Systematic review of diagnostic accuracy of reflectance confocal microscopy for melanoma diagnosis in patients with clinically equivocal skin lesions.

Background: Melanoma is a cancer of the skin and is increasing in incidence in the UK and Europe. Melanoma is a condition that is often curable if detected at an early stage, which makes accurate diagnosis vital. Reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) is a tool used to image the skin.

The fatty ridge and fatty cushion of the human pulmonary trunk.

Presence of a ridge of fatty tissue running obliquely upwards and backwards over the left aspects of the pulmonary trunk was observed. It started from the left end of the infundibulo-trucal junction and after running parallel adjacent to free anterior border of the left auricle, terminated into an expanded oval and discoid structure, a little above the level of the tip of the left auricle. The structure was found to be of constant occurrence, position and form.