An Update on Cutaneous Angiosarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment.

Cutaneous angiosarcoma (CAS) is a rare aggressive malignancy that most commonly manifests in White men older than 60 years and often appears as an enlarging ecchymosis on the head, neck, or scalp. Surgery with negative margins is the first-line treatment. The role of Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS) is uncertain but can be used in smaller, well-circumscribed lesions on the head and neck.

Needling for the Treatment of Warts.

Needling is a technique for the treatment of warts that is widely unknown and underused within dermatology. Gordon Falknor, a podiatrist, first introduced the technique of needling for the treatment plantar warts in 1969. He reported only two recurrences in 126 patients treated with his technique.

Incidence of Surgical Site Infections in Second Intention Healing After Dermatologic Surgery.

Background: There are few studies analyzing the surgical site infection (SSI) rate of second intention wounds after dermatologic surgery, and the results are inconclusive. Yet, the current dogma in dermatologic surgery is that wounds healed by second intention have lower infection rates.

Objective: To determine the rate of SSI and associated pathogenic organisms of second intention wounds compared with sutured wounds after skin cancer extirpation.