Motivational and Cognitive Factors in Pathways to Offending Amongst Women who Have Sexually Offended.

Data-driven models, addressing the internal motivations, pathways to offending, and supportive cognitions amongst women who have sexually offended have emerged in recent years, with significant consequences for understanding risk factors and developing treatment programmes. In the current research, recent empirically based models were explored in a national sample consisting of all women who had committed sexual offences and were assessed over a 12-year period ( = 28). The utility of the motivational and cognitive models tested was supported, although not all cases could be easily coded, and new categories are suggested in order to better characterize the unique aspects of sex offending amongst women who have sexually offended.

Impersonal and Predatory Relations With Child Victims of Sexual Assault: Pedophilic Interest and Early Childhood Abuse.

Fixated pedophilic sexual attraction is considered to be a major determinant of risk among sex offenders, but there is little empirical evidence regarding its treatment. It was hypothesized that two prominent factors which have emerged in the literature as being present among some sexual offenders, namely, impersonal, narcissistic, and predatory patterns of offending against victims, and experiencing childhood sexual abuse, may be related to specifically to the strength of pedophilic interest. Such a relationship would provide a deeper understanding of the corollaries of pedophilic interest and would suggest targets for treatment.

Value of histopathology in vitiligo.

Background: Histopathologic studies of vitiligo have been rather limited in number, thus the microscopic features of this common disorder are not very well known.

Subjects And Methods: Skin specimens from 20 human vitiligo patients and skin specimens from five equine vitiligo patients were studied by light and transmission electron microscopy.

Results And Discussion: Absence of melanocytes, increased number of Langerhans' cells, epidermal vacuolization, thickening of the basement membrane, T-cell inflammatory infiltrate, and neural alterations were noted in the vitiligo lesions.

Cole disease: hypopigmentation with punctate keratosis of the palms and soles.

Cole disease is an uncommon disorder characterized by distinctive cutaneous hypopigmentation and punctate keratosis of the palms and soles. It is a congenital skin disease with an autosomal dominant inheritance pattern. We report two patients from a family with 15 members, 5 of whom were affected.

Heterogeneous distribution of tumor blood supply affects the response to chemotherapy in patients with head and neck cancer.

Objective: To evaluate if the heterogeneous distribution of tumor blood supply affects the response to chemotherapy in patients with head and neck cancer.

Methods: We treated 25 stage III/IV patients with an intraarterial cisplatinum-bleomycin regimen. Prior to treatment, a blue dye was injected directly to tumors through the catheter.

Angina bullosa hemorrhagica.

Background: In 1967, Badham used the term angina bullosa hemorrhagica (ABH) to describe an entity we already knew as traumatic oral hemophlyctenosis (TOH) (1933) and later renamed recurrent oral hemophlyctenosis (ROH) (1971).

Objectives: The objective of this study was to review and discuss the literature, and to report 54 new cases seen between 1989 and 1996.

Materials And Methods: Fifty-four patients were thoroughly assessed to determine the clinical features, histology, etiology, pathogenesis, differential diagnosis, and therapy.

Van der Woude syndrome. A case report.

We describe several members of a family with Van der Woude syndrome, a genetic and congenital malformation syndrome with autosomal dominant inheritance and 70% to 80% penetrance with variable expressivity. It is characterized by clinical signs localized to the face, such as bilateral or unilateral pits on conical elevations in babies or extensive depressions in adults, both in the vermilion border of the lower lip, with cleft lip, with or without cleft palate and uvula. Small accessory or heterotopic salivary glands empty into sinuses or fistulas in the lips.

Melanoma on dysplastic nevus spilus.

Background: Nevus spilus is found with relative frequency. It is observed as as tan to brown macule serving as base to a speckle of smaller and darker maculo-papular elements. On rare occasions it turns into a malignant melanoma.

Response of leiomyosarcoma to cryosurgery: clinicopathological and ultrastructural study.

Two elderly patients with primary leiomyosarcoma (LMS) of the scalp were treated cryosurgically. Complete involution of both tumours with full epithelialization of the affected sites was achieved. Pretreatment biopsies and sequential biopsies obtained after treatment allowed observation of microscopical changes taking place during tumour involution.

[Eosinophilic migratory nodular panniculitis (human gnathostomiasis)].

The case of a patient with thoracic abdominal and left arm, migratory erythema-edematous plates over a space of three years is described. The histopathologic features reveal a eosinophilic panniculitis due to probable larva migrans (gnathostomiasis). This appears to be the first report on the subject because we have not found any reference to the subject in Argentina bibliographic search.

[Cellulite].

In a group of 130 patients carriers of cellulite, that were subjected to a general clinic treatment and local treatment of laser-therapy, the authors, previous to the therapeutics, made an anatomopathologic study of the skin and the adipose tissue. The biopsies were done on patients of the feminine sex, confirming that all these cases presented the histopathologic and histochemical features of cellulite in their dermo-hypodermic tissue. A full study of intolerance to carbohydrates; lipidic, proteic and hormonal metabolism was also performed in all patients.

[Cellulitis. Study of microangiopathy in 254 cases].

In a previous work, Segers and adl., the histological and histochemical study of the features of cellulitis is performed, expliciting the importance in this lipodystrophy of microangiopathy PAS positive. As a complement of that work, we study a group of 254 patients, all females, which came to us to be treated for their cellulitis, general clinical and local laser therapy.

[Arnozán-Dubreuilh depilating folliculitis].

Male patient, aged twenty-six years. Having an eight-and-a-half-year- old dermatosis of localized evolution on scalp, under arms, thighs, pubis and legs, characterized by inflammatory papules and follicular and extra-adnexial pustules, tiny scars and lack of hair in the affected areas. The authors present a representative case of "depilating folliculitis" of (Arnozán and Dubreuilh) stressing the following: Uncommon frequency in our country but frequent in warmer climates where it is observed mainly among peasants and sugar-cane workers.

[Vegetative dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa. Urogenital manifestations and treatment with hydantoin].

Dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa has a rare recessive polydysplastic vegetant variant, which was described by Nicolas et al. Two siblings are reported. The male was affected by urethral lesions, an exceptional finding in this disease.

[Cellulitis. Histopathologic and histochemical study of 100 cases].

An analysis of the bibliographical background is made. A study of 100 cases of cellulitis from the histopathologic and histochemical features is performed. The biopsies were done on patients of the feminine sex as a start of a whole treatment.

[Florid papillomatosis of the oral mucosa with bone invasiveness. Anatomo-clinical review of 66 cases of oral florid papillomatosis studied in 20 years].

Sixty-six cases of P.F. of the mouth cavity have been studied.

[Cutaneous mastocytosis in twins].

The case of a pair of fraternal twins of seven months of age with cutaneous Mastocyte disease is presented. A brief historical survey of this condition is made. The histological picture is described with special emphasis on the mastocyte and its physiopathology.