Publications by authors named "Jennifer Jallo"
This case discusses a 55-year-old patient who was evaluated at a dermatology outpatient clinic for a chronic, pruritic, and painful hyperkeratotic plaque located on her scalp vertex. Given the size of the plaque and its thick, yellow scales, an initial clinical diagnosis of seborrheic dermatitis was favored. However, after weeks of unsuccessful treatment with ketoconazole shampoo, topical fluocinolone 0.
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- Phytophotodermatitis is a skin reaction caused by contact with plant chemicals (furocoumarins) and sunlight exposure, observed in a case study of a 34-year-old patient post-beach trip in Mexico.
- The patient's irregular hyperpigmented patch developed after handling lime during a margarita, linking the skin issue to both sun and citrus exposure.
- This case emphasizes the need for detailed patient history and examination to avoid misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatments for skin conditions that may appear similar.
OBJECTIVE: Despite widespread use of skinfolds to estimate body fatness, few prediction models have been validated on female athletes. Most skinfold models have been validated with hydrodensitometry, which does not account for the variability in bone density that may exist among female athletes. Our purpose was to develop a skinfold model that predicts fat-free mass (FFM) in female collegiate athletes.
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