DermGrandRounds – Gamified Dermatology Diagnosis
The crowdsourcing process in eight steps. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In our discussion on the #DicoDerm initiative we discussed the challenges of the newly emerging online […]
Articles by Bell Eapen
Bell’s methodology and Bell’s law on derma-neologisms?
English: Various coquina shells. Individuals in the mollusk species Donax variabilis show diverse coloration and patterning in their phenotypes. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Few of my […]
Ductal hypoxia in acne: the missing link between comedogenesis and inflammation
Vol. 201, Issue 5: etoc 1 (Photo credit: TheJCB) This study proposes hypoxia inducible factor (HIF1) as the missing link between the androgenic and inflammatory […]
Seborrhiasis
Picture of Seborrhoeic Dermatitis. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I have received quite a few enquiries about seborrhiasis recently. Seborrhoeic dermatitis and psoriasis are two common scaly […]
The Naranjo algorithm
A hand scratching at a pruritus on arm (Photo credit: Wikipedia) For decades, retinoic acid (RA) is known as the most potent therapeutic option in […]
Photo Finish
English: Skin layers (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Sorry for going back to the skin imaging theme once again. During Dicoderm discussion, we discussed about the growing […]
Sonography and Microscopic MRI of Skin
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) series of a human head (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Dermatology Image Tagger Version 2.0 is released. (Download here) This version introduces encryption […]
The Loyalty of Anatomy
nerves of left upper extremity (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The medical knowledge is never static. Most of the drugs we prescribe today were not even there […]
5 things Dermatologists should not do
DNA (Photo credit: Steven2005) What happens when the DNA replicates without cellular replication. It leads to formation of ‘polyploid’ cells. Though polyploidy has been noted […]