Three of four family members in husband, wife and one of two daughters developed in a short time interval (eleven months) eosinophilic fasciitis. The clinical, analytical and histopathological changes were characteristic of this disease. Familial cases of eosinophilic fasciitis have not been previously published. The process of these patients was probably caused by the ingestion of denatured oil (toxic oil syndrome), although the clinical picture begun two and a half years after the epidemic phase of the toxic oil syndrome declined.

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PubMed1988

[Bowenoid papulosis in a patient with AIDS].

A patient with a acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and Kaposi's angiosarcoma developed bowenoid papulosis of the genitalia (BP). The clinical and histopathological criteria were both characteristic of BP. With vinblastine treatment a moderate improvement of Kaposi's lesions was observed, but no significant changes of the BP lesions were noted during this treatment.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗

PubMed1971

[Psychoaffective structure of the ulcer patient].

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Humans↗

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Teaching portfolios: an effective strategy for faculty development in occupational therapy.

The special challenge of the occupational therapy practitioner embracing the role of faculty member is discovering a formative process of continual improvement that will also serve as an authentic assessment of teaching and learning within the particular disciplinary boundaries of occupational therapy. Although other means achieve such complex aims, the teaching portfolio is a powerful tool for fostering reflective practice and for creating an ongoing record of substantial evidence. A teaching portfolio is an evidence-based written document in which a faculty member, working in collaboration with a mentor, concisely organizes selective details of teaching accomplishment and effort and uses such information to document his or her teaching enterprise. More importantly, the faculty member uses the information for reflective analysis, leading to improvement of teaching and student learning. The emphasis on reflection, analysis, evidence, and mentoring suggests that the teaching portfolio can set the stage for meaningful collaboration in a system of evaluation that is based appropriately on recorded evidence of improvement and demonstrated positive outcomes of student learning.

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Evaluation of the precision obtained with a fixed surgical template in the placement of implants for rehabilitation of the completely edentulous maxilla: a clinical report.

The fabrication of a complete maxillary implant-supported prosthesis in a patient with slight resorption of the alveolar ridge and a high lip line presents a professional challenge. The implants must be placed with high precision to achieve good esthetics, phonetics, and function. A fixed surgical template using microimplants has been developed for this purpose. The objective of this investigation was to compare a fixed surgical template (FST) to a conventional movable surgical template (MST) for the precise placement of implants in the slightly resorbed edentulous maxilla. Three patients (28 implants), edentulous in the maxilla, with slight ridge resorption, in whom the implants were placed with an FST, were compared with 5 controls having the same characteristics and implants placed with an MST (35 implants). After completion of the prosthesis, occlusal photographs (1:1) were taken, and these images were scanned and transferred to a drawing program in which the contours of the teeth, the ideal emergence position of the occlusal hole of the abutment screw, and its real position were drawn. A blind evaluation was made using the following variables: frequency of location of the abutment screw hole outside of the tooth contour, and the relative measurements of the area of coincidence between the circle that represents the ideal position and real position. A significantly smaller frequency of implants outside the tooth contour was seen with the FST (7%) than with the MST (46%) (P < .0008). Also, a significantly higher relative area of coincidence was observed between ideal position and real position in the FST (0.61) than in the MST (0.38) (P < .003). This study revealed that considerably higher precision was associated with the use of an FST.

Bone Resorption↗