Small-intestinal mucosal abnormalities in various skin diseases fact or fancy?

Small-intestinal mucosal abnormalities in various skin diseases--fact or fancy?

Two-thirds of patients with dermatitis herpetiformis have been found to have a flat or convoluted mucosa but no special association has been found in the other dermatoses studied with structural alterations in the small bowel mucosa. The frequency distribution of the predominant and individual small intestinal mucosal features is the same in the patients in the present series with eczema, psori...

Accidental death--fact, fancy or fable.

Sudden infant death syndrome in Brazil: fact or fancy?

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE The true incidence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in Brazil is unknown. The aim here was to identify SIDS cases in the city of Ribeirão Preto, State of São Paulo, between 2000 and 2005, in order to estimate its incidence. DESIGN AND SETTING Retrospective analysis of data on live births and infant deaths in Ribeirão Preto and from autopsies of infants performed at...

Selective brain cooling in humans: "fancy" or fact?

A mechanism that selectively cools the brain during hyperthermia is a well-accepted fact in animals. Selective brain cooling (SBC) during hyperthermia has also been proposed in humans, but this suggestion has met with considerable debate. Several authors have rejected the idea of human SBC for the following reasons: 1) SBC is illogical because this mechanism removes the error signal activating ...

Hematophagous Endeavors, Fact and Fancy

L start with some facts. The word "mosquito" is Spanish for “little fly.” The single family Culicidae comprises more than 3,500 species of mosquitoes, and these ectoparasites are found in a wide range of environments spanning the globe with the exception of Antarctica. The life span of adult mosquitoes ranges from 2 weeks to 6 months. Mosquitoes belonging to about three quarters of recognized s...