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This product, containing onion extracts, has long been marketed as a treatment for scars.

Is it appropriate to recommend this to patients?  What is a successful approach to using this on post operative areas, if any?  Are there any safety or other concerns with using it?

I HAVYN'T FOUND A SINGLE PEEL TYPE OR ANY  CREAM WHICH COULD GIVE A DESIRABLE EFFECT PERMANNATLY TO TO THE SATISFACTORY RESULTS. HAS ANYONE ANY ANSWER TO THIS

DR.LANJEWAR

I'm interested to explore how we might use the "Community" feature of Dermpedia to create forums for communication and interaction for dermatologists in Massachusetts.

I welcome others' ideas for these forums.

One obvious suggestion is that we could post clinical images and histories to get diagnostic and therapeutic input.  A type of electronic consultation that would have access limited to members of the MAD.   I'll look forward to the first member-uploaded case....

Since AJCC staging for cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma was introduced this year, I wonder whether laboratories changed the way they report biopsies of SCC?

Artur Zembowicz

Invitation to come to Dermpedia CME Course in Scottsdale, AZ in April, 2010.

This 33 year old male patient presented with this scarring alopecia fir 6 months.It is totally asymptomatic (in lichen planopilaris it is itchy) and clinically there are no scales or redness.The typical foot print on the snow is seen.

TWO 3 mm punch biopsies were done from a centre of the scar and from an adjacent area of the normal hair follicles(supposed to be active).There was no difference histopathologically and the biopsy of the perinormal skin did not show any inflammation.Inflammation is usually absent in both ols and newly formed scard in pseudopelade of Brocq.

young pregnant lady with changing mole.

I am a residnet persuing a dermatopathology fellowship. My journey is going to be long and arduous. Dermpedia is providing me with so much useful information. I can not thank the contributors enough for the wealth of knowledge they are providing. The site is contstantly being updated and I love the new changes.

With Sincere Thanks,

Lori Acosta Berry

Attached please find the .ppt for the AAD Summer Academy Meeting session on Saturday 1 August called Tumor Board.

Unless it didn't attach properly, in which case stay tuned.

I am honoured for your invitation to this group. Just to check it

Dr. Omar Sangüeza, past ISDP President and current Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Dermatopathology, would like to share the following news with his fellow ISDP members:

I'm reluctant do diagnose these as nevi, but they are small, well-demarcated and clearly not melanoma. In the absence of cytologic atypia and other features of LM, how do others diagnose such lesions?

Quale il trattamento più efficace per la psoriasi? Esiste una
terapia priva di effetti collaterali che garantisca la guarigione? I
farmaci sono uguali per tutti i pazienti? Quale la terapia migliore nei
bambini? E' vero che è psicosomatica?

La psoriasi,
un solo nome per descrivere tante manifestazioni diverse, e le terapie,
alcune già note e altre di nuova generazione: è possibile delineare
chiaramente delle informazioni utili al paziente per un atteggiamento
critico e consapevole sulla sua condizione e sul trattamento?

This is not something that I have seen before. The biopsy was sent in by a rheumatologist from the left leg of 20 year old female. Interestingly, the rheumatologist said nothing else on the requisition sheet. So I got the chart. It turns out the patient has reflex sympathetic dystrophy (complex regional pain syndrome, type I) and has been seen and treated for years in the Pain Clinic here. And it turns out the patient has leg ulcers in the affected limb and the biopsy was taken to "rule out vasculitis".

When I was an intern in Medicine we all carried little notebooks with what we thought was important information to have ready at hand.  By the end of the year our pockets bulged with a proliferation of these little gems. So I've been sort of doing the same type of thing for dermatopathology since about 1990.  When I was in academia, I had some notion that maybe I could work it into something useful to more practioners that just me.

I would like to invite users to comment on future direction of Dermpedia Project.

Visual Perception and Consciousness in Dermatopathology: Mechanisms of Figure-Ground Segregation Account for Errors in Diagnosis. -