Elephantiasis in pregnancy

Elephantiasis

Scrotal Elephantiasis

an early mpjfcality of twenty-seven per cent, in sixty-one cases of operation for Scrotal Elephantiasis reported by Fayrer Oh" referring to my published record of these cases, I obsor-ve that the total number of cases operated upon during, .the yea-s, 1859 to 1871 amounted to 193, of which 35, or a fraction over 18 per cent., proved fatal. This is befit'dr than represented by Koch's, as above q...

Elephantiasis Nostras Verrucosa in leprosy

We present a case of Elephantiasis Nostras Verrucosa in a patient of leprosy with peripheral neuropathy.

Elephantiasis Nostras Verrucosa

A 53-year-old woman presented to the hospital complaining of severe pain in her right leg for the past several days. She has a 5-year history of lymphedema in her right leg, as well as morbid obesity, recurrent cellulitis, erysipelas, and osteomyelitis. She has never suffered from filariasis and has no family history of familial lymphedema. Her temperature on admission was 100.9◦F (38.3◦C). Exa...

Cases of Elephantiasis Scroti

Muitmalen Aji Moplah, Mussulman, aged 27 years, was admitted into the Calicut Civil Hospital, Malabar, August 12th 1873, with a scrotal tumour of enormous dimensions, reaching to within three inches of the ground as the man stood erect, fifteen years in growth. Patient's statement.?The tumour commenced in the scrotum, noticeable at first by a slight thickening of its coats, afterwards increasin...