Plaques sclérales séniles

Plaques sclérales séniles

Nous rapportons le cas d'une femme âgée de 75 ans, hypertendue sous traitement, pseudophake au niveau de l'œil droit, cataracte de l'œil gauche et chez qui l'examen ophtalmologique décèle de façon bilatérale et symétrique des zones de dépression sclérale de couleur grisâtre située en avant de l'insertion des deux muscles droits internes. La plaque sclérale est le résultat d'une dégénérescence d...

Pleural plaques.

Pruritic erythematous plaques.

Volume 90, Number 5 www.aafp.org/afp American Family Physician 319 A 65-year-old woman presented with a three-month history of erythematous skin patches on her trunk and extremities that were slowly increasing in size and number. The patches were pruritic and unresponsive to diphenhydramine (Benadryl) and cetirizine (Zyrtec). The pruritus interfered with her sleep. She did not have recent illne...

Alzheimer's - Looking beyond plaques

Mounting evidence shows that inflammation plays a critical role in causing Alzheimer's disease. Over the last few decades we have gone from a situation where inflammation was generally believed to have no role in the disease to the current picture where chronic activation of IL-1 inflammation has been shown to account for many of the hallmarks of the disease. This review is a personal account o...

Hyperkeratotic Plaques on Hands.

Previously published Photo Quizzes are now featured in a mobile app. Get more information at http:// www.aafp.org/afp/apps. A 10-year-old boy presented with a rash on both hands that had been present for at least several weeks. He had not worn any new gloves or other clothing. He had received a new video game at Christmas about five months prior and had played it for at least three to four hour...