Introduction Incidence of child sexual abuse is increasing worldwide. There is little data on child sexual abuse in the North Western Province of Sri Lanka. Objectives To describe the demographic and medico-legal findings of victims of sexual abuse aged less than 16 years and to identify factors associated with positive findings on medical-legal examination. Methods This cross-sectional ana...

background: leishmaniasis is an obligate intercellular protozoon that affects animals and human. it has zoonosis and/or anthroponosis transmission. human and veterinary medicine, environmental science and wildlife conservation special­ists have many commonalities in case of visceral leishmaniasis. still the above disciplines respond against leishmaniasis in a separate way.   the aim of this re­...

© 2011 The Authors. doi: 10.2340/00015555-1028 Journal Compilation © 2011 Acta Dermato-Venereologica. ISSN 0001-5555 WNT10A is a member of the wingless signalling pathway that has a fundamental role in skin and appendageal morphogenesis (1). Moreover, naturally occurring WNT10A gene mutations have been identified in the autosomal recessive human ectodermal dysplasia syndromes odonto-onycho-derm...

OBJECTIVE To assess the clinical features of several members of the same family diagnosed with both hot water epilepsy (HWE) and cerebral lesions. METHODS Age at onset and types of seizure, precipitating factors, EEG findings, and neuroimages were evaluated. RESULTS The family consisted of six generations, including one consanguineous parent. Of eight family members diagnosed with epilepsy,...

The familial association of pulmonary stenosis, atrial septal defect, and unique electrocardiographic abnormalities involving a mother and two children is reported. Familial pulmonary stenosis not occurring as part of a named syndrome or without associated multiple congenital abnormalities is rare. The constellation of pulmonary stenosis, atrial septal defect, and the particular electrocardiogr...

This paper reviews briefly epidemiological and clinical data on prevalence and incidence of child-sexual-abuse. Individual symptoms and family factors of intra-familial child sexual abuse are described and some possible psychopathological factors and vulnerability factors are listed. Two different forms of parasuicide and self-mutilating behaviour are distinguished and complicating factors of s...

Desmoid tumor (DT) is a locally invasive form of fibromatosis, comprising only 0.03% of all tumors. DTs occur more frequently in patients with familial adenomatous polyposis and Gardner's syndrome, as intra-abdominal or anterior abdominal wall tumors, whereas sporadic DTs are more likely to be extra-abdominal (only 5% of sporadic DTs are intra-abdominal). There is also an association of DTs wit...

T his study investigates the effects of extra-ECOWAS merchandise trade and investment flows on the transmission of business cycles in the selected ECOWAS between 1985 and 2014.  The study finds that total trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) significantly influence the transmission of business cycles with elasticities of 1.1 and 0.7, respectively in the long run. There are little vari...

The identifi.cation of the Hepatitis C virus using molecular cloning techniques, besides making the term Non-A Non-B Hepatitis obsolete, enables the development of specif.ic assays for the detection of antibodies in HCV -infected individuals, thus making it possible to obtain sero-epidemiological data of the disease. The carriage of Hepatitis C antibody varies worldwide. The disease is most pre...

OBJECTIVES The frequency of hepatitis G virus exposure in blood donors varies between 2.5% in Japan to 24.2% in Poland. Therefore there is a geographic difference in distribution of hepatitis G virus (HGV) in the world. We aimed to determine the frequency of HGV exposure in Iranian blood donors. METHODS Blood samples from 478 Iranian volunteer blood donors were tested. Positive anti-E2 sample...