Artifacting Identity. How , Ball Gags and Gas Masks Expand the Face.

By questioning the attribution of a primary role to the eyes as bearers of identity within traditional Western culture, this paper will problematize the agentivity performed by the lower mereology of the face, identified with the mouth-nose assemblage. In particular, the study will focus on the manipulation of such facial spatiality through the intervention of three "lower face" artifacts: the grill, the ball gag and the gas mask. This piece of work will examine their plastic and figurative dimensions in the technological interaction with the facial organs.

[The written nursing reports of the asylum "Paolo Pini" of Milan, from 1944 to 1947].

Introduction: The work provides the analysis of the nursing reports written by the nursing staff on duty at the asylum "Paolo Pini" from 1944 to 1947.

Objective: description of the nursing report evolution, analyses of the quantitative and qualitative matters. Study of the evolution of the records: enhancement of the description of the patient, integration between medical and nursing assistance, assumption of responsi- bility (for instance through the signature).

Blockade of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase PI3Kδ or PI3Kγ reduces IL-17 and ameliorates imiquimod-induced psoriasis-like dermatitis.

Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease triggered by interplay between immune mediators from both innate and adaptive immune systems and skin tissue, in which the IL-23/IL-17 axis is critical. PI3Kδ and PI3Kγ play important roles in various immune cell functions. We found that mice lacking functional PI3Kδ or PI3Kγ are largely protected from imiquimod (IMQ)-induced psoriasis-like dermatitis, correlating with reduced IL-17 levels in the lesions, serum, and the draining lymph nodes.

Infantile erythema elevatum diutinum: report of a vesiculo-bullous case.

Erythema elevatum diutinum (EED) is a localized, low-grade form of leukocytoclastic vasculitis mainly affecting adults, with only a few pediatric cases reported in the literature. The pathogenesis of this dermatosis is unknown, although an Arthus-type reaction to bacterial and viral antigens seems involved. We describe a case of EED in a 9 year-old child suffering from recurrent pharyngotonsillitis induced by Streptococcus pyogenes.

Eyelid swelling: think of metastasis of histiocytoid breast carcinoma.

Metastatic breast carcinoma may assume many clinicopathological patterns. We here describe a case of histiocytoid breast carcinoma metastasis in the eyelids of a 73-year-old woman. Clinically, the patient presented painless swelling and nodular infiltration of the lateral and medial portions of the eyelids recalling a xanthomatous process or cystic lesions.

Angioendotheliomatosis in a woman with rheumatoid arthritis.

Reactive angioendotheliomatosis (RA) is a rare self-limited skin condition characterized histopathologically by a proliferation of endothelial cells within vascular lumina, usually as a result of different stimuli such as systemic infections, cryoproteinemias, monoclonal gammopathies, allergic conditions, severe peripheral vascular atherosclerotic disease, and iatrogenic arteriovenous fistulas. We report on a 67-year-old woman with a 20-year history of seropositive rheumatoid arthritis who presented with violaceous swelling of her left forearm. A skin biopsy revealed the histopathologic finding of RA with focal glomeruloid features and deposition of periodic acid-Schiff-positive material.

The clinicopathologic spectrum of rhinophyma.

We report the results of a clinicopathologic study of 17 patients with rhinophyma in different stages of evolution, with particular attention paid to the severe form of this disease. On the basis of clinical features, we identified 2 groups of patients: the first group (12/17 patients) included patients with the common form of rhinophyma, whereas the second one (5/17 patients) included patients with the severe form of the disease. There was no link between the clinical aspect and the duration of the disease.

Spindle cell hemangioma.

A 27-year-old woman presented with multiple nodules closely grouped on her right upper distal extremity. The lesions, dating from childhood, increased slowly in time. Microscopic examination of one nodule showed the histologic features of spindle cell hemangioendothelioma (SCH).