Chronic Painless Dactylitis as the Initial Finding in Disseminated Lung Adenocarcinoma

[Chronic painless dactylitis as the initial finding in disseminated lung adenocarcinoma].

Cutaneous metastasis as the initial manifestation of lung adenocarcinoma.

We report the case of a 58-year-old male patient who was referred for oncology consultation due to an epigastric mass that had been growing rapidly for three months. Diagnostic investigation revealed that the mass was a metastasis of stage IV lung adenocarcinoma. The patient received five cycles of chemotherapy with cisplatin and gemcitabine as a first-line treatment, which was interrupted due ...

Multiple discharging sinuses with disseminated dactylitis.

A 21-day-old male infant presented with swelling over left upper limb for 3 days. Examination revealed a firm swelling of 3×4 cms over the proximal ventral aspect of left forearm and linear swellings over the medial aspect of left upper arm (Fig. 1(a)). Systemic examination and routine blood workup was normal. Ultrasound and X-ray of the swelling revealed subcutaneous calcification (Fig. 1(b))....

Disseminated cutaneous Leishmaniasis with Tuberculous Dactylitis: A case report

Herein we report a 6-year-old Afghans patient referred to Department of Dermatology, St. AL-Zahra Hospital in Isfahan with ulcerative and nodular lesions disseminated over the face, arms, buttocks, pelvic girdle and legs in 2002. Direct smears of the lesions were positive for Leishman bodies. Leishmanin skin test was negative. He also had dactylitis in some digits and toes. PCR from bone biopsy...

Chronic painless pancreatitis.

This paper describes four patients whose chief symptoms were steatorrhoea and loss of weight. Despite the absence of a history of abdominal pain investigations showed that these patients had chronic pancreatitis, which responded to medical treatment. The pathological findings in two of these cases and in six which came to necropsy are reported.