Faculty: Lindsay Ackerman, MD Dr. Ackerman reviewed the spectrum of melanocytic lesions Sunday morning. She began her discussion highlighting benign melanocytic nevi. A giant congenital nevus aka “bathing trunk nevus” is greater than 20 cm on presentation and represents a 2.5% 5 year risk for the development of neurocutaneous melanoma. Dysplastic nevi can exist in …
Faculty: Lindsay S. Ackerman, MD Thursday morning at the SDPA Fall Conference began with an enlightening lecture on skin cancer in solid organ transplant patients. Dr. Lindsay Ackerman described the solid organ transplant patient as the “most vulnerable population” for morbidity and mortality from the skin cancer epidemic. For example, transplant patients have a 65-fold …
Jennie Clarke, MD and Joslyn Kirby, MD provide the Dermcast audience with recent dermatologic highlights in medical literature. Topics touched upon include dysplastic nevus treatment considerations, preventative use of sunscreen for melanoma, actinic keratoses, the new guidelines for hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) and the treatment of bullous pemphigoid.
Melanoma is caused by the malignant transformation of melanocytes of the skin. According to the National Cancer Institute’s most recent data, the lifetime risk for developing melanoma is 1 in 38 Caucasians in the US. The most common location for presentation of melanoma is the trunk and extremities, with the back being the most common …