American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ACL) comprises a broad range of cutaneous manifestations caused by different Leishmania species which may produce severe and chronic sequelae in adults. However, it has been suggested that ACL may show different clinical and epidemiological features in children and adolescents that need to be further elucidated. We evaluated the epidemiological features of ACL in a cohort of pediatric patients from Northcentral Venezuela between years 1997 and 2005. Mean age of patients was 9 years old, with a mean clinical evolution of 3 months. Lesions were located mostly in extremities. Forty patients (93%) were positive by MST, 97.7% by IFAT and 48.8% by smear. MST values tended to be related to patients' age, higher values being recorded in older patients (p=0.153).
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Purpose: The objective of the present study was to evaluate the prevalence of dental implants positioning errors and their associations with adjacent structures and anatomical variations by means of cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). Materials and Methods: CBCT images of 207 patients (584 dental implants) were evaluated by 2 oral radiologists. The distance between the implant and the adjacent teeth/implants was measured and classified as adequate (≥1.5 mm and ≥3 mm, respectively) or inadequate. The presence of thread exposure, cortical perforation, implant dehiscence, implant penetration into adjacent structures, and anatomical variations was also recorded. The incisor canal diameter and the depth of the concavity of the submandibular fossa were measured in order to evaluate their correlations with the frequency of implant penetration in these structures. Descriptive analyses, the Fisher exact test, and Spearman correlation analysis were performed (α= 0.05). Results: The overall prevalence of positioning errors was 82.9%. The most common error was the inadequate distance between the implant and the adjacent teeth/implants. The presence of anatomical variations did not significantly influence the overall prevalence of errors (P>0.05). There was a positive correlation between the diameter of the incisor canal and the frequency of implant penetration in this structure (r= 0.232, P<0.05). Conclusion There was a high prevalence of dental implant positioning errors, and positioning errors were not associated with the presence of anatomical variations. Professionals should be aware of the space available for implant placement during the preoperative planning stage.