Comparing demographic characteristics and adverse event rates at two dermatologic surgery practices.

Background: Patient demographics and operative techniques may contribute to adverse events after surgeries.

Objective: To identify differences in adverse event rates between different dermatologic surgery centers and potential contributing features affecting these rates.

Methods: Data regarding demographics, procedure type, and adverse events were collected at two dermatologic surgery centers.

Quantifying and characterizing adverse events in dermatologic surgery.

Background: Although office-based dermatologic procedures are generally considered safe, there is a lack of prospective data on the rate of adverse events (AEs) associated with these procedures.

Objective: To determine the frequency of AEs after dermatologic surgery and to characterize the most commonly encountered AEs.

Methods: A web-based interface was designed to track AEs with the input of four dermatologic surgeons.

Intramuscular triamcinolone: a safe, effective and underutilized dermatologic therapy.

Although intramuscular triamcinolone acetonide has been available as a dermatologic therapy for many years, it is used sparingly or not at all by many dermatologists because of concern about its safety, as well as a lack of understanding of its specific therapeutic benefits. This case report discusses the efficacy and safety of intramuscular triamcinolone acetonide, along with description of the specific technique employed by the author, as well as the clinical indications and side effects seen by the author in his practice over time. The report describes the positive results attained in the treatment of many chronic, recalcitrant dermatologic conditions that cannot be adequately controlled by topical therapy alone.

Case reports: alopecia universalis: hair growth following initiation of simvastatin and ezetimibe therapy.

Alopecia areata is an organ specific autoimmune disease in which hair is lost in various patterns. Its most extreme form, alopecia universalis, is the total loss of all scalp and body hair. This form of the condition is very resistant to treatment and spontaneous remission is quite rare.

Basal cell carcinoma occurring in scar tissue following excision of a parotid gland pleomorphic adenoma.

Background: A 49-year-old patient presented with a basal cell carcinoma growing on scar tissue left following excision of a parotid gland pleomorphic adenoma.

Objective: The objective was to determine whether the basal cell carcinoma had resulted from tumor spillage at the time of the pleomorphic adenoma excision.

Methods: Substantial evidence is presented linking the two tumors.