Dermatology inpatient consultations in Latin America: 3-year experience in our University Hospital setting.

Background: Dermatology patients are mostly seen in outpatient clinics; however, there is a significant need for consultations within the hospital setting.

Methods: Here we describe the hospital consultations received by the Dermatology Service during a 3-year period.

Results: Most of the requested consultations came from the Internal Medicine Department and the surgical departments.

Cutaneous amyloidosis associated with autoimmune hepatitis-primary biliary cirrhosis overlap syndrome.

Cutaneous amyloidosis is a rare disease characterized by the deposition of amyloid in the dermis. It can be primary or secondary, depending on associated diseases. It has been linked to various autoimmune diseases, including primary biliary cirrhosis.

[Current treatments for advanced stage melanoma].

Melanoma has shown a greater increase in frequency as compared to other neoplasms, demonstrated by a 619% incidence increase in the USA from 1950 to the year 2000. Its treatment has always been a challenge, and once it has metastasized, there are no available curative regimens. In recent years considerable progress in the understanding of its pathophysiology and progression has been achieved; with the description of the genetic, molecular, and immunologic changes, new and specific drugs have been developed, with better response rates than conventional chemotherapy.

Clinical features and outcome of mucormycosis.

Mucormycosis (MCM) is a life-threatening infection that carries high mortality rates despite recent advances in its diagnosis and treatment. The objective was to report 14 cases of mucormycosis infection and review the relevant literature. We retrospectively analyzed the demographic and clinical data of 14 consecutive patients that presented with MCM in a tertiary-care teaching hospital in northern Mexico.