Dermatophyte infection from the inguinal area may extend to the scrotum and uncommonly to the penis, but rarely occurs on the glans or prepuce. In the present case the provisional clinical diagnosis was Candida infection of the prepuce, however a ring-like configuration with central clearing and mild scaling at the border prompted the 10% KOH smear and subsequent culture, which proved the infec...

this paper, a new probability density function (pdf) is proposed to model the statistics of wavelet coefficients, and a simple Kalman's filter is derived from the new pdf using Bayesian estimation theory. Specifically, we decompose the speckled image into wavelet subbands, we apply the Kalman's filter to the high subbands, and reconstruct a despeckled image from the modified detail coefficients...

A simple method for imaging vibrational motion is proposed. The process consists of capturing two speckled images of a region illuminated by coherent radiation. One of the images is captured before the onset of motion and the other during motion. If the mean speckle intensity is below the threshold for detection or above the saturation intensity of the detector, subtracting the two images produ...

We present coherent speckled x-ray diffraction patterns obtained from a monolayer of surface atoms. We measured both the specular anti-Bragg reflection and the off-specular hexagonal reconstruction peak for the Au(001) surface reconstruction. We observed fluctuations of the speckle patterns even when the integrated intensity appears static. By autocorrelating the speckle patterns, we were able ...

A 55-year-old male with history of coronary artery disease, chronic kidney disease stage 4, diabetes mellitus, uncontrolled hypertension (on multiple antihypertensive medications), and iron deficiency anemia was referred for esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) for evaluation of intractable nausea and vomiting. EGD showed black speckled pigmentation of the duodenal mucosa (Figure 1). Duodenal biops...

Granular cell tumors (GrCTs) of the spinal cord are rare benign tumors with a high rate of local recurrence. Only 6 cases of spinal GrCTs have been reported. GrCT is difficult to distinguish from other benign tumors such as schwannoma using imaging. A radiological "speckled dots" sign may be a useful differentiating feature of GrCT based upon experience with two cases and a review of the litera...

Amaç: Sjögren sendromu egzokrin bezlerin lenfositik infiltrasyonu ile karakterize otoimmün inflamatuvar bir hastalıktır. için çeşitli serolojik testler, semptomlar, histopatolojik bulguları içeren farklı sınıflandırma kriterleri bulunmaktadır. Bu çalışmada minör tükürük bezi biyopsi sonuçları özellikler arasındaki ilişkinin değerlendirilmesi amaçlandı. Gereç ve Yöntemler: Minör biyopsisi anti n...

Antibodies to different components of the extractable nuclear antigen (ENA) have been thought to be serological markers for clinical subsets of rheumatic diseases. However, incomplete characterization and standardization of antigenic components such as ribonucleoprotein (RNP), Sm, and SS-B (Ha), and the multiplicity of autoantibodies produced by different patients have confounded correlations b...