For Residents
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For Residents
Reducing the Cost of Dermatology Residency Applications: An Applicant’s Perspective
In an era in which students routinely graduate medical school with hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt, the costs of residency applications...
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For Residents
Annual Skin Check: Examining the Dermatology Headlines of 2019
As the calendar year comes to an end, this article reviews unique issues in dermatology that made the news in 2019: chemical sunscreen, the...
Original Research
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Original Research
Patient-Driven Management Using Same-Day Noninvasive Diagnosis and Complete Laser Treatment of Basal Cell Carcinomas: A Pilot Study
Novel imaging modalities such as reflectance confocal microscopy and optical coherence tomography can be used to diagnose, monitor treatment...
Contact Dermatitis
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Contact Dermatitis
Systemic Contact Dermatitis: Sometimes It Is the Food
Systemic contact dermatitis (SCD) represents a unique pattern of allergic contact dermatitis that may cause a symmetric eruption. Although most...
Hospital Consult
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Hospital Consult
Clinical Characterization of Leukemia Cutis Presentation
Given the wide variability in appearance, symptoms, distribution, and stage of leukemia at presentation, dermatologists and oncologists need to...
Commentary
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Commentary
Updates in Our Understanding of Central Centrifugal Cicatricial Alopecia
For years, many patients with central centifugal cicatricial alopecia (CCCA) have been turned away with few answers and left thinking that it is...
Practical Pearls
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Practical Pearls
Hydrogen Peroxide as a Hemostatic Agent During Dermatologic Surgery
The authors highlight the use of intraprocedural hydogren peroxide as a hemostatic agent during dermatologic surgery.
Environmental Dermatology
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Environmental Dermatology
What’s Eating You? Blister Beetles Revisited
Blister beetles can cause a blistering dermatitis in humans by emitting the substance cantharidin, which has been pharmologically used as a...
Clinical Review
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Clinical Review
Depression and Suicidality in Psoriasis and Clinical Studies of Brodalumab: A Narrative Review
Psoriasis elevates the risk for depression and possible suicide. This review highlights recent meta-analyses, research studies, and published data...
Photo Challenge
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Photo Challenge
Pruritic and Erythematous Rash Resembling Marks Caused by a Lashing
A 40-year-old man presented to the clinic with a sudden-onset pruritic rash of 4 days' duration. A full-body skin examination displayed no mucosal...
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Photo Challenge
Persistent Pruritic Papules on the Buttocks
A 19-year-old man presented to the dermatology clinic with intermittent pruritic lesions that began on the bilateral buttocks when he was living...
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Photo Challenge
Verruciform Plaques Within a Tattoo of an HIV-Positive Patient
A 40-year-old man with a medical history of human immunodeficiency virus infection managed with highly active antiretroviral therapy, psoriasis,...
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Photo Challenge
Widespread Skin Thickening
A 62-year-old woman presented with widespread skin thickening and tightness that progressed over 2 months. Physical examination showed generalized...
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Photo Challenge
Numerous Flesh-Colored Nodules on the Trunk
A 33-year-old woman presented with numerous firm, noncompressible, flesh-colored nodules that measured 3 to 4 mm and were distributed across the...
Dermpath Diagnosis
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Dermpath Diagnosis
Tender Papules on the Bilateral Dorsal Hands
A 58-year-old woman with a medical history of asthma, hypertension, hypothyroidism, and hyperlipidemia presented with a painful rash of 10 days'...
Case Letter
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Case Letter
Melanoma In Situ Within a Port-Wine Stain
Nonmelanoma skin cancer is known to develop in port-wine stains, most commonly basal cell carcinoma. The range of skin cancer types known to arise...
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Case Letter
Verrucous Psoriasis Treated With Methotrexate and Acitretin Combination Therapy
Verrucous psoriasis is an uncommon but recalcitrant-to-treatment variant of psoriasis that is characterized by hypertrophic plaques. The diagnosis...
Case Reports
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Case Reports
North American Blastomycosis in an Immunocompromised Patient
Blastomycosis generally produces a pulmonary form of the disease and, to a lesser extent, extrapulmonary forms, such as cutaneous, osteoarticular...
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Case Reports
Remote-Onset Alopecia Areata Attributed to Ipilimumab
Cutaneous immune-related adverse effects (irAEs) are among the most common adverse effects of ipilimumab used to treat advanced-stage melanoma....