The peeling procedure is a valuable method for the aged skin, photo aging, acne scars and melasma. It should be performed by dermatologist. Pre peeling preparation of the skin is very important to prepare the skin for this procedure. It can be archived by applying the mask with acids twice a week. The caring of the skin after procedure is also very important for the success of the treatment. Sa...

Sir, There have been quite a few instances where the physician or may be even a dermatologist (mis) advices a patient having systemic sclerosis that there is no satisfactory treatment for this disease, as has also been done in the paper ‘Therapeutic trials for systemic sclerosis: An update’ by Sardana and Garg.[1] Such patients often feel frustrated and disappointed, till another dermatologist ...

In 1872, the Hungarian born dermatologist Moriz Kaposi that was practicing in Vienna first described a rare endemic disease that bears his name, among elderly persons of Central European or Mediterranean origin named "idiopathic multiple pigmented sarcoma of the skin". Ten years later the Italian dermatologist Tommaso de Amicis confirms Kaposi's findings. For more than a century the disease was...

1 MSc Dermatology Candidate at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)—São Paulo (SP), Brazil 2 MSc Oncology Candidate at the Fundação Antonio Prudente (FAP)—São Paulo (SP), Brazil 3 Assistant Dermatologist Physician, Department of Cutaneous Oncology, A.C. Camargo Cancer Center—São Paulo (SP), Brazil 4 Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology, UNIFESP—São Paulo (SP), Brazil 5 Head...

To determine the frequency of skin disorders encountered in a paediatric emergency care unit and to evaluate the benefits of advice from a dermatologist, we prospectively recorded data of children admitted with skin disorders to the emergency care unit during a 5-month period. Diagnostic agreement between paediatricians and dermatologists evaluating the patients separately was assessed. Three h...

BACKGROUND Skin diseases are known to affect the quality of life (QoL), but data to support this are based on clinical samples. Few data document the skin-related QoL in the general population, and whether its association differs with self-reported or dermatologist-diagnosed skin ailments. Farmworkers are at high risk for skin diseases, and are an appropriate population in which to explore thes...