Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a major complication of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplants (allo-HSCT) associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The earliest and most common manifestation is cutaneous graft-versus-host disease. This review focuses on the pathophysiology, clinical features, prevention and treatment of cutaneous graft-versus-host disease. We discuss var...

Cent European J Urol 2014; 67: 208-209 10.5173/ceju.2014.02.art21 The paper by Kaysan et al. [1] is timely, given the vast increase in the eroded and transected urethras which are increasingly being reported as a consequence of the midurethral sling operation. A Martius transposition graft is an important tool for management of such problems. From a practical perspective, a vascularized fat gra...

A major question challenging immunobiologists relates to those mechanisms that control the selective movement of cells involved in immune and inflammatory processes at various tissue sites such as the skin. Little is known about those influences that control the selective migration of macrophage-like Langerhans cells (LC) to normal epidermis, where it is uniformly distributed. Mechanistically, ...