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Actinic Keratosis Histology

October 26, 2011

Actinic keratosis causes the formation of crusty and scaly lesions on skin. The lesions are usually different shades of color especially red and brown. It occurs mostly in older people above their third and fourth decades of life and rarely in children. These actinic keratosis lesions are pre-cancerous and a person should seek medical attention [...]

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Solar Keratosis

October 14, 2011

Solar keratosis refers to thick bumps that appear on the skin and are scaly with a crusty tip. They are also known senile keratosis or more formally as actinic keratosis. They mostly occur in light-skinned people due to the absence of enough melanin to protect the skin from sunlight damage. This type of keratosis is [...]

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Keratosis Follow Up Treatments

October 2, 2011

Keratosis Follow Up Treatments A careful follow-up on a patient that has just been treated for Squamous cell carcinoma is necessary . Low risk keratosis tumour can be cured with the ideal surgical therapy however it has been observed that almost half of the patients treated for squamous cell carcinoma can develop this disorder within [...]

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Histology Of Actinic Keratosis

July 20, 2011

Actinic keratosis is a type of keratosis that is characterized by scaly and crusty lesions on the skin. These lesions are usually pink in color but they can range to red and shades of brown. This type of keratosis occurs in people of the older generation. It rarely occurs in children. Lesions of this kind [...]

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Actinic Keratosis: Time Bomb?

January 7, 2011

Actinic Keratosis: Is this the time bomb of the sun spot family? Though usually not cancerous, actinic keratosis can prove especially troublesome to remove because they tend to come back after a number of years, unless you live in a cave out of the sunlight. These are the types of growths that can become cancerous. [...]

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Keratosis Pilaris: 11 Variations On A Treatable Theme

November 14, 2010

Although no one would call it an epidemic, since the disorder itself is harmless, one could say it is at epidemic propotions as estimates have put the number of keratosis pilaris sufferers at 40 to 50 percent of the adult population and 50 to 80 percent of adolescents. Think about those number for a moment, [...]

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KERATOSIS PILARIS

November 8, 2010

Skin conditions have become very common in today’s society. They are caused by different reasons one of which is the sun. The sun does play a major role in our lives including being the number one cause for most skin conditions today. However, some skin conditions can be avoided altogether by simply changing our lifestyles.

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KERATOSIS

October 17, 2010

Keratosis is one of the many skin conditions that plague society today. It is as a result of the overproduction of keratin which is responsible for skin, nail and hair growth. This will result in hard crusted skin. Keratosis has many forms and one of them is actinic keratosis. Actinic keratosis This is a type [...]

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Removing Age Spots

October 12, 2010

Almost everybody can have age spots, which also goes by the name sun spots or solar lentigines. It is hard to stop because we can’t hide from the sun. Age spots treatments are just around so you can seek ways to get rid of them. You can remedy them at home or have it treated [...]

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Why Are There So Many Names For Age Spots?

October 11, 2010

Regardless of the type of person who has it or its position in the body, an age spots are age spots. But if an age spot is relatively the same for each person who has it, why does it have several incarnations in the English language? Each of the terms used to describe an age [...]

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