Skin care and hygiene among healthcare professionals during and after the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 pandemic has necessitated enhanced protection against viral transmission among healthcare professionals, particularly relating to handwashing and personal protective equipment. Some of these requirements may persist for years to come. They bring associated concerns around skin hygiene and general care, with damage to the face and hands now a well-documented consequence among healthcare professionals.

Soft Tissue Filler Therapy and Informed Consent: A Canadian Review.

Soft Tissue Filler (STF) Therapy for cosmetic facial rejuvenation is associated with known complications. The manifestation of these known complications can lead to patients commencing civil litigation actions or making complaints to provincial regulatory authorities and alleging that the practitioner failed to obtain the patient's informed consent to the therapy. Data provided by the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA) on medical-legal cases arising from the provision of STF therapy between 2005 and 2019 are presented.

Prevention and Management of Filler Induced Iatrogenic Stroke of the Eye [Formula: see text].

In the past few decades, minimally-invasive esthetic treatments and the use of injectable Hyaluronic Acid Gels and other filling agents to treat facial esthetics have increased dramatically. Although extremely rare, a filler can cause ocular and orbital ischemia by retrograde flow from the ophthalmic artery when injected in any of the anastomosis of the face. Once filler reaches the central retinal artery, blindness is inevitable, and no treatment is effective.

Deep Tissue Sequencing Using Hypodermoscopy and Augmented Intelligence to Analyze Atypical Pigmented Lesions.

Background: Over the past decade, new technologies, devices, and methods have been developed to assist in the diagnosis of cutaneous melanocytic lesions.

Objective: Our objective was to evaluate the performance of an augmented intelligence system in the assessment of atypical pigmented lesions.

Methods: Nine atypical pigmented lesions on 8 patients were evaluated prior to surgical removal.

Case Report: Diagnosis of a Rare Plaque-Like Dermal Fibroma Successfully Treated With Mohs Surgery.

Background: CD34-positive plaque-like dermal fibroma (PDF) is a poorly characterised benign dermal neoplasm that has a wide differential diagnosis. It can be mistaken for other entities on superficial biopsy and be overtreated, leading to unnecessary worry and extensive surgery.

Objective: To report on an uncommon presentation of this entity, the histopathologic differential diagnosis of PDF, and a novel treatment method.

Comparison of outcomes for malignant melanoma of the face treated using Mohs micrographic surgery and wide local excision.

Background: Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS) is an accepted treatment for nonmelanoma skin cancer and has an evolving role in melanoma.

Objective: To review oncologic outcomes of MMS and wide local excision (WLE) treatments for facial melanoma.

Methods And Materials: A retrospective review of patients with invasive melanoma of the face between 1997 and 2007 identified from the Alberta Cancer Registry (Canada) was performed.

Invasive melanoma of the face: Management, outcomes, and the role of sentinel lymph node biopsy in 260 patients at a single institution.

Background And Objectives: The face is a common site of melanoma occurrence. The purpose of this study was to examine the management and outcomes of patients with invasive melanoma of the face.

Methods: Patients with invasive melanoma of the face managed at our institution from 1997 to 2008 were retrospectively reviewed.

Anatomic location of hyaluronic acid filler material injected into nasolabial fold: a histologic study.

BACKGROUND Products instilled within or beneath the skin to improve its physical features are known as fillers. The position of the filler within the skin is one determinant of the end cosmetic result. OBJECTIVE The objective was to histologically determine the anatomic location of injected hyaluronic acid (HA) filler within nasolabial fold (NLF) skin.

Mohs micrographic surgery and dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans: a multidisciplinary approach in 44 patients.

Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) is a rare soft tissue tumor with a high recurrence rate. The goal of this study was to review patients with DFSP treated by Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS) and to compare demographics and recurrence rates with cases in the literature treated by standard excision methods. Medical charts were used to evaluate patient and tumor characteristics, number of stages for tumor clearance, reconstructive methods used, and recurrence rate after MMS.

Mohs micrographic surgery in the treatment of lentigo maligna and melanoma.

Background And Objectives: The treatment of lentigo maligna (LM) and lentigo maligna melanoma (LMM) is challenging due to lesion location, size, patient age, and potential for recurrence and spread. The largest studies to date confirm that for melanocytic tumours, MMS provides high local control rates while minimizing tissue loss. Herein we report our local control rate for melanoma treated by MMS over a decade.

Metastatic basal cell carcinoma: report of two cases and literature review.

Background: Metastatic basal cell carcinoma (MBCC) is defined as primary cutaneous basal cell carcinoma (BCC) that spreads to distant sites as histologically similar metastatic deposits of BCC. There are less than 300 reported cases of MBCC in the literature.

Methods: This article examines two cases of MBCC and provides a literature review of risk factors inherent in epidemiology, patient demographics, and the clinicohistopathological characteristics of primary and metastatic BCC lesions.

Management of lentigo maligna and lentigo maligna melanoma: seminars in surgical oncology.

Lentigo maligna (LM) and lentigo maligna melanoma (LMM) represent a character, histogenetic subclass of melanocytic malignancies. They often present with a prolonged phase of slow growth but once invasion has occurred, the prognostic features are identical to all other melanomas. These lesions occur primarily on the head and neck where they evolve from areas of pigmented staining to the more typical features identifiable with malignant melanomas on other skin surfaces.

Squamous cell carcinoma in situ of the skin: history, presentation, biology and treatment.

Squamous cell carcinoma in situ (SCCIS) of the skin is a problem commonly dealt with by dermatologists. The classic presentation, originally described by Bowen, is easily recognized, but presentation on some anatomical surfaces may be associated with less than typical features. Major aetiological factors for this disease are UV light, human papillomavirus infection and immunosuppression.