BACKGROUND Hypnosis is an alternative or complementary therapy that has been used since ancient times to treat medical and dermatologic problems. OBJECTIVE To describe the various uses for hypnosis as an alternative or complementary therapy in dermatologic practice. METHODS A MEDLINE search was conducted from January 1966 through December 1998 on key words related to hypnosis and skin disor...

Reflectance confocal microscopy: a useful and non-invasive tool in the in vivo differentiation of benign pigmented skin lesions from malignant melanoma. Report of a case. Copyright: ©2013 Hofmann-Wellenhof et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, pr...

Purpose: Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) is a rare cutaneous tumor. COL1A1–PDGFB gene fusion is frequent inDFSP, rendering tumor cell proliferation and survival dependent on PDGFRb (plateletderived growth factor receptor b) signaling. This trial investigated imatinib as neoadjuvant treatment of DFSP, including long-term follow-up. Experimental Design: The primary endpoint of this multice...

Unlike many other adult specialties, US News & World Report does not rank dermatology residency programs annually. We conducted a study to rank individual US dermatology residency programs based on set criteria. For each residency program, data from 2008 related to a number of factors were collected, including annual amount of National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Dermatology Foundation (DF) ...

Dermatology nurses and other health care professionals may sometimes fail to appreciate and recognize the physical and emotional challenges faced by patients with a particular chronic dermatologic disease or condition. To better bring patients’ feelings and perceptions into focus, the Dermatology Nursing Editorial Board is excited to introduce a new series, “Patients’ Perspectives: Living With....