Publications by authors named "D W Bartenstein"
A virtual pediatric dermatology student-run clinic was initiated during the COVID-19 pandemic, when in-person educational opportunities were limited. The clinic's aim is to provide high-quality dermatologic care to a diverse, underserved pediatric patient population while teaching trainees how to diagnose and manage common skin conditions. In our initial eight sessions, we served 37 patients, predominantly those with skin of color, and had a low no-show rate of 9.
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- Special clinics for kids who speak Spanish were created to help them get better medical care.
- These clinics had a live interpreter who helped doctors and patients understand each other.
- Patients loved this new way of having appointments, giving it a high score of 9.8 out of 10, and many liked it better than regular visits.
Cutaneous reactions surrounding abdominal stoma sites are typically irritant, allergic, infectious, traumatic or pathergic in etiology. Pemphigus, which encompasses a group of vesiculobullous autoimmune skin disorders, is seldom encountered as a peristomal dermatosis. Direct immunofluorescence (DIF) studies of pemphigus generally show continuous intercellular net-like depositions of IgG.
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- Pediatric melanoma is rare and hard to diagnose, but it can be deadly in kids.
- In a study, most fatal cases were found in white and Hispanic patients, with an average diagnosis age of 12.7 years.
- Different types of melanoma were found, with many linked to moles present since birth, but there were no fatal cases of a specific type called spitzoid melanoma in children.