Successful treatment of palmoplantar pustulosis with isotretinoin.
Published in Dermatology online journal
The effect of academic "misrepresentation" on residency match outcomes.
Published in Dermatology online journal
Combination therapy with intralesional triamcinolone and oral dapsone for management of palisaded neutrophilic and granu...
Published in Dermatology online journal
Palisaded neutrophilic and granulomatous dermatitis (PNGD) is a rare granulomatous disease with limited therapeutic options. Herein we present a patient whose skin lesions recurred after surgery and oral steroids, but responded well to a combination of intralesional triamcinolone and oral dapsone.
Cyclosporine-induced sebaceous hyperplasia in a hematopoetic stem cell transplant patient: delayed onset of a common adv...
Published in Dermatology online journal
Cyclosporine-induced sebaceous hyperplasia (SH) is a well-documented entity, occurring in up to 30% of renal transplant patients treated with cyclosporine and has also been reported to occur following heart or hematopoetic stem cell transplantation (HCST). Cyclosporine has a stimulatory effect on undifferentiated sebocytes, resulting in the clinica...
Epidermolytic hyperkeratosis.
Published in Dermatology online journal
A 13-year-old boy presented to the dermatology clinic for treatment of a congenital ichthyosis with a history of generalized erythroderma and trauma related blistering at the time of birth. At the time of presentation he was noted to have red corrugated hyperkeratotic plaques involving the joint flexures, dorsal hands, and neck. Epidermolytic hyper...
Detailed protocol for administration of intralesional IL-2 for the treatment of Stage IIIc and IV M1a metastatic melanom...
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Melanoma claims approximately 9,000 lives in the United States annually. Patients who present with satellite, in-transit, or distant cutaneous metastases have limited treatment options and the prognosis for patients with metastatic disease remains poor. Surgical excision remains the most common treatment modality for cutaneous metastases, but may n...
Multimodal therapy of idiopathic pyoderma gangrenosum.
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A 13-year old girl was admitted to the University of California Davis Medical Center for evaluation and treatment of cutaneous bullae and ulcerations over her lower extremities that were refractory to antibiotic therapy and incision and drainage. Her disease continued to worsen with the appearance of multiple new bullae and the progression of old o...
Acrodermatitis enteropathica.
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A 13-year-old girl presented with a history of red scaly plaques involving the chest, arms and legs beginning in infancy. Punch biopsy revealed psoriasiform hyperplasia and pallor of the epidermis. The patient s serum zinc level was 36 mug/dl [nl. 66-144 mug/dl]. A diagnosis of acrodermatitis enteropathica was established and the patient responded ...
Mycobacterium chelonae infection presenting as recurrent cutaneous and subcutaneous nodules—a presentation previously di...
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Although the dermatologic community rarely uses "Weber-Christian Disease" as a diagnosis, it still appears in the internal medicine literature. Herein we present a patient with recurrent cutaneous and subcutaneous nodules who was initially treated with aggressive immunosupression for a presumptive diagnosis of Weber-Christian Disease. After more th...
