Advice to authors

Tributes to Jean Thivolet (1926-2011)

Soluble biomarkers in psoriasis
Charlotta Enerblsquäck

Confocal Raman microspectroscopy of the skin
Matthias Förster, Marie-Alexandrine Bolzinger, Gilles Montagnac, Stéphanie Briançon

Superimposed segmental manifestation of cherry angiomas
Teresa Jaeger, Christian Andres, Rüdiger Hein, Johannes Ring, WenChieh Chen

Effect of narrow band ultraviolet B on survivin in psoriatic skin lesions
Noha Abdel Rehim Nagui, Rania Mounir Abdel Hay, Laila Ahmed Rashed

Differentiation between basal cell carcinoma and trichoepithelioma by immunohistochemical staining of the androgen receptor: an overview
Aimée H.M.M. Arits, Arienne M.W. Van Marion, Bjorn G.P.M. Lohman, Monique R.T.M. Thissen, Peter M. Steijlen, Patty J. Nelemans, Nicole W.J. Kelleners-Smeets

Pemphigus vulgaris: accumulation of apoptotic cells in dermis and epidermis possibly relates to pathophysiology through TNF-alpha production by phagocytes
Mariana Chiapa-Labastida, Alejandro Zentella-Dehesa, Gladys León-Dorantes, Ingeborg Becker

Critical factors differentiating erythema multiforme majus from Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS)/toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN)
Rie Watanabe, Hideaki Watanabe, Chie Sotozono, Akatsuki Kokaze, Masafumi Iijima

Smoking and diabetes mellitus type 2 reduce skin graft take\; the use of fibrin glue might restore graft take to optimal levels
Joaquín Pérez-Guisado, Kate L. Gaston, Juan R. Benítez-Goma, Emilio Cabrera-Sánchez, Félix T. Fidalgo-Rodríguez, Luis F. Rioja, Steven J. Thomas

TLR expression in human melanoma cells
Mélanie Saint-Jean, Anne-Chantal Knol, Jean-Michel Nguyen, Amir Khammari, Brigitte Dréno

Effects of Hydroxydecine ^® (10-hydroxy-2-decenoic acid) on skin barrier structure and function in vitro and clinical efficacy in the treatment of UV-induced xerosis
Hélène Duplan, Emmanuel Questel, Hélène Hernandez-Pigeon, Marie Florence Galliano, Antony Caruana, Isabelle Ceruti, Marco Ambonati, Carine Mejean, Odile Damour, Nathalie Castex-Rizzi, Sandrine Bessou-Touya, Anne-Marie Schmitt

Effects of etanercept treatment on lipid profile in patients with moderate-to-severe chronic plaque psoriasis: a retrospective cohort study
Sara Lestre, Filipa Diamantino, Luis Veloso, Ana Fidalgo, Ana Ferreira

Functional and phenotypical alterations of polymorphonuclear cells in Sézary syndrome patients
Maria Teresa Fierro, Anna Maria Cuffini, Mauro Novelli, Giuliana Banche, Valeria Allizond, Alessandra Comessatti, Matteo Brizio, Daniela Scalas, Chiara Merlino, Pietro Quaglino, Maria Grazia Bernengo

Identifying prognostic factors for drug rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS)
Chia-Hung Wei, Rosaline Chung-Yee Hui, Chee-Jen Chang, Hsin-Chun Ho, Chih-Hsun Yang, Yu-Jr Lin, Wen-Hung Chung

Screening of differentially expressed genes and predominant expression of variable region of T cell receptor in peripheral T cells of psoriatic patients
Guohua Yin, Xinhua Li, Junqin Li, Hongzhou Cui, Ruixia Hou, Jing Zhang, Feng Dong, Honggang Liang, Kaiming Zhang

Radiofrequency induced thermotherapy (RFITT) of varicose veins compared to endovenous laser treatment (EVLT): a non-randomized prospective study concentrating on occlusion rates, side-effects and clinical outcome.
Jens P. Tesmann, Helmut Thierbach, Andrea Dietrich, Heiko Grimme, Thomas Vogt, Knuth Rass

Cryosurgery is more effective in the treatment of primary, non-superficial basal cell carcinomas when applied during and not prior to a five week imiquimod course: a randomized, prospective, open-label study
Georgios Gaitanis, Evangelos C. Alexopoulos, Ioannis D. Bassukas

A double-blind randomized controlled comparison of APDDR-0901, a novel cosmeceutical formulation, and 0.1% adapalene gel in the treatment of mild-to-moderate acne vulgaris
Ha Eun Lee, Joo Yeon Ko, Young Hoon Kim, Seo Rye Yoo, Sang Ho Moon, Nack In Kim, Chun Wook Park, Jeong Hwan Kim, Hyun Ju Koh, Won Seok Park, Young Suck Ro

Extensive acantholysis as the major histological feature of a severe case of Dowling Meara-epidermolysis bullosa simplex: a reappraisal of acantholysis in the newborn
Esteve Darwich, Asunción Vicente, Maria C. Bolling, Maria A. González-Enseñat, Victoria Cusi, Claudia Fortuny, José A. Bombí, Marcel F. Jonkman, José M. Mascaró Jr.

Giant basal cell carcinoma with regional lymph node and distant lung metastasis
Saud Aldhaban, Siham Marc, Majed Eshki, Angélique Girod, Hervé Boissonet, Alain Chapelier, Agnès Carlotti, Xavier Sastre-Garau, Alexandra Athanasiou, Leila Zemoura, Stéphanie Bolle, Daniel Wallach, Marie-Françoise Avril

Quality of life in melanoma patients during adjuvant treatment with pegylated interferon-2b: patients' and doctors' views
Carmen Loquai, Irene Schmidtmann, Manfred Beutel, Cord Sunderkötter, Stephan Grabbe, Meinhard Schiller, Dorothée Nashan

Variables associated with sun protection behaviour of preschoolers
José Eduardo Muñoz Negro, Agustín Buendía-Eisman, Andrés Cabrera León, Salvio Serrano Ortega

Aliolidea allergic contact stomatitis
Carmen Cantisani, Carlo Mattozzi, Antonio Giovanni Richetta, Luca Melis, Federica Frascani, Stefano Calvieri

Chronic papular urticaria due to pigeon ticks in an adult
Giuseppina Manzotti, Christiane Hilger, Enrico Heffler, Giovanni Rolla

Rapid response of scalp psoriasis to ustekinumab
Antonella Di Cesare, Maria Concetta Fargnoli, Ketty Peris

Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis induced by topical diphenhydramine
Takaaki Hanafusa, Ken Igawa, Hiroaki Azukizawa, Ichiro Katayama

Lupus vulgaris diagnosed 62 years after onset
Jose Neila, Lara Ferrandiz, David Moreno-Ramirez, Francisco Camacho Martinez

Fibrosarcoma arising from a burn scar
Ilkin Zindanci, Ebru Zemheri, Mukaddes Kavala, Emek Kocaturk, Burce Can, Zafer Turkoglu, Vasfiye Ulucay, Ozge Ozbulak

Rash as the first manifestation of acute graft- versus-host disease after orthotopic liver transplantation
Zhouwei Wu, Weimin Shi

Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis-like drug eruption induced by pemetrexed
Tomoyasu Hattori, Atsushi Tamura, Osamu Ishikawa

Dermal fibrosis related to combination chemotherapy with carboplatin and gemcitabine
Amiko Hashimoto, Nao Yamamoto, Yasuki Hata, Miki Takahashi, Reiko Shimokawa

Generalized granuloma annulare following BCG vaccination, mimicking papular tuberculid
Kotaro Nagase, Shinichi Koba, Takeshi Okawa, Takuya Inoue, Noriyuki Misago, Yutaka Narisawa

Overexpression of autophagy-related beclin-1 in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma with lymph-node metastasis
Risa Okura, Motonobu Nakamura

Compression therapy: an adjuvant treatment for orofacial granulomatosis in Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome?
Zhengxiao Li, Jingyi Yuan, Ping Liu, Shengxiang Xiao

The detection of Sarcoptes scabiei in human skin by in vivo confocal microscopy
Enver Turan, Asli Turgut Erdemir, Mehmet Salih Gurel, Yeliz Karakoca Basaran

Squamous cell carcinoma of the scalp associated with human papillomavirus type 16
Kazutoshi Murao, Daisuke Fukumoto, Yoshiaki Kubo

Giant cell collagenoma on the palm
Ji-Youn Park, You Chan Kim

Disseminated bilateral hyperkeratotic variant of porokeratosis Mibelli with pruritus
Cheng Zhou, Yan Jin, Dongjie Zang, Jianzhong Zhang*

Treatment of a multicentric Merkel cell carcinoma using imatinib
Lucie Peuvrel, Gaëlle Quereux, Anabelle Brocard, Jean Jacques Renaut, Brigitte Dréno

Multiple cutaneous plexiform schwannomas revealing neurofibromatosis type 2 in a child ' report of a novel mutation in this rare association
Maria João Cruz, Teresa Baudrier, Maria João Gil-Da-Costa, Filomena Azevedo, Alberto Mota

Livedoid vasculopathy\; favorable clinical response with low dose warfarin
Satoshi Nakamura, Mari Kishibe, Kaoru Nishi, Yoshio Hashimoto, Keiko Takeda, Toshihiro Mizumoto, Hajime Iizuka

The hair growth promoting effect of 4-O-methylhonokiol
Sang-Cheol Kim, Jung-Il Kang, Min-Kyoung Kim, Hye-Jin Boo, Doek-Bae Park, Young-Ki Lee, Ji-Hoon Kang, Eun-Sook Yoo, Young Heui Kim, Hee-Kyoung Kang

Multiple skin lesions caused by Mycobacterium scrofulaceum infection
Ayako Ito, Yuichi Yoshida, Hiromi Higaki-Mori, Tessin Watanabe, Kazue Nakanaga, Norihisa Ishii, Osamu Yamamoto

Sorafenib-induced erythema multiforme: three cases
Mio Namba, Yuichiro Tsunemi, Makoto Kawashima

Superficial epithelioma with sebaceous differentiation: immunohistochemical study of keratinocyte differentiation markers
Yasuhiro Kawachi, Yasuhiro Fujisawa, Junichi Furuta, Yasuhiro Nakamura, Yoshiyuki Ishii, Fujio Otsuka

Comedogenic acne following radiation therapy
Evren Odyakmaz Demirsoy, Rebiay Kiran, Burcu Öztürk, Sevgiye Özkara Kaçar, Aysun ikar Aktürk

Pulmonary cryptococcoma in a patient with Sézary syndrome treated with alemtuzumab
Claire Hotz, Saskia Ingen-Housz-Oro, Jeanne Tran Van Nhieu, Caroline Charlier, Françoise Foulet, Alain Rahmouni, Benhalima Zegai, Tu-Anh Duong, Pierre Wolkenstein, Martine Bagot, Olivier Chosidow

Kimura's disease treated with suplatast tosilate and loratadine
Takashi Ueda, Satoru Arai, Yasuyuki Amoh, Kensei Katsuoka

Pigmented Bowen's disease of the digit successfully treated with imiquimod 5% cream
Takeshi Yanagishita, Yoichi Akita, Gen Nakanishi, Yasuhiko Tamada, Daisuke Watanabe

Vascular-type Ehlers-Danlos syndrome presenting as recurrent compartment syndrome
Yukari Yoshimura, Chihiro Nishijima, Kazuo Ikeda, Keiko Ikeda, Yo Niida, Makoto Inaoki

Colloid milium with amyloid deposition of cytokeratin: does colloid milium have an epidermal origin?
Emi Shikuma, Akihiro Fujisawa, Miki Tanioka, Yoshiki Miyachi

Safe use of oral isotretinoin after pseudo-tumor cerebri due to minocycline
Vincenzo Bettoli, Alessandro Borghi, Lucia Mantovani, Rita Scorrano, Sara Minghetti, Giulia Toni, Oriele Sarno, Stefania Zauli, Annarosa Virgili

Einar Rud and the syndrome that bears his name
Khalid AL ABOUD, Daifullah AL ABOUD

Topical treatment of CHILD nevus and Sjögren-Larsson Syndrome with combined lovastatin and cholesterol
Nayra Merino De Paz, Marina Rodriguez-Martin, Patricia Contreras-Ferrer, Marta Garcia Bustinduy, Itamar Gonzalez Perera, Tirso Virgos Aller, Antonio Martin Herrera, Antonio Noda Cabrera

Residents' corner November 2011. Residents' editorial choice
Tiago Torres, Emmanuella Guenova, Laurence Feldmeyer, Audrey Nosbaum

sQUIZ your knowledge! A holiday souvenir
Nicolas Leitz, Khawaja Zarqa

_CarpeDIEM ' Dermatological Indications for Electron Microscopy: Ehlers Danlos Syndrome
Emmanuella Guenova, Martin Schaller