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Generalized edema with erythroderma

A 20-year-old girl presented with a one-week history of fever and chills, malaise, generalized erythema (including the face, trunk, back and extremities), edema (initially the face and then lower limbs) and hoarseness (Figure 1). Physical examination revealed low-grade fever, jaundice, lymphadenopathy (posterior cervical, submandibular, <1 cm, no axillary, no inguinal). Dermatological exa...

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Anyone who is inclined to think that the " Reading Wars " are over, or that the main warriors in these wars are only professional educators and researchers who support either whole language or phonics approaches to reading will continuously rethink their views during the reading of Reading across International Boundaries: History, Policy, and Politics. Openshaw and Soler have compiled a collect...

Infant Acute Hemorragic Edema

ABSTRACT I.A.H.E is a self limiting disorder of infancy urticarial & purpuric plague type lesion in the face & extrimities are its specific sign. Its etiology is unknown, however in many patients a history of preceding upper respiratory infection or drug consumption is detected. In this case of a child with 8 month aged with I.A.H.E is presented to you.

Ischemic Brain Edema and Compression Brain Edema

Grades of recovery and outcome of patients with "stroke" have been widely reported by different authors.' There is reasonable agreement on the "poor" outcome of a certain number of surviving "stroke" patients; their number is widely estimated to vary from 19% to 35%. With the growing need for physical medicine and rehabilitation treatment and the associated mushrooming financial expenditures fo...