Introduction: With the increase in the use of social media, there is a steady increase in demand for medical, surgical, and cosmetic procedures. Dermatologists and other physicians are leaving their cosmetic practice to non-physician service providers to keep up with the growing demand for cosmetic procedures. Objectives: To examine the gender, professions, and the method of nevi treatment of the profiles using #bensilme and #moleremoval hashtags on Instagram and to investigate the extent of cosmetic procedures comparing Turkey’s situation with other countries. Methods: In Instagram, the most frequently used hashtags about nevus treatment were scanned by two dermatologists. We recorded profession, gender, country of origin, and the treatment method of nevi of profiles sharing the related posts. Results: The countries with the highest share of the #moleremoval hashtag were the United Kingdom (15%), India (12%), and the United States of America (10.5%), and the proportion of physicians in these countries was 16.7%, 100%, and 71.4%, respectively. In the non-physician group, plasma pen method in our country is the most used method (Turkey: 97.9%, world: 75% respectively), but the use of radiofrequency cautery (world: 12.5%, Turkey: 1% respectively) and cryo pen (world: 7.5%, Turkey: 0.0%) methods were significantly more abroad. Conclusions: We demonstrated that non-physicians mostly perform nevus destruction procedures. Physicians must use social media more actively to share educational, quality, and accurate information. We suggest that the hashtags used by physicians in their social media posts should be chosen from the words used in the folk language.
The levels of trace elements, which were determined to be different from the control group, may play a role in the pathogenesis of essential hyperhidrosis either in direct relation with or without oxidative mechanisms.
The relationships between cancer caused by HPV and some vitamins, as well as leucocytes and their ratios, have been investigated in the literature. Our aim is to evaluate these relationships at the level of genital wart in terms of the investigated parameters and lesion numbers. Data were obtained from 98 and 94 patients for groups one and two, including warts patients and healthy people respectively. The Neutrophil/Monocyte ratio and lesion numbers in the warts patients were reported and analysed in terms of vitamin B12 and D, ferritin and leucocytes. A correlation was established between lesion numbers, age and midcorpuscular volume (p <0.05). There was no correlation between lesion numbers and recurrence. According to the comparative analysis, there were differences in terms of ferritin, neutrophil, monocyte, haemoglobin, midcorpuscular volume and neutrophil/monocyte ratio between groups. The cut‐off values for neutrophil, monocyte and N/M ratios were 56.45, 4.91 and 7.825 respectively. While our study showed that wart development may be affected by blood ferritin levels and in this situation, midcorpuscular volume, neutrophil, monocyte and N/M ratios may change, a relation was found between lesion numbers and age and mean midcorpsucular volume values only. However, further studies are needed to clarify this issue.
Erosive pustular dermatosis of the scalp (EPDS) is an inflammatory dermatosis that shows nonmicrobial pustules, crusting, erosions, and causes scarred alopecia. It often affects the chronically photo-damaged skin of the elderly. EPDS can be clinically confused with bacterial or fungal infections, pemphigus vulgaris, squamous cell carcinoma, and artifact dermatitis. Histopathology is not specific to the disease. Topical and systemic steroids and estrogen, topical tacrolimus, photodynamic therapies, systemic acitretin are also successful treatments. [1][2][3][4][5] As far as we know, our case is the fourth case reported after herpes zoster so far. 2
Introduction: The relationship between facial dermatoses and blepharitis has been known for along time.Objectives: We aimed to investigate the frequency of accompanying facial dermatoses in patients withblepharitis and their relationship with the severity of blepharitis.Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 95 patients with blepharitis were examined for attending facialdermatoses. The type of blepharitis, the severity of blepharitis, and the degree of dry eye weredetermined in the patients. Dermoscopic and microscopic examinations were used in the diagnosis offacial dermatoses. The history of allergic rhinitis was questioned because Demodex species frequentlyaccompany blepharitis, facial dermatoses, and allergic rhinitis patients. Mann-Whitney U test wasused compare 2 independent groups. In comparing categorical variables, Pearson chi-Squared, FishereExact, and Fisher-Freeman-Holton tests were used.Results: At least 1 facial dermatosis was detected in 84.2% patients, and we did not see any facialdermatosis in 15.8% ones. No patients had acne, which is one of the most common facial dermatoses.The most common facial dermatosis detected in our patients was facial demodicosis (57.9%). It wasfollowed by seborrheic dermatitis (22.1%) and rosacea (12.6%), respectively. In addition, 2.1% of thepatients had atopic eyelid dermatitis, 23.2% had a history of allergic rhinitis, and 63.2% had oculardemodicosis.Conclusions: It is essential to perform dermatological examinations of all patients with blepharitis interms of accompanying facial dermatoses and their early diagnosis.
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