Introduction: Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) is the second most common cutaneous neoplasm, and its incidence is on the rise. While most cSCCs have an excellent prognosis, certain risk factors, especially immunosuppression, have been associated with higher rates of local recurrence (LR), metastasis, and poor prognosis. This study aims to assess the risk factors for LR and metastasis development in cSCC among solid organ transplant recipients (SOTRs) and compare these rates with those in immunocompetent patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The incidence of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) is increasing over the years. Risk factors for local recurrence and metastasis have been widely studied in highly sun-exposed areas of the body but less data exist about less sun-exposed ones. The main objective of this study is to compare the risk of local recurrence and metastases in patients with cSCC in highly sun-exposed areas compared to cSCC in less sun-exposed areas.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDespite remarkable advances in tumor response and patient survival in the past decade, systemic immunotherapies for lung cancer result in an objective response in only around half of patients treated. On the basis of this limitation, combination strategies are being investigated to improve response rates. Cryoablation has been proposed as one such technique to induce immunogenic cell death and synergize with systemic immunotherapies, including immune checkpoint inhibitors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis is the first study using molecular and culture-based methods aimed at investigating the composition of the intestinal yeast microbiota of wild and reared carnivorous salmonids, croaker and yellowtail, to characterize their cores and to evaluate the enzymatic activities of the cultivated yeast. Among 103 samples from salmonids, croaker and yellowtail, yeast were detected in 85.4%, with 43 species identified.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Pharmacoeconomic studies examining the cost-effectiveness of biological agents to treat moderate-to-severe psoriasis in real-life clinical practice are scarce. The aim of this study was to assess the efficiency, in terms of incremental cost-effectiveness, of etanercept and adalimumab in a real clinical setting.
Methods: Direct and indirect costs were assessed from a Spanish societal perspective in a historical hospital cohort of patients with moderate-to-severe psoriasis attending a tertiary referral hospital over a 1-year period.
The term "carcinoma erysipeloides" (CE) designates an uncommon form of cutaneous metastasis. CE is most often associated with carcinoma of the breast. However, there have been reports of CE from carcinoma of the uterus, prostate, lung, ovary, stomach, tonsils, thyroid, pancreas, rectum, parotid glands and melanoma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe reticulohistiocytoses make up a heterogeneous group of diseases whose origin lies in an accumulation of cells of histiocytic lineage in different tissues and primarily in the skin. Three main clinical forms have been described (multicentric, solitary, diffuse cutaneous), which present with identical histological, ultrastructural and immunohistochemical characteristics. We present a case of diffuse cutaneous reticulohistiocytosis, which is the least common clinical pattern in the spectrum of this disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeutrophilic eccrine hidradenitis (NEH) is an infrequent, self-limited inflammatory dermatosis characterized by a neutrophilic infiltrate around the eccrine glands. Clinically, it presents with different types of lesions. NEH occurs most frequently in patients who have undergone chemotherapy for hematologic neoplasms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMethotrexate (MTX) is the disease modifying antirheumatic drug most frequently used for rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Several reports associate sexual dysfunction to MTX use. We describe 2 cases of sexual impotence and gynecomastia in patients with PsA treated with MTX.
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