Response to Oral Dapsone in a Patient With Generalised Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa
ABSTRACT Dapsone is a potent antibacterial agent used as a first‐line treatment for leprosy and employed also as an anti‐inflammatory agent. Additionally, dapsone is used for a variety of other cutaneous conditions. Herein, we report a case of intermediate junctional epidermolysis bullosa that improved significantly with oral 4,4’‐diamino‐diphenyl ...
Shiho Mori +2 more
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The Blurred Lines Between New Psychoactive Substances and Potential Chemical Weapons
The historical use of toxic chemicals to cause intentional harm has evolved from blister agents in World War I to highly lethal organophosphates and emerging families of chemicals, such as Novichok.
Loreto N. Valenzuela-Tapia +7 more
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Plan, siphoning and corruption in the Soviet command economy [PDF]
This paper reconsiders Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny’s suggestion that a socialist industry will always prefer to cut both price and output relative to a market–clearing equilibrium in order to maximise bribe income. The evidence from recent archival
Harrison, Mark, Kim, Byung-Yeon
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Clinical and morphological findings on mustard gas [bis (2-chloroethyl) sulfide] poisoning [PDF]
n 1984 and 1985, a total of eleven Iranian patients were transferred to hospitals in Munich, Germany, after a reported gas attack in the Iran-Iraq war.
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Immunotherapy‐Related Cutaneous Toxicities in Melanoma: A Dermoscopic Perspective
Dermoscopy serves as a valuable tool in the everyday dermatological and oncological practice for melanoma patients, allowing for the prompt identification of immune‐related cutaneous toxicities and guiding clinicians toward appropriate therapeutic decisions.
Grażyna Kamińska‐Winciorek +3 more
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Randomized Polypill Crossover Trial in People Aged 50 and Over [PDF]
PMCID: PMC3399742This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are ...
David S. Wald +3 more
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ABSTRACT Objectives Cryogen spray cooling (CSC) is critical for protecting the epidermis during laser dermatologic procedures. The widely used cryogen, R134a, has a high global warming potential (GWP), motivating interest in environmentally favorable alternatives such as HFO‐1234ze.
Wangcun Jia +13 more
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Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (TEN) is a severe skin-mucosal reaction induced by medications, commonly characterized by blister formation and widespread epidermal detachment.
Yongguang Wang +7 more
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The continued value of disk diffusion for assessing antimicrobial susceptibility in clinical laboratories: Report from the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute Methods Development and Standardization Working Group [PDF]
Expedited pathways to antimicrobial agent approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have led to increased delays between drug approval and the availability of FDA-cleared antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) devices.
Burnham, Carey-Ann D +6 more
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Kaposiform hemangioendothelioma: Diagnosis and treatment
Vascular endothelial growth factor‐C (VEGF‐C)/vascular endothelial growth factor receptor‐3 (VEGFR‐3) and angiopoietin‐2 (Ang‐2)/tyrosine kinase with immunoglobulin‐like and EGF‐like domain 2 (TIE2) signaling pathways play an important role in lymphangiogenesis.
Yi Tian +5 more
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