Image quiz Vol. 33(2)

Image of the month--quiz case.

A 68-YEAR-OLD MAN WAS ADMITTED TO THE hospital with fever, right loin pain, and right hip stiffness of 3 days’ duration. He has had 3 hospital admissions since February 2005 for right-sided psoas abscess. The abscess was treated with ultrasonographic-guided drainage twice, and 2 weeks before this admission, the patient had an open appendectomy through a Lanz incision with evacuation of the absc...

Correspondence to the image quiz by Kaymak et al.

We read the paper by Kaymak et al. published in the latest issue of your journal with great interest (1). In this paper, the authors have discussed the benefit of fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the differential diagnosis of fluid filled structures over the calvarium. In the first step of evaluation they used 2D transabdominal ultrasonography and detected a cystic mass over the poster...

332 Jennings

Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association In normal skin, the stratum corneum serves as a protective barrier against excessive evaporative water loss and environmental insults. The extensibility of the stratum corneum depends on its water content and environmental temperature.1 The stratum corneum must contain more than 10% water to remain soft and pliable; when the water content dr...

329-332 Park

The influence of dietary supplementation with dehydroepiandrosterone-sulphate (DHEA-S) at 0.6% was investigated in male Syrian golden hamsters initiated by treatments with azoxymethane(AOM), and dihydroxy-di-n-propyl nitrosamine (DHPN), timed after transfer from a choline-deficient to a normal diet. These carcinogens respectively target the colon, and the respiratory tract, the liver and pancre...

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