Surgical management of vitiligo is considered an excellent terapeutic option for recalcitrant cases, provided the disease is stable and there is absence of Koebner phenomenom. Among surgical modalities, Suction Blister Epidermal Graft is a low cost and effective option (65 to 100% repigmentation can be achieved in up to 80% of patients). We describe how it can be optimized by using an alternati...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and atopic dermatitis (AD) are both immune-related disorders that can lead to significant physical complications. There have been some reports about the coexistence or association of two diseases. In cases concurrence SLE AD, patients may need more comprehensive treatment strategies for proper control disease activities. Moreover, trauma such as excoriation ag...

Treatment of vitiligo can sometimes be difficult and disappointing. PUVA treatments give fairly good results. However, acral regions like the hands or feet or areas over bony prominences like the elbow, are resistant to PUVA. Blister-induced epidermal grafts have been used to repigment vitiligo skin. This study was carried out on patients with vitiligo areas unresponsive to either PUVA treatmen...

BACKGROUND Vitiligo is a chronic disease characterized by the appearance of achromic macules caused by melanocyte destruction. Surgical treatments with melanocyte transplantation can be used for stable vitiligo cases. OBJECTIVES To evaluate treatment response to the autologous transplantation of noncultured epidermal cell suspension in patients with stable vitiligo. METHODS Case series stud...

Laminarization of a turbulent flow due to wall heating has been known for more than 50 years, the point that it is sometimes used as means reducing friction. However this phenomenon mainly studied cylindrical pipes and with imposed heat flux but not channel flows temperature boundary conditions, especially asymmetric ones (that say in presence transverse thermal gradient). Based on recent succe...

We report the use of non-invasive tape stripping to sample psoriatic lesional and non-lesional skin in 96 patients. The procedure was well tolerated with any discomfort described as mild; we did not observe any cases of Koebner phenomena at any non-lesional tape-stripped sites. Tape-harvested epidermis was extracted for RNA, which was profiled by semiquantitative reverse transcriptase-PCR. This...