Five cases of compartment syndromes.

Diapresentation of interesting cases of paraneoplastic syndromes

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Acute compartment syndromes resulting from anticoagulant treatment.

Experience with primary myelodysplastic syndromes in a university haematology unit: report of five cases.

Myelodysplastic syndromes apper to be a rare group of blood disorders in Malaysia. It usually affects the elderly and some of the cases were reported to evolve into acute leukemia. We describe our experience with five cases, seen and managed by us over a 5-year period. All patients receiving supportive therapy died with one of them definitely known to transform to acute leukemia. The patient wh...

NEUROGENIC HYPERTENSION: REPORT OF FIVE CASES TO HIGHLIGHT THE CONTROVERSY

The entity of "neurogenic hypertension" is defined as arterial hypertension caused explicitly by derangement of the intricate network of the central nervous system. Among 193 cases of cranial rhizopathies operated on between 1984 and 1995 at this center, 5 cases of established arterial hypertension with concomitant rhizopathies also underwent ventrolateral medullary decompression. The elev...

Two cases of unidentified acute compartment syndrome

Acute compartment syndrome (ACS) is a surgical emergency that requires urgent fasciotomy to prevent irreversible sequelae. We report two cases of unidentified ACS, which did not result from traumatic injuries such as fractures or crush injury, iatrogenic injury or diseases such as haematological malignancies. Both patients complained of severe pain and swelling of their extremity. No bite marks...