SPURIOUS PREGNANCY

Spurious urinary calculosis in pregnancy.

Although the incidence of symptomatic urinary lithiasis in pregnancy is low, it is potentially serious in that it can cause serious renal damage, systemic sepsis or even endanger the pregnancy. Spurious calculosis in pregnancy must be a very unusual occurrence but does pose significant difficulties in diagnosis and management. A high index of clinical suspicion and analysis of calculi produced ...

On a Case of Spurious Pregnancy with Labour

The Psycho-somatic Syndrome of Spurious Pregnancy after the Menopause.

Spurious pregnancy (false pregnancy or pseudocyesis) constitutes a subject of considerable practical importance not only for the general practitioner and obstetrician but also for the psychiatrist, as it presents one of the most impressive examples of the influence of emotional mechanisms on physical processes. The occurrence of this condition in humans and animals has attracted attention throu...

Spurious Hyperleukocytosis

Hyperleukocytosis is an oncological emergency but is extremely rare in non-malignant conditions. Nucleated RBCs give rise to spuriously high total leucocyte count and cause clinical dilemma. Thalassemia major patients are known to have leucocytosis even after correction for nucleated RBCs. We report a case of undiagnosed Thalassemia major in a 4 month old infant with total leucocyte count highe...

spurious hyperleukocytosis

hyperleukocytosis is an oncological emergency but is extremely rare in non-malignant conditions. nucleated rbcs give rise to spuriously high total leucocyte count and cause clinical dilemma. thalassemia major patients are known to have leucocytosis even after correction for nucleated rbcs. we report a case of undiagnosed thalassemia major in a 4 month old infant with total leucocyte count highe...