Luc Thomas

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..Because of the success of calcitriol in localized scleroderma, we attempted this therapy in a patient with LS...

..Didactic review of the various features of eyelid pathology in elderly patients...

..Case reports and small short case series have described patients with sarcoidosis and melanoma...

..We report here 2 new cases and wish to discuss the arguments and counter-arguments for such a potential relationship...

..These recently published data shed the light on melanoma management. We review here the latest development of these molecules and the current perspectives in the treatment of metastatic melanoma...

..The overall response rate was 58 % with a median duration of response of 12 months. Miltefosine is a safe, simple and effective treatment in certain patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma...

..We report a misleading case of a 5-month-old child, who presented with pruritic brown-red macules of the trunk showing a positive Darier's sign, suggestive of an urticaria pigmentosa...

..If local therapies (surgery, radiation) are the gold standard for localized disease, rituximab can also be considered as an alternative for disseminated or plurifocal PCMZL...

..Scleromyxedema is an unusual skin disease characterized by mucinous infiltration of the skin. There is no satisfactory treatment for this disorder...

..The occurrence of primary cutaneous B-cell lymphoma at the site of radiation therapy is exceptional. We report herein the case of a primary cutaneous marginal zone lymphoma arising at the site of radiotherapy for breast cancer...

..It stresses the fact that skin biopsies should be taken in case of atypical AD to rule out MF and avoid such an aggressive evolution under immunosuppressive therapy...

..We review the current data focusing on the BRMs widely used in the practice of dermatology...

..It is hope that this better understanding of the biologic features of melanoma and the mechanisms underlying tumor-induced immunosuppression will lead to efficaceous targeted therapy...

..Given the ocular and vascular complications of PXE, clinicians who treat patients with lupus should be aware of this possible association...

..These findings strongly support the idea that, although pediatric mastocytosis can spontaneously regress, it is a clonal disease most commonly associated with activating mutations in c-KIT...

..On the contrary, patients with psoriasis had a very high level of perceived stress and a deeply altered quality of life...

..This is the first reported case of LyP localized to the face...

..In this article, we will review the management, including diagnosis as well as differential diagnosis of nail pigmentations and propose a new algorithm for the non invasive diagnosis of nail pigmentation...

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..To determine the predictive dermoscopic features of amelanotic and hypomelanotic melanoma...

..To determine the time required to perform a complete skin examination (CSE) as a means of opportunistic screening for skin cancer both without and with dermoscopy...

..This observation suggests that there is a need for reconsideration of the hypothesis that levodopa may play a role in melanoma development, at least when in the context of a high-risk genetic background...

..Blue nevus has been very rarely reported in this location. We report the second clinicopathologic study of a subungual blue nevus...

..1% of total mutations in this series (1 of 48), confirming that they explain a very small proportion of CMM susceptibility. In addition, we excluded a new gene on 9p21, KLHL9, as being a major CMM gene...

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..Based on its ability to directly alter metastasis, mda-9/syntenin provides a promising new focus for melanoma cancer research with potential therapeutic applications for metastatic diseases...