Liver palms or palmar erythema are well recognized as a clinical feature of hepato-cellular disease (Sherlock, 1968). They have also been recorded in many other conditions, such as pregnancy, chronic febrile states, leukaemia, thyrotoxicosis, and rheumatoid arthritis (Copeman, 1964; Ragan, 1966; Sherlock, 1968). In the last-named disease the prevalence of palmar erythema has not been, to our kn...

Malignant acanthosis nigricans is a rare paraneoplastic skin syndrome mostly associated with gastric adenocarcinoma. Florid cutaneous papillomatosis and tripe palms syndrome are considered to be abortive clinical variants of acanthosis nigricans. Clinical manifestations include pruritic, hyperkeratotic and hyperpigmented plaques with a subsequent formation of velvety papillomas in the involved ...

f ABSTRACT The characteristics of the palm community in Amazonian terra firme forests are defined from three inventories carried out in the lower Tocantins (east), the lower Rio Negro (center), and the lower Ucayali (west) valleys. At all sites, most of the palms are small, understory species; the palm community is mainly under 10 m in height (99.8 to 99.9%); and adult arborescent palms occur a...

Dear Editor, A 10-year-old boy presented with progressive thickening of the nails over the previous 5 years. He did not have any other cutaneous and/or systemic symptoms. He was born to healthy non-consanguineous parents following an uneventful pregnancy. Upon examination, he was found to have symmetrical involvement of the finger and toenails with marked hard thickening of the distal portion o...

Comprising a natural and distinctive group, palms (Arecaceae) differ from other woody plants in their structure and growth features that require or offer unique and sometimes advantageous landscape management opportunities. Although palms are a mostly tropical group that lacks dormancy and cold tolerance, there are numerous species possessing sufficient cool or cold hardiness to be suitable for...

BUMC PROCEEDINGS 2003;16:236–238 A34-year-old man presented with a 2-week history of a relatively asymptomatic truncal rash with gradual spread to involve his face, limbs, palms, and soles. Approximately 10 days before onset of the rash, he experienced a flulike episode with mild arthralgias, sore throat, and mild headache that had reappeared intermittently prior to his evaluation. Physical exa...

In [19] we presented a model of nonprehensile manipulation, using two one-degree-of-freedom palms. Under the assumptions of low friction and quasistatic motion, we developed a planning method for part reorientation with our model, starting from a known initial state. Our method finds feasible paths through the space of equivalent state configurations of the object in the palms, without requirin...

Tripe palms, which described the thickening of pamar skin with increase of normal dermatoglyphics and a peculiar velvety texture, is a specific cutaneous paraneoplastic syndrome especially related to cancers of upper aerodigestive tract. Acanthosis nigricans, and florid cutaneous papillomatosis (sudden appearance of many warty skin lesions) are the most commonly associated paraneoplastic dermat...

There are various lacuna and voids in clinical studies of glandular disorders and its warning or indication system in the study of palms of human beings. This paper presents for the first time, a datum and several observations made on the conditions of skin, colour mounts, lines etc. of human palms. Studies reveal that palms of both hands play a diagnostic role in medical emergency. The colour,...

A 12 years old boy, diagnosed with psoriasis since childhoodwas referred to the dermatology clinic of Aleppo UniversityHospital,Syria with the chief complaint of erythematoushyperkeratotic lesions on the palms and soles.