign course but warrants respect, as it may have devastating...
Case Letter
Foreign-Body Reaction to Orthopedic Hardware a Decade After Implantation
Cutaneous reactions to implantable devices occur with varying frequency and include infectious, hypersensitivity, allergic, and foreign-body...
Photo Challenge
Umbilicated Neoplasm on the Chest
A 49-year-old man presented with a slow-growing mass on the chest of 1 year’s duration. The neoplasm started as a small papule that gradually...
Tips
Intraoperative Tissue Expansion to Allow Primary Linear Closure of 2 Large Adjacent Surgical Defects
It is becoming increasingly more common for dermatology patients to present for treatment of multiple skin cancers during the same appointment....
Original Research
The Gips Procedure for Pilonidal Disease: A Retrospective Review of Adolescent Patients
The Gips procedure is an easy-to-use outpatient procedure for adolescents with pilonidal disease.
Conference Coverage
Birch bark derivative gel found effective for EB, in phase 3 study
"This is the first large clinical trial with placebo of a topical treatment that's worked for this terrible disease."
Photo Challenge
Paronychia and Target Lesions After Hematopoietic Cell Transplant
A 19-year-old man with acute lymphoblastic leukemia was admitted for an allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant. On the 11th day of...
Hospital Consult
Management of Classic Ulcerative Pyoderma Gangrenosum
This article highlights best practices in pyoderma gangrenosum management through survey responses from expert medical dermatologists.
Feature
Black diabetics lose limbs at triple the rate of others. Here’s how health care leaders are starting to act.
The American Diabetes Association is creating an initiative to fight unnecessary amputations, which a ProPublica investigation found...