Welcome to This Week in Dermatology. This week we are covering ten notable papers spanning advanced management strategies for skin cancer, novel therapeutic insights in atopic dermatitis, and optimizing procedural and wound care outcomes. Let us dive in. We begin with atopic dermatitis, where new real-world data are helping clinicians optimize long-term maintenance and tailor therapies for specif…

This week's papers:

Compression therapies for venous leg ulcers: The VENous Ulcer Study 6 (VenUS 6), an open, multicentre, randomised clinical trial. — PLoS medicine 2026
Real-world outcomes of 24-week abrocitinib tapering in moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis: Feasibility and regimen comparison. — Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 2026
Recurrence of Basal Cell Carcinoma across Different Treatment Modalities: A Nationwide Study with 8 Years of Follow-up and Modelled Prediction. — Acta dermato-venereologica 2026
Acneiform Eruption with Deucravacitinib: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. — Clinical and experimental dermatology 2026
Real-Life Effectiveness and Safety of Lebrikizumab in Elderly Patients with Atopic Dermatitis: A Multicenter Study. — Clinical and experimental dermatology 2026
Clinical Predictors and a Novel Diagnostic Nomogram for Non-Bullous Pemphigoid: A 10-year Large-Scale Retrospective Case-Control Study. — Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 2026
Resource Use and Cost Comparison of Mohs Micrographic Surgery vs Traditional Surgery for High-risk Facial Basal Cell Carcinoma. — Acta dermato-venereologica 2026
Compression Response During Ultrasound Aids Real-Time Differentiation of Pseudocysts and Tunnels in Hidradenitis Suppurativa. — Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 2026
Assessing Skin Cancer Risk in Systemic Sclerosis Patients with Organ Transplantation: A Cohort Study. — Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 2026
Near-Infrared Vascular Mapping to Guide Procedural Management of Superficial Cutaneous Vascular Lesions. — Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 2026