A case of Trixacarus caviae mange in a guinea pig (Caviaporcellus)

A male, peruvian, 1.5-years old, guinea pig {Cavia porcellus) was admitted to the Clinic of Companion Animal Medicine with a history of intensively pruritic skin lesions lasting for the past two months. Physical examination disclosed hypotrichosis, erythema, hyperpigmentation, scales, crusts, ulcers and papules in a focal to diffuse pattern on both the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body trunk. Whenever the handling of the animal was attempted, it started vocalizing, cycling and rolling in a frenzy manner. Pruritic papules were also observed on some parts of the glabrous skin of the owner. The diagnosis of Trixacarus caviae mange was based on the observation of the parasite in superficial skin scrapings. The subcutaneous administration of three weekly ivermectin injections, at the dose of 0.4 mg/Kg BW, resulted in the disappearance of the lesions and pruritus within a six-week period.

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Receptions of the Past: Commemoration, Racism, Desire

Somatechnics ◽

10.3366/soma.2017.0223 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 288-303

Author(s):

Michael Connors Jackman

Keyword(s):

Critical Point ◽

Social Relations ◽

White Privilege ◽

Body Politic ◽

The Body ◽

Race And Racism ◽

Lesbian And Gay ◽

The Past ◽

History Of

This article investigates the ways in which the work of The Body Politic (TBP), the first major lesbian and gay newspaper in Canada, comes to be commemorated in queer publics and how it figures in the memories of those who were involved in producing the paper. In revisiting a critical point in the history of TBP from 1985 when controversy erupted over race and racism within the editorial collective, this discussion considers the role of memory in the reproduction of whiteness and in the rupture of standard narratives about the past. As the controversy continues to haunt contemporary queer activism in Canada, the productive work of memory must be considered an essential aspect of how, when and for what reasons the work of TBP comes to be commemorated. By revisiting the events of 1985 and by sifting through interviews with individuals who contributed to the work of TBP, this article complicates the narrative of TBP as a bluntly racist endeavour whilst questioning the white privilege and racially-charged demands that undergird its commemoration. The work of producing and preserving queer history is a vital means of challenging the intentional and strategic erasure of queer existence, but those who engage in such efforts must remain attentive to the unequal terrain of social relations within which remembering forms its objects.

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Recurrent Thrombotic Vasculopathy in a Former Cocaine User

Case Reports in Dermatological Medicine ◽

10.1155/2015/763613 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2015 ◽

pp. 1-3

Author(s):

Preeti Jadhav ◽

Hassan Tariq ◽

Masooma Niazi ◽

Giovanni Franchin

Keyword(s):

Clinical Presentation ◽

Rehabilitation Program ◽

The Body ◽

Drug Rehabilitation ◽

Cocaine User ◽

Cocaine Use ◽

The Past ◽

Urine Toxicology ◽

History Of ◽

Infectious Etiology

We report a case of a 35-year-old female who presented to the emergency room (ER) complaining of a pruritic rash involving multiple areas of the body. She had a significant history of cocaine use in the past. She had first developed a similar rash in 2013 when she was diagnosed with cocaine-induced vasculitis. Her urine toxicology had been positive for cocaine in the past until July 2013. She was incarcerated and attended a drug rehabilitation program after which she quit cocaine use, which was consistent with negative urine toxicology on subsequent admissions. Further workup did not reveal any other, autoimmune or infectious, etiology of this clinical presentation. The patient underwent biopsy of the skin lesion that was consistent with thrombotic vasculopathy likely secondary to levamisole.

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Bullous Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Associated with Esophagitis Dissecans Superficialis

Case Reports in Rheumatology ◽

10.1155/2015/930683 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2015 ◽

pp. 1-4 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Meera Yogarajah ◽

Bhradeev Sivasambu ◽

Eric A. Jaffe

Keyword(s):

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus ◽

Lupus Erythematosus ◽

Skin Lesions ◽

Esophageal Mucosa ◽

Systemic Lupus ◽

Neck Lymph Node ◽

The Face ◽

History Of ◽

The Right ◽

Pruritic Skin

Bullous systemic lupus erythematosus is one of the rare autoantibody mediated skin manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) demonstrating subepidermal blistering with neutrophilic infiltrate histologically. We present a case of a 40-year-old Hispanic female who presented with a several months’ history of multiple blistering pruritic skin lesions involving the face and trunk, a photosensitive rash over the face and neck, swelling of the right neck lymph node, and joint pain involving her elbows and wrist. Her malady was diagnosed as bullous systemic lupus erythematosus based on the immunological workup and biopsy of her skin lesions. The patient also complained of odynophagia and endoscopy revealed esophagitis dissecans superficialis which is a rare endoscopic finding characterized by sloughing of the esophageal mucosa. The bullous disorders typically associated with esophagitis dissecans superficialis are pemphigus and rarely bullous pemphigoid. However, this is the first reported case of bullous systemic lupus erythematosus associated with esophagitis dissecans superficialis.

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Interpretability of a Deep Learning Based Approach for the Classification of Skin Lesions into Main Anatomic Body Sites

Cancers ◽

10.3390/cancers13236048 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (23) ◽

pp. 6048

Author(s):

Joanna Jaworek-Korjakowska ◽

Andrzej Brodzicki ◽

Bill Cassidy ◽

Connah Kendrick ◽

Moi Hoon Yap

Keyword(s):

Deep Learning ◽

Malignant Melanoma ◽

Skin Lesions ◽

The Body ◽

Anatomic Site ◽

The Past ◽

Depth Analysis ◽

The Face

Over the past few decades, different clinical diagnostic algorithms have been proposed to diagnose malignant melanoma in its early stages. Furthermore, the detection of skin moles driven by current deep learning based approaches yields impressive results in the classification of malignant melanoma. However, in all these approaches, the researchers do not take into account the origin of the skin lesion. It has been observed that the specific criteria for in situ and early invasive melanoma highly depend on the anatomic site of the body. To address this problem, we propose a deep learning architecture based framework to classify skin lesions into the three most important anatomic sites, including the face, trunk and extremities, and acral lesions. In this study, we take advantage of pretrained networks, including VGG19, ResNet50, Xception, DenseNet121, and EfficientNetB0, to calculate the features with an adjusted and densely connected classifier. Furthermore, we perform in depth analysis on database, architecture, and result regarding the effectiveness of the proposed framework. Experiments confirm the ability of the developed algorithms to classify skin lesions into the most important anatomical sites with 91.45% overall accuracy for the EfficientNetB0 architecture, which is a state-of-the-art result in this domain.

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Caring for Gendered Bodies

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199582174.013.003 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Monica Green

Keyword(s):

Driving Force ◽

Major Part ◽

The Body ◽

Biological Entity ◽

Gender Analysis ◽

Surgical Interventions ◽

Slow Pace ◽

The Past ◽

History Of ◽

Gendered Bodies

Given the comparatively slow pace of human evolution, the body, as a biological entity, may be taken more or less as a historical constant during the past 1500 years. But every interaction with that body was mediated by culture, and thus gender analysis is a driving force in the expanding field of the history of health. This essay looks at how changing expectations of gender and knowledge shaped medical and surgical interventions in three circumstances: pregnancy; childbirth emergencies; and the care of intersexed persons. The field of the history of health is still rapidly expanding, and the perspectives of gender analysis are a major part of what is driving that expansion forward.

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Porokeratotic Eccrine Ostial and Dermal Duct Nevus

Case Reports in Dermatological Medicine ◽

10.1155/2013/953840 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 2013 ◽

pp. 1-3

Author(s):

Mona Masoumeh Naraghi ◽

Azita Nikoo ◽

Azadeh Goodarzi

Keyword(s):

Granular Layer ◽

Clinical Presentation ◽

Late Onset ◽

Skin Lesions ◽

Pathologic Examination ◽

Lateral Ankle ◽

History Of ◽

Characteristic Features ◽

Blaschko’S Lines ◽

Pruritic Skin

PEODDN is a rare benign cutaneous disorder that clinically resembles comedo nevus but favors the palms and soles, where pilosebaceous follicles are absent. Widespread involvement along Blaschko’s lines can also occur. It is a disorder of keratinization involving the intraepidermal eccrine duct (acrosyringium) and is characterized by eccrine hamartoma and cornoid lamellation in pathology. The patient is a 29-year-old man with an 8-year history of pruritic skin lesions on his right lateral ankle. In the pathologic examination, multiple small epidermal invagination with overlying parakeratotic cornoid lamellation, loss of granular layer, and few dyskeratotic cells at the base of epidermal invagination are revealed. After clinic-pathologic correlation, the diagnosis of porokeratotic eccrine ostial and dermal duct nevus (PEODDN) was made. Late-onset and rare clinical presentation as pruritic lesion are the characteristic features that make this patient an extraordinary presentation of PEODDN.

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Leprosy

10.5744/florida/9781683401841.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Charlotte A. Roberts

Keyword(s):

The Body ◽

Neglected Tropical Disease ◽

Global Knowledge ◽

The Public ◽

The Past ◽

Current State ◽

Global View ◽

The People ◽

History Of ◽

History Books

Leprosy is an infection and neglected tropical disease that is steeped in myths, and, although it is described in history books, it can remain a challenge to manage today. Written in an accessible manner for professionals and the public alike, this book takes a global view of leprosy past and present. As a backdrop, it starts with exploring what we actually know about leprosy from medicine, how it is spread to humans, and its effects on the body. It then moves to consider its diagnosis and treatment in people, past and present. The focus switches next to the ways in which leprosy is diagnosed in skeletons (paleopathology), from just looking at the bones to analyzing the DNA of the bacteria preserved in the bones. By doing so, information on skeletons with evidence of leprosy across the globe is synthesized with the aim of considering the current state of global knowledge regarding the origin, evolution, and history of leprosy. In particular, the book explores how all the people diagnosed with leprosy in their skeletons in the past were buried, and the myth that everybody was ostracized and segregated into leprosy hospitals, due to stigma, is dismissed. It concludes with thoughts on a future for leprosy, the need to continue to dispel its myths and to seriously reconsider the use of the word “leper” when discussing leprosy today and in the past.

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Sports Law in an Olympic Year: Citius, Altius, Fortius?

Legal Information Management ◽

10.1017/s1472669612000266 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 72-80 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jack Anderson

Keyword(s):

The Body ◽

Past Century ◽

Sports Law ◽

Global Industry ◽

The Third ◽

The Past ◽

Short Piece ◽

History Of

AbstractIn 2012 London becomes the first city to host an Olympics for the third time. The contrast between the Games of 2012 and those of 1908 and 1948 could not be starker and form a background to some of the matters discussed in this short piece. Central to the discussion is the contention that the development of the body of law now known as sports law is related to the accelerated commercialisation of sport during the past century. In short, the business of modern sport is exactly that – a business; indeed, sport is now a global industry and the commodification of sport will be seen to an exaggerated effect in London throughout the summer of 2012. Accordingly, this article by Jack Anderson begins by giving an outline of the financial robustness of modern sport, epitomised by the Olympics, before presenting a brief history of the evolution of sports law. Thereafter various issues in contemporary sports law are identified and discussed. The conclusion attempts to bring all of these themes together in order to give an overview of the area as a discrete, vibrant, if still emerging, discipline of law.

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European Literature: Simply a Higher Degree of Universality?

European Review ◽

10.1017/s106279870900060x ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 121-132 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Pascale Casanova

Keyword(s):

Literary History ◽

Power Relations ◽

Historical Analysis ◽

The Body ◽

European Literature ◽

The Past ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

History Of Europe ◽

Literary Devices

One of the most difficult and uncertain areas of research offered the historian of literature today is the attempt to define ‘European literature’ as a corpus and an object of literary and/or historical analysis. The various efforts of the past few years – in the form of anthologies as well as histories of literature – usually remain torn between a unitary presupposition that seems to be the only acceptable political-historical way of justifying the body of European literature and an irreducibly composite – not to say heterogeneous – reality that is not amenable to the representations of Europe as reduced to this superficial unity. If we are to reflect on the modalities and specificities of such a historical undertaking – which has so few equivalents in the world that it is all the harder to model – and shake off political models and representations, it seems to me that we need to work from another hypothesis. One of the few trans-historical features that constitutes Europe, in effect, one of the only forms of both political and cultural unity – one that is paradoxical but genuine – that makes of Europe a coherent whole, is none other than the conflicts3 and competitions that pitted Europe’s national literary spaces against one another in relentless and ongoing rivalry. Starting from this hypothesis, we would then have to postulate that, contrary to commonly accepted political representations, the only possible literary history of Europe would be the story of the rivalries, struggles and power relations between these national literatures. As a consequence, rather than a unity that remains if not problematic at least far from being achieved, it would no doubt be better to speak of an ongoing literary unification of Europe, in other words a process that occurs, occurred and is still occurring – paradoxically – through these struggles. This upside-down history would trace the models and counter-models, the powers and dependences, the impositions and the resistances, the linguistic rivalries, the literary devices and genres regarded as weapons in these specific, perpetual and merciless struggles. It would be the history of literary antagonisms, battles and revolts.

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ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE LIFE-HISTORY OF ARCTIA PHALERATA, HARR

The Canadian Entomologist ◽

10.4039/ent3450-2 ◽

1902 ◽

Vol 34 (2) ◽

pp. 50-51

Author(s):

Arthur Gibson

Keyword(s):

Life History ◽

Stage Iv ◽

The Body ◽

Lateral Band ◽

Larval Stages ◽

The Past ◽

History Of ◽

Dorsal Stripe ◽

Past Summer

In the December number, 1900, of this journal, page 369, the writer published the life-history of the above Arctian. During the past summer, through the kindness of Mr. A. Kwiat, of Chicago, in forwarding eggs of A. phalerata (laid 18th June), I have had the opportunity of still further studying this species, and, as these larvæ varied considerably fromthose described in 1900, the following notes were made :In the larval stages i, ii and iii those bred in 1901 answered well to my former descriptions. In stage iv the larvæ were not so black as the specimens reared the previous year, but many of them showed the dorsal stripe. This stripe was also present in stage v, besides which 40 of the larvæ possessed a series of pale orange spots on sides between tubercles ii and iii, and iii and iv, and the skin of the body in a line with the upper spots(between tubercles ii and iii) was slightly grayish, not black like the rest of the skin; this and the spots gave the appearance of a faint lateral band, distinguishable on all segments but 2 and 13. In stage v in 1900 none of the larvæ showed the dorsal stripe.

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