Pediatric Tinea Capitis: A Retrospective Cohort Study from 2010 to 2021.

Pediatric tinea capitis displays a wide range of prevalence, with significant variability among populations. We retrospectively extracted the medical records of 456 pediatric patients diagnosed with tinea capitis during the years 2010-2021, from the dermatology outpatient clinics in two tertiary medical centers. Three species were isolated in 90% of patients: , , and While presented a six-fold increase in incidence during the years 2019-2021, maintained stable incidence rates.

Hematological Inflammatory Markers in Patients with Pemphigus Vulgaris.

Background: Emerging evidence indicates that several hematological markers can be used to evaluate treatment response, prediction, and early relapse detection in different inflammatory conditions. This study aimed to investigate the correlation between the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio, platelet-to-neutrophil ratio, mean platelet volume, and disease activity in patients with pemphigus vulgaris.

Methods: Fifty-six patients (20 men, 36 women; mean age 54 ± 14 years) diagnosed with pemphigus vulgaris were included in this retrospective study.

Retinal microvasculature: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11-12 years and their parents.

Objectives: To describe distributions and concordance of retinal microvasculature measurements in a population-based sample of Australian parent-child dyads at child age 11-12 years.

Design: Cross-sectional Child Health CheckPoint study, between waves 6 and 7 of the national population-based Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC).

Setting: Assessment centres in seven Australian cities, February 2015-March 2016.

Dermoscopy diagnosis of cancerous lesions utilizing dual deep learning algorithms via visual and audio (sonification) outputs: Laboratory and prospective observational studies.

Background: Early diagnosis of skin cancer lesions by dermoscopy, the gold standard in dermatological imaging, calls for a diagnostic upscale. The aim of the study was to improve the accuracy of dermoscopic skin cancer diagnosis through use of novel deep learning (DL) algorithms. An additional sonification-derived diagnostic layer was added to the visual classification to increase sensitivity.

Hypersecretion of zymogen granules in the pathogenesis of cystic fibrosis.

In the submandibular saliva of 10 cystic fibrosis subjects and 10 controls the turbidity and elevated calcium, protein, and amylase concentrations of the cystic fibrosis secretions, and precipitation of calcium and phosphate in a ratio consistent with hydroxyapatite have been confirmed. By electron microscopy the centrifuged deposits of the cystic fibrosis saliva were seen to be composed predominantly of round or oval subcellular corpuscles. By comparison with submandibular gland, these corpuscles have been identified as inclusion bodies (spherules) from within zymogen granules.