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Resnick SD. Skin signs of sexually transmitted diseases in adolescents. Adolesc Med 2001; 12:vi, 285-303. [PMID: 11404202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/20/2023]
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Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) continue to be a significant and prevalent problem among adolescents. One in four sexually active teenagers are infected with one or more STDs. Certain STDs, including gonorrhea, chlamydia, and possibly human papillomavirus infections have the highest prevalence in this age group. The determinants of risk for STDs in adolescence encompass a range of behavioral, biological, and social factors. This review focuses on the skin signs of STDs in adolescents. Recognition of these findings is important since they may represent the most prominent, earliest, or only evidence of an STD. The recognition of the non-AIDs STDs has the added importance of identifying a population at high risk for HIV infection. Although recent data suggest encouraging trends in sexual risk behaviors among high school students in the United States, great challenges remain in the efforts to expand primary and secondary prevention strategies for STDs in adolescents. Expertise in the recognition and treatment of STDs in adolescents remains important for clinicians who care for adolescents.
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- S D Resnick
- Department of Dermatology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, USA
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Sidhu-Malik NK, Resnick SD, Wilson BB. Congenital erosive and vesicular dermatosis healing with reticulated supple scarring: report of three new cases and review of the literature. Pediatr Dermatol 1998; 15:214-8. [PMID: 9655319 DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1470.1998.1998015214.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Congenital erosive and vesicular dermatosis healing with reticulated, supple scarring is a rare disease with seven reported cases in the literature. This congenital cutaneous defect of unknown etiology presents with patchy or generalized erosions and vesicles at birth that heal with striking reticulated scarring. We report three new cases of this rare disease and review the literature.
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- N K Sidhu-Malik
- Department of Dermatology, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, USA
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- S D Resnick
- Division of Dermatology, Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, Bassett Healthcare, Cooperstown, NY, USA
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Ivker R, Resnick SD, Skidmore RA. Hypophosphatemic vitamin D-resistant rickets, precocious puberty, and the epidermal nevus syndrome. Arch Dermatol 1997; 133:1557-1561. [PMID: 9420541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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BACKGROUND The association of multisystem pathologic conditions and epidermal nevi, known as the epidermal nevus syndrome, includes disorders of bone, central nervous system, eye, kidney, vasculature, body symmetry, and skin. Rarely, vitamin D-resistant rickets has been observed in association with this syndrome. Precocious puberty is another rare finding associated with epidermal nevus syndrome, having been observed in 3 patients. OBSERVATION A female infant with an extensive epidermal nevus, hypophosphatemia, and precocious puberty is described. Despite medical therapy, the patient's phosphate levels continued to be very low (0.87-0.97 mmol/L), establishing the diagnosis of hypophosphatemic vitamin D-resistant rickets. At 21 months of age, areas of the nevus were excised. Laboratory values obtained shortly after the operation showed a significant, but transient, improvement in the serum phosphate level. After a second excision, maintenance of her serum phosphate level in the range of 1.29 to 1.61 mmol/L was possible. CONCLUSIONS There is evidence that epidermal nevi produce a potent phosphaturic factor. We hypothesize that limited excision debulked the nevus sufficiently to allow medical management of the hypophosphatemia. Surgical intervention should be considered for patients affected with vitamin D-resistant rickets with epidermal nevi. The cause of the precocious puberty is unknown. It may be hypothesized that the nevus released a factor that induced puberty.
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MESH Headings
- Abnormalities, Multiple/diagnosis
- Abnormalities, Multiple/pathology
- Abnormalities, Multiple/therapy
- Child, Preschool
- Combined Modality Therapy
- Female
- Humans
- Hypophosphatemia, Familial/diagnosis
- Hypophosphatemia, Familial/pathology
- Hypophosphatemia, Familial/therapy
- Nevus/diagnosis
- Nevus/pathology
- Nevus/therapy
- Puberty, Precocious/diagnosis
- Puberty, Precocious/pathology
- Puberty, Precocious/therapy
- Skin Neoplasms/diagnosis
- Skin Neoplasms/pathology
- Skin Neoplasms/therapy
- Syndrome
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- R Ivker
- Department of Dermatology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
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The childhood exanthems include a spectrum of common and uncommon disorders caused by a variety of pathogens. In this article, timely issues relating to immunization for measles and varicella are discussed. Recently reported exanthematous illnesses, including papular-purpuric gloves and socks syndrome, unilateral laterothoracic exanthem, and eruptive pseudo-angiomatosis, are described. The current research and debate about bacterial toxins as the cause of Kawasaki syndrome are presented.
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- S D Resnick
- Division of Dermatology, Bassett Healthcare, Cooperstown, New York, USA
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Skidmore RA, May LL, Stahr BJ, Resnick SD. An acute generalized bullous eruption in a young girl. Pediatr Dermatol 1996; 13:509-12. [PMID: 8987065 DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1470.1996.tb00736.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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- R A Skidmore
- Department of Dermatology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27599, USA
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Resnick SD, Hornung R, Konrad TR. A comparison of dermatologists and generalists. Management of childhood atopic dermatitis. Arch Dermatol 1996; 132:1047-52. [PMID: 8795544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND DESIGN To compare the approaches of generalist physicians and dermatologists in the management of childhood atopic dermatitis (AD), a 6-page questionnaire was developed to assess specific practice characteristics and therapeutic preferences. Surveys were mailed to all board-certified dermatologists in North Carolina (n = 173) and to a sample of pediatricians (n = 200) and family medicine physicians (n = 300) randomly selected from the North Carolina Health Professions Database. There were 307 eligible respondents, defined as those who see children with AD, and 112 ineligible respondents. The response rate of eligible respondents was 62%. The specialty-specific response rates were as follows: 76% for dermatologists, 70% for pediatricians, and 49% for family medicine physicians. RESULTS Dermatologists reported seeing the largest number of patients with AD, followed by pediatricians and family medicine physicians. Dermatologists also reported seeing the highest percentage of pediatric patients with moderate or severe AD (59%), followed by pediatricians (27%) and family medicine physicians (19%). Regardless of the severity of the AD, dermatologists consistently indicated a greater preference for more intensive therapy compared with generalists, as demonstrated by their preference for prescribing more potent topical steroids. Also, dermatologists were more likely than pediatricians (22%) and family medicine physicians (8%) to report "frequent use" of oral antibiotics for AD (63%). CONCLUSIONS These striking interspecialty differences are likely to affect the outcome and cost of care of childhood AD. The data support the argument for conducting further studies of generalists' and dermatologists' approach to childhood AD, correlating therapeutic approaches with clinical outcomes and costs.
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- S D Resnick
- Division of Dermatology, Bassett Healthcare, Cooperstown, NY, USA
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- T A Laude
- University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA
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Steger JW, Wolverton SE, Greenberg RD, Ling MR, Resnick SD, James WD. Dermatologic drug formulary: an American Academy of Dermatology white paper. J Am Acad Dermatol 1996; 34:99-109. [PMID: 8543702 DOI: 10.1016/s0190-9622(96)90841-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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- J W Steger
- Department of Dermatology, U.S. Naval Hospital, San Diego, California, USA
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Resnick BE, Woosley JT, Resnick SD. Enlarging nodules on the toe of an infant. Digital fibrous tumor of childhood. Arch Dermatol 1995; 131:1195, 1198. [PMID: 7574839 DOI: 10.1001/archderm.1995.01690220101018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- B E Resnick
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill School of Medicine, USA
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Persistent limb atrophy in association with a giant congenital melanocytic nevus is described. This association has not been reported previously.
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- R A Skidmore
- Department of Dermatology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27599, USA
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Porphyria in childhood is an uncommon problem but the recognition of these disorders is vitally important for affected children. Of the cutaneous porphyrias, erythropoietic protoporphyria, congenital erythropoietic porphyria, hepatoerythropoietic porphyria, and the hereditary form of porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT) can present in infancy or childhood. This article focuses on the porphyrias that present in infants and children along with a brief discussion of pathogenesis, cutaneous histopathology, and genetics of these metabolic disorders.
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- J D Jensen
- Department of Dermatology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27514, USA
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Ivker RA, Woosley J, Resnick SD. Dyskeratosis congenita or chronic graft-versus-host disease? A diagnostic dilemma in a child eight years after bone marrow transplantation for aplastic anemia. Pediatr Dermatol 1993; 10:362-5. [PMID: 8302741 DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1470.1993.tb00400.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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A 12-year-old boy had striking reticulate hyperpigmentation of the neck and upper chest, dystrophic nails, patchy alopecia, and a white streak on the buccal mucosa. He was diagnosed as having chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) based on clinical findings, skin biopsy findings, and his history of a bone marrow transplantation for aplastic anemia eight years earlier. Dyskeratosis congenita (DC) was not a diagnostic consideration, although the clinical findings and history of aplastic anemia made it a compelling possibility. This case highlights the clinical similarities between DC and chronic GVHD and the difficulty in arriving at an unequivocal diagnosis.
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- R A Ivker
- Department of Dermatology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27514
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A 3-week-old infant had a massive hemangioma-like vascular neoplasm that had enlarged rapidly since being noted at birth. Less than a day after this initial evaluation the tumor underwent spontaneous ulceration and the infant had a near-fatal hemorrhage. Histologically, the tumor was a spindle cell neoplasm most consistent with the diagnosis of congenital hemangiopericytoma. Local excision appears to have been curative after almost two years of follow-up. The case is instructive in pointing out the importance of considering nonhemangioma vascular neoplasms in the evaluation of newborns with vascular tumors.
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- S D Resnick
- School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27514
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Resnick SD, Murrell DF, Woosley JT. Pityriasis rubra pilaris, acne conglobata, and elongated follicular spines: an HIV-associated follicular syndrome? J Am Acad Dermatol 1993; 29:283. [PMID: 8335758 DOI: 10.1016/s0190-9622(08)81854-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The port-wine stain is a disfiguring vascular birthmark that commonly occurs on the face. Amelioration of this condition in children was difficult or impossible until the introduction of the flashlamp-pumped pulsed dye laser in the late 1980s. This article provides an interdisciplinary social and ethical examination of pulsed dye laser therapy for port-wine stain in childhood. Specific issues raised relate to the management of pain during therapy, rationale for care, expectations of treatment, the high costs of care, equity, marketing pressures, and therapeutic activism. Laser therapy in the dermatologic care of children is an exciting innovation that has transformed clinical practice and raised important social, ethical, and health policy issues.
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- R P Strauss
- Department of Dental Ecology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill School of Dentistry 27599-7450
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Feldman SR, Fleischer AB, Resnick SD. Fluconazole treatment of cutaneous cryptococcosis. Arch Dermatol 1992; 128:1045-6. [PMID: 1497357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- S R Feldman
- Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
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Resnick SD, Murrell DF, Woosley J. Acne conglobata and a generalized lichen spinulosus-like eruption in a man seropositive for human immunodeficiency virus. J Am Acad Dermatol 1992; 26:1013-4. [PMID: 1535077 DOI: 10.1016/s0190-9622(08)80345-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- S D Resnick
- Department of Dermatology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27514
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Resnick SD. Staphylococcal toxin-mediated syndromes in childhood. Semin Dermatol 1992; 11:11-8. [PMID: 1550711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome (TSS) and staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (SSSS) are two distinct toxin-mediated syndromes with prominent cutaneous features. The exanthematous presentation of these syndromes places them in the broad category of childhood exanthems, and the ability to recognize these potentially devastating illnesses is essential for pediatricians and dermatologists who may encounter children with fever and rash. Recent advances in the understanding of the pathogenesis of these entities has helped to explain the distinctive clinical presentations of TSS and SSSS. Toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 (TSST-1) and enterotoxins are the secretory products of Staphylococcus aureus that lead to TSS. Many of the clinical features of TSS (fever, shock, multiple organ dysfunction) can be explained by the effects of cytokines (especially interleukin-1 and tumor necrosis factor) induced by TSST-1. TSS is not an exclusively menstrual event associated with tampon use. Nonmenstrual pediatric TSS may be associated with a wide variety of staphylococcal infections. Infected burn wounds in hospitalized children and bacterial tracheitis (in some cases following influenza B infection) are relatively high-risk settings for pediatric TSS. The epidermolytic toxins (A and B) directly produce subgranular epidermolysis leading to SSSS. SSSS encompasses a clinical spectrum from bullous impetigo to the widespread exfoliation of the Ritter disease variant of SSSS. This entity usually occurs in children under 5 years of age, and is primarily explained by lack of immunity to the toxins as well as renal immaturity leading to poor clearance of toxin. The newborn nursery is an important setting where epidemics of SSSS have occurred.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- S D Resnick
- Department of Dermatology, University of North Carolina, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill
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Exanthems are a common cause of rashes in children. Several recent developments have sparked a renewed interest in this group of diseases, including the identification of parvovirus B19 and human herpesvirus 6 as the causative agents of erythema infectiosum and roseola infantum. The resurgence of measles as a childhood exanthem has caused a re-examination of current immunization practices. The most common and clinically significant exanthems are discussed, with an emphasis on new findings, origins, clinical manifestations, differential diagnosis, and management.
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- I J Frieden
- Department of Dermatology and Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco
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Prose NS, Resnick SD. Cutaneous manifestations of systemic infection in children. Curr Probl Pediatr 1991; 21:92-113; discussion 114. [PMID: 2044405 DOI: 10.1016/0045-9380(91)90083-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- N S Prose
- Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
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Crosby DL, Berger TG, Woosley JT, Resnick SD. Dermatophytosis mimicking Kaposi's sarcoma in human immunodeficiency virus disease. Dermatologica 1991; 182:135-7. [PMID: 2050235 DOI: 10.1159/000247763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is an important finding in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), with a distinctive spectrum of clinical presentations. Three cases of dermatophytosis in HIV-infected patients are presented which clinically mimic the appearance of KS. This new observation underscores the importance of histopathologic examination in the evaluation of skin lesions suspicious for the diagnosis of KS. The other clinical mimickers of KS are reviewed.
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- D L Crosby
- Department of Dermatology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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- V Laing
- Department of Dermatology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Xanthogranulomas larger than 2 cm are rarely reported variants of this otherwise common, benign lesion usually measuring 1 mm to 1 cm in diameter. The natural history of such macronodular xanthogranulomas is uncertain, but appears to parallel the generally predictable course toward involution seen in micronodular lesions. Two patients with macronodular xanthogranuloma illustrate exophytic and endophytic variants, as well as the problems of managing this unusual tumor. Nonoperative observation is advisable if possible, but complicating factors may necessitate surgical excision in some cases.
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- S D Resnick
- Department of Dermatology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27514
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Fleischer AB, Resnick SD. Livedo reticularis. Dermatol Clin 1990; 8:347-54. [PMID: 2191805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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A wide variety of internal diseases may be associated with livedo reticularis. In adults, the most frequently encountered associated diseases are characterized by vessel wall disease or intravascular obstruction. In the former group, lupus erythematosus is particularly important, since LR along with anticardiolipin antibodies appears to be a marker of serious cerebrovascular and renal disease. Appropriate evaluation of patients presenting with LR includes a careful history and physical examination. Laboratory studies, including a complete blood count, platelets, coagulation profile, cryoproteins, antinuclear antibodies, and anticardiolipin antibodies, are useful screening tools for the important associated diseases. Table 1 summarizes the spectrum of entities associated with LR and points up the challenge of evaluating this distinctive cutaneous finding.
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- A B Fleischer
- Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- S D Resnick
- Department of Dermatology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27514
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Fleischer AB, Resnick SD. The effect of antibiotics on the efficacy of oral contraceptives. A controversy revisited. Arch Dermatol 1989; 125:1562-4. [PMID: 2530937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- A B Fleischer
- Department of Dermatology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27514
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A 2-week-old infant had grouped pustules on the right hand, wrist, and antecubital flexure that appeared after the first week of life. The infant was seen repeatedly to suck the involved areas of the hand and wrist. Clinically typical candidiasis was noted in the oral cavity and the diaper area. Wright's-stained smears of pustular contents, potassium hydroxide preparations of pustular material, and scale from the diaper dermatitis confirmed the presence of pseudohyphae and budding yeasts in all the involved sites. This case demonstrates fairly typical manifestations of neonatal-onset candidiasis, with the unusual feature of unilateral upper extremity pustules that appeared to represent an autoinoculated cutaneous infection.
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- S D Resnick
- Department of Dermatology-UNC, Chapel Hil 27514
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Two important events in infection by Onchocerca parasites involve cutaneous tissue migration by larval stages. L3 larvae migrate from the blackfly bite site to subcutaneous locations for adult development, and microfilariae from subcutaneous nodules to distant regions of the skin and sometimes the eye. By analogy to other tissue-invasive helminth larvae, it has been proposed that migration of Onchocerca larvae through cutaneous tissue is facilitated by secretion of proteolytic enzymes. To test this hypothesis, neutral protease activity capable of degrading a model of cutaneous extracellular matrix was assayed using live L3 larvae of O. lienalis and microfilariae of O. cervicalis and O. cervipedis. Five hundred L3 larvae degraded most of the matrix within 24 hr of incubation. Substrate gel electrophoresis and other protease assays showed a 43-kDa serine elastase was secreted by O. lienalis L3 larvae. Larvae and adults of the free-living nematode, Caenorhobditis elegans, by contrast, did not secrete neutral proteases and large numbers of motile C. elegans juveniles and adults produced no degradation of the extracellular matrix. Expression of Onchocerca neutral protease activity was stage specific. No protease activity corresponding to that seen in L3 larvae was found in adult worms. Microfilariae of O. cervicalis and O. cervipedis produced both a serine and a metalloprotease, but the level of protease activity of these microfilariae was substantially lower than that of L3 larvae, and no significant protease activity was detected in extracts of O. lienalis microfilariae. Uterine microfilariae of O. cervicalis had different protease species than skin microfilariae, suggesting that changes in protease expression parallel other morphologic and biochemical changes in the development of skin microfilariae. The serine protease of L3 larvae probably plays an important parasitic function, facilitating L3 migration from the blackfly bite site to distant regions of the body where adults will develop and form nodules. The protease activity of microfilariae, while individually considerably less than that of L3 larvae, may still contribute to the tissue destruction seen with heavy skin densities of microfilariae.
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- A Lackey
- Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0506
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Resnick SD, Burstein AE, Viner YL. Use of the stapler in anterior resection for cancer of the rectosigmoid. Isr J Med Sci 1983; 19:128-133. [PMID: 6601643] [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: 05/21/2023]
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The circular stapling device was used for anterior resection in 61 of 88 patients who underwent curative surgery for rectosigmoid cancer. Use of the autosuture increased the success rate to 68.5% for this radical sphincter-saving procedure. In three-quarters of the patients the stapling end-to-end inverting colorectal anastomosis was created within 3 to 8 cm from the dentate line, where it is difficult or even impossible to perform anastamoses by the conventional manual technique. Anastomotic leakage (3.3%) and hemorrhage (4.9%), mild anastomotic stenosis (1.6%) and transitory anal incontinence (4.9%) were the main complications. There were no deaths in our series. The great safety of the stapling anastomosis and the low rate of anal incontinence may be explained by the preservation of an adequate blood supply and innervation of the rectal stump and its sphincter apparatus, as the stapling device needs only minimal mobilization of the bowel involved in the anastomosis. Restoring colorectal continuity after Hartmann's resection is a speedy, safe and simple procedure with the EEA (enteroenterostomy) stapler. Hartmann's operation may thus be considered the procedure of choice in emergency surgery for obstructed rectosigmoid cancer.
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Resnick SD, Burstein AE, Viner JL. [Modification of the non-shunting operation for bleeding esophageal varices]. Harefuah 1982; 102:238-40. [PMID: 6984409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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