Hospital Gregorio Marañon has updated the study of infantile skin diseases.

course of Dermatology for paediatricians and primary medical.

Spain, November 2012.- Gregorio Marañón hospital dermatologists have organized a course of Pediatric Dermatology that has been consolidated as a point of scientific meeting for pediatricians and primary care physicians in the study of children’s skin pathologies that healthcare professionals attend daily at the consultations of the health centers and hospitals from Madridestimated that at least 20% of these queries are dermatological.

To the Lake of the professional day of different Madrid hospitals have shared their experiences with 400 attendees through theoretical lectures and interactive cases on the treatment of very diverse pathologies skin such as atopic dermatitis, bacterial infections, pathology vulvar, tubs and parasitosisviral, inflammatory dermatoses and common benign tumors of childhood that are seen in Pediatric Dermatology consultations.

El curso, coordinado por la dermatóloga del hospital Gregorio Marañón, Minia Campos, ha estado avalado por la Academia Española de Dermatología y Venereología y ha contado con la participación de expertos procedentes de diferentes especialidades médicas asegurando un enfoque multidisciplinar en el estudio, tratamiento y abordaje de las patologías cutáneas.

Even though the most common dermatological diseases in medical consultations have been very present, one of the aspects of attention have been less frequent skin lesions and that must be detected in time to prevent major problems or discard associated pathologies, without forgetting the attention to chronic and hereditary diseases.

Pediatric vascular anomalies

It should be noted the involvement of professionals of the anomalies vascular Pediatric of the child Gregorio Marañón Hospital Committee in the multidisciplinary approach of vascular malformations. This group is composed of plastic, vascular, pediatric surgeons, pathologists, radiologists, pediatricians, orthopedic surgeons and dermatologists, and meets monthly to focus their efforts on the diagnosis and treatment of tumor vascular pathology and malformativa in children.

The service of Dermatology of the Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón has a specific query of Pediatric Dermatology at children’s Hospital. In 2011 this query professionals attended more than two thousand patients in outpatient regime, carried out 48 procedures such as biopsies of skin, as well as 44 surgical interventions and 628 tests.