Castleman’s Disease: a Suprarenal Surprise!

Castlemans disease in HIV infected patient from eastern India.

Castlemans disease is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder. We report a patient of Castlemans disease with advanced HIV infection who responded well to conventional HAART. This case is interesting because of the rarity of the disease in the eastern part of India and its good out come with antiretroviral therapy.

Suprarenal Tumors

maffin cells of the medulla, on the other hand, are derived from primitive mural elements having an origin in common with other components of the sympathetic nervous system. The pathologic behavior of the tumors emphasizes this two-fold origin (Fig. 1). The more rapidly growing cortical tumors are accompanied by changes in the sex characteristics of the patient, while the medullary tumors show ...

Suprarenal Virilism

Until a year ago the patient, a girl aged 5 years, was to all appearances norma], mentally and physically. During the dst twelve months she became fat, listless, unusually silent, Prone to sit about, disinclined to take an interest in her Surroundings or to play with other children. With the increasing fatness growth in stature was at an normally vigorous rate, hair developing on the limbs and ...

Abnormalities of the Suprarenal Gland and Addison's Disease

Disease of the Suprarenal Capsules, or Pernicious Anæmia

goes on cheerfully attending to his business, when, perhaps, only symptoms of acid dyspepsia exist. The patient now complains of slight vertigo, languor and lassitude, loathsomeness in doing his daily work. His appetite fails, his heart burns, and he feels sick after food. There may be slight diarrhoea towards morning. His eyes become nearly white ; pigmentary changes become distinctly visible ...