Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS) is an under-studied disease, and current HS studies focus on participants already connected to dermatologic care. We sought understand how barriers care differed among those who do not receive medical for their HS. From 6/13-6/30/21, we administered anonymous cross-sectional online survey Facebook group had screening question-confirmed diagnosis of Respondents agre...

INTRODUCTION Lack of diagnostic skill in cutaneous surgery may lead to erroneous and potentially detrimental therapies. This study compares the diagnosis and treatment in cutaneous surgery, including cryotherapy, between a dermatologist and family physicians. METHODS It is an observational, prospective study on a random sample of patients that consulted the dermatologist for candidate lesions...

PURPOSE This study aims at evaluating two automatic contour detection techniques especially developed for dermoscopic images. METHODS Twenty-five images of lesions with a fuzzy boundary have been randomly selected. Five dermatologists experienced in dermoscopy have manually drawn the border of all the lesions and repeated the procedure after two and four weeks. The ability of a dermatologist ...

© 2009 Th e Serbian Association of Dermatovenereologists slightly elevated erythema, small erosions and slight oozing. At the beginning, the condition was not associated with pain or itching. Th e patient visited a private dermatologist. Th e submitted documentation showed that the patient had a sharply demarcated erythematous plaque of 30 x 30 mm in diameter; local therapy included betamethaso...

OBJECTIVE To determine the relative efficacy of store-and-forward teledermatology vs face-to-face dermatology consultations in triage decisions about the need for a biopsy of neoplastic skin changes. DESIGN Prospective study of consecutive patients judged by an internist to require dermatologic consultation for a skin growth. SETTING Private primary care and dermatology practices and an aca...

As a result of advances in skin imaging technology and the development of suitable image processing techniques during the last decade, there has been a significant increase of interest in the computer-aided diagnosis of melanoma. Automated border detection is one of the most important steps in this procedure, since the accuracy of the subsequent steps crucially depends on it. In this paper, a f...