Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysisan Australian analysis of treatment outcomes and mortalityArticle no: IJDT_A_1568380 Enclosures: 1) Query sheet 2) Article proofs 4. Funding: Was your research for this article funded by a funding agency? If so, please insert `This work was supported by
This paper identifies clinical factors that could be used to assess risk of surgical site infection following Mohs. Support is provided for some elements of existing guidelines: the type of repair appears to influence risk. 1 We found no support for differing locations on the head and neck being at increased risk or that flaps on the nose were more at risk than flaps elsewhere. We propose that this could be explained if the microbiome accounts for most of the risk for surgical site infection and is uniform in terms of the presence of S. aureus for an individual on the head and neck. Further detailed anatomical work on the head and neck microbiome would be needed to support this. 2 We did not have enough data to comment specifically on the risk from wedge closure or locations such as the groin and lower leg as risk factors. The surgical site infection risk synergy demonstrated between nasal S. aureus carriage and graft repair seems likely to result from occlusion of the skin which has been demonstrated to increase bacteria after 48 h. 3 Strategies for reducing this particular risk would include preoperative topical decolonisation of nasal S. aureus 4,5 and reducing the time period for which occlusive dressings are applied following grafting. An additional approach, applicable for all patients, would include enhanced clinical surveillance post-operatively for those who by the data from this analysis appear to be at increased risk of surgical site infection.
Although lentigines are usually benign, they can be associated with a number of genetic syndromes in which neoplasms and other multi‐system pathological processes occur. Here, we report the case of a 6‐year‐old girl who presented with atypical lentiginosis and hyperpigmentation caused by a de novo genetic variant in the KIT gene.
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