[A skin button to anchor and lead out catheters or cable links from the skin]. / Hautknopf zur Verankerung und Herausführung von Kathetern oder Kabelverbindungen aus der Haut.

The manufacture of a skin button for use in chronic animal experiments is described, which is made of silicone rubber and intended to anchor the exit site of intravascular catheters. The button holds the catheter permanently in the skin and can also be used to anchor connections for occlusion cuffs and cables leading to implanted measuring elements.

[Schimmelpenning-Feuerstein-Mims syndrome and its neurologic manifestations. 6 personal cases and review of the literature]. / Das Schimmelpenning-Feuerstein-Mims-Syndrom und seine neurologische Symptomatik. 6 eigene Kasuistiken und Literaturübersicht.

The Schimmelpenning-Feuerstein-Mims-syndrome includes deformities and dysplasias of the skin, eyes, brain, skeleton, and heart. It may result from a malformation of the ectodermal and mesodermal blastoderm in the third week of gestation. We here report on 6 patients who presented between 1977 and 1993 in comparison with those cases in the literature. All children presented neurologic symptoms. The major symptom was a linear epidermal nevus. In addition we found mental retardation, convulsions, asymmetries of the cranial structures or dilated cerebral ventricles ipsilateral to the nevus. One child had a defect of the skull and scalp, a symptom not previously mentioned in the literature. Our patients exhibited a wide phenotypice spectrum ranging from mild to severe forms. Severe neurological symptoms were also found in patients despite minimal dermal involvement.