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The New England Journal of Medicine: Search Results in Dermatology
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) RSS feed -- Search Results in Dermatology. NEJM (http://www.nejm.org) is a weekly general medical journal that publishes new medical research findings, review articles, and editorial opinion on a wide variety of topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practice.

A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Oral Propranolol in Infantile Hemangioma
01/01/70 - Infantile hemangiomas are the most common soft-tissue tumors of childhood, occurring in 3 to 10% of infants.? Lesions are usually not developed at birth and are generally diagnosed during the first 4 to 6 weeks of life, with most growth during the first 5 months. The characteristic evolution of…

Mass Treatment with Single-Dose Azithromycin for Yaws
01/01/70 - Yaws, an infectious disease caused by Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue, affects mainly children in poor rural communities in tropical countries. This bacterium is transmitted by direct skin-to-skin, nonsexual contact and causes a chronic, relapsing disease that is characterized by highly…

Myxedema
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Yaws Eradication ? A Goal Finally within Reach
01/01/70 - Yaws is a chronic infectious disease caused by Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue, a gram-negative bacterium that is genetically closely related to the less common nonvenereal endemic treponematoses, bejel and pinta, and T. pallidum subspecies pallidum, the causative agent of syphilis. As one…

Contagious Ecthyma
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Case 5-2015: A 69-Year-Old Woman with Recurrent Skin Lesions after Treatment for Lymphoma
01/01/70 - Presentation of Case. Dr. Joi B. Carter (Dermatology): A 69-year-old woman was seen in the cutaneous-lymphoma outpatient clinic of this hospital because of recurrent skin lesions, which had begun appearing approximately 2 months after she completed chemotherapy for anaplastic large-cell lymphoma…

Itching for a Diagnosis
01/01/70 - A 58-year-old black woman presented to an urgent care clinic with pruritus, which had developed in the preceding 2 weeks along with fatigue, dizziness, and decreased appetitite. There was no visible rash. The diffuse body itch had progressively worsened during this period, particularly at night,…

Sweet's Syndrome in Patients with MDS and MEFV Mutations
01/01/70 - To the Editor: We report the finding of MEFV mutations in two Japanese patients with the myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and skin lesions that are consistent with Sweet's syndrome (acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis). Both patients had heterozygous mutations in MEFV, which are known to cause…

Atypical Ulcerations of the Penis
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A Randomized Trial of Icatibant in ACE-Inhibitor?Induced Angioedema
01/01/70 - Angioedema induced by treatment with angiotensin-converting?enzyme (ACE) inhibitors is estimated to occur in up to 0.68% of patients who receive ACE inhibitors,? although the true incidence is difficult to estimate because symptoms can take years to appear. Although the risk of ACE…

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