What Caused This Summer Birthday Party Rash?
Discussion
Panniculitides are a diverse group of problems involving inflammation of subcutaneous fat. Subcutaneous fat has limited ability to show different patterns of disease and therefore the clinical appearance is the same but has different etiologies. The skin appears red or purple, swollen, may have discrete nodule(s) or plaque(s) and the affected area can be painful or pruritic. If necessary skin biopsy can help determine the etiology. Overall panniculitides are not very common but some presentations are expected because of particular exposure (i.e. cold) or inflammatory disease processes.
Types of panniculitides in...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - August 22, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Prior Diagnoses Influence Dermatopathologists' Interpretations
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 17, 2022 -- When interpreting melanocytic skin biopsy specimens, knowledge of a prior diagnosis sways dermatopathologists to make more and less severe diagnoses and can also sway them from a correct to an incorrect diagnosis,... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - August 17, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic Minute: Prostate biopsy technique reduces infection risk
June is Men's Health Month. Other than skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer in American men. It's the second-leading cause of cancer death in American men, behind only lung cancer. Prostate cancer detected early has the best chance of successful treatment. If an abnormality is found during routine prostate screening, further tests can determine if it's cancer. And a certain biopsy technique is reducing the risk of infection and helping… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - June 13, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Skin Biopsy? Here Are Tips on Wound Care
Title: Skin Biopsy? Here Are Tips on Wound CareCategory: Health NewsCreated: 6/5/2022 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 6/6/2022 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Skin General)
Source: MedicineNet Skin General - June 6, 2022 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news
Skin Biopsy? Here Are Tips on Wound Care
SUNDAY, June 5, 2022 -- A skin biopsy is often used to diagnose skin cancer and other skin conditions.
It involves the removal of a small amount of skin, which is examined under a microscope. Afterwards, you ' ll need to look after the biopsy... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - June 5, 2022 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Phoenix-based CND Life Sciences gets $2.4M federal grant for dementia test research
A Phoenix company developing medical diagnostics for neurodegenerative diseases has received a $2.4 million grant from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health.
The Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant is the second such award for CND Life Sciences, a startup founded in 2017 that produces the Syn-One Test that uses skin biopsies to find abnormal proteins to indicate conditions such as dementia with Lewy bodies, Alzheimer’s disease, REM slee p behavior… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - May 20, 2022 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Jeff Gifford Source Type: news
Lenabasum Improved Skin Symptoms, in Small Dermatomyositis Trial Lenabasum Improved Skin Symptoms, in Small Dermatomyositis Trial
In the phase 2 trial, skin biopsies before and after treatment showed significant reductions in inflammatory cytokines relevant to dermatomyositis pathogenesis.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Dermatology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Dermatology Headlines - May 14, 2022 Category: Dermatology Tags: Dermatology News Source Type: news
A Mysterious Hepatitis Outbreak Among Children Is Baffling Doctors
Since last autumn, doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Alabama have been wrestling with a mystery. From October 2021 through February of this year, nine children—the youngest 20 months old and the oldest 5 years and 9 months—were rushed to the hospital with concerning symptoms, all of which turned out to be due to unexplained cases of acute hepatitis, also known as liver inflammation.
As the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently reported, all of the patients tested negative for the hepatitis A, B, and C viruses, and also tested negative for COVID-19. They did test positive for a...
Source: TIME: Health - May 5, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Disease healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Blood test may accurately diagnose melanoma, study finds
Testing a person's blood for the presence of circulating melanoma cells may help identify skin cancer, while allowing them to skip invasive biopsies, a study published Wednesday found. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - April 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Study Finds Biopsy Decisions, Diagnoses Differ by Skin Type Study Finds Biopsy Decisions, Diagnoses Differ by Skin Type
The survey investigated the role of skin color in the assessment of neoplastic and inflammatory skin conditions and decisions to perform biopsy.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Dermatology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Dermatology Headlines - April 11, 2022 Category: Dermatology Tags: Dermatology News Source Type: news
What Are Some Mast Cell Disorders?
Discussion
Mast cells (MCs) were first discovered by Paul Ehrlich in 1878. Previously in 1869, Nettleship and Tay described a toddler with chronic urticaria and a brown skin lesion which is believed to be the first reported case of mastocytosis. Urticaria pigmentosa was a term first used by Sangster in 1878, and in 1936 the term mastocytosis was used.
“Mast cells first evolved 500 million years ago in Ascidians (sea squirts), providing host innate immunity against bacteria and parasites….MCs gained additional functions regulating inflammation, wound healing, coagulation, adaptive immunity and acute allergic res...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - February 21, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
UCLA ’s Virtual Histology Could Eliminate Need for Invasive Biopsies for Some Skin Conditions and Cancers
Though the new technology could speed diagnoses of cancers and other skin diseases, it would also greatly reduce dermatopathology biopsy referrals and revenue What effect would elimination of tissue biopsies have on dermatopathology and clinical laboratory revenue? Quite a lot. Dermatologists alone account for a significant portion of skin biopsies sent to dermatopathologists. Thus, any […]
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Source: Dark Daily - January 19, 2022 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Jillia Schlingman Tags: Clinical Laboratory Information Systems (LIS) Clinical Laboratory Middleware, Informatics, Analytics Digital Pathology Laboratory Instruments & Laboratory Equipment Laboratory News Laboratory Pathology Laboratory Testing Precision Medicine Source Type: news
What Are Some Initial Evaluations for Suspected Congenital Muscle Diseases?
Discussion
Usually congenital myopathies (CM, e.g. nemaline, core, centronuclear myopathies, etc.) and congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD, e.g. LAMA2-related, collage VI-related, alpha-dystroglycan-related muscular dystrophy, etc.) have been diagnosed based on physical examination and histopathology. Traditionally CMs are due to problems with the muscle contractile apparatus and structures that assist excitation-contraction coupling. CMD are due to problems with the extracellular matrix, muscle membrane and sarcolemmal membrane. Differentiating between CM and CMD have become more blurred as genetic testing and additional r...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - January 17, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Courts Seeing More Secondary Asbestos Exposure Lawsuits
Secondary exposure to toxic asbestos has declined dramatically in recent decades, but known cases of malignant mesothelioma caused by that type of asbestos exposure have continued to climb.
Increasing awareness of the rare cancer has led to the contrasting trends and an expected rise in personal injury lawsuits involving secondary asbestos exposure.
“One of the reasons is that we are getting better at diagnosing the disease,” attorney Daniel Wasserberg, who specializes in asbestos litigation, told The Mesothelioma Center at asbestos.com. “Years ago, a woman with classic mesothelioma symptoms, but with no obviou...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - October 18, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Fran Mannino Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic Q and A: Treating a rare skin disorder known as morphea
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: About six months ago, a large, white dent appeared on my left buttock. I went to a dermatologist who performed a biopsy. I was diagnosed with morphea and prescribed methotrexate. The doctor said the condition is not systemic, but that the drug could prevent future skin lesions and possibly cure the morphea. Can you share more about the condition, and the risks and benefits of the treatment? ANSWER: Morphea, which is a rare skin… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - September 30, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
