Case Reports

Subungual Exostosis

Author:

James D. Russell, MD

Kurt Nance, BS

Julia R. Nunley, MD

Ian A. Maher, MD

Subungual exostosis is an uncommon bony tumor of the distal phalanx most often seen on the hallux. Although this lesion is completely benign, it...

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Case Reports

Subungual Onycholemmal Cyst of the Toenail Mimicking Subungual Melanoma

Author:

Joanna Busquets, MD

Mounica Banala, MD

Carmen Campanelli, MD

Joya Sahu, MD

Jason B. Lee, MD

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Case Reports

Prednisone and Vardenafil Hydrochloride for Refractory Levamisole-Induced Vasculitis

Author:

Joshua Mandrell, MD

Christina L. Kranc, MD

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Case Reports

Anastrozole-Induced Subacute Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus

Author:

Juliya Fisher

MD; Mital Patel

MD; Michael Miller

MD; Katy Burris

MD

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Coding

Work Intensity and IWPUT

Author:

Daniel M. Siegel, MD, MS

Practice Points Intraservice work per unit of time (IWPUT) examines skin-to-skin work of a procedure. The removal of global period visits will...

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Commentary

Making Fillers a Success Through Technique and Patient Education

Author:

Suzan Obagi, MD

What does your patient need to know at the first visit? In my practice, we try our best to start the education process before the patient even...

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Commentary

Mindfulness: Is It Relevant to My Work Life?

Author:

Suzanne M. Olbricht, MD

Mindfulness is a purposeful activity that involves being acutely aware of what is happening now as opposed to thinking about the past or worrying...

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Environmental Dermatology

What’s Eating You? Tick Bite Alopecia

Author:

Leonard C. Sperling, MD

Elizabeth Sutton, MD

Marke S. Wilke, MD

A 44-year-old woman presented with a localized patch of hair loss on the frontal scalp of several month’s duration. She had been bitten by a tick...

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Original Research

Effectiveness of an Employee Skin Cancer Screening Program for Secondary Prevention

Author:

Ugur Uslu, MD

Felix Hees, MD

Eva Winnik, MD

Wolfgang Uter, MD

Michael Sticherling, MD

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Original Research

Impact of Acne Vulgaris on Quality of Life and Self-esteem

Author:

Abhineetha Hosthota, MD

Swapna Bondade, MD

Vinay Basavaraja, MD

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Product Review

Product News: 08 2016

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Photo Challenge

Sporotrichoid Fluctuant Nodules

Author:

Jenna M. Peart, MD

Rachel S. Klein, MD

Xiaowei Xu, MD, PhD

Campbell Stewart

Misha Rosenbach, MD

A woman in her 50s presented with low-grade subjective intermittent fevers and painful draining ulcerations on the legs of 7 months’ duration. Her...

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Photo Challenge

Enlarging Breast Lesion

Author:

Olivia M. Arballo, DO

Thomas M. Beachkofsky, MD

Todd T. Kobayashi, MD

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Photo Challenge

Painful Ulcerations Above the Malleoli

Author:

Courtney J. Ensslin, MD

Jason Cohen, MD

David I. Silverstein, MD

A 58-year-old woman presented in the summertime with skin discoloration of the bilateral lower legs and painful ulcerations above the medial and...

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Pediatric Dermatology

Herpes Zoster in Children

Author:

Nathan Peterson, DO

Seth Goodman, DO

Michael Peterson, DO

Warren Peterson, DO

Herpes zoster (HZ) in immunocompetent children is quite uncommon. Initial exposure to the varicella-zoster virus (VZV...

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Case Letter

Multiple Eruptive Dermatofibromas in a Patient With Sarcoidosis

Author:

Hayley Goldbach, MD

Karloyn Wanat, MD

Misha Rosenbach, MD

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Case Letter

Fingernail Photo-onycholysis After Aminolevulinic Acid–Photodynamic Therapy Under Blue Light for Treatment of Actinic Keratoses on the Face

Author:

Karina Paci, BS

Rebecca Todd Bell, MD

Beth Goldstein, MD

Topical photodynamic therapy (PDT) is one of several effective treatments of actinic keratoses (AKs). Photodynamic therapy involves selection of a...

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Case Letter

Eruptive Seborrheic Keratoses Secondary to Telaprevir-Related Dermatitis

Author:

Preston W. Chadwick, MD

Warren R. Heymann, MD

Telaprevir is a hepatitis C virus (HCV) protease inhibitor used with ribavirin and interferon for the treatment of increased viral load clearance...

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Case Letter

Enhanced Radiation Dermatitis Associated With Concurrent Palliative Radiation and Vemurafenib Therapy

Author:

Karen Y Kuo, MD

Wen Jiang Md, PhD

Susan M. Swetter, MD

Bernice Y Kwong, MD

Vemurafenib is a selective BRAF inhibitor that was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in August 2011 for the treatment of...

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Residents’ Corner

Preventing, Identifying, and Managing Cosmetic Procedure Complications, Part 2: Lasers and Chemical Peels

Author:

Megan Brown, MD

Part 1 of this series highlighted some of the potential complications that have been associated with soft tissue augmentation and botulinum toxin...

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Dermpath Diagnosis

Circumscribed Nodule in a Renal Transplant Patient

Author:

Anthony P. Berger, MPH

Anthony J. Little, MD

Karolyn A. Wanat, MD

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