The largest organ, and the most visible diagnoses.
9 topics · 8 curated works
No prior grounding assumed.
Global Report on Psoriasis
World Health Organization · 2016
Compiles the first global epidemiological picture of psoriasis, finding it undercounted and undertreated worldwide, and argues for recognising its…
Assumes you know the vocabulary.
Diagnostic Features of Atopic Dermatitis
Jon M. Hanifin & Georg Rajka · 1980
Proposes a set of major and minor criteria for diagnosing atopic dermatitis by pattern recognition, arguing that the condition is identifiable…
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Primary sources and full treatments.
Hemolytic Streptococcus Gangrene
Frank L. Meleney · 1924
Describes a rapidly spreading, tissue-destroying skin and soft-tissue infection distinct from ordinary cellulitis, arguing that its speed of…
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8 works
World Health Organization
Compiles the first global epidemiological picture of psoriasis, finding it undercounted and undertreated worldwide, and argues for recognising its psychological burden alongside its physical symptoms.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Jon M. Hanifin & Georg Rajka
Proposes a set of major and minor criteria for diagnosing atopic dermatitis by pattern recognition, arguing that the condition is identifiable clinically without a single defining laboratory test.
link failing as of 17 Sept 2026Robert J. Friedman, Darrell S. Rigel & Alfred W. Kopf
Introduces the ABCD mnemonic — asymmetry, border, colour, diameter — arguing that most early melanoma can be distinguished from benign moles by a simple visual checklist rather than by biopsy alone.
Frank L. Meleney
Describes a rapidly spreading, tissue-destroying skin and soft-tissue infection distinct from ordinary cellulitis, arguing that its speed of destruction makes early surgical debridement, not antibiotics alone, the decisive treatment.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Albert M. Kligman
Establishes that human hair follicles cycle independently through growth, regression and rest phases rather than growing continuously, the model underlying every later account of hair loss and its treatment.
International Agency for Research on Cancer
Reviews experimental and epidemiological evidence to classify solar and ultraviolet radiation as a proven human carcinogen, establishing the causal basis later public-health sun-protection campaigns rest on.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Sara Moradi Tuchayi et al.
Frames acne as arising from an interaction between androgen-driven sebum production, abnormal follicle keratinisation and inflammation triggered by skin bacteria, rather than any one of these acting alone.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Andre Esteva et al.
Shows that a neural network trained on clinical images classifies skin cancer as accurately as board-certified dermatologists, demonstrating that image-based diagnosis is learnable by machine at expert level.
link checked 17 Sept 2026