Five patients are described who had repeated endoscopy because of continuing dyspeptic symptoms associated with a negative barium meal. They were found to have multiple recurring gastric erosions (aphthous ulcers). No common aetiological factor could be found, although four of these patients did have a mild or moderatley active superficial chronic gastritis. Conventional peptic ulcer therapy fa...

The bacterial flora associated with certain common abnormalities of the female genital tract were studied. The abnormalities included were trichomonal infestation of the vagina, the epithelial inflammation and cellular atypia associated with protozoal infestation, and erosions of the cervix. Trichomonas vaginalis infestation and marked epithelial inflammation were associated with a very varied ...

A female neonate was born by nontraumatic vaginal delivery at 41 weeks gestation to a 26-year-old caucasian woman following uncomplicated pregnancy. The mother denied any history of syphilis, herpes simplex infection, lupus erythematosus, autoimmune or hereditary bullous disorders. Examination approximately 2 hours postpartum revealed an active neonate with two superficial round erosions measur...

Pemphigus vulgaris and paraneoplastic pemphigus are 2 subtypes of pemphigus that involve the oral mucosa. These autoimmune blistering disorders have antibodies targeted against proteins of keratinocyte adhesion, thereby causing acantholysis. Clinical findings include oral erosions and flaccid cutaneous bullae and erosions. Further malignancy workup in patients with suspected paraneoplastic pemp...

Objective: To compare the role of musculoskeletal ultrasonography and MRI in the detection of erosions of the wrist and hand joints in Rheumatoid arthritis patients. Patients and Methods: This study included fifty patients (39 females and 11 males) with rheumatoid arthritis. They were subjected to high resolution grey scale ultrasound study and MRI examination of the clinically dominant wrist j...

In the first part, we recall the axiomatic definition of the elementary morphological operators (dilations, erosions, anti–dilations and anti–erosions) and their characterization in the case of Boolean lattices. This characterization is used to derive the set operator decompositions from the general decompositions of operators between complete lattices. In the second part, we define the notions...

The effect of lysolecithin (100 mg%) on the guinea-pig gastric mucosa was studied by instilling a solution for 30 minutes, preceded and followed by 100 MN HCl into 10 total gastric pouches. Ten control animals had HCl throughout. Lysolecithin produced a significant change in transmucosal potential difference, macroscopic erosions, and mucosal damage on histology and electron scanning microscopy...

Pemphigus vulgaris (PV) is an autoimmune blistering disease affecting the skin and mucosa. It clinically presents as painful erosions, mainly in oral cavity, flaccid blisters erosions on skin. Steven-johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis (SJS/TEN) a severe mucocutaneous drug hypersensitivity reaction characterized by painful, dusky, erythematous eruptions that often progress to blisters, ...