Cindy Wassef, MD

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Pink Papules on the Cheek

Author:: Cindy Wassef, MD

Publish date: January 8, 2024

A 31-year-old woman presented with a slow-growing, tender, pruritic lesion on the right cheek of 4 to 5 months’ duration. Shave and punch biopsies ...

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Nonhealing Ulcer in a Patient With Crohn Disease

Author:: Cindy Wassef, MD

Publish date: October 11, 2023

A 24-year-old man presented to our dermatology clinic with a painful lesion on the right buccal cheek of 4 months’ duration that had not changed in...

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Cross-sectional Analysis of Matched Dermatology Residency Applicants Without US Home Programs

Author:: Cindy Wassef, MD

Publish date: June 6, 2023

our current objective was to compare profiles of matched dermatology applicants without home programs vs those with home programs.

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Teaching Evidence-Based Dermatology Using a Web-Based Journal Club: A Pilot Study and Survey

Author:: Cindy Wassef, MD

Publish date: February 7, 2022

A novel web-based application was beta tested in an academic dermatology setting to design and run a journal club for residents.

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Pruritic Eruption on the Trunk and Extremities

Author:: Cindy Wassef, MD

Publish date: December 23, 2021

A 74-year-old woman with a 30-year history of type 2 diabetes mellitus presented to our dermatology clinic with a pruritic eruption on the trunk, a...

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Pigmented Basal Cell Carcinoma With Annular Leukoderma

Author:: Cindy Wassef, MD

Publish date: June 23, 2021

The halo phenomenon may accompany malignant processes, such as nonmelanoma skin cancer. Careful consideration of lesion time course and atypia is i...

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Tender Papules on the Bilateral Dorsal Hands

Author:: Cindy Wassef, MD

Publish date: December 11, 2019

A 58-year-old woman with a medical history of asthma, hypertension, hypothyroidism, and hyperlipidemia presented with a painful rash of 10 days' du...

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The Dayanara Effect: Increasing Skin Cancer Awareness in the Hispanic Community

Author:: Cindy Wassef, MD

Publish date: May 3, 2019

Dayanara Torres, a prominent celebrity and Hispanic woman, gave a new face to metastatic melanoma following her diagnosis in February 2019. Since t...