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Madalene C. Y. Heng
The use of free grafts to close defects in wounds following surgery has long been utilized in dermatology practice. However, because of the low survival of the grafts, their popularity has dwindled over recent years. The use of techniques such as attaching an…
Khalifa E. Sharquie, Muhsin A. Al-Dhalimi, Adil A. Noaimi, Hussein A. Al-Sultany
Background : Lifa disease (Frictional dermal melanosis over bony prominences) has been described in Iraq for the first time in 1993, as a new distinctive pigmentary skin condition that followed chronic friction with a body washing agent (lifa) during bathing.…
Miranda A. Farage, Christian P. Mandl, Enzo Berardesca, Howard I. Maibach
Background: Many consumers in the USA and Europe define themselves as having sensitive skin, a phenomenon whose etiology appears to include both physiological and psychosocial factors. Objectives: Sensitive skin data from the developing world is sparse. This…
Khalifa E. Sharquie, Hayder R. Al-Hamamy, Adil A. Noaimi, Ali F. Tahir
Background: Acne vulgaris is a common skin disease. Its pathogenesis is multifactorial, and therapy can now be directed at many of these factors. Among these factors are androgen hormones which play an important role in the pathogenesis of acne. Accordingly,m…
Khalifa E. Sharquie, Adil A. Noaimi, Ali A. Al-Jobori
Background: Epidermodysplasia verruciformis (EV) is a skin disease associated with numerous early onset viral warts on the sun exposed parts of the body that usually progress into different skin malignancies. Kidney transplant patients are also commonly assoc…
Tamara Lemos Maia-Figueiró, Alexandre Nakao Odashiro, Giovanna Padoa de Menezes, Lilian Rezende Coelho, Ili Breda, Bruno Areco de Souza, Ernesto Antonio Figueiró-Filho
Background: In recent years, so-called “non-ablative rejuvenation” has been carried out with the use of lasers or intense pulsed light (IPL) to stimulate collagen production by dermal fibroblasts. Intradermal infusion of CO 2 stimulates fibroblasts and the sy…
Yasunaga Hidekazu, Takahashi Akiko, Ito Kazue, Ueda Masahisa, Urakawa Hiroshi
A novel colourant for hair dyeing was prepared by an enzymatic reaction with (+)-catechin and its characteristics as a hair dyestuff were studied. The study is aimed at inventing the hair dyestuff that is human- and eco-friendly. One potentially powerful dyes…
Tian-Xiao Meng, Chao-Feng Zhang, Tomofumi Miyamoto, Hiroya Ishikawa, Kuniyoshi Shimizu, Shoji Ohga, Ryuichiro Kondo
In the course to find a stimulating compound for melanin biosynthesis, which should be useful for a gray and a white hair-preventive agent or tanning agent, we evaluated the effects of the methanol extract from mushroom of Pleurotus citrinopileatus on melanin…
R. Stephen Mulholland, D. H. Ahn, Michael Kreindel, Malcolm Paul
This paper reports the clinical experience of a multi-center, multiple physician trial with a novel fractional radiofrequency ablative skin resurfacing and rejuvenation device (Fractora, Invasix, Israel) deployed on both Caucasian skin types I - III and Asian…
Hiromasa Matsuda, Naoki Oiso, Yukie Fujita, Hiroshi Ikegami, Akira Kawada
Scleredema diabeticorum is an uncommon skin disorder showing a diffuse, symmetrical, and non-pitting persistent in-duration developing initially on the nape. It usually occurs in patients with poorly controlled or insulin-resistant diabetes mellitus. We prese…
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