Scalp hair patterns have been examined in 1901 healthy subjects and 1789 severely subnormal patients. Patients with Down's syndrome had a highly significant excess of midline occipital whorls and a deficit of right-sided occipital whorls. Five out of 44 patients with microcephaly had a distinct 'up-sweep' of the frontal hair, a much lower proportion than found previously. Patients with unspecif...

<p>A 61-year-old man with a history of thyrotoxicosis, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and dyslipidemia presented to the dermatology outpatient clinic bilateral non-pitting edema, asymmetrical yellowish-brown plaques, nodules associated some areas hyperpigmentation, Peau’d orange appearance elephantiasis-like skin lesions over both low legs. It was diagnosed as pretibial myxedema attribu...