Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia: Successfully Treated with Methotrexate or Just the Natural Disease Progression?

A 53 year-old-woman presented to our dermatology clinic with a 3-year history of hair loss and pruritus of the anterior scalp. She denied drug use, comorbidities, and other systemic symptoms. Physical examination revealed a band-like recession of the frontotemporal hairline with loss of the eyebrows and perifollicular erythema.

Analysis of the histomorphologic profile of invasive cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma from 2002 to 2011 in a pathology laboratory in the region of Campos Gerais, Brazil.

Squamous cell carcinoma is the second most common type of malignant skin cancer. It is also quite aggressive. The increasing incidence of the disease can be altered given its connection with sun exposure.

Influence of aging on the quality of the skin of white women: the role of collagen.

Purpose: Evaluate the influence of aging on the quality of the skin of white women, analyzing the dermal collagen.

Methods: Pre-auricular flaps were collected for histological and morphometric analysis of 218 white women who underwent spontaneous facial aesthetic plastic surgery. Picrosirius ultrared stain was used for analysis and quantification of collagen in five age groups (<40 years, 40 to 49 years, 50 to 59 years, 60 to 69 years and 70 to 79 years) .

Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia and warfarin-induced skin necrosis: case report.

This paper describes a case of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia complicated by warfarin-induced skin necrosis in a 74-year old female patient hospitalized with diagnoses of a hip fracture, deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary thromboembolism. Warfarin-induced skin necrosis is a rare complication of anticoagulant therapy, with high morbidity and mortality that may be associated with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia.