Cutting Ties With an Old Friend: Omphalitis and Bacteremia With Umbilical Cord Nonseverance

Diagnosis and Management of Primary Umbilical Melanoma with Omphalitis Features

We report on a 62-year-old Chinese male patient who presented with a pigmented lesion in the umbilical area and who was treated for omphalitis in a local hospital for 1 month. Biopsy pathological examination revealed that the lesion was a melanoma. The Breslow depth was estimated at 3 mm, and Clark's level was IV. Ultrasonography showed no suspicious pathological lymph nodes, and no metastases ...

the past hospitalization and its association with suicide attempts and ideation in patients with mdd and comparison with bmd (depressed type) group

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An old friend turns 100.

Fathers' emotional involvement with the neonate: impact of the umbilical cord cutting experience.

AIMS This paper is a report on a study analysing the effect of the umbilical cord cutting experience on fathers' emotional involvement with their infants. BACKGROUND Participation in childbirth offers an opportunity for father and mother to share the childbirth experience, so it is vital that midwives improve the fathers' participation in this event. DESIGN A quasi-experimental study with a...

Umbilical cord blood collection with an infant feeding tube.

Placental vessels contain a quarter to a third of cord blood at birth(2) which is now being used for stem cell transfusions in Fanconi's anemia, leukemia, thalassemia major, sickle cell anemia and aplastic anemia. The first premature infant who received autologous cord blood transfusion was reported by Ballin et al.{2). We report an indigenously developed cord blood collection technique which c...