Generalized ILVEN or Blaschkoid Psoriasis: A Persistant Dilemma

Generalized prisoner's dilemma

Prisoner’s dilemma has been heavily studied. In classical model, each player chooses to either ”Cooperate” or ”Defect”. In this paper, we generalize the prisoner’s dilemma with a new alternative which is neither defect or cooperation. The classical model is the special case under the condition that the third state is not taken into consideration.

Acquired Blaschkoid dermatitis.

Acquired Blaschkoid dermatitis characterised by unilateral relapsing inflammatory disease along the lines of Blaschko. A 40-year-old Indian male presented with unilateral erythematous, itchy grouped papules on the left side of the chest, abdomen, back and left arm of 15 days duration. The eruption stopped abruptly at the midline of the torso, completely sparing the right side of the body. The l...

autoimmune hepatitis or wilson’s disease, a clinical dilemma

Does inflammatory linear verrucous epidermal nevus represent a segmental type 1/type 2 mosaic of psoriasis?

BACKGROUND A 6-year-old girl with a symmetric linear eruption on both of her legs, clinically and histologically resembling inflammatory linear verrucous epidermal nevus (ILVEN) or linear psoriasis (LP), with concomitant psoriasis of the guttata type and a positive family history of psoriasis is presented. The questions as to whether LP actually exists and ILVEN represents a distinct entity are...

Consistency or efficiency? A dilemma for designers

A dilemma for designers In this issue of the journal, Russ et al present a discussion of our paper. In our study, we found that prescribers were not utilizing all eprescribing system functions, despite the functions’ potential to improve efficiency of work, and a consequence of this was the generation of clinically unnecessary alerts. In their response, ‘When ‘technically preventable’ alerts oc...