Cutaneous periumbilical purpura in disseminated strongyloidiasis in cancer patients: a pathognomonic feature of potentially lethal disease?

Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation in a Case of Brucellosis Misdiagnosed as Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia Purpura

True picture of cutaneous and mucosal lesions of Behcet’s disease in 3751 cases

Background: There is not yet a pathognomonic laboratory test for the diagnosis of Behcet’s Disease (BD). The diagnosis is therefore based on clinical manifestations. Mucocutaneous lesions are the most important and the most frequent clinical manifestations of BD. Objective: To study the mucocutaneous lesions systematically. In a great number of patients. Some of these clinical pictures are poor...

Clinical Approaches of Retinal Diseases in Pregnancy

Pregnancy leads to significant changes in the body, which potentially affect the retina. Pregnancy can induce disease such as that seen in hypertensive retinopathy and choroidopathy. It can cause exudative retinal detachments in the HELLP syndrome (hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelets), disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP), ...

Intestinal strongyloidiasis and hyperinfection syndrome

In spite of recent advances with experiments on animal models, strongyloidiasis, an infection caused by the nematode parasite Strongyloides stercoralis, has still been an elusive disease. Though endemic in some developing countries, strongyloidiasis still poses a threat to the developed world. Due to the peculiar but characteristic features of autoinfection, hyperinfection syndrome involving on...

متاستاز پوستی کوریوکارسینوم :گزارش یک مورد

  Introduction: Cutaneous metastasis is a rare presentation of choriocarcinoma and as it is associated with advanced disease, it has poor prognostic sign. To the best of our knowledge about 11 cases of cutaneous metastatic choriocarcinoma were reported in the literature.   Case Report: A 47-yr –old female complaining of cutaneous lesion with pruritis. She had history of choriocarcinoma followin...