Keloids: Pathogenesis, Clinical Features, and Management

Nail psoriasis: clinical features, pathogenesis, differential diagnoses, and management

Psoriasis is the skin disease that most frequently affects the nails. Depending on the very nail structure involved, different clinical nail alterations can be observed. Irritation of the apical matrix results in psoriatic pits, mid-matrix involvement may cause leukonychia, whole matrix affection may lead to red lunulae or severe nail dystrophy, nail bed involvement may cause salmon spots, subu...

Atherosclerosis: Pathogenesis, Clinical Features and Treatment

Worldwide, more people die of the complications of a disease that has been a companion ofmankind since antiquity than of any other cause. This disease is called atherosclerosis. Macroscopic and microscopic evidence of atherosclerosis has been found in the aortas and the carotid, coronary and femoral arteries of mummies from Egypt, North America and China dating from around 3000 BC to AD 400 (Cu...

Canine Hypoadrenocorticism: Pathogenesis and Clinical Features*

dogs.Young, female dogs are predisposed.The most common cause of primary hypoadrenocorticism has been proposed to be immune-mediated destruction of all three layers of the adrenal cortex.This results in mineralocorticoid (aldosterone) and glucocorticosteroid (cortisol) deficiency. Patients typically present with a history of waxing and waning or fulminant gastrointestinal (GI) signs or of acute...

[Cerebral amyloid angiopathy: pathogenesis and clinical features].

Rheumatoid Arthritis: Pathogenesis, Clinical Features, and Treatment