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Cyanoacrylate Skin Surface/Follicular Stripping

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Cyanoacrylate skin surface stripping (CSSS), also called skin surface biopsy and follicular biopsy, is a convenient minimally invasive method allowing collection of a uniform sheet of stratum corneum and horny follicular casts. The method has a number of applications in cosmetology, diagnostic dermatology and experimental designs. A series of derived analytic procedures include xerosis grading, corneofungimetry, dynamics of stratum corneum renewal and comedometry.

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This work was supported by a grant from the “Fonds d’Investissement de la Recherche Scientifique” of the University Hospital of Liège. No other sources of funding were used to assist in the preparation of this manuscript. The authors have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this review. The authors appreciate the excellent secretarial assistance of Mrs. Ida Leclercq and Marie Pugliese.

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    Gérald E. Piérard MD, PhD, Claudine Piérard-Franchimont, Philippe Delvenne & Pascale Quatresooz

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  1. Clinical Dermatology, San Gallicano Dermatological Institute, Rome, Roma, Italy

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  2. Dermatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, California, USA

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Piérard, G.E., Piérard-Franchimont, C., Delvenne, P., Quatresooz, P. (2014). Cyanoacrylate Skin Surface/Follicular Stripping. In: Berardesca, E., Maibach, H., Wilhelm, KP. (eds) Non Invasive Diagnostic Techniques in Clinical Dermatology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32109-2_22

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