The Blue Girl

The Blue Girl

Heart Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar *Email: [email protected] Memories of my early years of establishing cardiology service from scratch in Qatar are still fresh and clear in my mind. Some cases are hard to forget because of the interesting social and human elements surrounding them. One such case was that of an Egyptian girl whose fate brought her to Qatar over 30 years ago ...

Dermatitis simulata: the mystery of the blue girl.

12 Kawaguchi M, Mitsuhashi Y, Kondo S. Iatrogenic hypercalcemia due to vitamin D3 ointment (1,24 (OH)2D3) combined with thiazide diuretics in a case of psoriasis. J Dermatol, 2003: 30: 801–804. 13 Ohigashi S, Tatsuno I, Uchida D, et al. Topical treatment with 22-oxacalcitriol (OCT), a new vitamin D analogue, caused severe hypercalcemia with exacerbation of chronic renal failure in a psoriatic p...

Malignant blue nevus with lymph node metastases in five-year-old girl.

We report an unusual case of a malignant blue nevus in a five-year-old girl, which turned out to be malignant only after the development of lymph node metastases three years after the excision of the primary tumor on the patient's cheek. A functional bilateral neck dissection was performed and the patient is alive with no evidence of disease 8 years after the excision of the primary skin lesion.

The Vanishing Girl Child

The girl child.

The health of the girl child is a concern for obstetrician-gynecologists. Pediatric gynecologic conditions deserve special attention. The obstetric performance of the adult woman depends in large part on the health and healthcare of the girl child. Gender discrimination against the girl child violates her human rights and adversely impacts on her health and her life. The profession has a social...