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Low intensity ultrasound therapy induces angiogenesis and persistent inflammation in the chronic phase of the healing process of third degree burn wounds experimentally induced in diabetic and non-diabetic rats

Acta cir. bras; 31 (7), 2016
ABSTRACT PURPOSE: To evaluate the effects of low intensity ultrasound on the healing process of third degree burn wounds in experimentally induced diabetic Wistar rats. METHODS: One hundred rats were divided into: control group; non-diabetic treated group; diabetic control group; diabetic treated group...

Síndrome DRESS: presentación de un caso clínico

Med. U.P.B; 35 (1), 2016
La reacción a medicamentos con eosinofilia y síntomas sistémicos (Dress) es una toxicodermia con alto riesgo de letalidad y cuya patogénesis es poco clara, que se asocia con fiebre, linfadenopatías, afección visceral y alteraciones hematológicas que generalmente incluyen eosinofilia. Se presenta e...

Mosaic trisomy 8 detected by fibroblasts cultured of skin

Colomb. med; 47 (2), 2016
Introduction: Mosaic trisomy 8 or "Warkany's Syndrome" is a chromosomopathy with an estimated prevalance of 1:25,000 to 1:50,000, whose clinical presentation has a wide phenotypic variability. Case Description: Patient aged 14 years old with antecedents of global retardation of development, moderate cogn...

Detection of apoptosis in pemphigus vulgaris by TUNEL technique

An. bras. dermatol; 91 (3), 2016
Abstract: Background: Pemphigus is part of a group of blistering diseases that affect the skin and mucous membranes. Based on its autoimmune origin, autoantibodies develop in pemphigus that are directed toward cell surface components of keratinocytes. However, some data cannot be explained, such as the ...

DRESS syndrome in ophthalmic patients

Arq. bras. oftalmol; 79 (3), 2016
ABSTRACT Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) syndrome is a rare and potentially fatal adverse drug reaction associated with skin rash, fever, eosinophilia, and multiple organ injury. A number of pharmacological agents are known to cause DRESS syndrome such as allopurinol, antico...

High frequency ultrasound with color Doppler in dermatology

An. bras. dermatol; 91 (3), 2016
Abstract: Ultrasonography is a method of imaging that classically is used in dermatology to study changes in the hypoderma, as nodules and infectious and inflammatory processes. The introduction of high frequency and resolution equipments enabled the observation of superficial structures, allowing differ...

Hyaline fibromatosis syndrome: cutaneous manifestations

An. bras. dermatol; 91 (2), 2016
Abstract Hyaline fibromatosis syndrome is the current name for clinical manifestations of diseases previously known as “infantile systemic hyalinosis” and “juvenile hyaline fibromatosis”. The authors report representative clinical cases of each one of the above subtypes with empha...

Penile ulcer as a specific clinical manifestation of Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia

An. bras. dermatol; 91 (2), 2016
Abstract Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia is considered a lymphoma by the World Health Organization. Cutaneous lesions, particularly of a specific type, are rare occurring in 5% of patients. What draws attention in this case is the unusual cutaneous clinical manifestation and its location on the gen...

Paracoccidioidomycosis and cryptococcosis with localized skin manifestations: report of two cases in the elderly

An. bras. dermatol; 91 (2), 2016
Abstract Distinct cases of Paracoccidioidomycosis and Cryptococcosis with atypical and localized skin manifestation on the upper limbs of two elderly patients are reported. In the 2nd one, he presented asymptomatic pulmonary cancer; the blood tests for fungal infection were negative, and the etiologic ag...

Benign skin disease with pustules in the newborn

An. bras. dermatol; 91 (2), 2016
Abstract: The neonatal period comprises the first four weeks of life. It is a period of adaptation where the skin often presents several changes: transient lesions, resulting from a physiological response, others as a consequence of transient diseases and some as markers of severe disorders. The presence...