Two Cases of Elephantiasis Græcorum

Cases of Elephantiasis Scroti

Muitmalen Aji Moplah, Mussulman, aged 27 years, was admitted into the Calicut Civil Hospital, Malabar, August 12th 1873, with a scrotal tumour of enormous dimensions, reaching to within three inches of the ground as the man stood erect, fifteen years in growth. Patient's statement.?The tumour commenced in the scrotum, noticeable at first by a slight thickening of its coats, afterwards increasin...

A report of two cases of pyknodysostosis in two children

pyknodysostosis is a rare bone disease characterzed with short stature,wide fontaneles,small chin,hyperdensity of bones,erosion of tufts of the disatl phalanges,and narrowing of the mandibular angle. pyknodysostosis is inheritted as an autosomal recessive disease and may be seen in both sexes at any age.the patients have normal life span.short stature and bone fractures are their major problems...

Elephantiasis

Scrotal Elephantiasis

an early mpjfcality of twenty-seven per cent, in sixty-one cases of operation for Scrotal Elephantiasis reported by Fayrer Oh" referring to my published record of these cases, I obsor-ve that the total number of cases operated upon during, .the yea-s, 1859 to 1871 amounted to 193, of which 35, or a fraction over 18 per cent., proved fatal. This is befit'dr than represented by Koch's, as above q...

Pretibial Epidermolysis Bullosa: Report of two cases

Pretibial epidermolysis bullosa is a rare variant of hereditary epidermolysis bullosa characterized by the delayed onset of lesions and their localization. We present two cases, a 35-year-old woman and a 21-year-old man. They clinically had pruritus, nodular prurigo-like or lichenified lesions, violaceous scarring, milia, nail dystrophy and in one case albopapuloid lesions on the trunk. Physica...