BACKGROUND The morbidity associated with bipolar disorder is, in part, responsible for repeated calls for improved detection and recognition. No such commentary exists for the improved detection of borderline personality disorder. Clinical experience suggests that it is as disabling as bipolar disorder, but no study has directly compared the two disorders. AIMS To compare the levels of psycho...

A patient with extensive and painful chest wall involvement from a metastatic borderline cancer of the ovary was treated with a carboplatin plus paclitaxel chemotherapy regimen. She achieved a rather dramatic improvement of pain control, a significant biochemical response with 75% reduction of the CA-125 antigen level, but only limited radiographic tumor regression. This experience emphasizes t...

Epilepsy and non-localized brain dysfunction have been invoked, among others, as underlying factors in borderline personality disorder. We have recorded 58 electroencephalograms in 20 borderline patients, first after complete drug washout and then under carbamazepine or placebo double-blind treatment. Taking into account only definite abnormal tracings, we found a 40% incidence of abnormal diff...

Bipolar affective disorder and borderline personality disorder have the incidence of early sexual abuse but not early trauma in general, the loss. Title: Lost in fragmentation. Schema modes, childhood trauma, and anger in borderline and antisocial personality disorder. Author(s): Lobbestael, J. Type. Learn all about borderline personality disorder the serious emotional condition. American Journ...

We describe a case of borderline tuberculoid leprosy associated with primary cutaneous histoplasmosis in a patient who presented at our hospital with skin lesions and joint complaints.

background: phyllodes tumors are uncommon neoplasms of the breast. data about their outcome is limited. this study aims to evaluate patients diagnosed with phyllodes tumors in terms of local recurrence, distant metastasis and overall survival. methods: we retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 129 women with phyllodes tumors who referred to our center from 1999 to 2013. clinical and pa...

occult blood test was referred for further investigations. She had been diagnosed as having a borderline serous ovarian tumor 8 years earlier, for which she had undergone complete debulking surgery. The tumor had originated in the left ovary and a pathological examination had revealed that it was confined to the left ovary, without capsule invasion. The patient was followed up for 7 years after...