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Long-term drug survival of risankizumab in psoriasis: insights from a real-life multicenter study on hard-to-treat areas
Psoriasis, a chronic inflammatory condition, often presents challenges in treatment, particularly in areas such as nails, palms/soles, scalp/face, and genitalia. Monoclonal antibodies (mAb) like risankizumab t...
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Skin donations after suicide by acute poisoning
The demand for skin tissue allografts to treat burns and other types of injuries increases each year to the extent that categories of donors formerly deemed “unsuitable”, such as victims of suicide by polytrau...
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Assessment of cryopreserved donor skin viability: the experience of the regional tissue bank of Siena
Skin allografts from cadaver donors are an important resource for treating extensive burns, slow-healing wounds and chronic ulcers. A high level of cell viability of cryopreserved allografts is often required,...
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Induced psoriasis after rituximab therapy for rheumatoid arthritis: a case report and review of the literature
Rituximab is a human/murine monoclonal antibody targeting the CD20 antigen on B-lymphocytes surface. Although it has been licensed for treatment of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, nowadays it is also a novel therapy f...
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Extracorporeal photochemotherapy for treatment of fasciitis in chronic graft-versus-host disease
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ECP-treated lymphocytes of chronic graft-versus-host disease patients undergo apoptosis which involves both the Fas/FasL system and the Bcl-2 protein family
Chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) is a severe and frequent complication of allogenic bone marrow transplantation which is often treated with extracorporeal photochemotherapy (ECP) with a positive clini...
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Conjunctival edema and alopecia of the external third of the eyebrows in a patient with Meige syndrome
Purpose: To describe a patient with Meige syndrome in whom we observed the coexistence of hereditary lymphedema of the lower legs, conjunctival edema and alopecia of the lateral third of the eyebrows. · Methods:...
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Autosomal dominant aplasia cutis congenita: report of a large Italian family and no hint for candidate chromosomal regions
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Sun and Skin
The study of the biological effects of sun on the skin is one of the most topical questions in the recent dermatological literature. Interest in these effects has grown since it was demonstrated that the sun a...
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Three cases of progressive systemic sclerosis treated with extracorporeal photochemotherapy
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Modifications in Cutaneous Infiltrate and Death Rate of Lymphoid Cells in Mycosis Fungoides Patients Treated with Photopheresis
Extracorporal photochemotherapy (ECP), also known as photopheresis, is one of the most recent and interesting methods of treating cutaneous T cell lymphoma (CTCL) [1]. It consists in extracorporal exposure of ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Instrumental Evaluation of Skin Colour and Melanoma Risk
The mortality from melanoma has increased, especially in white males [1–5] possibly as a result of increased recreational exposure to sunlight. Rather than cumulative sun exposure, intermittent acute exposure,...
