CHRONIC DIARRHEAS DUE TO ENTEROCOLONIC CONDITIONS

Limitation of activity and mobility due to chronic conditions.

CHRONIC DIARRHEA DUE TO GANGLIONEUROMA IN A CHILD

Ganglioneuroma is a very rare cause of chronic diarrhea in children. This benign tumor usually presents with diarrhea and failure to thrive. It is necessary for physicians to be familiar with this rare cause of chronic diarrhea. Here we present and discuss such a case.

Chronic Low Back Pain due to Retroperitoneal Cystic Lymphangioma

  Abdominal cystic lymphangioma is a rare benign neoplasm. Less than 1% of lymphangiomas is in the retroperitoneum. Lymphangioma is mostly asymptomatic. Chronic symptoms were reported in retroperitoneal type more than others. Acute symptoms due to complications like infection, cyst rupture or hemorrhage may occur. We report an 18-years-old girl with low back pain from 6 months ago with huge pel...

Misdiagnosed Pruritus; Formication due to Chronic Amphetamine Abuse

Amphetamine abusers are shown to have significant cognitive impairments as well as delusional disorders. We present a 17-year-old man who was admitted to the toxicology emergency department with amphetamine overdose. Along with the classic signs and symptoms of overdose including mydriasis, tachycardia, hypertension, sweating and severe agitation, his urine toxicology screen test was found to b...

Chronic Endophthalmitis Due to Toxocara.

NEMATODE infestations of the eye evoked little or no interest until the middle of the 20th century when Wilder (1950), whilst carrying out a histological survey of 46 cases of pseudogliomata, found nematode larvae or their hyaline capsules in 24, and tissue reactions characteristic of nematode endophthalmitis in the remaining 22. At that time, the larvae found in Wilder's series were believed t...