Thigh Pain Associated With Diarrhea

Excruciating thigh pain and hepatic air collection.

CT findings (figures 1 and 2) were consistent with infection of a liver metastasis as a result of gas-producing bacteria. Culture specimens grew C. septicum. The patient died 28 h after onset of symptoms despite intensive medical treatment. Clostridium species are anaerobic, gram-positive, spore-forming bacteria. Clostridial infections are believed to be more prevalent among patients with malig...

Clinical pattern recognition: hip and thigh pain

Clinical pattern recognition is a series of applications dedicated to anatomical areas of the body including the hip/thigh, knee, ankle/foot and lumbar spine. It enumerates numerous clinical presentations of different disease processes with associated physical exam findings. It offers a variety of manual and therapeutic exercises for treating these conditions. This review focuses on the hip and...

Tumoral Calcinosis Causing Bilateral Thigh Pain

We report a case of a 75-year-old female with bilateral thigh pain for several years secondary to soft tissue calcification. Massive calcinosis of the soft tissues is a unique, but not uncommon, radiographic finding. On the contrary, tumoral calcinosis is a rare familial disease. The term tumoral calcinosis has been overly used to describe any massive collection of periarticular calcification. ...

Diarrhea associated with Enterococcus durans in calves.

Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea.

At our hospital, the number of cases of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea increased from 29 in 1993 to 210 in 1995. The case notes of 110 patients with C difficile-associated diarrhoea during the first 6 months of 1995 were analysed retrospectively. The majority of the patients (106) had received antibiotics before the onset of diarrhoea; 46 had received three or more different antibio...