BACKGROUND Cystic angiomatosis (CA) is a rare disorder causing bony cysts. It displays some similarity to Gorham-Stout disease (GSD), but has a much better local prognosis, despite the larger number of cysts. These 2 conditions also differ in terms of their location, visceral involvement, and response to treatment. METHODS We report 4 cases of CA, including 1 sclerosing form, which we compare...

SUMMARY The authors describe a 23-year-old woman with Gorham's syndrome who underwent an uneventful bilateral reduction mammoplasty which has not been reported in the medical literature today. The patient had undergone multiple surgical and medical interventions before presentation in the senior author's clinic including a vascularized free fibular graft which ultimately disappeared due to dise...

Lectotypes were designated (and holotypes and paralectotypes recognized) for 44 species of Hydnocerinae, including the type species for Isolemidia, Parmius, Paupris, Allelidea, Blaesiopthalmus and Lemidia, four species of Enoclerus (Clerinae), and 14 species of Cymatodera (Tillinae). Annotations include comments on additional type material, new type locality, previous (type series) locality, an...

early forties when Aleutian and sapphire breeding stock were shipped from Oregon to Wisconsin, and first described the disease along with Dr. John Gorham in 1956. He diagnosed the first cases of mink virus enteritis in the U.S. and he prepared the first inactivated virus vaccines for its control. Doctors Dieter Burger, Dick Marsh, and Hartsough were the first to describe and diagnose mink encep...