SKIN AND FAUCIAL MANIFESTATIONS IN ACUTE POLIOMYELITIS

Skin Manifestations of Diabetes Mellitus

Skin disorders are common in diabetic patients and may also act as clues for diagnosis in undiagnosed cases. These manifestations may be summarized in five categories including non-infectious, infectious, treatment-related and miscellaneous manifestations as well as diabetic foot ulcer. The most common non-infectious disorder occurring in up to 70% of patients is diabetic dermopathy. Infectio...

Skin manifestations in sarcoidosis

Almost a century ago, the relationship of sarcoid infiltrations of the skin and granulomatous changes in other organs was recognised. Schaumann, in 1914, proposed that lupus pernio (fig. 1a–c) could be a manifestation of a generalised disease. Later on, a variety of skin manifestations have been described to occur more or less frequently. Lupus pernio indicates an unfavourable prognosis, wherea...

Prostigmine in Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis *

In a recent article by Kabat and Knapp,' the use of prostigmine in the treatment of poliomyelitis has been discussed. Their approach to therapy was based on the Kenny concept of the disease. From observations on a series of 20 patients with poliomyelitis, most of whom were in the subacute stage of the disease, it was concluded that prostigmine increased the range of passive motion, decreased or...

Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis in Adults

Cardiovascular collapse in acute poliomyelitis.

ALTHOUGH cardiovascular collapse had previously been noted in patients with acute poliomyelitis,' 2 Baker and his colleagues3' 4first indicated that this lethal symptom complex is a relatively common feature of bulbar poliomyelitis. They examined in detail the medulla of 80 cases dying of poliomyelitis and concluded that this syndrome was due to involvement of the large cells in the ventromedia...