No abstract available.
Denture Cleansers* ; Dentures*

No abstract available.
Diuresis* ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn*

No abstract available.
Humans ; Infant, Newborn*

No abstract available.
Diagnosis* ; Myocardial Infarction* ; Radionuclide Imaging* ; Technetium Tc 99m Pyrophosphate*

No abstract available.
Hernia, Diaphragmatic*

No abstract available.
HIV* ; Humans ; Lymphocytes*

Four clinical patterns of generalized pustular phase were apparent and have been named the Zumbusch, annular, localized and exanthematic types. Other reported 10 types of pustular psoriasis including the poriasis with generalized pustules. We report a case of psoriasis with generalized pustules in a 18-year-old women, who has numerous scattered pustules with mild fever and leukocytosis. She was treated sucessfully with tetracycline 2.0 gm a day for 4 wks.
Adolescent ; Female ; Fever ; Humans ; Leukocytosis ; Psoriasis* ; Tetracycline*

We report a case of epidermolysis bullosa acquisita in a 53 year-old woman who had. extreme skin fragility, trauma induced blisters and erosions usually localized to extensor site of the skin surface, and healing with scars and milia for several years. Histologic findings of perilesional skin showed normal epidermis, subepid malblister and spirsely infiltration of inflammatory cells. Direct immuncofluorescence showed depositiori of IgCi and C3 in a linear pattern along the epidermal basement, membrane in the per ilesional skin. In indirect immuriofluorescence, using 1.0M sodium chloride separated nor mal human skin as the sntbstrate, antitodies(IgG at a titer of 1:40) were bound to dermal site of the separation, indicating that the patient serum yields the reaction in or below the lamiria densa. Electronmicroscopic findings showed the roof of the blister was located. below the basal lamiria.
Blister ; Cicatrix ; Epidermis ; Epidermolysis Bullosa Acquisita* ; Epidermolysis Bullosa* ; Female ; Humans ; Membranes ; Middle Aged ; Skin ; Sodium Chloride

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46, XX Disorders of Sex Development* ; Adrenal Hyperplasia, Congenital* ; Female* ; Humans

To characterize the immunopathologic phenotype of the cells in the lesional ti.:sue and to further examine the mechanism of the development of the annular lesions in leprosy, we have studied immune cells (T lymphocyte and its subsets, Langerhans cells, and HLA-DR antigen expressing cells) at different anatomical sites inside, active border, and outside normal skin in the annular lesions of leprosy. We took biopsy specimens from 4 patients of BT type, then processed the specimens by the staining methods eif indirect immunoperoxidase with monoclonal antibodies. In the active border the number of T cell was over 50g of the total cells infiltrated in the dermis. Helper T cells were dominant in number, and about three fourths of the cells were positive for HLA-DR staining. In two patients they had expression of DR antigen on the surfaces of the keratinocytes in the epidermis, in contrast to that of the inside, even the intensities were not. strong. At the inside of the annular lesions T cells were about 40% and the ratio of helper/suppressor T cell was approxiinately 1: 1, However, HLA-DR positive immune cells were not more than 10g among the total infiltrates. Langerha,ns cells were increased in number and in size either in the border or at the inside of the annular lesions. With these results we presume that the T cell mediated imrnune responses against Mycobacterium leprae may play an important role in the formation and extension of the annular lesions in leprosy.
Antibodies, Monoclonal ; Biopsy ; Dermis ; Epidermis ; HLA-DR Antigens ; Humans ; Keratinocytes ; Langerhans Cells ; Leprosy* ; Lymphocytes ; Mycobacterium leprae ; Phenotype ; Skin ; T-Lymphocytes ; T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer