Publications by authors named "Melike Kibar Ozturk"

Background: Traditionally, hyaluronidase (HYAL) is used after hyaluronic acid (HA) injection to dissolve the undesired migration of product.

Objective: To describe a novel lip augmentation technique that uses HA and HYAL simultaneously in patients who previously had HA migration.

Methods And Materials: Nine hundred twenty female patients were included.

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Introduction: Methotrexate and acitretin are known to be effective in the treatment of psoriasis, but the mechanisms of the effects of these drugs are not fully known.

Aim: To investigate the effect of methotrexate and acitretin on microvessel density (MVD) in psoriasis.

Material And Methods: Eighteen patients with psoriasis treated with methotrexate and 9 patients with psoriasis treated with acitretin (AT) were included in this study.

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Objective: Differential diagnosis of mycosis fungoides (MF) in the early stages can be challenging. Dermoscopy has been reported to be useful in the evaluation of early MF. However, to our knowledge, there is no study that specifies these early stages as stage IA, IB or IIA.

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Introduction: Cutaneous anthrax (CA), a zoonotic infectious disease is an important endemic public health disease in rural areas around the world, accounting for 95% of anthrax cases.

Methodology: Fifty patients with CA were diagnosed by the presence of characteristic skin lesions and positive response to treatment. Twenty-nine patients had been treated with oral ciprofloxacin or doxycyclin for 14 days and 21 patients had been treated with intramuscular procaine penicillin for 7 days.

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Skin diseases are considered to be common in Nyala, Sudan. This study was carried out to verify the prevalence of skin diseases in Nyala. This prospective observational study included skin examination of a total of 1802 people: 620 patients who were evaluated in the outpatient clinics (OC) and 1182 people from orphanages and refugee camps (ORC) in Nyala, Sudan.

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Epidermoid vulvar cystic lesions are proliferations of epidermal cells that can occur as a complication of female genital mutilation (FGM), which is still a common practice in many cultures, especially in Africa. A 36-year-old Sudanese woman presented with an enlarged clitoral mass that had first appeared 2 years earlier. Her medical history showed that she had undergone FGM when she was 3 years old.

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Taking scented smoke baths (Dukhan) is a universal custom among African women who indulge in it for pleasure, cleanliness, health, and for restoration after childbirth. The woods used in this procedure are usually Acacia seyal and Terminalia brownii. This report is a case series of 11 women with brown-erythematous excoriated papules, plaques, and lichenification confined to the sites of scented smoke baths.

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