BACKGROUND The genus Cucurbita (pumpkin, squash, gourd) is native to the Americas and diffused to other continents subsequent to the European contact in 1492. For many years, the earliest images of this genus in Europe that were known to cucurbit specialists were the two illustrations of C. pepo pumpkins that were published in Fuchs' De Historia Stirpium, 1542. Images of fruits of two Cucurbita...

To cite: Cox L. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2015;41:81–83. A FRENCH PILL SCARE The opinion of Marion Larat is that “nobody, but nobody should take the thirdand fourth-generation pills”. This view is not surprising as she suffered a devastating stroke at the age of 18 years. A subsequent enquiry linked her cerebral vascular accident to Méliane, a 20 μg pill containing gestodene that she had b...

are not bars to successful treatment provided that in any given instance the evolution of a disease is fully understood. This lecture is concerned with a group of conditions of fibroblastic origin which are known collectively as the fibromatoses. Their aetiology is unknown, but their great importance lies, firstly, in the fact that they are often misdiagnosed as true malignant neoplasms and, se...

Here we report on the clinical findings and key symptoms in WNT10A-related ectodermal dysplasias. The ectodermal dysplasias (ED) are a large, heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by defects in the morphogenesis of skin, sweat, sebaceous, submucous, and mammary glands, hair, nails and teeth. Numerous more or less distinct entities have been reported, however, most of them are very rare...

Epidermolysis bullosa is a group of inherited blistering diseases classified into three main sub-groups on the basis of the level of cleavage within the skin. In dominant dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, characterized by cleavage below the basal lamina, two variants can be distinguished by the presence (Pasini form) or absence (Cockayne-Touraine form) of albo-papuloid lesions. The present stud...

1. Halupczok J, Kluba‐Szyszka A, Bidzinska‐Speichert B, Knychalski B. Ovarian hyperstimulation caused by gonadotroph pituitary adenoma – Review. Adv Clin Exp Med 2015;24:695‐703. 2. Roberts JE, Spandorfer S, Fasouliotis SJ, Lin K, Rosenwaks Z. Spontaneous ovar ian hypers t imula t ion caused by a follicle‐stimulating hormone‐secreting pituitary adenoma. Fertil Steril 2005;83:208‐10. 3. Pentz‐Vi...

Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (HED) is a rare genetic disorder caused by mutation in either the ectodysplasin (EDA), A receptor (EDAR), EDAR associated via death domain (EDARADD), or Wnt family member 10A (WNT10A) genes that result impaired development of ectodermal-derived structures. The literature defines two types dysplasia, which are hypohidrotic and hidrotic. X‐linked (XLHED), also kn...