Calibre persistent artery of the lip: an underdiagnosed entity?

Impactitis: new cures for an old disease

“…Just imagine the eVect of accepting only those papers with a certain number of citations to papers in that journal published in the past two years. Other options are to be liberal in designating short papers as letters, [17][18][19][20] hoping that they will not be counted. A very elegant way is to have many editorials, [21][22][23][24][25] which are not counted, but that cite as many papers as possible from the past two years in the same journal.…”

Caliber persistent artery of the eyelid

“…CPA has also been described at other sites in the gastrointestinal tract [2,3]. However, this entity is best recognized on the skin of the lower lip [4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. Herein we report three cases of caliber persistent artery occurring on the eyelid, one of which was bilateral.…”

Caliber persistent artery in the anterior palate of an Egyptian patient with type-2 diabetes mellitus: a rare case report

“…Being idiopathic in nature and rare in incidence, predisposing factors included intense sun exposure, senile atrophy of tissue associated with vascular ectasia, secondary to ageing, and injury from long-term pipe smoking. 6,7 Although caliber-persistent artery is neither totally plausible nor delineated, it fits the best There appears a dysregulated hematopoietic element induced a low-grade irritation causing the arterial wall to thicken, which made the site liable to ulceration in the harsh oral environment. Either idiopathically induced or pathophysiologically caused by the underlying diabetic condition, the poorly vascularized anterior palate might contribute to the severity of the condition.…”

“…An underlying disease, frequently diabetes mellitus, is always evident. [7][8][9] In this case, the recruitment of PAS stain, with its negative detection of hyphae, signed any deep fungal infection out.…”