Oct 30, 2015. Read about gastritis, an inflammation of the stomach lining caused by medications, NSAIDs, aspirin, ibuprofen, H. pylori, anemia, and . Stomach polyps — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms and. Illustration of stomach, pyloric valve and upper part of small intestine (duodenum). Feb 10, 2016 illustration showing the body of the stomach, fundus, cardia, pylorus. Before a true can...

Cat scratch disease is a non-epidemic infection caused by Gram negative bacillus Bartonella henselae. The most common course of the disease includes regional lymphadenitis and skin papule at the entrance site of the infection. We report a case of a female, 22 years of age, with cat scratch disease. Clinically we observed the typical skin papule at the entrance site of the infection with severe ...

An 82-year-old man with Fitzpatrick skin type III presented for the evaluation of a lesion on the left upper back. A scaly pink papule was observed (Figure 1). The differential diagnosis included squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), actinic keratosis, basal cell carcinoma, and amelanotic melanoma. On dermoscopy, multiple coiled blood vessels (also termed glo-merular vessels) were scattered across the...

Behçet's disease is a multisystemic disease consisting of a varying combination of ocular, mucocutaneous, neurologic, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal and other manifestations. Its diagnosis is based on clinical criteria, in which a positive pathergy test scores 1. A case series with 26 suspected patients is presented, and the skin pathergy test was performed in 23. The results were read in 48h...

DISCUSSION Dermatofibromas are benign cutaneous lesions. ey are most commonly seen in adults and favor the lower legs. Lesions are typically reddish brown, smooth-surfaced, domed-shaped papules that range in diameter from several millimeters to 2 centimeters. With time, some lesions will flatten. When flat lesions are pinched they may become depressed downward, which is called the “dimple sign...

the skin hyperreactivity, detected by the pathergy test, is a well known phenomenon in behcet's disease. two different methods were used for the pathergy test. a) a needle prick, b) an intadermal injection of normal saline. in this study 83% of behcet's patients had a positive pathergy test. where as 44% was of pustule type and 39% of papule type. in 26% of patients the papule formati...

OBJECTIVE To compare serum concentrations of specific IgE and mean papule diameters induced in the immediate skin reactivity test with cow's milk (CM) and its fractions with results of the oral challenge test (OCT), and to establish cutoff points capable of predicting clinical reactivity to CM in patients treated at a referral service. METHODS One hundred and twenty-two children (median of 17...