In this open, controlled, multicentre and prospective observational study, smartphone teledermoscopy referrals were sent from 20 primary hea...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a hot topic within dermatology and during the last years several studies have demonstrated its benefits in a research setting. While this development is unravelling rapidly and has also been made available to consumers, little is known about the attitudes towards AI among dermatologists. To increase our understanding of dermatologists’ attitudes towards AI within dermatology we prepared an anonymous and voluntary online survey including 29 questions and distributed it to dermatologists through several online channels including mailing lists to members of the International Dermoscopy Society.

Mohs micrographic surgery allows for complete micro­scopic examination of the surgical margin when treating aggressive and recurrent facial...

Background. In studies in Gothenburg, Sweden, in the 1990s of an aluminium hydroxide‐adsorbed pertussis toxoid vaccine, 745 of ∼76 000 vaccinated children developed long‐lasting itchy subcutaneous nodules at the vaccination site. Of 495 children with itchy nodules patch tested for aluminium allergy, 376 (76%) were positive.Objectives. To study the prognosis of the vaccine‐induced aluminium allergy.Patients and methods. Two hundred and forty‐one children with demonstrated aluminium allergy in the previous study were patch tested again 5–9 years after the initial test, with the same procedure as used previously.Results. Contact allergy to aluminium was no longer demonstrable in 186 of the retested 241 children (77%). A negative test result was more common in children who no longer had itching at the vaccination site; it was also related to the age of the child, the time after the first aluminium‐adsorbed vaccine dose, and the strength of the reaction in the first test.Conclusions. Patch test reactivity to aluminium seems to disappear or weaken with time.