Background: The maximum thickness of a primary malignant melanoma as measured by
Breslow's method is currently the most important prognostic factor. However, some thin …

More than 200 patients with prurigo pigmentosa, a disease described first by Nagashima in
1971, have been reported on in Japan, but only 28 non-Japanese patients have come to …

Cognitive-behavioral models of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) propose that information-processing
biases--in particular, selective attention to a defect in one's appearance as well as …

Background: Little is known about the incidence and causes of heparin-induced skin lesions.
The 2 most commonly reported causes of heparin-induced skin lesions are immune-…

Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a highly metastatic skin tumor. To assess the relevance of
the Ras/Raf/MEK/MAP kinase pathway, we analyzed for activating B-Raf mutations and we …

Background Among the most frequent adverse effects of subcutaneous heparin treatment,
heparin-induced skin lesions occur with an incidence of 10.3% in nonpregnant female patients…

OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence and causes of skin reactions to the synthetic
pentasaccharide fondaparinux. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients who received prophylactic/…

Eosinophilic cellulitis (Wells' syndrome) is a recurrent inflammatory dermatosis characterized
by massive infiltration of eosinophils into the skin. Drugs and pathogens have been …

Background: The etiopathology of chronic eczematous lesions of the palms and/or soles
remains elusive in a considerable proportion of patients. Accumulating evidence suggests that …

We report the case of a woman who developed an early relapse of a squamous cell carcinoma
(SCC) and was thus restaged twice within a year using [ 18 F]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) …