The questionnaire could be a useful tool for HS screening in the general population. Further studies are needed to confirm its performance in a real-world setting.

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Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the second most common form of skin cancer. In most cases, non-invasive SCC has a good prognosis and is curable by surgical resection. Nevertheless, a small percentage of patients pose specific management problems due to the technical difficulty of maintaining function and aesthetics because of the size or location of the tumor. An emerging therapeutic approach with high-dose brachytherapy using a nonsealed Rhenium-188 resin, commercially known as Rhenium-SCT®, has shown to be highly effective in non-invasive carcinoma, up to a thickness of 2-3 mm.

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SummaryHidradenitis Suppurativa (HS) is a chronic debilitating inflammatory disease, affecting very sensitive areas, such as genitalia, axillae, and groins of mostly young people, with a female predilection. Signs and symptoms are devastating for patients' quality of life, joined with a history of diagnostic delay, and hidden sufferance even to close relatives. The disease has gained an increasing interest, with the proposal of new efficacious medical treatment. Besides, cosmetic skin care is somewhat uncover. To challenge patients' own perspective, the proposal of a survey to the main Italian Association, named Inversa Onlus, pointed out a free access question naire, published on the website. One hundred fifteen patients listed the major causes of daily activities limitation from a cosmetic point of view, selecting six items: affected skin appearance; scars appearance; smell; perspiration; epilation; blemish dresses. A 5 points scale expressed the level of disturbance, and the most rated features resulted: skin overall appearance, followed by scars, dirty spots on dress and problems related to depilation, while lesions smell and perspiration problems were judged less important. Asking patients unveiled that physicians should also take care of main accessory, cosmetically oriented daily needs, suggesting dedicated lines of products to improve skin appearance, and social acceptability.