OBJECTIVE To determine the proportion of patients in a private dermatology practice in whom melanoma was detected but was not the presenting complaint. DESIGN Retrospective analytical case series. SETTING Private dermatology practice in Florida, from July 2005 through October 2008. Patients Patients with 126 melanomas, of which 51 were invasive and 75 were melanomas in situ. MAIN OUTCOME ...

Dermatologist Naomi Marilyn Kanof was born in New York in 1912, the same year the journal Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia was created. The daughter of Russian immigrants, she studied dermatology in the Skin and Cancer Unit of the New York University Hospital. In 1938, she opened a private clinic in Washington D.C. She was head of the Department of Dermatology at The Children's Hospital Nation...

M Kaposi (1837-1902) was born to Jewish family in Hungary, originally his surname was Cohen, but with his conversion to Catholic faith, he changed it to Kaposi in 1871, in reference to his town of birth. Kaposi studied at the University of Vienna, where he received his medical degree in 1861. Kaposi married Hebra’s daughter Martha Hebra. Together with his mentor Ferdinand Von Hebra he authored ...