1 Specialist (accredited by the Brazilian Society of Dermatology and the Brazilian Society of Dermatologic Surgery); MSc in Dermatology from the Instituto de Pesquisa Clínica Evandro Chagas da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) – Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil; Dermatologist Physician, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UniRio) – Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil; Cosmiatry Instructor, Insti...

Methods Recruitment Emergency, internal medicine, family medicine and dermatologist physicians were recruited by telephone, mail and e-mail. A total of 140 physicians were contacted. 50 physicians participated. Abstract Searchable image databases can provide access to medical photographs, but until now they have not been designed to support the diagnostic evaluation. VisualDx is a JAVA based de...

Primary systemic amyloidosis is a rare disorder characterized by multisystemic homogenous hyaline amyloid material. We report a case of 68 years old male presented with generalized weakness, fatigue, anorexia and impaired taste sensation. Muco-cutaneous lesions like, macroglossia with bullous haemorrhagic lesions, peri-orbital purpura, and nail changes were present. He had no cardiomegaly, hepa...

Background A total of 67 patients diagnosed with melanoma at Beaumont hospital were included in this study. Our first aim was to investigate the effect of patient delay in seeking medical attention for any new or changing lesions on the Breslow thickness of the lesion and to explore factors that may have contributed to their delay. Secondly, we aimed to investigate the time interval between GP ...

As Mr. V., a 52-year-old male, was getting his hair cut, his barber noticed a dark bump in an area on the side of his scalp, where the hair was thinning. At Mr. V.’s next haircut, his barber indicated that the area was getting larger and that it looked like it had bled. Mr. V. made an appointment with his primary care doctor, who then sent Mr. V. to a dermatologist. The dermatologist biopsied t...