Spurious steatorrhoea.

Idiopathic Steatorrhoea.

A NEW chapter in the story of idiopathic steatorrhoea was opened by the discovery of the various biopsy tubes which are swallowed by the patient and take either single specimens from the duodenum or jejunum (Shiner, 1956; Crossby and Kugler, I957) or, more recently, retrieve several samples from any level in the small bowel (Brandborg, Rubin and Quinton, 1959; Baker and Hughes, 1960). This allo...

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...

Idiopathic steatorrhoea.

Macroglobulinaemia and steatorrhoea.

Nephrotic Syndrome with Steatorrhoea

the abdomen was still slightly distended and rather noisy; rectal examination vV negative. We didn't discover very much else except that she had a persist?^ Mr. K. D. J. Vowles: This is the case of a 56-year-old unmarried Irishwoman who was a cleaner and lived with her niece. She consulted her family doctor in Auguf' 1959, because she had diarrhoea for two days, then two days of normal bowel ha...