Tan spot (TS), caused by the fungus Pyrenophora tritici-repentis (Died) Drechs, is an important foliar disease of wheat and has become a threat to world wheat production since the 1970s. In this study a globally diverse pre-1940s collection of 247 wheat genotypes was evaluated against Ptr ToxA, P. tritici-repentis race 1, and stem rust to determine if; (i) acquisition of Ptr ToxA by the P. trit...

Spectral beam combining (SBC) by volume Bragg gratings (VBGs) recorded in photo-thermo-refractive (PTR) glass is a powerful tool for laser applications that require higher radiance than a single laser unit can achieve. The beam-combining factor (BCF) is introduced as a tool to compare various beam-combining methods and experiments. It describes the change of radiance provided by a beam-combinin...

Proliferating pilomatricoma is proliferative, rare tumor variant of pilomatricoma. It is a benign neoplasm of hair matrix that can have potentially involve local recurrence. We report the case of a 60-year-old man who presented an asymptomatic nodule on the scalp. Histological exam demonstrated a basaloid epithelium at the periphery, filled with eosinophilic cornified material containing shadow...

Vol. 26, No. 6, 2014 791 Received April 7, 2014, Revised June 25, 2014, Accepted for publication June 27, 2014 Corresponding author: Kun-Yong Sung, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, School of Medicine, Kangwon National University, 1 Gangwondaehak-gil, Chuncheon 200-701, Korea. Tel: 82-33-258-9494, Fax: 82-33-258-9437, E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article di...

BACKGROUND Calcifying epithelioma of Malherbe, or Pilomatricoma, is considered an uncommon cutaneous neoplasia, normally occurring in children as a solitary, firm, asymptomatic, hard, subcutaneous, slowly growing nodule on the face, neck, or proximal upper extremity. In literature, two Pilomatricoma ultrasound patterns are described: the totally calcified nodule and the hypoechoic nodule with i...

The presence of melanin pigment and/or melanocytes in pilomatricoma has been rarely documented. In this study, we analyzed the incidence and clinicopathological features of pigmented pilomatricoma. Fifty-seven consecutive pilomatricoma cases from 53 Japanese patients were examined in this study. In fourteen cases (24.6%), pigmentation was observed in pilomatricoma. This variant equally affected...