Monkeypox presenting as a chancre-like rash: A case report.

Background: Since May 2022, outbreaks of monkeypox have occurred in many countries around the world, and several cases have been reported in China.

Case Summary: A 38-year-old man presented with a small, painless, shallow ulcer on the coronary groove for 8 d. One day after the rash appeared, the patient developed inguinal lymphadenopathy with fever.

Simultaneous Detection of Multiple Plant Growth Regulator Residues in Cabbage and Grape Using an Optimal QuEChERS Sample Preparation and UHPLC-MS/MS Method.

Background: At present, plant growth regulators (PGRs) are widely used in agricultural and forestry production. PGRs, like traditional pesticides, have certain toxicities. Naively excessively applying them will cause the acute and chronic poisoning of humans and animals and potentially harm human health.

Drug-induced erythroderma in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

Background: To explore the clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) complicated with drug-induced erythroderma.

Methods: The clinical data of 12 AIDS patients with drug-induced erythroderma in our hospital were retrospectively analyzed. The general information, offending medications, complications, modified severity-of-illness score for toxic epidermal necrolysis (SCORTEN) scores, and disease outcome spectrums were analyzed.

RBBP4 promotes colon cancer malignant progression regulating Wnt/β-catenin pathway.

Background: Our previous study demonstrated that RBBP4 was upregulated in colon cancer and correlated with poor prognosis of colon cancer and hepatic metastasis. However, the potential biological function of RBBP4 in colon cancer is still unknown.

Aim: To investigate the biological role and the potential mechanisms of RBBP4 in colon cancer progression.

Correlation between invasive microbiota in margin-surrounding mucosa and anastomotic healing in patients with colorectal cancer.

Background: Impaired anastomotic healing is one of the major complications resulting from radical resection in colorectal cancer (CRC). Accumulating evidence suggests that intestinal microbiota is correlated with anastomotic healing.

Aim: To explore the microbiota structural shift in margin-surrounding mucosa and evaluate the predictive ability of selected bacterial taxa for impaired anastomotic healing.

Application of 4% formaldehyde under electronic colonoscope as a minimally invasive treatment of chronic hemorrhagic radiation proctitis.

Background: To investigate the effectiveness of topical application of 4% formaldehyde as a minimally invasive treatment of rectal bleeding due to chronic radiation proctitis (CRP) under direct vision of electronic colonoscope.

Methods: The clinical data of 13 CRP patients complicated with ≥ grade II bleeding admitted to our hospital between January 2003 and December 2018 were retrospectively analyzed. Under the guidance of electronic colonoscope, 4% formaldehyde combined with 5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA) suppositories was topically applied.

An emerging trend of equal authorship credit in major public health journals.

Background: This study aimed to identify the longitudinal trends and characteristics of the practice of explicitly giving equal credit to multiple authors of publications in public health journals. Manual searches were conducted to identify original research articles, published in five public health journals with the highest IFs according to the "2012 JCR Science Edition" between January 1, 2004 and December 31, 2013, which awarded equal credit to multiple authors (Epidemiologic Reviews, Environmental Health Perspectives, the International Journal of Epidemiology, Epidemiology, and the Annual Review of Public Health). The Instructions to Authors in the five journals were also examined with regard to information about giving equal credit to multiple authors.

Enterostomy can decrease the mortality of patients with Fournier gangrene.

Aim: To determine the significance of enterostomy in the emergency management of Fournier gangrene.

Methods: The clinical data of 51 patients (49 men and 2 women) with Fournier gangrene who were treated at our hospital over the past 12 years were retrospectively analyzed. The patients were divided into two groups according the surgical technique performed: enterostomy combined with debridement (the enterostomy group, n = 28) or debridement alone (the control group, n = 23).

Excisional hemorrhoidal surgery and its effect on anal continence.

Aim: To investigate the role of anal cushions in hemorrhoidectomy and its effect on anal continence of the patients.

Methods: Seventy-six consecutive patients (33 men and 43 women) with a mean age of 44 years were included. They underwent Milligan-Morgan hemorrhoidectomy because of symptomatic third- and fourth-degree hemorrhoids and failure in conservative treatment for years.

Hepatitis C virus infection and biological false-positive syphilis test: a single-center experience.

Background: Rapid plasma regain positive and/or treponema pallidum hemagglutination negative [RPR(+)/TPHA(-)] results were designated as biologic false-positive (BFP). There are limited data about BFP reactions against syphilis in patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of BFP reactions for syphilis in patients with HCV infection in a large sample and assess the relationship between BFP reactions and HCV infection.

[Observation on therapeutic effect of dog-day acupuncture and moxibustion combined with pelvic floor muscle exercises for treatment of female stress urinary incontinence].

Objective: To observe the clinical effect of dog-day acupuncture and tortoise-shell moxibustion combined with pelvic floor muscle exercises for treatment of female stress urinary incontinence.

Methods: Seventy one cases were randomly divided into two groups. Thirty six cases in the observation group were treated with acupuncture on Zhongji (CV 3), Zigong (EX-CA 1), Chize (LU 5) etc.

[Clinical observation on electroacupuncture combined with catgut implantation at acupoints for treatment of simple obesity of heart and spleen deficiency type].

Objective: To observe the interventional effect of electroacupuncture combined with catgut implantation at acupoints for treatment of simple obesity of heart and spleen deficiency type.

Methods: Sixty five cases were randomly divided into an observation group (33 cases) and a control group (32 cases). The observation group was treated with electroacupuncture combined with catgut implantation at acupoint therapy, the electroacupuncture was applied at Zhongwan (CV 12), Xiawan (CV 10), Guanyuan (CV 4), Tianshu (ST 25), ect.

Bortezomib in treatment of extramedullary plasmacytoma of the pancreas.

Background: Extramedullary pancreatic plasmacytoma treated with bortezomib is rarely reported.

Methods: We admitted a 53-year-old woman with an asymptomatic mass above the left clavicle for over three months, then an asymptomatic swelling of the pancreas was found. A biopsy on the mass and a fine needle aspiration of the pancreas were performed.

Survey on skin aging status and related influential factors in Southeast China.

Objective: To investigate cutaneous aging patterns of residents in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, and their contributing factors.

Methods: Eight hundred and forty-eight Hangzhou residents received the survey between March 2004 and September 2004.

Results: Facial wrinkling first occurred at 21 years of age and skin elasticity began to lose at 22 years of age.