Banti's Disease. Case for Diagnosis

Case for diagnosis. Metastatic Crohn's disease*

Metastatic Crohn's disease is a rare skin manifestation, defined by granulomatous skin lesions that are discontinuous to the affected gastrointestinal tract and histopathologically resembling inflammatory bowel lesions. Up to 44% of patients with Crohn's disease have cutaneous manifestations, of which metastatic lesions are the least common. We present a case of an adolescent with refractory Cr...

May-Thurner syndrome, an uncommon diagnosis for a common disease: a case report and review of the literature

May-Turner syndrome is a relatively uncommon anatomical variation in which patients develop iliofemoral deep vein thrombosis (DVT) due to venous occlusion. In this syndrome, the left common iliac vein is compressed against the fifth lumbar vertebra by the right common iliac artery. The real incidence/prevalence of May-Turner syndrome is not precisely known, but it is estimated to be between 22 ...

Difficulties in the diagnosis and management of alveolar hydatid disease: A case series

Background: Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a chronic, rare and sometimes lethal parasitic infection in humans, caused by the larval stage of the fox tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis. This study aimed to investigate the clinical aspects and treatment outcomes of patients with alveolar hydatid disease. Methods: The medical records of patients with alveolar echinococcosis admitted between ...

A Case for Diagnosis

A Case for Diagnosis

as negative even up to the 30th day of illness, and positive thereafter at 1 : 100 or higher dilution. The negative agglutination test in this case appears to have been observed about the 17th day of illness. Tice, in his Practice of Medicine (1927), Vol. IV, p. 503. says that " while a positive result is highly presumptive of typhoid, a negative finding has no significance." There is a tempera...