Spondyloarthritis: Harlequin or Chameleon?

Harlequin ichthyosis (or harlequin fetus)

The pat ient was a female neonate bor n prematurely on 36 weeks of gestation by normal vaginal delivery. During pregnancy, mother had no history of fever, drug use or x-ray exposure. The mother was gravida 2 and had no history of abortion. Her first baby was well. On physical examination, the skin was markedly thickened, hard and hyperkeratotic with deep crevices running transversely and vertic...

Sarcoidosis and spondyloarthritis: A coincidence or common etiopathogenesis?

Background: Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous disease. Co-existence with spondyloarthritis (SA) has been more described as an adverse effect of anti-TNF α therapy than an association. We report herein a case of a typical sarcoidosis confirmed by histological proofs and an advanced SA with a bamboo column. Case Presentation: A 48-years-old woman presented with inflammatory back p...

Harlequin Syndrome

Harlequin foetus.

Personalized DBMS: an Elephant in Disguise or a Chameleon?

A query, expressed in a structured query language such as SQL, describes precisely the data that should comprise the answer and a non-empty answer is returned only if it satisfies all query criteria. However, the Boolean database query model has limitations. A user may run into empty answers when the query conditions are too restrictive or sift through too many results that match the query. Use...