Edemas of the face and lymphoscintigraphic examination.

Facial edemas not secondary to surgery and/or radiotherapy for head and neck cancer are relatively uncommon. Our aim is to report a retrospective analysis of the lymphoscintigraphic and SPECT-CT investigations obtained in patients with such facial edema. Retrospective review of exams (planar imagings in all and with SPECT-CT in 5) obtained after the subcutaneous injection of 99mTc HSA Nanosized colloids between the eyebrows in five men and seven women.

Molecular Identification of Cutaneous Alternariosis in a Renal Transplant Patient.

Cutaneous alternariosis is a rare condition, caused by an uncommon opportunistic pathogen. The most frequently affected individuals are immunosuppressed patients, e.g.

Social attributions in patients with ventromedial prefrontal hypoperfusion.

Neuroimaging studies have demonstrated that the medial prefrontal cortex is involved in attributions on enduring and abstract trait characteristics of persons, but not in causal attributions of temporary here-and-now events. Moreover, the neural representation of trait information is thought to be located in the ventral part of the medial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC). In order to verify this latter finding, this study compared the performance of 8 patients with hypoperfusion of the vmPFC, 10 with hypoperfusion excluding the vmPFC and 15 healthy controls on trait and causal attribution questionnaires consisting of several events presented in brief written scenarios.

Impaired facial emotion recognition in patients with ventromedial prefrontal hypoperfusion.

Empathy refers to our ability to recognize and share emotions by another human being. Impairment may underlie many of the emotional deficits commonly associated with a range of neuropsychiatric and neurological conditions. The prefrontal cortex (PFC) has long been implicated in these processes, but the specific contribution of subregions of the PFC remain unclear.

Outcome of cadaver kidney transplantation in 23 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) is a growing cause of end-stage renal failure worldwide. Yet, only a minority of type 2 diabetics are considered today for kidney transplantation (KT). The scarcity of data on the outcome of such patients after KT prompted us to review our experience.

Limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis associated with MPO-ANCA positive renal small vessel vasculitis of the microscopic polyangiitis type.

Renal disease in systemic sclerosis may present in various patterns. A 66-year-old woman with a history of longstanding limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis of the CREST syndrome variant presented with a sudden left foot drop and rapidly progressive renal insufficiency associated with mild proteinuria, a nephritic urine sediment, and a urinary output of 900 mL/d. There was no history of intake of D-penicillamine, and there were no signs of malignant arterial hypertension or microangiopathic hemolytic anemia.

Trichodorus philipi n. sp. from South Africa, with Notes on Paratrichodorus lobatus and P. acutus.

A new species in the family Trichodoridae, from the rhizosphere of native plants of the Cape Fynbos in the western Cape, Republic of South Africa, is described and illustrated. Trichodorus philipi n. sp.