Derm In-Review

Friday Pop Quiz 8/15/2025
Your patient with extensive actinic damage and many of the lesions seen here is interested in field therapy with a light-based modality. On a cellular level, how does photodynamic therapy kill cells that make up this lesion? A. Heat shock proteins B. Inhibition of pyrimidine nucleotide synthesis C. Neutrophil-mediated, antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity D. Reactive singlet ox …
Derm In-Review Goes to Harvard
Derm In-ReviewDerm In-Review, a top dermatology board review prep course, recently took learning on the road to Harvard. A Dermatology In-Review Live Board Review Workshop was held in May at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School’s oldest and largest teaching hospital, with resident attendees from the hospital as well as Boston University and the University of Massachusetts. Sanofi Regeneron s …
Derm In-Review
Friday Pop Quiz 8/1/2025
A 3-month-old infant presents with the findings seen in the photo in the first week of life. The mother reports the infant was born with a membrane encasing it that later "peeled off". History is also notable for poor weight gain and multiple rounds of antibiotics since birth. On physical exam there is diffuse erythema, scaling, and sparse eyebrow hair. Laboratory studies show eosinophilia (1, …