2019
Aggravation of mild axillary hidradenitis suppurativa by microwave ablation
Publication
Publication
Results of a randomized intrapatient-controlled trial
American Academy of Dermatology. Journal , Volume 80 - Issue 3 p. 777- 779
To the Editor:
Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a
common chronic, recurrent, autoinflammatory
skin disease of the hair follicle with limited
treatment options. No definitive treatment exists for
this debilitating entity. MiraDry (Miramar Labs
Incorporated, Santa Clara, CA) is a microwave device
targeting the eccrine and apocrine sweat glands as
well as hair follicles through thermolysis in the
dermal-hypodermal junction. We hypothesized
that this noninvasive ablative technique could
potentially improve the clinical symptoms of HS by
reducing the number of hair follicles (primary action)
and the destruction of the inflammatory cell
infiltrate (secondary action) in HS lesions. We,
therefore, evaluated the efficacy and safety of
miraDry treatment for mild axillary HS in a
randomized intrapatientecontrolled trial (ethical
approval by the IRB of the Erasmus University
Medical Center; MEC-2017-390). [...]
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doi.org/10.1016/j.jaad.2018.06.032, hdl.handle.net/1765/115202 | |
American Academy of Dermatology. Journal | |
Organisation | Department of Dermatology |
Vossen, A., van Huijkelom, M.A.P.C., Nijsten, T., Bakker, E., van der Zee, H., van Doorn, M., & Prens, E. (2019). Aggravation of mild axillary hidradenitis suppurativa by microwave ablation. American Academy of Dermatology. Journal, 80(3), 777–779. doi:10.1016/j.jaad.2018.06.032 |