Prolapsus and Successfully Treated with Nitric Acid

Persistent gastrointestinal bleeding successfully treated with aminocaproic acid.

A previously well 79-year-old woman presented with a short history of breathlessness. She had been on no drug therapy apart from iron tablets. She drank no alcohol, ate an adequate diet and denied dyspepsia and melaena. Examination showed her to be pale. She had a regular pulse of 90/min and a blood pressure of 150/90 mmHg. A systolic murmur was audible over the whole precordium, the jugular ve...

Two Cases of Carbuncle Treated with Nitric Acid

primary conjunctival rhabdomyosarcoma successfully treated with surgery and chemotherapy

purpose : to report the outcome of a case of primary conjunctival rhabdomyosarcoma treated by surgical excision combined with chemotherapy case report : a 4-year-old boy presented with a visible recurrence of conjunctival mass in the left eye. the orbital magnetic resonance imaging (mri) showed the lesion was confined to the conjunctiva without orbital infiltration. histology and immunophenotyp...

Multicentric Reticulohistiocytosis Treated Successfully with Etanercept

Multicentric reticulohistiocytosis (MRH) is an uncommon systemic disease of unknown aetiology, which is characterized by the presence of papulonodular lesions, and is caused by the proliferation of histiocytes associated with arthritis. There are only just 200 cases described in the scientific literature. It can behave like a paraneoplasia and may be malignant in a quarter of the patients. We w...

Pachydermodactyly successfully treated with triamcinolone injections.

Ultrastructural studies and immunophenotyping have shown these cells to be fibroblasts and myofibroblasts. The immunohistochemical profile is very variable, although vimentin is frequently expressed. CD34 expression has been reported in some cases; this can complicate the diagnosis as dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans must then be considered in the differential diagnosis. Immunohistochemistry is ...