Efficacy of an Innovative Film-Forming Wound Dressing on Open Wounds.

Standards in post-surgery wound care management require a rapid healing process in order to prevent and minimize abnormal scarring. For the healing process to start as early as possible, the ideal dressing should be applied directly on the open wound and perfectly adapt to it. The authors report a case study series regarding the efficacy of a flexible film-forming wound dressing in the form of a gel (Stratamed, Stratpharma AG, Switzerland) that is approved for the use on open wounds and injured skin.

Cutaneous adverse effects of biological therapies for psoriasis.

Psoriasis is a common immune-mediated disease that affects approximately 2% of the world's population. Most patients require lifelong treatment and many of the current systemic therapies are complicated by significant toxicities or inconvenience when administered long-term. New biological psoriasis therapies have been developed, which are thought to act through targeted molecular pathways, so as to administer them continuously without causing any relevant toxicity.

Abortive or minimal-growth hemangiomas: Immunohistochemical evidence that they represent true infantile hemangiomas.

Background: Infantile hemangiomas have a characteristic natural history of rapid proliferation in the first weeks of life followed by spontaneous involution. At birth, they may be present as a precursor lesion. Sometimes one may see precursor lesions that never undergo a growth phase or that undergo minimal growth.