A 39-year-old woman presented to the dermatology department in January 2022 with a 3-week history of a progressively enlarging and intensely pruritic erythematous annular nodule on her left hand. The lesion started as a small blister, which was initially presumed to be a flare up of her pompholyx dermatitis. On her physician's advice, she applied clobetasol propionate ointment twice daily for 5 days; however the blister continued to increase in size until it burst, revealing raw inflamed skin.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The use of telemedicine has garnered significant traction amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The sudden adoption of certain practices in podiatry was not always supported by empirical evidence, resulting in the development of guidelines and metrics that lacked a foundation in rigorous research.
Methods: A modified Delphi composed of three rounds was conducted with 16 stakeholders (service users, foot and ankle health-care providers, and policymakers) from a primary-care setting to develop a podiatric telemedicine framework for a primary-care setting.
A 10-year-old healthy, Caucasian girl presented in May 2021 with short and thin scalp hair since birth (Figures 1A-C). She had achieved all of her developmental milestones, and her parents denied any similar family history. She had only two hair cuts in the past, which were performed to trim long hair over the midscalp to have a uniform length.
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