Striae distensae are a frequent skin condition associated with pregnancy, weight change or lack of skin elasticity. The aim of this research was to obtain a topical product containing herbal active ingredients with documented antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity (Punica granatum seed oil and Croton lechleri resin extract) and demonstrate its positive effect on prevention and treatment of ...

P LAQUE PSORIASIS (PP) AND LICHEN RUBER planus (LP) are inflammatory skin disorders that can sometimes be clinically difficult to differentiate. In these instances, punch biopsy with subsequent histopathologic evaluation is usually needed. Recently, dermoscopy has been reported to be helpful in the distinction between these 2 entities. The lesions in Figure 1 and Figure 2 were plaques located o...

Origins and terminations of fibers of the dorsal and intermediate acoustic striae were studied by surgically severing these tracts and injecting HRP into the incision. This procedure results in filling the severed axons with HRP. Filled axons were traced to cell groups of origin and to some terminations of the acoustic striae. HRP-labeled terminals were found in the cochlear nuclei as well as i...

INTRODUCTION This study describes a pivotal clinical trial of a new minimally invasive cosmetic procedure for facial rejuvenation and for the treatment of scars and wrinkles. METHODS The procedure consisted of a combination of techniques such as fillers, biorevitalization, peeling, and intradermal radiofrequency, emitted from a new device denominated by Spherofill Medical Plus (SMP; Spherofil...

Striae distensae (SD), also known as stretch marks, are common skin lesions causing significant psychological stress and cosmetic disfigurement. They to be seen during pregnancy, rapid weight change, puberty many other pathological conditions including Cushing disease, anorexia nervosa or even excessive use of certain drugs. Clinically, they appear either red raised linear bands striae rubrae (...

Abstract The last few years have shown an increased demand for non-invasive skin tightening to improve body contour. Since light (lasers or intense pulsed light sources) has a limited ability to penetrate deep into the tissue, radio frequency (RF) modalities were introduced for the reduction of lax skin to achieve skin tightening and body circumference reduction. This study presents the use of ...

Assessing temporal changes in abundance indices is an important issue in the management of large herbivore populations. The drive counts method has been frequently used as a deer abundance index in mountainous regions. However, despite an inherent risk for observation errors in drive counts, which increase with deer density, evaluations of the utility of drive counts at a high deer density rema...