Long-standing burns, fissures, and ulcers that undergo malignant transformation into a variety of malignancies, including squamous cell carcinoma, is commonly referred to as a Marjolin's ulcer. It is well recognized that squamous cell carcinomas of the lung and esophagus can cause humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy secondary to paraneoplastic secretion of parathyroid hormone-related peptide. H...

An elderly woman with a chronic decubitus sacral ulcer presented to the emergency department with sepsis. A computed tomography of her abdomen showed diffuse gas extending throughout the thoracolumbar spinal canal. Pneumorrhachis is a rare radiographic finding defined as gas within the spinal canal. There are many causes of pneumorrhachis ranging from trauma to infection. In this case the pneum...

Decubitus ulcers are a common spinal cord injury (SCI) complication that puts patients' lives in danger and has emerged as more prevalent issue modern clinical rehabilitation care. humans can currently be treated number of different ways, but there fewer studies on how to treat care for decubitus macaques. To 20-year-old adult male macaque monkey with SCI after quarter transection the thoracic ...

Bacteremia due to Fusobacterium spp. is unusual (<10% of cases of anaerobic bacteremia), and the isolation of Fusobacterium varium is especially uncommon. The most probable sources of Fusobacterium bacteremia are the respiratory, the gastrointestinal, and the genitourinary tracts. A.-M. Bourgault et al. (Clin. Infect. Dis. 25[Suppl. 2]:181-183) described 40 patients with Fusobacterium bacteremi...

| June 2015 | 627 In a study done by Verbunt and Bartneck, in 2010 entitled “tactile feedback for the prevention of decubitus ulcers,” a technology is defined which is able to diagnose patient’s inappropriate status and present an instruction to change his status. Changing status resulted in less risk of decubitus ulcer. This device includes a belt that receives a simple tap to a strong pressur...

Phenytoin (diphenlhydantion or Dilantin) is a highly effective and widely prescribed anticonvulsant agent and antiarrhythmic agent in the treatment of grand mal and psychomotor epilepsy. Phentoin was introduced into therapy in 1937 for effective convulsive disorder with a common side effect being gingival hyperplasia. In dermatology due to the stimulatory effect on the connective tissue it is u...

Heel ulcers are a costly and preventable complication of lower-extremity immobilization, but they still occur with some regularity. A technique using a short leg posterior splint that suspends the heel away from the splint is described. This modification completely removes pressure the heel to prevent decubitus ulcer formation. This technique is simple, inexpensive, and effective.