It is a paradoxical situation.
It was a strangely paradoxical situation.
Given the values of physico-chemical properties of water, this seems paradoxical because this site provides the most suitable conditions for aquatic life among investigated sites.
For the 42 paradoxical episodes, the site of the reaction was wound in 23 (55%), local in 11 (26%) and distant in 8 (19%) episodes.
The site was paradoxical, if not borderline comical.
Second, innovation paradoxes require paradoxical management approaches.
The site of the paradoxical lesion was defined as 'wound' if it occurred in wound margins or involved generalized induration around the original lesion, 'local' if it was separate to but within 3 cm of the initial lesion or 'distant' if it occurred greater than 3 cm from the initial lesion.
They include type I hypersensitivity reactions at injection sites [ 8], paradoxical inflammation leading to "psoriasiform" lesions [ 9] and various types of dermatitis including interface dermatitis [ 10], as developed by our patient.
That is the paradoxical principle behind Swoopo, a Web site that offers a seductive and controversial proposition to online shoppers.
A patient could have more than one 'paradoxical episode' if there were further new lesions separated by site or time from the original paradoxical lesion.
