This content is machine translated Pruritus - How to treat? The recommendations of the new AWMF guideline chronic pruritus In order to treat pruritus adequately, the cause of the itching should be known. The clinical pruritus classification of the International Forum for the Study of Itch (IFSI) distinguishes three…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Neoplastic diseases Treatment and prognosis of cutaneous lymphoma Cutaneous lymphomas are a heterogeneous group of neoplastic diseases arising from clonal proliferation of lymphocytes in the skin. Overall, cutaneous lymphomas are rare skin cancers, with a prevalence of 1:100,000…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Dermatology training week in Munich There will be no change in skin cancer screening in Germany In Germany, the number of skin cancer cases has been increasing for many years. The incidence is currently over 200,000 per year, including approximately 20,000 malignant melanomas. The number of…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated National Psoriasis Day 2016 Current systemic treatments and Swiss guidelines The revolution in systemic psoriasis therapy began with the introduction of anti-TNF treatment after the turn of the millennium. Since then, the chain of further new psoriasis drug launches has…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Update atopic dermatitis 2016 An adapted 4-step therapy scheme is recommended Based on new research findings, atopic dermatitis is increasingly proving to be a heterogeneous disease with a very complex pathogenesis. Great attention has recently been paid to interactions between skin…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Skin infection in atopic dermatitis Impetiginous eczema – an emergency? Case Report: The family presents to the pediatric emergency department with this six-month-old infant. The boy has been suffering from atopic dermatitis since the second month of life with recurrent…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Laser practice Laser: How to perform Laser Developments in the field of dermatological lasers are very dynamic with a large number of newly launched systems. The how to of an implementation of laser interventions requires training, alignment…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Rheumatoid arthritis A multisystem disease and its dermatological changes It’s only when you get into rheumatoid arthritis and all of its facets that you realize how multifaceted this disease can be and that it plays into dermatology in so…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated 98th Annual Meeting of the SGDV Lesions of the oral mucosa and new technologies for topical therapies. This year’s congress of the Swiss Society of Dermatology and Venereology (SGDV) took place in Geneva at the end of August. Apart from the key lectures on important topics and…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated HIV and cancer Why do some tumors occur more frequently under HAART? The incidence of white skin cancer is three to five times higher in HIV-infected individuals. Squamous cell and basal cell carcinomas occur at younger ages in HIV-infected individuals, are more…
View Post 15 min This content is machine translated Focus - Skin Cancer Malignant Melanoma, Targeted Therapy and Immunotherapy – The Road to Success Thanks to the approval of new therapeutic approaches, the treatment of advanced melanoma has been further developed in recent years. Patients with metastatic melanoma who undergo immunotherapy and/or targeted therapy…
