Saudi regulations for the accreditation of sleep medicine physicians and technologists

The professional content of sleep medicine has grown significantly over the past few decades, warranting the recognition of sleep medicine as an independent specialty. Because the practice of sleep medicine has expanded in Saudi Arabia over the past few years, a national regulation system to license and ascertain the competence of sleep medicine physicians and technologists has become essential. Recently, the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties formed the National Committee for the Accreditation of Sleep Medicine Practice and developed national accreditation criteria. This paper presents the newly approved Saudi accreditation criteria for sleep medicine physicians and technologists

Juvenile hyaline fibromatosis with rapid tumour growth and ulceration

Juvenile hyaline fibromatosis is a disease characterised by multiple skin tumours, flexion contractures of the joints, hypertrophic gingiva, osteolytic hone lesions and perianal granulomas. The skin tumours may regress, but progressive tumour growth with or without ulceration, continuous development of new skin lesions with subsequent deformity is the characteristic course of this disorder. We describe a clinical case with rapid tumour growth and ulceration in a short time. Other features of the syndrome are discussed