Superimposed Segmental Dermatomyositis

Superimposed Segmental Manifestation of Juvenile Amyopathic Dermatomyositis in a 9-year-old Boy

Dermatomyositis is a well-known autoimmune disorder. On the other hand, juvenile amyopathic dermatomyositis (JADM) occurs rather rarely. Here, we report an unusual case in a 9-year-old Turkish boy showing a unilateral linear inflammatory skin lesion that was followed, after 16 months, by the appearance of bilateral disseminated features JADM.

Superimposed segmental hemangioma of infancy.

BACKGROUND Segmental hemangioma of infancy is sometimes associated with the development of multiple nonsegmental hemangiomas. Such co-occurrences have so far remained unexplained. METHODS AND RESULTS Pertinent reports were collected from the literature. To explicate such cases, the following concept is proposed. Hemangiomas of infancy reflect a polygenic predisposition. Nonsegmental lesions r...

Superimposed Delegation

Object composition a well-known programming technique for supporting dynamic adaptation in statically typed class-based object-oriented programming languages suffers from two non-trivial problems; the common-self problem and the object reference update problem. Recently, it has been shown that the common-self problem can be solved for object composition in statically typed class-based languages...

Amyopathic dermatomyositis--an uncommon presentation of dermatomyositis.

Breast Cancer Associated with Dermatomyositis

Dermatomyositis (DM) is a rare idiopathic inflammatory myopathy with characteristic skin lesions. Case series have shown an association between dermatomyositis and malignancy. Malignancy has been found in 15-25% of the adult patients with dermatomyositis. A 50-year-old new case of breast cancer, was admitted with muscle weakness and inability to walk. Physical examination revealed fever, perior...