Dermatology

Intralesional cryotherapy to treat exophytic keloids: the Universitas Hospital Bloemfontein experience

Makhakhe, Lehlohonolo (University of the Free State, 2019)

The skin is composed of labile cells, which to some extent can regenerate, but in cases of deep and significant damage, healing occurs by secondary intention with subsequent scar formation. Keloids are wound scars that ...
Association between a favourable clinical response to anti-tuberculosis treatment and a positive PCR test for mycobacterium tuberculosis in histologically proven erythema induratum/nodular vasculitis

Botha, Anton R. (University of the Free State, 2016-02)

Background: Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has been used for many years to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) DNA in biopsy tissue of erythema induratum (EI)/nodular vasculitis. Studies to ascertain the association ...