Michael Sand

..In-flight medical and surgical emergencies (IMEs) onboard commercial aircrafts occur quite commonly. However, little epidemiological research exists concerning these incidents...

..We report a case of a large ear keloid on the helical rim which was successfully treated with surgery and a custom designed silicon pressure clip...

..USA) is safe and can have a clinical effect on the skin manifestations and the quality of life in patients with severe, refractory AD...

..The bilateral cheek-to-nose advancement flap is a reliable tool in the interventional portfolio of the reconstructive surgeon...

..In this pilot study, we investigated expression profiles of the two most important enzymes of the miRNA machinery, Drosha and Dicer, in relation to epithelial skin cancer and its premalignant stage...

..Carcinoma cunniculatum on the shoulder is a very rare manifestation with only two cases being reported in the literature. In this communication we report a case of carcinoma cunniculatum on the left shoulder...

..The purpose of this prospective bicenter study was, therefore, to determine whether or not the PCT levels in the serum of patients with acute appendicitis have any diagnostic value...

..In this case we present a patient who developed a gallbladder metastasis five years after a renal cell carcinoma mimicking acute cholecystitis...

..Disruption of miRNA metabolism is also involved in wound healing and inflammatory skin conditions. Here, we review the role of miRNAs in cutaneous biology...

..In this review, we focus on those skin diseases on the nose where surgery or laser therapy is considered a possible treatment option or that can be surgically evaluated...

..The diagnosis of EA is very infrequent, due in part to low or absent awareness among general surgeons. The objective of this work was to review the authors' experience and describe the clinical presentation of EA...

..Increasing air travel has resulted in a significant increase in aeromedical evacuation (AE) over the past decade. However, there are limited epidemiological data available on the diagnosis, costs, and transport characteristics of AE cases...

..Considering the rare localization, this is the first report of this kind in the literature...

..This preliminary study indicates that alterations in the miRNA machinery could exist and should be subject of further investigation...

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..Thus, this comparative study investigated acute care medication and equipment supplied in emergency medical kits on board both low-cost carriers and full-service carriers...

..This article will focus on those diseases wherefore surgery or laser therapy is considered as a possible treatment option or which are potentially subject to surgical evaluation...

..Although a variety of different surgical strategies for focal axillary hyperhidrosis (FAH) have proven effective, little is known of intraoperative and postoperative histologies of different surgical methods...

..Skin grafting is a common procedure to close defects after tumor resection. However, delicate areas such as the heel or the sole of the foot can be closed with a specially designed graft as described in this article...

..OCT seems to be a useful tool to monitor UV induced effects in vivo...

..However, injections are often painful. Therefore, we studied whether skin cooling decreases pain during injection...

..Despite its frequent use, the mechanism of action of PDC and histological changes of treated fat tissue still remain unclear. To investigate the histological changes of lipomas after treatment with PDC...

..However, changes of quality of life after minimally invasive surgical procedures such as suction-curettage (SC) have not been investigated so far...

..Facial lipoatrophy (FLA) is a stigmatizing complication of antiretroviral therapy in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection...

..Besides the indication for shave therapy, we focus on the operative technique and important therapy during postoperative convalescence time...

..Treatment of focal hyperhidrosis with botulinum toxin A (BTX-A) is known to be effective in the axillary, palmar, and plantar region. No studies evaluating the treatment of hyperhidrosis in the anal fold with BTX-A are available, however...

..Until now no characterization of the recurrent sweating areas has been reported. The aim of this study was to characterize the axillary sweat area by using the iodine starch test in nonresponders prior to surgery...

..Regarding practicability, precision, and indication spectrum, ET-OCT-V and ET-OCT-M are of different clinical value...

..In the present study, we investigated if repetitive external application of liposomal melanin (Lipoxome; Dalton Medicare B.V., Zevenbergschen Hoek, The Netherlands) enables removal of blond/white and gray hair with a diode laser...

..The aim of this retrospective study was to investigate the diagnostic value of hyperbilirubinemia as a preoperative laboratory marker for appendiceal perforation in patients with acute appendicitis...

..However, no reports of lipoma therapy with intralesional application of PDC, that is, injection lipolysis, have been published to date...

..Studies comparing the efficacy of different surgical cannulas are missing. Therefore, we gravimetrically compared a specially designed cannula versus 2 standard liposuction cannulas...

..53 m( 2) or 18% of the body surface. To the authors' knowledge, this is the largest split-thickness grafted body surface successfully treated with negative pressure wound dressing documented in the literature...

..The objective of the present study was to compare a simple primary closure (PC) for reconstruction after complete resection of the vermilion (vermilionectomy) with closure using a mucosal advancement flap (MAF)...

..In the present case we report a patient who presented with recurrent growth lipomas that were previously successfully treated using phosphatidylcholine and deoxycholate...

..Primary sacral tumors are rare and experience related to accompanying effects of these tumors is therefore limited to observations on a small number of patients...

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..The aim of this study was to develop an effective surrogate model in which ex vivo full-thickness organ culture experiments may be performed...

..Aim. To generate a calculator to predict the risk of diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia or angina in men with ED, based on an analysis of data from the Men's Attitudes to Life Events and Sexuality (MALES) 2004 study...

..There have been limited multiregional studies in Asia examining the parameters of men's general and sexual health and quality of life in the general population vs. those in clinical cohorts of patients with erectile dysfunction (ED)...

..The aim of Phase II of the Men's Attitudes to Life Events and Sexuality (MALES) Study is to explore PDE5 inhibitor treatment seeking among men with erectile dysfunction (ED)...

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..However, before OCT can be employed as an objective parameter in grading severity of patch test reactions, larger studies are required that correlate clinical patch test readings and OCT findings with histopathology...