R P Dellavalle

..In one biopsy specimen, abnormal keratinocytes bridging the follicular infundibulum were seen. We concluded that UV exposure and HPV viral infection may be risk factors for the formation of epidermoid inclusion cysts...

..This study examines how accounting for citation origin affects the impact factor ranking of dermatology journals...

..This article reviews melanoma biology and the clinical evidence for the use of lipid-lowering medications for melanoma chemoprevention and/or adjuvant chemotherapy...

..Publishers, librarians, and readers need to reassess policies, archiving systems, and other resources for addressing Internet reference attrition to prevent further information loss...

..To examine attitudes toward evidence-based medicine and evidence-based dermatology and to assess evidence-based training in US internal medicine and dermatology residency programs...

..The use of heating/cooling blankets, especially in a patient with altered mental status, can result in iatrogenic erythema ab igne...

..52, 95% CI = 0.27 to 0.99). CONCLUSIONS: These findings do not validate the possibility that statins or fibrates prevent melanoma...

..The p53-like genes, p73 and the several KET splicing variants, are recently described genes of uncertain biologic and pathologic significance. This study provides the first clear association of a p53-like protein with a disease process...

..Widespread dermatologist smallpox vaccination knowledge deficits pinpoint opportunities for educational efforts...

..High compliance levels in states with long-standing youth access regulations (Illinois and Wisconsin) demonstrate the potential for successful tanning industry youth access regulation...

..Policies that improve access to novel questionnaires will allow better assessment of study results, reduce duplicated efforts, and improve authorship attribution for questionnaire design...

..To compare laws governing youth access to UV irradiation at indoor tanning facilities with laws governing youth access to tobacco...

..Lovastatin induced caspase-dependent apoptosis in multiple melanoma cell lines via a geranylation-specific mechanism. This study supports a possible role of lovastatin as a therapeutic, adjuvant or chemopreventive agent for melanoma...

..Dermatologists regard indoor UV tanning more negatively compared with other physicians. Physician sex and geographic location were associated with specific indoor UV tanning attitudes...

..The number of melanocytic nevi is the best single marker of increased melanoma risk. In a previous study, adults with severe eczema were reported to have significantly fewer nevi than adults without eczema...

..It appears that a threshold dose of UV exposure is received quickly on each waterside vacation. Parents of young children should exercise caution in selection of vacation locations to reduce melanoma risk...

..CONCLUSION: The work performed by the Cochrane Skin Group is an important component for informing the evidence base for the clinical practice of cutaneous and surgical dermatology...

..Public health skin cancer prevention policies should include the prohibition of UV tanning advertising to minors...

..This study describes consumer health risks information provided by indoor UV tanning facility operators in four states (Colorado, Illinois, Texas, and Wisconsin) with varying operator training, regulations, enforcement and penalties...

..CONCLUSION: Our sample of indoor tanning facility operators believed that minimum age and parental consent regulations for indoor tanning should be required...

..CONCLUSION: Given that open pediatric dermatology faculty positions greatly exceed the number of fellows in training and that formal training requirements will be increasing, the shortage of pediatric dermatologists will likely continue...

..To examine the relationship between tanning and nevus development in very-light-skinned children...

..CONCLUSION: Because no agent yet emerges as a clear choice for effective melanoma chemoprevention, sun avoidance and sun protection remain the mainstay of melanoma prevention for persons at high risk...

..To evaluate residents' satisfaction with dermatology training and mentorship...

..To describe the development of nevi from 3 to 8 years of age in a birth cohort of children in Colorado...

..This article focuses on health care disparities in dermatology, and invites providers to become agents of change...

..To determine whether having medical students answer self-generated patient-specific questions in a clinical setting promotes learning...

..0 and 6.5 vs. 4.5, P-values = 0.01 and 0.002). CONCLUSIONS: The Cochrane Library systematic review methodology leads to higher quality reviews on dermatological topics...

..Using the current evidence framework, North American dermatology training centers and professional societies should work to foster dermoscopy training and use by both dermatologists and other health care providers...

..Focal p63 expression within tissues, the complex array of isoforms encoded by the gene, and the specificity of the probes and antibodies utilized, may all contribute to contradictory accounts of CUSP/p63 expression...

..The use of review databases for dermatology has been questioned because of the impression that these reviews frequently report finding insufficient evidence to guide therapeutic recommendations...

..This article describes recent developments in health care consumer activism including dermatology disease advocacy and efforts to improve dermatologist-patient interactions...

..CONCLUSION: In this preliminary open label study topical imiquimod 5% cream was well tolerated and associated with a histologic and clinical response rate of 50%...

..Many board-certified dermatologists are not advertising this certification...

..This article provides instruction on how to effectively review a life sciences manuscript, particularly those in dermatology...

..Fellow evaluation is required by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Procedural dermatology fellowship accreditation by the ACGME began in 2003 while dermatopathology accreditation began in 1976...

..Dermatologists and other health care providers should recognize the importance of social media websites and their potential usefulness for disseminating health information...

..Therefore, CUSP appears to be present, unmutated, and yet frequently undetectable by immunofluorescence in cutaneous lesions in both humans and mice that are associated with SHH pathway dysregulation (BCCs, BCNS, and nevus sebaceous)...

..The significant constitutive expression of DeltaNp63alpha in stratified epithelium has been proposed to maintain the proliferative capacity of basal cells, blocking the consequences of inappropriate p53 activation...

..7%). CONCLUSIONS: Uniform resource locators are increasingly used and lost in dermatology journals. Loss will continue until better preservation policies are adopted...

..This article reviews clinical and analytic epidemiology pertinent to reading, interpreting, and critically examining the literature, and presents an overview of evidence-based dermatology as a starting point for further study...

..His current career goals are completing a Masters of Science in Public Health and becoming an independent researcher in skin cancer prevention and control. ..