Hypopituitarism and Ipilimumab, an Uncommon Disease, Uncommon Cause

Congenital Hepatic Fibrosis: An Uncommon Cause of Chronic Renal Failure

Congenital Hepatic Fibrosis (CHF) is a rare disease that affects both the liver and kidneys.  Congenital hepatic fibrosis (CHF) is an autosomal recessive inherited malformation defined pathologically by a variable degree of periportal fibrosis and irregularly shaped proliferating bile ducts. Affected individuals also have impaired renal function, usually caused, in children and teenagers, by an...

Primary Hyperparathyroidism and Pancreatitis: an Uncommon Cause of Pancreatitis

Ascaridial Volvulus: An Uncommon Cause of Ileal Perforation

Ascariasis is a common worm infestation in developing and under-developed countries. It is caused by the ingestion of food contaminated with Ascaris eggs from faeces and is more common in places with poor sanitation. Almost 25% of the world population is infested by Ascaris lumbricoides. Although ascariasis is a chronic disease, it can present as acute abdomen rarely. The wandering nature of As...

An uncommon clinical form of foot-and-mouth disease in beef cattle presented with cornual skin lesions

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a major infectious disease in livestock. The common clinical signs in cattle include epidermal vesicles that are majorly distributed around oronasal cavity, feet and teats. The aim of this report is to document an uncommon clinical form of the disease which comprises the occurrence of classic vesicular lesion in a rarely observed location of the horn vegetative t...

Hypopituitarism in a male due to giant cell granuloma of the anterior pituitary.

It has been emphasized by Sheehan (1948) that the criterion for the diagnosis of hypopituitarism is destruction of the anterior pituitary, the most frequent cause being post-partum necrosis. Hypopituitarism in the male is relatively uncommon. Escamilla and Lisser (1942), in a survey of 101 " typical clinical cases with pathological verification," found only 35 in the male. The following case, w...