Gianluca Nazzaro, Paolo Calzari, Silvia Vaienti, Emanuela Passoni, Angelo Valerio Marzano
Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic, inflammatory, recurrent, and debilitating disease of the hair follicle. It presents with painful, deep-seated, inflamed lesions, such as nodules, abscesses, sinus tracts, and fistulas, generally located in the main folds. Clinical severity assessment alone can be reductive; non-invasive skin imaging technologies, such as ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging, medical infrared thermography, computed tomography, and positron-emission tomography, provide subclinical anatomical and functional details...
August 29, 2023: Clinics in Dermatology