A Young Male with Quadriparesis and Skin Lesions

A young man with reversible quadriparesis.

A young woman with diffuse skin lesions.

Figure 1. Computed tomography of the chest demonstrates long, dilated bronchi (short arrow), as well as the cystic " signet ring " lesions (long arrow), which are consistent with bronchiectasis. Diagnosis: common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) with epidermodysplasia verruciformis-like lesions. Epidermodysplasia verruciformis was classically described as a genetic condition involving diffuse w...

Multiple intracerebral lesions in a young male.

BACKGROUND As the incidence of HIV infection has increased its neurological complications are being encountered in our clinical practice. Toxoplasmosis is a common cerebral opportunistic infection seen in HIV-infected patients, even though the incidence has declined with the use of antiretroviral therapy. Establishing a definitive diagnosis of cerebral toxoplasmosis is difficult in resource lim...

A young man with extensor eruptive skin lesions.

To cite: Balasubramanian S, Mahadevan S, Seshadri K. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2015-213313 DESCRIPTION An obese 35-year-old man with a history of heavy alcohol consumption presented with non-pruritic papular skin eruptions of 3 months duration (figure 1). He was recently diagnosed to have type 2 diabetes, which was not well controlled (glyca...

Skin rash and pneumonia in a young male.

1 of 2 DESCRIPTION A 35-year-old male smoker presented with a 7-day history of fever, cough and mild breathlessness and an exanthematous eruption that appeared over his entire body, 2 days after the onset of symptoms. Two weeks prior to his illness, two of his children have had chickenpox, having recovered uneventfully. There was no history of vaccination. Examination revealed a febrile, tachpn...