The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has fundamentally transformed the landscape of providing dermatologic care. In an age of lockdowns and social distancing, teledermatology (TD) has emerged as a powerful tool to deliver remote care. Here, we review literature on TD use during the pandemic to evaluate the positives and negatives of TD implementation. We especially consider the reception of TD in underserved communities and the developing world as well as the ethico-legal challenges wrought by the burgeoning utilization of this new paradigm of care. The potential of TD to occupy a more prominent role in dermatologic care in a post-COVID-19 world is also discussed.
Muir-Torre syndrome (MTS) is an autosomal dominant cancer syndrome that is a phenotypic variant of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal carcinoma (HNPCC), or Lynch syndrome. MTS is characterized by sebaceous neoplasms and HNPCC-associated malignancies such as colorectal, endometrial, and urothelial carcinomas. The Amsterdam criteria require the presence of at least one sebaceous adenoma, sebaceous epithelioma, sebaceous carcinoma, or keratoacanthoma (KA) with sebaceous differentiation in addition to a HNPCCassociated visceral malignancy. Multiple KAs and a visceral malignancy together with a family history of MTS are also diagnostic. MTS is precipitated by pathogenic variants of DNA mismatch repair genes such
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