Childhood eczema is common and causes a significant impact on the children and families that are coping with the condition. A typical treatment regimen includes emollient therapy, whether by use of emollient soap substitutes, leave-on emollients, or bath additives that are designed to be added to bath water and thought to leave a film of …
Dr. Abel Jarrell, a dermatologist and dermatopathologist, shed light on the management of early and thin melanomas on Day 3 of the SDPA Annual Summer Conference. Dr. Jarrell began his lecture with the statement “some of the most valuable time you can spend in your education is focusing on pigmented lesions”. He presented the best …
The first product theater on Day 3 of the SDPA Annual Summer Conference was “A Closer Look at Taltz” presented by Dr. Andrew Blauvelt. Taltz is indicated for adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis who are candidates for systemic therapy or phototherapy and for adults with active psoriatic arthritis. Dr. Blauvelt reports that in …
Day 3 of the SDPA Annual Summer Conference kicked off with Dr. Neal Bhatia presenting on actinic keratoses (AK). He began his lecture by encouraging providers to examine our definition of actinic keratoses to ourselves and patients. Actinic keratoses can be viewed as a symptom of a bigger problem with at least 8% of AKs …
Day 2 of the SDPA Summer Conference ended with an illuminating lecture on eyelid malignancies by Dr. Michael Yen, an oculoplastic surgeon. The most common eyelid malignancy is basal cell cancer representing 95% of eyelid malignancies. Suspicious characteristics for eyelid malignancies include growth, lid notching, ulceration, telangiectasias and deepening pigmentation. Madarosis, or loss of eyelashes, …
Dr. John Wright, an oral pathologist, presented an illuminating lecture on orocutaneous disease at the SDPA Annual Summer Conference. Dr. Wright began his talk with viral presentations of disease focusing on herpes simplex virus (HSV). Herpes simplex is a systemic virus which presents as a vesiculobullous disease. With primary herpes outbreak, it often presents panorally …