Cindy Wassef, MD

Pink Papules on the Cheek

Author:: Bahar Javdan, PhD; Siddharth Marwaha, MA; Cynthia Magro, MD; Cindy Wassef, MD

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...

Author:: Bahar Javdan, PhD; Siddharth Marwaha, MA; Mahmoud Ali, MD; Cindy Wassef, MD

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...

Author:: Christopher Yeh, MD; Amar D. Desai, MPH; Rohan Shah, BA; Oyinkansola Adedipe, MD; Simran Ohri, BA; Cindy Wassef, MD; Shari R. Lipner, MD, PhD

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

Author:: Nadiya O. Chuchvara, MD; Cindy Wassef, MD; Izhar Hasan, MD, PhD; Babar K. Rao, MD

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

Author:: David Micah Milgraum, MD; Alexandra Rubin, MBS; Maryjka B. Blaszczyk, MD, PhD; Cindy Wassef, MD

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,...

Author:: Marcus L. Elias, MD; Radhika Srivastava, MD; Pooja Virmani, MD; Cindy Wassef, MD

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

Author:: Radhika Srivastava, BA; Ann John, MD; Cindy Wassef, MD; Amin Maghari, MD; Babar K. Rao, MD

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

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