Adenoid squamous cell carcinoma (ASCC) is a one of the histological variants oral with rare occurrence less than 4% all cases. The tumour has slight male predilection lower lip being most affected site. ASCC said to have varied biologic behaviour which accounts for its ability metastasize distant sites and hence poor prognosis. histopathology shows numerous duct-like structures central acanthol...

INTRODUCTION This is the second case of persistent acantholytic dermatosis in a patient with chronic renal failure, seen at the same institution in 2 years. CLINICAL PICTURE A 70-year-old Chinese man with end-stage renal failure on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis for 6 months presented with pruritic rashes over the scalp and chest for 3 months. Histologically, the lesions resembled ...

Received May 31, 2010, Revised July 14, 2010, Accepted for publication July 14, 2010 Corresponding author: Mi-Woo Lee, M.D., Department of Dermatology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 388-1 Pungnap-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul 138-736, Korea. Tel: 82-2-30103460, Fax: 82-2-486-7831, E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of ...

on the subject, found only seven authentic cases and reported two additional ones. Strassmann (1946) recorded a similar case arising in the pylorus and extending to the cardia. Another case described by O'Brien and Meehan (1950) had, in addition, an interesting feature in that their patient had a colloid carcinoma of the ascending colon which had been resected nearly four and a half years previ...

BACKGROUND The aim of the present open-label, randomized control trial was to determine the clinical efficacy and safety of two 1-week bismuth-containing quadruple regimens and 1 levofloxacin-based triple regimen for the eradication of Helicobacter pylori infection in treatment-naive patients. The influence of susceptibility and host CYP2C19 polymorphisms on the efficacy was also evaluated. M...