Clinical interventions aimed at expanding access to dermatologic care.

In the United States access to healthcare continues to be a major issue. Although "top down" public policy approaches hold promise for expanding access, a lack of political consensus has hindered progress. A review of the literature was conducted to investigate the efficacy of clinical interventions aimed at expanding access to care from the "bottom up.

Chronic, nonhealing leg ulcer.

When this patient's chronic stasis ulcer failed to respond to the usual treatment of dressings, elevation, and diuretics, our suspicions led us to an unexpected diagnosis.

5q14.3 neurocutaneous syndrome: a novel continguous gene syndrome caused by simultaneous deletion of RASA1 and MEF2C.

Haploinsufficiency of RASA1, located on chromosome 5q14.3, has been identified as the etiology underlying the disorder capillary malformation-arteriovenous malformation (CM-AVM). Recently, haploinsufficiency of MEF2C, located 1.