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Hopkins Health
A Skin Site for the Web
If you are a community internist with a patient with an unfamiliar skin rash, you could check out your physician references and possibly come up with a clinical description matching your patient’s condition. Or you could visit www.dermatlas.org and find several images and a description of your rash in seconds.
“When it comes to images, we’re probably the 500-pound gorilla,” says Christoph Lehmann, M.D., noting that the site features more than 4,000 images of skin conditions from some 150 contributors around the world. “It helps the physician make an accurate, quick diagnosis and identify what cases need to be referred to a dermatologist.”
The Web site, the brainchild of Lehmann and dermatologist Bernard Cohen, M.D., is both highly interactive and searchable—by age and gender, clinical description, and by the color and patterns of lesions. There are currently 877 diagnoses of skin conditions on the site, accessed by 7,000 unique visitors, mostly physicians but also patients and students, each day. It has, Lehmann says, become a “very popular Web site.” |
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