A Woman Framed

A young woman with multiple hypopigmented patches

A 33–year-old woman was visited at the dermatological clinic of Loghman-e-Hakim Hospital with multiple hypopigmented patches on her right arm, buttocks and flanks. Her lesions developed over the past year with no regression. Lesions were resistant to multiple antifungal therapies. Clinical examination revealed multiple circular or oval patches on the right arm, flank and sacral area. There was ...

A Pregnant Woman with Factor V Deficiency

Framed Knot Contact Homology

We extend knot contact homology to a theory over the ring Z[λ±1, μ±1], with the invariant given topologically and combinatorially. The improved invariant, which is defined for framed knots in S and can be generalized to knots in arbitrary manifolds, distinguishes the unknot and can distinguish mutants. It contains the Alexander polynomial and naturally produces a two-variable polynomial knot in...

Framed Hitchin Pairs

We provide a construction of the moduli spaces of framed Hitchin pairs and their master spaces. These objects have come to interest as algebraic versions of solutions of certain coupled vortex equations. Our method unifies and generalizes constructions of several similar moduli spaces. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 14D20, 14D22, 14L30.

Acne Keloidalis Nuchae in a White Woman

Acne keloidalis is a chronic inflammatory process that involves hair follicles of the nape of the neck and leads to hypertrophic scarring. In all references, it is noticed that this process occurs only in males after puberty and is especially seen in the black race. In this case, we report a 31-year-old white woman who had hypertrophic papules in the nape of her neck since 10 years ago and in p...