Determining the safety of office-based surgery: what 10 years of Florida data and 6 years of Alabama data reveal.

Background: This is a continued examination of 10 years of prospectively collected Florida in-office adverse event data and new comparable data from mandatory Alabama in-office adverse event data reporting.

Objective: To determine which office surgical procedures have resulted in reported complications.

Methods: This study is a compilation of mandatory reporting of office surgical complications by Florida and Alabama physicians to a central agency.

Outcome of 6 years of protocol use for preventing wrong site office surgery.

Background: Patient safety is emerging as an integral part of the overall strategy to improve health care in the United States. Wrong site surgery is correctly noted to be a sentinel event and great efforts must be made to avoid it.

Objective: We sought to determine the incidence of wrong site surgery after implementation of a preoperative protocol in patients presenting for treatment of skin cancer at a high-volume, Joint Commission-accredited, tertiary referral center for dermatologic surgery.

Mohs micrographic surgery for the treatment of cutaneous leiomyosarcoma.

Background: Cutaneous leiomyosarcoma is an extremely rare, malignant mesenchymal tumor of smooth muscle origin. Although generally considered a low-grade malignancy, there may be significant local invasion and subclinical extension. Rare cases of metastasis have been reported.

Evidence based or theoretical concern? Pseudotumor cerebri and depression as acitretin side effects.

Oral retinoids are among the first line agents for treatment of pustular and erythrodermic psoriasis, and they are effective in combination with phototherapy and other topical and systemic agents for the treatment of plaque psoriasis. Acitretin is the leading oral retinoid used today for the treatment of psoriasis. Recently, possible side effects such as pseudotumor cerebri and depression have gained a warning and precaution respectively on the acitretin package insert.

The Kerf-Cut dressing: application of a woodworking technique for efficient postsurgical wound care.

Background: Simple surgical excision is one of the most common treatment methods in the dermatologist's armamentarium. We describe a precise postsurgical dressing technique that can be used for wound care of those patients whose treatment involves removal of lesions via cutaneous surgery.

Objective: To devise a novel, precise, and effective dressing technique for postsurgical wound care.