Friday Pop Quiz 1/30/2026
A family brings their 10-year-old daughter to clinic during the summer months. They immigrated from Mexico over the winter. She presents with an eruption on her lips, as seen in the image. She has had similar episodes in prior summers, with involvement of the upper eyelids and distal dorsal arms and hands, as well as associated conjunctivitis. Her symptoms are triggered by sun exposure. She was …
A family brings their 10-year-old daughter to clinic during the summer months. They immigrated from Mexico over the winter. She presents with an eruption on her lips, as seen in the image. She has had similar episodes in prior summers, with involvement of the upper eyelids and distal dorsal arms and hands, as well as associated conjunctivitis. Her symptoms are triggered by sun exposure. She was … 
A 13-year-old girl is brought to the office because she has had the pruritic rash shown for the past 11 months. Her parents say none of the small tubes of moisturizers provided relief, including hydrocortisone 1%, which they applied for 4 days with minimal improvement. Daily bathing and petrolatum application are performed at home. Her medical history is unremarkable except for a peanut allergy, … 
We are constantly learning in dermatology. With advents of new techniques, sometimes traditional methods can be forgotten or lost. Chinese Herbal Medicine dates back thousands of years. Just as we shouldn’t retire chemical peels in favor of a “laser-only” approach, maybe we shouldn’t give up on other traditional methods.
During the 2020 Integrative Dermatology Symposium, Dr. Trevo … 
When standard treatment options fail and corticosteroids are not a long-term option, dermatologists often have to look back to their tool-kit and pull out the “big guns.” Mycophenolate mofetil has emerged as a promising immunosuppressive agent for severe immune-mediated and inflammatory dermatologic disease. We continue our series, Therapeutic Cheat Sheet, with a closer look at mycophenolate m …