Adreno-Cortical Hyperactivity -- Two Interesting Cases

Adreno-cortical tumors: clinico-pathological profile of five cases.

In children, upto two-thirds of all adreno-cortical neoplasms present with virilization with or without hypercortisolism(l). These tumors may however remain non-functioning or may present with varying symptom complexes including feminization and hyperaldosteronism(2). The clinical and biochemical features of five children with adreno-cortical neoplasms presenting over a period of five years (19...

Two Interesting Cases

Anaesthesia in Adreno-cortical Hypereunction

PATIENTS WITH adreno-cortmal hyperfunctaon-are not frequently presented to anaesthetists. The proper anaesthetac management for adrenalectomy m these cases reqmres a basic understanchng of the physlopathology of the synch'omes caused by hyperfunetlon of the adrenal cortex. The adrenal cortex secretes three types of sterold hormones, file glucocorticolds, and the mmeralo-corticolds and hormones ...

Two Interesting Medico-Legal Cases

From a number of medico-legal cases, which have come under my notice during the sixteen months I have been acting as Civil Surgeon of Murshidabad, I have selected two as of interest and worthy of permanent record. (a) False charge of clacoity with self-inflicted injuries.?On the morning of August 22nd, 1898, one Jifcan Ali Mir sent his nephew to report to the Police that a dacoity had been comm...

Two Interesting Cases of Malaria