Riya George1, MD; Fehmida Najmuddin*2, MD; Rajesh Rai2, MD; Keya Lahiri2, DCH, MD 1Department of Pediatrics, KJ Somaiya Medical College, 2DY Patil Medical College, Hospital & Research Centre, India Received: Apr 15, 2014; Accepted: Aug 19, 2014; Online Available: Sep 10, 2014 Trichorhinophalangeal syndrome (TRPS), as the name suggests is a rare genetic disorder which affects the tricho (hair), ...

Number 20 Last year I wrote a two-part essay on herpes simplex virus infections. 1z In it, I noted that although herpes has been known for over 2,000 years, it has only recently attracted the attention of medical researchers. But herpes, specifically HSV2, is just one of several sexually transmitted diseases (STDS) whose incidence has recently reached dramatic levels. This " new generation " of...

Ectomycorrhizal fungi – fairy rings and the wood-wide web Many of us will have seen fairy rings, the mysterious circles of fungal fruiting bodies that occur in open grassy places or in forests. The secrecy about these rings is expressed in their naming: in English folklore, the rings were said to be caused by fairies dancing in a circle (Fig. 1) whereas in German-speaking Europe they are known ...

PURPOSE To review the outcomes of tibial derotational osteotomies (TDOs) as a function of complication and revision surgery rates comparing a cohort of children with myelodysplasia to a cohort with cerebral palsy (CP). METHODS A chart review was completed on TDOs performed in a tertiary referral centre on patients with myelodysplasia or CP between 1985 and 2013 in patients aged > 5 years with...

A COMPARISON OF TWO METHODS TO ARTICULATE A MAXILLARY CAST WITH LATERAL CEPHALOMETRY Laura H. Lux D.D.S Marquette University, 2014 The Kois Dento-Facial Analyzer, an arbitrary articulation system, is used by clinicians to articulate and evaluate clinical cases. There is, however, limited information for understanding how the Kois Dento-Facial Analyzer should be utilized. Dr. Kois and Dr. Lee or...

sive—histone marks are physically linked together.1,2 These plastic epigenetic marks prevent undifferentiated ESC differentiation, but in response to environmental cues, they may turn on the specialized transcriptomes to regulate development of more differentiated cells. Although similar epigenetic mechanisms involving “bivalent domains” can occur in adult stem cells,3 the results of genome-wid...

Dr. Pierre A. de Viragh, Service de dermatologie, Centre hospitaller universitaire, CH-1011 Lausanne (Switzerland) The case report of Komura and Tani [1] on a hair follicle nevus provides the opportunity to raise the question whether this hamar-toma is really an entity of its own. There are some indications that the hair follicle nevus could be a well-differentiated trichofollicu-loma cut at it...