Flexible Hybrid Electrodes for Continuous Measurement of the Local Temperature in Long-Term Wounds.

Long-term wounds need a continuous assessment of different biophysical parameters for their treatment, and there is a lack of affordable biocompatible devices capable of obtaining that uninterrupted flow of data. A portable prototype that allows caregivers to know the local temperature behavior of a long-term wound over time and compare it with different reference zones has been developed. Alternative flexible substrates, screen-printing techniques, polymeric inks, and an embedded system have been tested to achieve potential indicators of the status and evolution of chronic wounds.

Photocarcinogenic Risk Associated With Narrowband UV-B Phototherapy: An Epidemiologic Study in a Tertiary Care Hospital.

Background: The risk of skin cancer in patients treated with narrowband (NB) UV-B phototherapy is not well understood. Although experimental studies have shown that there is a risk, clinical studies have not detected an increased incidence of cancer following treatment. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) in patients treated with NB UV-B phototherapy at a tertiary care hospital in the Mediterranean area.

Adult pityriasis lichenoides-like mycosis fungoides: a clinical variant of mycosis fungoides.

Background: Mycosis fungoides (MF) is the most frequent type of cutaneous T cell lymphoma. Its clinicopathological spectrum is wide, and the resulting diversity makes it difficult to establish a differential diagnosis among pityriasis lichenoides (PL), lymphomatoid papulosis (LyP), and atypical MF.

Objectives: This study describes four patients with longstanding PL-like lesions, in whom clinicopathological correlations contributed towards the establishment of definitive diagnoses of MF.