Psoriatic arthritis is defined as inflammatory arthritis occurring in patients with psoriasis and is classified as a seronegative spondyloarthropathy associated with human leukocyte antigen B27. Between 25 and 35% of patients with psoriasis go on to develop psoriatic arthritis during the course of their disease. Given that the skin is affected before the joints in most cases, the dermatologist ...

BACKGROUND As a result of the advances in skin imaging technology and the development of suitable image processing techniques, during the last decade, there has been a significant increase of interest in the computer-aided diagnosis of skin cancer. Automated border detection is one of the most important steps in this procedure as the accuracy of the subsequent steps crucially depends on the acc...

Spanish woman aged 44 who, in May 2011, went to the dermatologist with 2 hypochromic macules with slightly erythematous borders, on both forearms, showing centrifugal spread, but no signs of altered sensitivity or pruritus (Fig. 1). The patient went to the dermatologist and was diagnosed with eczema and treated with hydrocortisone. At that time, histopathology was ordered and, upon microscopic ...

graphs and e-mailed them along with a brief history to a single e-mail address at a monitored server. The e-mails were then distributed to the on-call consulting dermatologists. More than 40 military dermatologists answered the consults on a rotating basis in a “team call” approach. The percentage of total consults and diagnostic agreement between primary care provider and dermatologist were ca...

1 Master in Internal Medicine – Dermatologist, Physician and Teacher at the Centro de Medicina Especializada, Pesquisa e Ensino (CEMEPEMG) Belo Horizonte (MG), Brasil. 2 PhD in Sciences – Teacher at the Nursing Course of the Universidade Federal de Alfenas (UNIFAL) – Alfenas (MG), Brasil. 3 PhD in Dermatology Dermatologist, Physician, Teacher and Coordinator of the Medical Residency in Dermatol...

Teledermatology is essentially "dermatology at a distance", using one of many communication technologies to expand the reach of a dermatologist to those in need of their specialized knowledge. Most international teledermatology is store-and-forward in nature, a method in which images are stored on a computer and then transmitted electronically to a consulting dermatologist. This system is more ...

Approved by the Consultive Council and accepted for publication on September 18, 2005. * Work done at Discipline of Telemedicine, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (USP) São Paulo (SP), Brazil. 1 Dermatologist. Discipline of Telemedicine, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, (SP); Ph.D. Substitute Professor, Department of Dermatology and Radiothe...

Clinical dermatology in common with family practice is one the last bastions of clinical medicine. Under most circumstances, high standard practice can be accomplished with the assistance of relative simple tools such as a magnifying glass, facilities for Wood's lights examination etc, and 'high tech' though undoubtedly now a fashion is unnecessary for the most of the time. However, even among ...