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Fathy RA, McMahon DE, Lee C, Chamberlin GC, Rosenbach M, Lipoff JB, Tyagi A, Desai SR, French LE, Lim HW, Thiers BH, Hruza GJ, Fassett M, Fox LP, Greenberg HL, Blumenthal K, Freeman EE. Varicella-zoster and herpes simplex virus reactivation post-COVID-19 vaccination: a review of 40 cases in an International Dermatology Registry. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol 2021; 36:e6-e9. [PMID: 34487581 PMCID: PMC8656951 DOI: 10.1111/jdv.17646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2021] [Accepted: 09/02/2021] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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- R A Fathy
- Department of Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Las Vegas School of Medicine, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA
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- Medical Practice Evaluation Center, Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Medical Practice Evaluation Center, Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.,Innovative Dermatology, Plano, TX, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, University Hospital, Munich University of Ludwig Maximilian, Munich, Germany.,Dr. Philip Frost, Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery, Medical University of SC, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Medical Practice Evaluation Center, Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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Puri P, Wiggins M, Yousif M, Pollock BD, Fox LP, Rosenbach M, Pittelkow MR, Mangold AR. Evaluating the potential cost savings from inpatient dermatology consultations. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol 2021; 35:e936-e938. [PMID: 34374133 DOI: 10.1111/jdv.17595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2021] [Accepted: 08/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- P Puri
- Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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- University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ, USA
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- University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Freeman EE, McMahon DE, Lipoff JB, Rosenbach M, Desai SR, Fassett M, French LE, Lim HW, Hruza GJ, Fox LP. Cold and COVID: recurrent pernio during the COVID-19 pandemic. Br J Dermatol 2021; 185:214-216. [PMID: 33657646 PMCID: PMC8014788 DOI: 10.1111/bjd.19894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2021] [Revised: 02/23/2021] [Accepted: 02/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- E E Freeman
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.,Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- University Hospital, Munich University of Ludwig Maximilian, Munich, Germany.,University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA
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- St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Wooten D, Feramisco JD, Mully TW, Fox LP. A woman with a painful eruption following liver transplantation. Transpl Infect Dis 2013; 15:319-22. [PMID: 23581980 DOI: 10.1111/tid.12079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2012] [Revised: 02/17/2013] [Accepted: 02/26/2013] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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A 29-year-old woman with hepatitis C presented 2 years after an orthotopic liver transplant with several weeks of fevers, abdominal pain, nausea, and a painful ulcerated nodular eruption on her abdomen and lower extremities. The patient was evaluated, and her case is presented and the differential discussed.
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- D Wooten
- Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California, Los Angeles, Harbor Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502 USA.
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Fox LP, Pasternack FR, Geyer AS, Grossman ME. Perineal squamous cell cancer in a patient with fistulizing and ulcerating Crohn's disease. Clin Exp Dermatol 2006; 30:718-9. [PMID: 16197402 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.2005.01884.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Cyclophosphamide is a potent immunosuppressive agent that has an important role in the treatment of autoimmune, neoplastic, granulomatous, and neutrophilic disorders. Pulse intravenous cyclophosphamide has been shown to be efficacious for several dermatologic disorders, particularly pemphigus vulgaris, with a low incidence of toxicity reported. As reported earlier, studies performed on the use of pulse intravenous cyclophosphamide in the treatment of a variety of dermatology-related diseases strongly suggest that the toxicities frequently noted with the use of oral cyclophosphamide therapy may be significantly less common with pulse intravenous administration of cyclophosphamide. The short follow-up period of patients treated with this modality so far, however, requires constant vigilance for the development of side effects, particularly secondary malignancy. At this time, pulse intravenous cyclophosphamide is a promising treatment modality with an acceptable risk profile for moderate-to-severe dermatologic diseases recalcitrant to standard therapy. Prospective comparative trials are needed to assess further the efficacy and toxicity of this therapy.
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- L P Fox
- Department of Dermatology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA
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Rootman J, Roth AM, Crawford JB, Fox LP, Patel S. Extensive squamous cell carcinoma of the conjunctiva presenting as orbital cellulitis: the hermit syndrome. Can J Ophthalmol 1987; 22:40-4. [PMID: 3815156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The authors present three cases of extensive squamous cell carcinoma of the conjunctiva invading the orbit and masquerading as orbital cellulitis. All cases were in elderly alcoholic men living in relative social isolation. Total exenteration of the orbit was required in all three cases. Only one patient has had long-term follow-up; he was well 5 years after presentation. The other two patients were well 15 and 5 months after surgery.
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This report reviews the experience of the Santa Clara County Maternal Mortality Study Committee, which continued its local activity after the termination of California state-supported study groups in 1970. A study of 36 maternal deaths among approximately 262,000 live births was compiled over a 13-year period, between 1971 and 1983, in a population group representative of much of California. Although based on a small population sample, the results indicate an imperative need for such reviews to improve the quality of clinical care and to develop significant statistical information on the incidence and causes of maternal mortality. The historical development of study committees throughout the United States illustrates the necessity of standardized definitions and uniform methodology among study groups in all states and territories. A nationwide study is proposed to obtain a broad-based, cumulative maternal mortality series, directed toward the eventual elimination of preventable maternal deaths. The current effort by a special interest group in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is commended for beginning this task.
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Wolfe JA, Stuck BE, Schuschereba ST, Fox LP. Laser induced thermal injury of rabbit cornea and treatment with anti-inflammatory agents. Doc Ophthalmol 1985; 59:277-99. [PMID: 4006671 DOI: 10.1007/bf00159265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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A moderately severe thermal injury of the central cornea of 48 Dutch-belted rabbit eyes was produced with a carbon (CO2) laser. The lesions were photographed with a slit lamp (SL) camera immediately following the injury and at 1, 2, 4, 7, 14, 21, 30 and 60 days after the exposure. Lesion size, opaqueness, and depth were graded clinically by SL biomicroscopy at the same intervals. No significant differences were found (p less than or equal to 0.05) between groups of eyes treated with flurbiprofen (0.03%), prednisolone acetate (1%), and vehicle control four-times-a-day for three weeks following injury. Additionally, eyes were studied histopathologically at 3 and 60 days following injury by light and transmission electron microscopy, and clinically at 30 and 60 days by endothelial specular microscopy. Important clinical and histopathological findings included coagulative necrosis of the corneal epithelium, epithelial sloughing, fusion of stromal collagen, stromal edema and inflammatory cell infiltration, stromal scar formation, corneal thinning, endothelial hyperplasia and metaplasia, fibrinous anterior chamber reaction with hypopyon, and retrocorneal fibrous membrane formation.
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Fox LP. The role of the volunteer practicing physician in medical education. Presidential address. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1981; 140:117-22. [PMID: 7234907 DOI: 10.1016/0002-9378(81)90097-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Fox LP, Weller WJ, Wilder H. Obstetrical caudal anesthesia in a community hospital. A satisfactory plan. West J Med 1974; 120:189-92. [PMID: 4816397 PMCID: PMC1129382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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The development of a program to provide complete anesthesia coverage for obstetrics in a community hospital was undertaken as a prospective project which emphasized continuous caudal techniques. Mutually acceptable guidelines were formulated by a group of anesthesiologists and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. A computerized study involving 3,500 labor patients was carried out to thoroughly evaluate the experience over 16 months. The data confirmed the feasibility, safety and wide acceptance of the program. Major complications were few and the anesthesia service to patients was excellent.
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Fox LP, Grandi J, Johnson AH, Watrous WG, Johnson MJ. Pheochromocytoma associated with pregnancy. Specialty team management and review. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1969; 104:288-95. [PMID: 5781903 DOI: 10.1016/0002-9378(69)90678-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Fox LP. Continuing education for the specialist. Calif Med 1968; 109:252-5. [PMID: 5681505 PMCID: PMC1503211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Specialists are having many difficulties defining and developing more effective methods in the area of continuing medical education. Present unorganized multifaceted mechanisms are too little utilized by the majority to be acceptable. A cooperative effort by parent specialty organizations, accredited hospital staffs and the State Board of Medical Examiners could explore the possibility of establishing standards by which a qualitative and quantitative review of the level of performance of physicians could be done. The initiative must be exercised by these groups to forestall governmental intervention.
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