Improving the ability of elementary school-age children to identify emotion in facial expression.

The authors evaluated an intervention program developed to remediate children's deficits in reading emotions in facial expressions. Thirty children from 2 elementary schools in suburban Atlanta participated in 6 30-min sessions over 4 weeks in which they were taught to discriminate, identify, express, and apply facial expression cues. The ability to read emotion in facial expressions significantly improved for the intervention group compared with the control group.

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.

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.