1 Department of Dermatology, Charité – University Medical Centre Berlin, Charité Platz 1, Berlin, D-10117, Germany 2 Department of Dermatology, Monklands Hospital, Airdrie, Lanarkshire, ML6 0JS, UK 3 Department of Dermatology, University of L’Aquila, Via Vetoio Coppito 2, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy 4 Service de Dermatologie Allergologie, Hôpital Cochin, 89 rue d’Assas, 75006 Paris, France and Univer...

British Association of Dermatologists’ guidelines for the management of tinea capitis 2014 L.C. Fuller, R.C. Barton, M.F. Mohd Mustapa, L.E. Proudfoot, S.P. Punjabi and E.M. Higgins Department of Dermatology, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, Fulham Road, London SW10 9NH, U.K. Department of Microbiology, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds LS1 3EX, U.K. British Association of Dermatologists, Willan Ho...

to right heart failure, and is therefore a sign of impending disaster for many patients with common heart and lung diseases. We have known for a long time that hypoxia constricts lung vessels and causes pulmonary hypertension in acute experiments; this response may be important in disease as well. There are many theories about the mechanism of this hypoxic response, none of them generally accep...

Dermatologist Naomi Marilyn Kanof was born in New York in 1912, the same year the journal Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia was created. The daughter of Russian immigrants, she studied dermatology in the Skin and Cancer Unit of the New York University Hospital. In 1938, she opened a private clinic in Washington D.C. She was head of the Department of Dermatology at The Children's Hospital Nation...

Conceived in Ethiopia (Verma 2007) and launched by the International Society of Dermatology (ISD) in Berlin (2008) The Task Force for Skin Care for All: Community Dermatology is ambitious but, unlike Healthy Skin for All, it is not utopian and should be possible to achieve. The targets are the commonest skin conditions that affect millions, many of which are disabling or have the potential to d...

From the Department of Dermatology, University of Cincinnati. Reprint requests: Diya F. Mutasim, MD, Department of Dermatology, University of Cincinnati, PO Box 670592, Cincinnati, OH 452670592. E-mail: [email protected]. Copyright © 2001 by the American Academy of Dermatology, Inc. 0190-9622/2001/$35.00 + 0 16/2/117518 doi:10.1067/mjd.2001.117518 I mmunofluorescence has been used for 4 dec...

1Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, Warren 827, Boston, MA 02114, USA 2Department of Medicine, Section of Dermatology, University of Chicago, 5841 S. Maryland Avenue, MC 5067, Chicago, IL 60637, USA 3Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 50 Staniford Street, Suite 200, Boston, MA 02114, U...

1 Department of Dermatology, Charité – University Medical Centre Berlin, Charité Platz 1, Berlin, D-10117, Germany 2 Department of Dermatology, Monklands Hospital, Airdrie, Lanarkshire, ML6 0JS, UK 3 Department of Dermatology, University of L’Aquila, Via Vetoio Coppito 2, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy 4 Service de Dermatologie Allergologie, Hôpital Cochin, 89 rue d’Assas, 75006 Paris, France and Univer...