JDD November 2023 Issue Highlights | Special Topic: Lasers, Light Sources, and Devices
The November 2023 issue of the Journal of Drugs in Dermatology (JDD) focuses on lasers, light sources, and devices featuring the perfect mix original articles, case reports, letters to the editor, and brief communications. Straight from the Editor’s desk, check out this month’s issue highlights.
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Interventions to Minimize Pain During Photodynamic Therapy With 5-Aminolevulini …
The November 2023 issue of the Journal of Drugs in Dermatology (JDD) focuses on lasers, light sources, and devices featuring the perfect mix original articles, case reports, letters to the editor, and brief communications. Straight from the Editor’s desk, check out this month’s issue highlights.
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Interventions to Minimize Pain During Photodynamic Therapy With 5-Aminolevulini … 
Next Steps in Derm, in partnership with Pigmentary Disorders Exchange Symposium (PDE) interviewed Dr. Jennifer Rullan, a dermatologist in Chula Vista, Calif. Watch as Dr. Rullan outlines unexpected ingredients that dermatologists can use in medium depth and deep chemical peels to treat pigmentary disorders, and it may not be the disorders that you expect. Vitiligo? Idiopathic guttate hypomelanosis … 
Perifolliculitis capitis abscedens et suffodiens or dissecting cellulitis (DC) is a rare and chronic disease with a predilection for the occipital, vertex, and parietal scalp. DC is characterized by multinodular lesions with purulent drainage and sinus tract formation. It is classically seen in middle-aged males of African descent. The etiology of the disease is unknown; however, leading theories … 
A 28-year-old previously healthy man presents with thick crusting and hyperkeratosis of the palms and soles, urethritis, and one month of peripheral arthritis. Which of the following is true regarding his condition?
A. Females and males are equally affected
B. About 20% of patients will have a long-term disease that results in enthesitis and destructive arthritis.
C. TNF-alpha inhibit … 
Dr. Michael J. Visconti continues our Therapeutic Cheat Sheet series, surgical edition, with a look at the bilobed flap, one of the workhorse reconstructive designs in the armamentarium of dermatologic surgeons.
The Bilobed Flap Therapeutic Cheat Sheet
Compiled by: Michael J. Visconti, DO | Reviewed by: Vishal A. Patel, MD
Background
Vascular Supply: random pattern
Movement Clas …