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Challenging Cases in Dermatology Volume 2 Advanced Diagnoses and Management Tactics Mohammad Ali El-Darouti
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Mohammad Ali El-Darouti
Faiza Mohamed Al-Ali
Challenging Cases in
Dermatology Volume 2
Advanced Diagnoses
and Management Tactics
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Challenging Cases in Dermatology Volume 2
Mohammad Ali El-Darouti • Faiza Mohamed Al-Ali
Challenging Cases in
Dermatology Volume 2
Advanced Diagnoses and Management
Tactics
Mohammad Ali El-Darouti Faiza Mohamed Al-Ali
Faculty of Medicine Dubai Health Authority
Cairo University Rashid Hospital
Cairo Dubai
Egypt United Arab Emirates
This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG
The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
To our patients, who trusted us to be part of their journey.
Preface
Once again, similar to the book published in 2014, in this second volume of Challenging Cases
in Dermatology, you will be challenged with a new collection of unusual cases laid out in 72
chapters. The journey of each chapter starts with the clinical data that leads to a list of thor-
oughly discussed differential diagnoses. Each case is then meticulously studied with succinct
clinical, radiological, and lab investigations, as well as histological information that will boost
your diagnostic skills. The chapter titles are self descriptive. The diagnosis is only revealed at
the end of the exploring pathway, after which the management is elucidated. None of the cases
are straightforward, classic, or ordinary. Some are so rare that they have been reported only
once. Others are combined with features that have never been reported in the literature. Indeed,
you may hardly encounter such cases throughout your professional career. Nevertheless, this
book focuses on the strategic way of thinking, analyzing data, and utilizing all resources to
arrive at a diagnosis. It is all about developing advanced diagnostic and management tactics.
Mark Twain once said, “If you eat a frog first thing in the morning, that will probably be the
worst thing you do all day.”
Tackling such cases makes your ability to handle daily dermatologic cases an easy task.
We hope you will have a thrilling, fruitful, and extraordinary journey through each
chapter.
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Acknowledgments
First and foremost, praise and thanks to the Almighty, for His showers of blessings that have
given us the ability and knowledge to have this work completed successfully. Indeed, writing
a book is harder than we thought, even if it is the second volume of an already published book.
Nevertheless, it is more rewarding than we could have ever imagined.
To our colleague doctors and residents, Ahmed Mourad, Dina El-Antably, Hagar El-Sayed,
and Mona Korany, we cannot express enough thanks for your contribution. Your efforts are
greatly appreciated and sincerely valued.
A special gratitude to our editors in Springer; your insightful feedback and support through-
out this project was invaluable.
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Contents
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All traces of the old cork on the joint can be removed with
sandpaper, leaving it as shown at the left. The cork comes in strips
of about the proper thickness, and wide and long enough to allow for
trimming. The ends of the strip should be beveled to make a ¹⁄₄-in.
lap joint.
A small quantity of the cement is heated over the lamp and six
drops poured on the joint; then with the end of the file, which should
be heated also, it is spread to give an even, thin coating. The
beveled ends of the strip are similarly treated. By working quickly
and carefully, the coating on the joint and strip are brought to a
plastic state by holding in the flame, and the strip is quickly laid in
place. Before the cement has time to harden, press the cork in,
forming a neat joint. Bind a rag around the cork, leaving it until the
cement is thoroughly set.
The corked joint will be too large to go into the joining section of
the instrument. File and sandpaper it to a twisting fit. Though the
cork should be truly cylindrical, it may be tapered a trifle smaller at
the forward end. A coating of tallow applied to the joint will make it
easy-fitting, but air-tight and moisture-proof.
The pads are disks of felt incased in thin sheepskin. After long
usage, they become too hard to make an air-tight fit. Repadding
should, therefore, be anticipated. Shellac will give good results in
putting on pads. It is heated until liquid and poured into the key
recess. The new pad is pressed into the liquid shellac, care being
taken to have it well centered. For different keys, it will be necessary
to use varying quantities of shellac to make the pad sit higher or
lower, as required.—Donald A. Hampson, Middletown, N. Y.
Anyone with a power boat can construct a blower for the whistle
very cheaply. The whistle is attached to a suitable length of pipe,
threaded on each end. The blower is made of two white-pine boards,
1 in. thick, cut as shown at A; a thin piece of leather is cut like the
pattern B, to form the bellows part, and after it is shaped, the edges
of the boards are glued and the leather placed in position, where it is
fastened with tacks driven in about 1 in. apart. The bellows are
fastened to the under side of a seat with screws, and a tension
spring is attached to the bottom of the bellows and the floor of the
boat. A cord is fastened to the lower board of the bellows and run up
through to the cabin roof over suitable pulleys to a handle within
convenient reach of the operator.—Contributed by John I. Somers,
Pleasantville, N. J.
Filling In Broken Places on Enamel
Ordinary putty will not do to fill in cracks or broken spots on an
enameled surface, such as a clockface. Fine sealing wax is much
better, as it hardens at once, takes color without absorbing the oil,
and does not shrink like putty. Use a wax of the proper color to
match the surface as closely as possible. Fit it in and smooth with a
warm, flexible piece of metal, such as a palette knife. Give it one or
two coats of thin color to exactly match the other surface, and
varnish. If the article has not a high polish, the gloss of the varnish
can be cut a little with pumice stone.
A Twisting Thriller Merry-Go-Round
By R. E. EDWARDS
“Stepdime!”
right up; three twisting thrillers for a penny—a tenth of a
was the familiar invitation which attracted customers to
the delights of a homemade merry-go-round of novel design. The
patrons were not disappointed, but came back for more. The power
for the whirling thriller is produced by the heavy, twisted rope,
suspended from the limb of a tree, or other suitable support. The
rope is cranked up by means of the notched disk A, grasped at the
handle B, the car being lifted off. The thriller is stopped when the
brakeplate I rests on the weighted box L.
The Supporting Ropes are Wound Up at the Disk A, the Car is Hooked into
Place, and the Passengers Take Their Seats for a Thrilling Ride, Until the
Brakeplate I Rests on the Box
Manila rope, ³⁄₄ in. or more in diameter, is used for the support,
and is rigged with a spreader, about 2 ft. long, at the top, as shown.
The disk is built up of wood, as detailed, and notches, C, provided
for the ropes. The rope is wound up and the car is suspended from it
by the hook, which should be strong, and deep enough so that it
cannot slip out, as indicated at H.
The car is made of a section of 2 by 4-in stuff, D, 10 ft. long, to
which braces, E, of 1 by 4-in. stuff are fastened with nails or screws.
The upper ends of the pieces E are blocked up with the centerpiece
F, nailed securely, and the wire link G is fastened through the joint.
The seats J are suspended at the ends of the 2 by 4-in. bar, with
their inner ends lower, as shown, to give a better seating when the
thriller is in action. The seats are supported by rope or strap-iron
brackets, K, set 15 in. apart. The box should be high enough so that
the seats do not strike the ground.