Superiority of a Silk Surgical Site Wound Closure Device over Synthetic Dressings.

Background: Silk fibroin is an emerging biomaterial with enhanced properties of cellular regeneration, growth, and proliferation. The use of a silk fibroin wound dressing has the potential to decrease the incidence of wound-healing complications and to improve patient outcomes compared with synthetic dressing alternatives.

Methods: A randomized, single-blind clinical trial was conducted on 50 patients who were dressed with a silk fibroin dressing on 1 side of their body and 3M Steri-Strips on the contralateral side after abdominoplasty, reduction mammaplasty, or brachioplasty procedures.

Silk Bioprotein as a Novel Surgical-Site Wound Dressing: A Prospective, Randomized, Single-Blinded, Superiority Clinical Trial.

Background: Medical adhesive-related skin injuries (MARSIs) affect about 1.5 million patients annually in the United States. Complications include allergic contact dermatitis, skin blistering, skin tears, and surgical-site infections (SSIs).

Evaluation of self-esteem in patients treated with botulinum toxin A for upper face dynamic wrinkles.

A statistically significant increase in the self-esteem of the participants was observed two weeks after the injection of botulinum toxin type A (BoNT-A) in 129 individuals. However, the beneficial effects on self-esteem were not presented three months following the injection.

Metastatic transitional cell carcinoma of the skin presenting as painful zosteriform eruptions.

Metastatic skin disease is an uncommon manifestation of visceral malignancies and failure to diagnose this early may result in incorrect treatment. Here, we report a 65-year-old man with bilateral painful eruptions on the abdominal skin and a past history of transitional cell carcinoma of urinary bladder.

Secondary Sjogren's syndrome presenting with hypokalemic periodic paralysis.

Renal tubular acidosis (RTA) may develop in a large population of patients with Sjogren's syndrome (SS), but most of the subjects are asymptomatic. Here, we report a patient with known rheumatoid arthritis and symptoms of xerostomia, xerophthalmia and periodic paralysis. SS should be considered as a cause of RTA.

Acute paraplegia after general anesthesia.

Acute paraplegia is a rare but catastrophic complication of surgeries performed on aorta and corrective operations of vertebral column. Trauma to spinal cord after spinal anesthesia and ischemia of spinal cord also may lead to acute paraplegia. Acute paraplegia as a complication of general anesthesia in surgeries performed on sites other than aorta and vertebral column is very rare.

Giant bilateral becker nevus: a rare presentation.

A 14-year-old boy had giant confluent brown patches that were bilaterally distributed on his back, chest, and upper arms, and partially covered by dark coarse hairs. A clinical diagnosis of Becker nevus was made and confirmed histopathologically. We report this patient for the rarity of presentation.