BACKGROUND The incidence of melanoma has been rising over the past century. With 37% of patients presenting to their primary care physician with at least 1 skin problem, primary care physicians and other nondermatologist practitioners have substantial opportunity to make an impact at the forefront of the disease process. New diagnostic aids have been developed to augment physician analysis of s...

We report two cases of severe pneumonia due to clone ST93 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) presenting from a remote Australian Indigenous community within a 2-week period, and the utilization of whole genome sequences to determine whether these were part of an outbreak. S. aureus was isolated from 12 of 92 nasal swabs collected from 25 community households (including the two i...

Skin Ulcers are likely to be caused by the increase in UV radiation which occurs as a result of ozone depletion with the culture of the sun. Major other causes of skin cancer are burns, scars, sores, radiation or certain chemicals like arsenic. Moreover, tattooing is considered as a fashion in the younger generations, unaware of the fact that it can cause a skin cancer. However, if detected ear...

Skin Ulcers are likely to be caused by the increase in UV radiation which occurs as a result of ozone depletion with the culture of the sun. Major other causes of skin cancer are burns, scars, sores, radiation or certain chemicals like arsenic. Moreover, tattooing is considered as a fashion in the younger generations, unaware of the fact that it can cause a skin cancer. However, if detected ear...

background: marjolin's ulcer is a rare, aggressive condition that arises on chronic skin lesions and diseases. in this article, we will report 83 cases of this disease. methods: retrospectively, we retrieved 83 records of patients with cancer arising from chronic skin conditions. data concerning demography, type of original skin insult, time interval between original lesion and cancer, can...

Results: Response of skin warty lesions to treatment with intralesional 5-FU was as following: complete response was seen in 200 (80.0 %), partial response was seen in 37 (14.8 %) of cases and no response was recorded in 13 (5.2 %) of cases. There was no significant association between size of warty lesion and response to intralesional 5-FU (p = 0.154), but there was significant association bet...

To improve accuracy of localize suspicious lesion region in dermatoscopic images using Region Growing, the initial step based on fuzzy sets to enhance the lesion region of interest (ROI) is developed. The result of skin lesion detection is used to extract Asymmetry, Border Irregularity, Color Variation, Diameter (ABCD) features for melanoma skin cancer diagnosis. ABCD feature is the rule that i...