Bilateral naevus of Ota is a rare condition. It is still more rare in males. Here is a report of such a case with review of literature.

Bilateral naevus of Ota is a rare condition. It is still more rare in males. Here is a report of such a case with review of literature.

Cyclospora sp, a recently described protozoan, is associated with prolonged self-limiting and relapsing diarrhea. The species has a worldwide distribution and a high prevalence in tropical countries. Some reports suggest that the agent is a common cause of travelers' diarrhea.

The efficacies of induced backyard cleanups of mosquito development sites via 3 different literature treatments were studied in low- and middle-income neighborhoods in Gainesville and Tallahassee, FL, during July and August 1993. Results indicated that 4-color-process literature significantly reduced the number of artificial containers with or without active mosquito development ...

Phytophthora heveae was isolated from soil in Hainan Island. This is the first report of its occurrence in mainland China. The world literature onP. heveae is also reviewed.

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multisystem disease of unknown etiology or etiologies.The disease may be acute or chronic. A wide clinicopathological spectrum is expressed in each organ involved which is induced through multiple antibodies that result in. imnunologically mediated tissue injury.In this literature review, the clinical and pathological features ...

Discipline is one topic that virtually every ambulatory care pediatrician is frequently asked about. Although there is a tendency to provide parents with short, glib answers to questions about discipline, the literature on time-in, self-quieting skills, and independent play skills has rarely been addressed in the pediatric literature. It is, ...

A case of focal gigantism with concomitant acromegaly of the great hallux and second digit is reported. A review of pertinent literature is presented.

The case of pneumatosis coli presented here was felt to have occurred concomitantly with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in combination with prolonged intestinal distention. This condition usually requires no treatment because it is often self-limiting. In this case, because of radiographic and clinical findings suggestive of intestinal obstruction, the patient ...

An unusual case of eosinophilic gastroenteritis (EGE) is reported. Fewer than 150 cases of EGE have been reported in the world literature to date. This is the first case of this disease reported to have rectal involvement, and only the second case in which colonic involvement has been histologically documented. ...

Thirteen cases of deep mycoses were found among 12,506 new patients attending two University clinics in Northern Nigeria. Patients with chromoblastomycosis due to Cladosporium carrionii, paracoccidioidomycosis, rhinophycomycosis, and sporotrichosis appear to be the first cases of these conditions recognized in the Savanna region of West Africa. The literature on systemic ...

Loiasis is a tropical infection caused by the microfilarial nematode Loa loa. Increased numbers of cases of loiasis have been diagnosed outside of the endemic areas in Western and Central Africa because of widespread international travel. The author presents three cases of loiasis discovered at Howard University followed by a ...

Review of the English literature shows six reported cases of "rhabdomyoma of the larynx." As far as we have been able to determine, only three cases of these have been undisputed rhabdomyoma. The case reported herein represents the first rhabdomyoma of the larynx that was removed under microsurgical conditions, and ...

This report by Dawes and Handscomb on behalf of the European Nursing Leadership Foundation (ENLF) is part of a literature review commissioned by the Health Foundation and provides an analysis of key literature on team development and leadership. The main sections are on key leadership theories, and team and team ...

This literature review, published by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in February 2007, was commissioned by the RCN Primary Care Educators Forum. The review aimed to describe the range and extent of interprofessional education (IPE) initiatives for primary care professionals, identify literature reporting on its impact and effectiveness, and ...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2006.

This article provides information about conducting a literature search on the Google Scholar website. The article briefly describes how to narrow or expand a search and how to find non-journal literature. Although Google Scholar is not without limitations, it offers a practical starting point for a literature search.

Considerable interest has been shown recently in electrical stimulation of the incompetent urinary bladder. Two types of bladder stimulation have been attempted in dogs and in humans: (a) stimulation of nervi erigentes and (b) direct stimulation of the detrusor urinae muscle.After several years of animal experimentation, a vesical stimulator, built ...

Bronchiolar emphysema is a rare, insidious, progressive, bilateral pulmonary fibrosis with diffusion defect. Death follows in five to 10 years after the onset of symptoms because of respiratory failure, cor pulmonale or pneumothorax. In the 20 cases reviewed, the lungs typically showed bosselation of their pleural surfaces, giving the appearance ...

The available world literature (since Friedman's and Levy's comprehensive report in 1937) regarding actinomycosis of the central nervous system is reviewed. Only cases proved by culture were included in this analysis. A total of 17 cases was collected and an additional patient with this entity is described.The important differences between ...

About 50% of patients with progressive muscular dystrophy have a cardiomyopathy, manifested commonly by tachycardia, but also by arrythmias, refractory congestive heart failure and sudden death. Studies from the literature report manifold but nonspecific electrocardiographic changes in 41% to 85% of patients with progressive muscular dystrophy. The principal lesion is ...

Although an intensified interest in mosquito cytogenetics in the past decade has produced a number of contributions to knowledge on this subject, the available information is still superficial and limited to a few mosquito species only. The author of this review summarizes the research done in this field between 1953 ...