Lupus as a paraneoplastic manifestation of cholangiocarcinoma.

Disseminated superficial porokeratosis in a patient with cholangiocarcinoma: a paraneoplastic manifestation?* Poroceratose superficial disseminada num doente com colangiocarcinoma: manifestação paraneoplásica?

Porokeratosis refers to a group of hereditary or acquired disorders of epidermal keratinization and is characterized histologically by the presence of a cornoid lamella. The clinical variant referred to as disseminated superficial porokeratosis has been described in the literature in association with immunosuppressive conditions that include organ transplant, infections and immunosuppressive tr...

Clinical and preclinical manifestation of systemic lupus erythmatous

Introduction: Systemic lupus erythmatous (SLE) is a disease of unknown etiology with wide variety of clinical and immunological features. Our objective was to describe the clinical manifestation and laboratory data in Iranian male patients. Methods: 2279 patients were entered in a cross sectional study. The data were collected from rheumatologic research center in Shariati hospital of Teh...

Oral contraceptive-related transverse sinus thrombosis as an initial manifestation of antiphospholipid syndrome in the absence of systemic lupus erythematosus

PSEUDO TUMOR CEREBRI AS THE MAJOR MANIFESTATION OF SYSTEMIC LUPUS ER Y THEMATOSUS IN A CASE OF FEVER OF UNDE TERMINED ORIGIN

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is less likely to present as fever of undetermined origin today. This is due to the widespread use of immunologic tests which permit early diagnosis. It is not surprising therefore that only atypical cases of SLE present as FUa. Although uncommon, pseudotumor cerebri has been recognized as either a presenting manifestation or a complication of SLE. This c...

Paraneoplastic hypocalcemia in a patient whit gastric cancer accompanied by osteoblastic metastasis

Paraneoplastic syndromes are generally defined as clinical disorder associated with malignant diseases, and hypocalcemia as paraneoplastic manifestation associated with cancer is a rare condition. In patient with bone metastatic cancer, osteolytic lesions are more common than osteoblastic ones which give rise to hypercalcemia and hypocalcemia is a rare condition in this group of patients. We de...