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As a clinician interested in dermatology and skin care information, you’ll want to stay up-to-date on the latest skin care information and research and clinical recommendations related to dermatology nursing. More...

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• • Also, by tuning into the skin care information and dermatology information your patients are reading and learning about from the media, online, and even in your office or waiting room, you will be better prepared to answer their questions and concerns. It can be time consuming to read, watch, and sort through all of the material out there. We’ll condense this comprehensive dermatology information and skin care information into a list of highlighted resources for your convenience. The most recent highlights are included below:

  • Daily Sunscreen Use During Middle-Age Slows Skin Aging

  • Weight Loss Reduces Psoriasis Severity

  • Comorbidities Common With Alopecia Areata

  • Risk Factors ID'd for Poor Cutaneous Cell CA Outcomes

Clinical Update

A rare disease like pachyonychia congenita (PC) poses barriers to the patient, medical professional, and scientist. The patient has challenges connecting to information, the medical professional has challenges connecting to patient experience, and the scientist has challenges connecting to a sufficient number of patients to do meaningful research. Recent collaboration between these groups has transformed our understanding of PC and its symptoms and method of diagnosis. PC Project is at the center of this collaboration and is providing new insights for the dermatologist and dermatology nurse, enabling better diagnosis of PC and counseling of a PC patient.

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 Diagnostic Dilemmas in Dermatology: Histiocytosis Versus Mastocytosis
Journal of the Dermatology Nurses' Association
May/June 2013

Patients who seek dermatology care may often present with skin conditions that may present a clinical diagnostic dilemma. The skin condition may not have the hallmark features of a classic dermatologic condition, or the patient may present with skin findings that may be seen in several different and unique dermatologic entities. This column will present the case of a patient who presents with a pruritic skin rash that both clinically and histiologically could represent either histiocytosis or mastocytosis. The patient's clinical course, along with a review of both complex dermatologic conditions will be presented. A histiological discussion will also provide a closer examination of the disparities and similarities of the conditions utilizing information gleaned from the biopsy specimens.

The classic malignant melanoma is a black or purple nodule, but it may be flat or pedunculated, pink, red, tan, brown, or amelanotic. A change in a skin lesion should arouse suspicion, including change in size, shape, border, color, bleeding, and ulceration.