The purpose of this paper is to present Wegener granulomatosis manifesting in its periocular form. Review with new developments in understanding of the etiopathogenesis, clinical and laboratory findings as well as therapy modalities are shown through a series of patients gathered in collaboration with colleagues from UMC Utrecht, Netherlands. In the period from 1992 until 2004 the group of 54 p...

OBJECTIVE Describe the management of subglottic stenosis in a patient with Wegener's granulomatosis. MATERIAL AND METHOD Case report. RESULTS We report the case of a 26-year-old woman who presented Wegener granulomatosis and subglottic stenosis, with renal, skin, oropharyngeal, nasal, and paranasal locations. Medical treatment had cured all the locations except the subglottic stenosis. An e...

Continental drift is the movement of the Earth's continents relative to each other. The hypothesis that continents 'drift' was first put forward by Abraham Ortelius in 1596 and was fully developed by Alfred Wegener in 1912. However, it was not until the development of the theory of plate tectonics in the 1960s, that a sufficient geological explanation of that movement was understood. (This arti...

1 Departement Geografie, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussel, Belgium 2 Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polarund Meeresforschung, Postfach 120161, 27515 Bremerhaven, Germany 3 Scientific Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Teatralnaya 8-a, 354000 Sochi, Russia 4 Laboratoire de Glaciologie Polaire, Département des Sciences de la Terre et de l’Environnement (DSTE), Univers...

Resumen Gerda Wegener y Lili Elbe fueron dos artistas mujeres transgresoras danesas que alcanzaron un gran éxito profesional reconocimiento internacional, especialmente en el campo de la ilustración. Debido al importante papel tuvo prensa ilustrada principios del siglo XX, ambas se trasladaron a París, donde desarrollaron una vida modernidad fama. Los avatares su personal hicieron fueran aparta...