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Diagnose Skin Cancer without Biopsy
“The standard way physicians do a diagnosis now is to cut out a mole and look at a slice of it with a microscope,” said Warren Warren… “What we’re trying to do is find cancer signals they can get to...
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Diagnosing a Spider Bite
Poisonous spider bites are extraordinarily rare; wounds blamed on spiders are extraordinarily common. I have seen dozens of patients who thought they had been bitten by a spider, and I have never made...
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How to Match Derm
Excerpts from Dr Benabio’s 10 tips. Find the rest @ the Derm Blog: 1. Work harder than everybody around you. Imagine yourself the Tiger Woods or Lance Armstrong of your medical school class. Be the...
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How to Pop a Pimple
here’s how to do it properly: 1. Pick only pimples that are ready to be popped. The white blood cells will have collected and be walled off in the follicle, forming a visible white head on the...
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Traction Alopecia
There are many causes of hair loss including medications, thyroid disease, iron deficiency, even having a baby. Most of these causes result in temporary hair loss — the hair eventually grows back. Some...
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Keloid Review
fibrous growths that uncommonly occur in cases of wound healing. They present predominantly in blacks, and any type of skin piercing can affect those predisposed to the disease. The first-line therapy...
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Cimex Lectularius – Rapid Review of the Bedbug
You’ll liekly encounter the bedbug during your outpatient rotations. Here is an excellent review from Clinical Correlations. Cimex lectularius, commonly known as the bedbug, had been a pest of...
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Rapid Rash Review
Medscape offers an excellent review of common rashes encountered during clinical years. Highlights include Erysipelas, Intertrigo, Molluscum Contagiosum, hand-foot-mouth disease, Pityriasis Rosea,...
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