Wound care

How to Help Skin Cancer Patients Understand Mohs Surgery | The Experts Weigh In
Mohs surgery
by Allison Sit on
Explaining Mohs micrographic surgery to patients can be a challenge for Mohs surgeons and their staff. Yet patients may have an incomplete understanding of the surgery if they look to Internet videos – rather than to their Mohs surgeon – for answers to their Mohs questions. Most patient-oriented video resources do not comprehensively explain Mohs, according to the authors of a letter to the …

Continue reading "How to Help Skin Cancer Patients Understand Mohs Surgery | The Experts Weigh In"

Widespread Skin Necrosis Secondary to Gemcitabine Therapy
Skin Necrosis
by NEXT STEPS IN DERM TEAM on
INTRODUCTION Cutaneous side effects are relatively common in chemotherapy but vary in frequency and severity depending on the medication, dose, duration, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics. Gemcitabine, a pyrimidine nucleoside analogue, is a common oncologic agent used in the treatment of a variety of malignancies such as cancers of the head and neck, lung cancer, breast cancer, pancreatic …

Continue reading "Widespread Skin Necrosis Secondary to Gemcitabine Therapy"

Wound Care Series – Part 3: Wound Care in Pediatric Patients
Wound-Care-Series questions
by Angelo Landriscina, MD on
PART 3 Wound Care in Pediatric Patients For the concluding installment in our wound care series, I spoke with Kalyani Marathe, MD, MPH.  Dr. Marathe is a pediatric dermatologist practicing at Children’s National Medical center, and an assistant professor at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.  Through her training and her years as a pediatric dermatolog …

Continue reading "Wound Care Series – Part 3: Wound Care in Pediatric Patients"

Wound Care Series – Part 2 Wound Assessment: How to Ask the Right Questions
Wound-Care-Series questions
by Angelo Landriscina, MD on
PART 2 Wound Assessment: How to Ask the Right Questions As I alluded to in my earlier post “Why Aren’t Dermatologists More Involved in Wound Care”, many dermatologists shy away from treating wounds, with some citing lack of confidence in their ability to offer appropriate care to patients. However, the treatment of wounds can be simplified by a stepwise approach.  The first st …

Continue reading "Wound Care Series – Part 2 Wound Assessment: How to Ask the Right Questions"

Wound Care Series – Part 1 Why Aren’t Dermatologists More Involved in Wound Care?
Wound Care
by Angelo Landriscina, MD on
PART 1 Why Aren’t Dermatologists More Involved in Wound Care? My time doing wound healing research has shown me not only the gaps in the literature, but also the deficit of dermatologists involved in wound care. One would think that our expertise in caring for the integument would automatically translate into eminence when it comes to the treatment of injuries. However, involvement of dermatol …

Continue reading "Wound Care Series – Part 1 Why Aren’t Dermatologists More Involved in Wound Care?"