Publications by authors named "Roberta Pandolfi"

Background: Innovative digital solutions are shaping a new concept of dementia care, opening additional venues for prevention, diagnosis, monitoring and treatment. Hereby, we report the development of a tablet-based teleneuropsychology platform (Tenèpsia®), from concept to certification as Medical Device (MD) Class IIA, as per new MD regulation 745/2017.

Methods: The platform was designed for the remote cognitive evaluation and created thanks to the effort of a collaborative working group including experts from three Italian scientific societies and Biogen Italia S.

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Longitudinal pigmentation of the nail is very common. The differential diagnosis varies from subungual hematoma, to a fungal infection, to a melanocytic lesion (lentigo, nevus melanoma, etc.) to others.

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A 10-month-old child presented with an ulcerated lesion on his right arm. The lesion was caused by arginine monohydrochloride extravasation during growth hormone testing, performed 2 months before. On physical examination, there was a 3 cm x 4 cm oval sore, with a thick fibrous base and turgid, violaceous, raised edges on the dorsal aspect of the child's right hand and wrist.

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The Authors report two cases of Merkel cell carcinoma and describe their diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties in the management of these tumours. The main therapeutic problem consists in establishing the size of the excision margins in relation to the neoplastic aggressiveness. The first case was characterised by major lymphophilia and by a tendency to relapse.

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Turner's syndrome (TS) is a genetic disorder caused by numeric and/or structural abnormalities of the X chromosome; it is characterized by short stature, gonadal dysgenesis, and frequently by webbed neck, cubitus valgus, and lymphedema at birth. TS has been associated with several cutaneous abnormalities including an increased frequency of pigmented nevi, but few reports consider nevi in detail. Halo nevus (HN) is clinically defined as a melanocytic nevus surrounded by a halo of depigmentation.

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