The diversity and utility of laser procedures have increased over the recent years and nowadays, applications for medical and cosmetic reasons have increased considerably. Problematic intraoral and cutaneous hirsutisms have been described as a consequence of complex reconstruction usually after oncology surgery. We present three patients in whom hair removal laser was performed on grafts and flaps in different compromised anatomical areas: oral cavity, penis, and auricular pavilion.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAutoinflammatory syndromes are a recently described group of conditions caused by mutations in multiple genes that code for proteins of the innate immune system. Cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes are autoinflammatory diseases comprising three clinically overlapping disorders: familial cold urticaria syndrome, Muckle-Wells syndrome (MWS), and neonatal-onset multisystem inflammatory disease. MWS is characterized by a moderate phenotype with fever, rash, arthralgia, conjunctivitis, sensorineural deafness, and potentially life-threatening amyloidosis.
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