Vol. 25, No. 2, 2013 271 Received December 27, 2011, Revised July 31, 2012, Accepted for publication September 19, 2012 Corresponding author: María Luisa Martínez-Martínez, Department of Dermatology, University General Hospital of Albacete, falcó brothers, No. 37, 02006, Albacete, Spain. Tel: 34-967-59-71-00, Fax: 34-697-24-39-52, E-mail: mlmartinezm@ sescam.jccm.es This is an Open Access artic...

DESPITE a world-wide surge of interest in the cytological detection of cancer, uncertainty about the usefulness of searching for cancer cells in serous effusions still lingers, and this feeling seems strong in Britain, where exfoliative cytology is gaining rather tardy acceptance. In fact, one British laboratory’s poor results with the exfoliative cytology of serous fluids have been adduced to ...

We describe a patient with ichthyosiform erythroderma as a manifestation of sarcoidosis. This is the first report of the simultaneous occurrence of erythroderma and ichthyosis in sarcoidosis.

OBJECTIVE Canine leishmaniasis (CanL) is an important public and veterinary health problem in Mediterranean Basin countries. In this study, we aimed to determine the seroprevalence of CanL in several provinces of Northern Cyprus. METHODS The seroprevalence of CanL was determined by the indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) test in dog sera. In total, 281 dogs were randomly selected from Nicosia...