This content is machine translated Interdisciplinary care for skin cancer patients New drugs for the clinician What’s new in skin cancer therapy? An educational session at UniversitySpital Zurich focused on the options available to patients from improved immunotherapy and targeted treatments with BRAF and MEK inhibitors…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated 4th Zurich Dermatology Training Days Regional dermatoses under the microscope At the Dermatological Training Days in Zurich, various regional dermatoses were presented on the basis of case histories: How do dermatoses of the ear, diseases of the mucous membranes and…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Unknown recurrent anaphylaxis Conversation in private led to surprising diagnosis Daniela, who is not yet sixteen and lives in Ticino, suffered from allergic bronchial asthma as a child. Recently, acute attacks of generalized urticaria with Quincke’s edema of the eyelids…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Pathological scars - pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment “There are no quick therapy successes in the treatment of scars” Severin Läuchli, MD, senior physician and head of dermatosurgery at the Dermatology Clinic at the USZ, discussed the development and therapy of pathological scars with DERMATOLOGIE PRAXIS. From a broad…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Aesthetic treatment of the back of the hand When hands still spoke the truth The hands reveal the true age – so they say. In fact, they usually show the most pronounced symptoms of so-called extrinsic skin aging, also called photoaging. Consistent sun protection…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Hairless area in a ten year old girl Temporal alopecia areata? Case report: At the age of two years the parents of the now ten-year-old girl noticed for the first time a hairless area temporally on the left side. At the…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Cutaneous Vasculitis - Overview for Practice Cutaneous Vasculitis – Overview for Practice Vasculitides are a very heterogeneous group of diseases, which can occur in all age groups. In principle, these are inflammatory processes in the vessel walls with subsequent tissue damage. The…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Autoimmune bullous dermatoses Autoantibodies attack skin integrity Bullous autoimmune dermatoses represent a heterogeneous group of rare, sometimes severe autoimmune diseases, which include pemphigus and pemphigoid disorders, epidermolysis bullosa acquisita, and dermatitis herpetiformis Duhring. A common feature of…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Autoimmune bullous dermatoses and cutaneous vasculitides How can the manifestations be correctly diagnosed and treated? Almost daily we are confronted with complex autoimmune diseases of the skin in dermatological practice. These include autoimmune bullous dermatoses and cutaneous vasculitides, which are discussed in more detail in…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Diabetic foot syndrome? Questions alone are not enough Diabetic foot is rather rarely the reason for a consultation with a dermatologist. However, the diabetic may complain of dry or cracked, hyperkeratotic skin on the feet. In the following,…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated 12th National Laser Congress An overview of tattoo removal and skin tightening procedures The twelfth national laser congress of the Swiss Society for Medical Laser Applications (SGML) in Zurich focused on the possibilities of de-tattooing. If you want to actually remove a permanent…
