ALLMedicine™ Skin Biopsy Center

May 14th, 2022 - A 6-year-old girl presented with nightly fever, persistent joint pain of the knees, ankles, lower back, and hip. Her skin lesions were evanescent salmon-colored patches along with persistent pruritic light to dark pink papules and plaques on her f...

May 14th, 2022 - There are currently no standardized therapies for Parkinson disease (PD). Curcumin shows anti-amyloidogenic properties in vitro and may be a promising treatment for PD. We evaluated the effects of curcumin supplementation on clinical scales and mi...

May 13th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Argyria results from prolonged contact with or ingestion of silver salts. Argyria is characterized by gray to gray-black staining of the skin and mucous membranes produced by silver deposition. Silver may be deposited in the sk...

May 13th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Vilanova disease, or subacute nodular migratory panniculitis, was first observed in 1954[1] and then named by Vilanova and Pinol Aguade in 1956.[2] Vilanova's original 14 patients were all women, most of whom were in their fift...

May 13th, 2022 - Glucocorticoids are among the most frequently prescribed immunosuppressive and anti-inflammatory medications worldwide. Long-term use, however, is complicated by serious non-immunologic side effects. Ongoing in vitro experiments with human primary...

Jul 21st, 2010 - Revision of the guidelines on the use of skin biopsy in the diagnosis of peripheral neuropathy, published in 2005, has become appropriate owing to publication of more relevant articles. Most of the new studies focused on small fiber neuropathy (SF...

May 13th, 2022 - Glucocorticoids are among the most frequently prescribed immunosuppressive and anti-inflammatory medications worldwide. Long-term use, however, is complicated by serious non-immunologic side effects. Ongoing in vitro experiments with human primary...

May 13th, 2022 - This is a natural history study with a cross-sectional design of Moebius syndrome (MIM 157900), a heterogeneous developmental disorder defined as a congenital, non-progressive facial weakness with limited abduction of one or both eyes, often assoc...

May 13th, 2022 - This protocol is designed to provide blood, urine, sputum, stool, cerebrospinal fluid, skin biopsy and bone marrow aspirate samples from paid, volunteer donors for use in in vitro studies of eosinophilia and parasitic diseases. Donors meeting stan...

May 13th, 2022 - The purpose of this protocol is to study the natural history of spondyloarthritis (SpA) in children and adults. Spondyloarthritis encompasses a spectrum of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases that exhibit overlapping features, but differ from ot...

May 13th, 2022 - Without an explanation for severe and sometimes life-threatening symptoms, patients and their families are left in a state of unknown. Many individuals find themselves being passed from physician to physician, undergoing countless and often repeti...

Apr 12th, 2022 - BOSTON – Although skin biopsy remains the gold standard for diagnosing early-stage melanoma, advances in genetic expression profiling are helping dermatologists provide a nuanced approach to managing suspicious lesions. One such test, the Pigmente...

Apr 11th, 2022 - BOSTON – Although skin biopsy remains the gold standard for diagnosing early-stage melanoma, advances in genetic expression profiling are helping dermatologists provide a nuanced approach to managing suspicious lesions. One such test, the Pigmente.

Mar 30th, 2022 - The Diagnosis: Acquired Lymphangioma Circumscriptum A skin biopsy of the plaque on the right labium majus showed a proliferation of well-formed, dilated lymphatic vessels lined by benign-appearing endothelial cells in the papillary dermis (Figure).

Feb 24th, 2022 - To the Editor: A 72-year-old man presented with symptomatic anemia and nonpalpable purpura of the legs, abdomen, and arms of 2 weeks’ duration (Figure 1). There were no associated perifollicular papules.

Feb 15th, 2022 - Acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy (AHEI) is a leukocytoclastic vasculitis that typically affects children between 4 months and 2 years of age. 1 Etiology is unknown but the majority of cases are preceded by infections, vaccinations, or certain med.