OBJECTIVE To correlate existing evaluation tools with clinical information on Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients following age and to investigate genetic mutation and its relationship with clinical function. METHOD The medical records of 121 children with DMD who had visited the pediatric rehabilitation clinic from 2006 to 2009 were reviewed. The mean patient age was 9.9±3.4 years and...

Address reprint requests to Wade K. Aldous, Brooke Army Medical Center, Department of Pathology, 3851 Roger Brooke Drive, Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234-6200 ([email protected]). Received August 26, 2009; accepted September 27, 2009; electronically published February 24, 2010. Disclaimer: The opinions or assertions contained herein are the private views of the authors and are not to be constr...

and the controversy raging round this problem. Brooke (1937) of the 'Excision of Patella' fame recently followed up 54 of his cases treated 5 to 15 years previously. His faith in the efficiency of this operation was reiterated and reinforced as the result of this follow-up. An immediate controversy followed the appearance of this paper in which Max Page (1946), Bankart (1946), Tippett (1946)" a...

This case report describes the diagnosis and therapy of a patient with a 40-year history of multiple potato-like tumours growing in the head and neck region. The tumour proved to be a cylindroma, associated with calvarian defects. Further facial tumours were diagnosed as trichoepitheliomas. This association of findings was pathognomonic for Brooke-Spiegler's syndrome. Complete work-up of the re...

Cylindroma is a benign skin appendageal tumor arising from pluripotent stem cells in the follicle. Multiple cylindroma typically occurs as a component of Brooke-Spiegler syndrome or as the only skin lesion of familial cylindromatosis. We herein report an unusual case of multiple cylindroma involving the trunk without any other features of Brooke-Spiegler syndrome and no family history supportin...