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Adolescent Health Services/organization & administration , Family Therapy/organization & administration , Patient Care Team , Social Work/organization & administration , Adolescent , Family Therapy/standards , Female , Humans , Interprofessional Relations , Male , New Jersey , Poverty Areas , Social Welfare , Social Work/standardsABSTRACT
Infestation by the tropical rat mite (Ornithonyssus bacoti) is presented with bizarre symptoms that made an accurate diagnosis difficult. The physical characteristics, life cycle, habits, and epidemiology of the tropical rat mite are discussed, as are the rat and other hosts, the rash produced by the mite, differential diagnosis of the dermatitis, and the treatment of the dermatitis and control of the infestation.
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Mite Infestations/diagnosis , Mites/isolation & purification , Aged , Animals , Female , Humans , Mite Infestations/transmission , Muridae/parasitologyABSTRACT
The differential diagnosis, incidence, causes, and previous therapies of aphthous stomatitis are discussed. The treatment includes no intake of nuts or foods or medications known to cause new lesions, and the topical use of triamcinolone acetonide dental base before and after meals and at bedtime.
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Stomatitis, Aphthous/therapy , Humans , Stomatitis, Aphthous/pathologyABSTRACT
The etiology, prevention, and previous therapies for ingrown toenails are presented. A simple, quick, relatively painless method for treating ingrown toenails is described, in which a cotton wick saturated with iodine tincture is inserted into the affected sulcus, separating the nail plate from the skin. Granulation tissue is treated with a cotton applicator saturated with a 50 percent silver nitrate solution. This method works on more than 80 percent of the ingrown toenails seen by this dermatologist, and is well tolerated by the patient.
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Nails, Ingrown/therapy , Humans , Iodine/therapeutic use , Nails, Ingrown/etiology , Nails, Ingrown/prevention & control , Shoes/adverse effects , ToesABSTRACT
The clinical and histological findings in a case of pigmented purpuric lichenoid dermatitis of Gougerot-Blum is presented, and the relationship of this disease to Schamberg's disease, Majocchi's disease, and angioma serpiginosum of Hutchinson is reviewed.
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Dermatitis/pathology , Pigmentation Disorders/pathology , Purpura/pathology , Alcoholism/complications , Biopsy , Dermatitis/etiology , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Pigmentation Disorders/etiology , Purpura/etiology , Skin/pathologyABSTRACT
A method for treating plantar warts is described in which the plantar wart is planed down weekly by very thin, repetitive slices using an Enders single edge razor blade and a prepared solution is applied. The treatment usually takes less than three minutes, is painless, harmless, not incapacitating, acceptable to the patient, and cures at about the same rate as other treatments described in the literature.
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Foot Dermatoses/therapy , Warts/therapy , HumansSubject(s)
Family Therapy/methods , Psychophysiologic Disorders/therapy , Asthma/psychology , Child , Child Psychiatry , Child, Preschool , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/genetics , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/psychology , Fatty Acids, Nonesterified/blood , Female , Humans , Male , Psychophysiologic Disorders/genetics , Stress, Psychological/bloodABSTRACT
A discussion of seborrheic dermatitis is presented, including the clinical picture, etiology, pathology, histochemistry, and therapy regimen and rationale.
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Dermatitis, Seborrheic/drug therapy , Administration, Topical , Betamethasone Valerate/therapeutic use , Dermatitis, Seborrheic/etiology , Dermatitis, Seborrheic/radiotherapy , Humans , Iodoquinol/therapeutic use , Vitamin B 12/therapeutic useABSTRACT
Studies of thoracoabdominal motion using the respiratory magnetometer were performed in 30 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Volume equivalency of thoracic and abdominal deflections was established by using the concepts and methods developed by Konno and Mead. Twenty patients were ambulatory, although disabled, and 10 were in acute respiratory failure and were studied in a respiratory intensive care unit. Five of 20 ambulatory patients and 8 of 10 patients in acute respiratory failure showed inward abdominal motion coincident with outward rib cage motion during inspiration, suggesting ineffective diaphragmatic function. This pattern of thoracoabdominal motion was identical to that seen in 2 high quadriplegics with diaphragmatic paralysis when they were breathing entirely with their neck muscles. Inspiratory ascent of the diaphragm was confirmed fluoroscopically in 3 of the 5 ambulatory patients. Patients showing this pattern were generally severely disabled and had the largest residual volumes. Two abnormal patterns of thoracoabdominal motion were observed during the performance of maximal voluntary ventilation in the ambulatory patients. The first, seen in 9 of 20 patients, was characterized by reciprocal or paradoxical motion of rib cage and abdomen, with increase in rib cage volume associated with decrease in abdominal volume during inspiration. The second pattern, seen in 5 of 20 patients, showed complete disorganization of rib cage and abdominal motion, with no consistent or reproducible pattern. Thus, a significant proportion of patients with disabling chronic obstructive pulmonary disease show abnormalities in thoracoabdominal motion that are observable with the respiratory magnetometer and ofter by simple inspection. Most of these abnormalities suggest malfunction of respiratory muscles, particularly the diaphragm.
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Abdomen/physiopathology , Lung Diseases, Obstructive/physiopathology , Respiration , Thorax/physiopathology , Abdominal Muscles/physiopathology , Aged , Diaphragm/physiopathology , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Movement , Respiratory Function Tests , Respiratory Insufficiency/physiopathologySubject(s)
Melanoma/pathology , Neoplasms, Multiple Primary , Nevus/pathology , Skin Neoplasms/pathology , Adult , Female , HumansABSTRACT
Because of the rarity of Darier's disease (keratosis follicularis) occurring as an acute, eruptive disease in a mature adult, a case with sudden onset in a 51-year-old white man is reported. Small, pale-gray, smooth papules on the sides of the arms spread to the sides of the chest, abdomen, and legs within a week. With a biopsy examination, histopathologic findings were acanthosis, hyperkeratosis, lacunae, acantholysis, corps ronds, and grains. Topical therapy with 0.05% fluocinonide (Lidex) cream has given marked improvement.
