Sommario

• • ·Table of contents

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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Information for Readers

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• • ·Instructions for CME credit

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• Continuing Medical Education

  • ·Obesity and the skin: Skin physiology and skin manifestations of obesity

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    Gil Yosipovitch, Amy DeVore, Aerlyn Dawn

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  • ·CME examination

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  • ·Answers to CME examination

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  • ·American Board of Dermatology examination dates

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• Reports

  • ·Results of patch testing to a corticosteroid series: A retrospective review of 1188 patients during 6 years at Mayo Clinic

    Pagina :921-927

    Mark D.P. Davis, Rokea A. el-Azhary, Sara A. Farmer

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  • ·Patients’ perceptions of the usefulness and outcome of patch testing

    Pagina :928-932

    Leigh Ann Scalf, Joseph Genebriera, Mark D.P. Davis, Sara A. Farmer, James A. Yiannias

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  • ·A survey of skin disease and skin-related issues in Arab Americans

    Pagina :933-938

    Dina El-Essawi, Joseph L. Musial, Adnan Hammad, Henry W. Lim

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  • ·Onychomycosis: Diagnosis and definition of cure

    Pagina :939-944

    Richard K. Scher, Amir Tavakkol, Bárdur Sigurgeirsson, Roderick J. Hay, Warren S. Joseph, Antonella Tosti, Philip Fleckman, Mahmoud Ghannoum, David G. Armstrong, Bryan C. Markinson, Boni E. Elewski

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  • ·Distribution of toenail dystrophy predicts histologic diagnosis of onychomycosis

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    Hobart W. Walling, Patrick J. Sniezek

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  • ·Registration of clinical trials

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  • ·A literally blinded trial of palpation in dermatologic diagnosis

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    Neil H. Cox

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  • ·4th International Workshop for the Study of Itch

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  • ·Outbreak of lepidopterism at a Boy Scout camp

    Pagina :952-955

    John T. Redd, Ronald E. Voorhees, Thomas J. Török

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  • ·Differential expression of decorin in localized scleroderma following ultraviolet-A1 irradiation

    Pagina :956-959

    Thilo Gambichler, Marina Skrygan, Nordwig S. Tomi, Peter Altmeyer, Alexander Kreuter

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  • ·High-dose intravenous immunoglobulins for the treatment of autoimmune mucocutaneous blistering diseases: Evaluation of its use in 19 cases

    Pagina :960-967

    Sonia Segura, Pilar Iranzo, Isabel Martínez-de Pablo, José Manuel Mascaró, Mercè Alsina, Josep Herrero, Carmen Herrero

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  • ·Descriptive epidemiology of dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans in the United States, 1973 to 2002

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    Vincent D. Criscione, Martin A. Weinstock

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  • ·International Board Certification in Dermatopathology

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  • ·Prevalence of stratified epithelium-specific antinuclear antibodies in 138 patients with lichen planus

    Pagina :974-978

    Aurora Parodi, Emanuele Cozzani, Cesare Massone, Alfredo Rebora, Luigi Priano, Giovanni Ghigliotti, Paolo Balbi, Franco Rongioletti, Claudia Micalizzi, Rossella Cestari, Giuseppe Varaldo, Gianfranco Barabino, Giuseppe Cannata, Francesco Drago, Vittorio Moreno, Luciano Schiazza, Gianfranco Muzio, Enrico Scaparro, Bruno Alibrandi, Roberto Bandelloni, Marina Ciaccio, Giovanni Desirello, Pier Mario Isola, Stefano Ottoboni, Paolo Rampini, Giuseppe Santoro, Stefania Sorbara, Giovanni Virno

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  • ·Eczema herpeticum patients needed for referral

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  • ·Treatment of pruritus with topically applied opiate receptor antagonist

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    Paul L. Bigliardi, Holger Stammer, Gerhard Jost, Theo Rufli, Stanislaw Büchner, Mei Bigliardi-Qi

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• Dermatologic Surgery

  • ·Intralesional methotrexate treatment for keratoacanthoma tumors: A retrospective study and review of the literature

    Pagina :989-993

    Nicole M. Annest, Marta J. VanBeek, Christopher J. Arpey, Duane C. Whitaker

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• Dermatopathology

  • ·Prolonged urticaria with purpura: The spectrum of clinical and histopathologic features in a prospective series of 22 patients exhibiting the clinical features of urticarial vasculitis

    Pagina :994-1005

    Joyce Siong See Lee, Teck Hiong Loh, Swee Chong Seow, Suat Hoon Tan

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  • ·Mast cell distribution, activation, and phenotype in xanthoma

    Pagina :1006-1012

    Masaaki Matsumoto, Sawa Kunimitsu, Kana Wada, Mitsunori Ikeda, Akira Keyama, Hajime Kodama

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  • ·Cutaneous lupus erythematosus simulating squamous neoplasia: The clinicopathologic conundrum and histopathologic pitfalls

    Pagina :1013-1020

    Daniel C. Zedek, Elton T. Smith, Michael G. Hitchcock, Steven R. Feldman, Brent J. Shelton, Wain L. White

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  • ·Folliculosebaceous smooth muscle hamartoma

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    Payam Saadat, Arvin Doostan, Manjunath S. Vadmal

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• Periodic Synopsis

  • ·Parasitic infestations

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    Christine C. Jacobson, Elizabeth A. Abel

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• Reviews

  • ·Fomite transmission in head lice

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    Craig N. Burkhart, Craig G. Burkhart

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  • ·Contact dermatitis in athletes

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    Brett Kockentiet, Brian B. Adams

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• Dialogues in Dermatology

  • ·Oral contraceptives for the treatment of acne vulgaris

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    Warren R. Heymann

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• Blue Notes

  • ·Iotaderma #161

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    Robert I. Rudolph

    
  • ·May Iotaderma (#160)

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    Robert I. Rudolph

    
  • ·Reviewers for volumes 54 and 55

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  • ·Change of Address

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• Commentary

  • ·Of spiders and zebras: Publication of inadequately documented loxoscelism case reports

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    Richard S. Vetter, David L. Swanson

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  • ·What’s new online?

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• Letters

  • ·Bazex syndrome or dermatomyositis?

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    Robert I. Rudolph

    
  • ·Current strategies to address the ongoing shortage of academic dermatologists

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    Jashin J. Wu

    
  • ·Head-to-head studies of botulinum toxin A in aesthetic medicine: Which evidence is good enough?

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    Berthold Rzany, Alexander Nast

     
  • ·The merits of adding toluidine blue–stained slides in Mohs surgery in the treatment of a microcystic adnexal carcinoma

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    Steven Q. Wang, Leonard H. Goldberg, Alexandra Nemeth

     
  • ·Is apoptosis involved in the development of balloon cell nevus? Suggestion from a case report

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    Yun Jeon Kim, You Chan Kim, Hee Young Kang

     
  • ·Symptomatic response of erythropoietic protoporphyria to iron supplementation

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    S. Alexander Holme, Charles L. Thomas, Sharon D. Whatley, Douglas P. Bentley, Alexander V. Anstey, Michael N. Badminton

    
  • ·Squamous cell carcinoma over tattoos

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    Gerard Pitarch, Teresa Martínez-Menchón, Antonio Martínez-Aparicio, José Luís Sánchez-Carazo, Dionís Muñoz, José Miguel Fortea

     

• Media Reviews

  • ·My skin’s on fire: Living with psoriasis (DVD)

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    Lauren Alberta-Wszolek, Leah Belazarian, Laura Capaldi, Keri Clifford, Dori Goldberg, Mayra Lorenzo

    
  • ·Patch testing and prick testing: A practical guide by Jean-Marie Lachapelle and Howard I. Maibach; Management of positive patch test reactions by J. E. Wahlberg, P. Elsner, L. Kanerva, H. I. Maibach; Irritant dermatitis by Ai-Lean Chew and Howard I. Maibach; Condensed handbook of occupational dermatology by L. Kanerva, P. Elsner, J. E. Wahlberg, H. I. Maibach

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    Lionel Bercovitch

    
  • ·A review of VisualRx Version 4.0

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    Noah Scheinfeld

    

• Index to volume 56

  • ·Cover sheet for index

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  • ·Author index

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  • ·Subject index

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• eBlueprints

  • ·World Wide Web resources of open access, educational dermatology clinical image quizzes and databases

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    Evangelia Papadavid, Matthew E. Falagas

    
  • ·Dermatology Calendar

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