Sclerosing Lipogranulomatosis

A case of Farber lipogranulomatosis.

A 35 month old girl had suffered from painful joint contractures of the whole body since a few months after birth, and she gradually developed numerous periarticular and subcutaneous nodules, hoarseness, swallowing difficulty with recurrent respiratory infections, nystagmus, and mental and developmental retardation. She was misdiagnosed as having juvenile rheumatoid arthritis at several univers...

Benign sclerosing pneumocytoma of lung (sclerosing haemangioma).

Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis in Iran

Sclerosing Therapy of Esophageal Varices

  SUMMARY Bleeding of esophageal varices have a high mortality rate, and medical management is usualy unsuccessful. Surgical methods such as vascular ligation or shunting are expensive. High risk procedures with high mortality. Endoscopic sclerotherapy was applied in 104 patients with acute bleeding of esophageal varices during a period of 5 years in a prospettive and retrospective study. Th...

Sclerosing Cholangitis

INTRODUCTION Sclerosing cholangitis represents an array of chronic, cholestatic diseases of the intrahepatic and extrahepatic bile duct systems. Clinically, this syndrome is characterized by progressive fatigue, pruritus, and in later stages, by abdominal pain, recurrent fever, and jaundice. These symptoms are resultant from inflammatory and fibrosing obstruction of the biliary system. The prog...