Publications by authors named "Theresa Devere"

Importance: Patients with a primary cutaneous melanoma (PCM) are at increased risk of developing a second primary melanoma (SPM). Earlier stage at diagnosis is associated with better 5-year mortality, yet low compliance with recommended follow-up after treatment for PCM and high rates of patients lost to follow-up are reported in the literature. Strategies to enhance population-based surveillance for SPM have not been well described.

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Sweet's syndrome (SS) is an acute, febrile neutrophilic dermatosis that frequently presents with leukocytosis and erythematous plaques. Lesions show neutrophilic infiltration of the dermis and rarely other organs. We report the case of an adolescent male with chronic pancytopenia secondary to Fanconi anemia (FA) who presented with acute respiratory distress.

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Paraneoplastic syndromes with cutaneous findings localized to the epidermis are discussed in this article. A paraneoplastic syndrome is a condition that arises in association with a malignancy elsewhere in the body but, in itself, is not cancerous. Generally, the onset and course of the disease will closely correlate with the malignancy, as described in Curth's original criteria for paraneoplastic syndromes, although this is not always the case.

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