Musculoskeletal infections are commonly encountered in clinical practice. This review will discuss the ultrasound appearances of a variety of musculoskeletal infections such as cellulitis, infective tenosynovitis, pyomyositis, soft-tissue abscesses, septic arthritis, acute and chronic osteomyelitis, and post-operative infection. The peculiar sonographic features of less common musculoskeletal i...

Lymphangiomas are congenital -lesions that develop from sequestered lymphatic sacs. They are most commonly seen as cervical masses in children but can also be found in other sites. Since these are primarily fluid filled and are usually superficial in location, they are easily examined with high-resolution ultrasound. Their sonographic appearance has been reported to be variable(l,3). The presen...

A 64-year-old white female presented with an asymptomatic brown-to-black nodular lesion located on her back in proximity (about 1.7 cm) to a surgical scar; indeed, the patient had developed a melanoma in situ on her back in 2010. She reported that the lesion had been present for two years (Figure 1). Family history of melanoma or other skin cancers were negative. On dermatoscopy, the lesion sho...

OBJECTIVE Public health experts raise concerns about marketing unhealthy products to young people through television (TV) product placements. Coca-Cola brand appearances (product placements) reached a substantial child and adolescent audience in 2008, but additional brands now sponsor popular programming. We aimed to quantify child and adolescent exposure to food and beverage appearances since ...

What we normally think of as the “physical world” is also the world as experienced, that is, a world of appearances. Given this, what is the reality behind the appearances, and what might its relation be to consciousness and to constructive processes in the mind? According to Kant, the thing itself that brings about and supports these appearances is unknowable and we can never gain any understa...