(From the Slough Emergency Hospital, E.M.S.) Owing to the lowered general metabolism, a hypothyroid person, whether suffering from cretinism or myxoedema, would be expected to react to an acute infection in a subnormal fashion, and it is generally recognized that this is what actually occurs. Rarely, however, can it be possible to witness an acute infection attacking an individual, first in the...

Mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) is a rare malignant tumor arising from the bronchial gland. A case of 6-year-old male child who presented with fever, hemoptysis and wheezing since 1month is reported. Chest X-ray showed features suggestive of foreign body with post-obstructive pneumonia and was treated for the same with medication without much improvement. Subsequently computerized tomography sca...

a few cases recorded in the literature. Much of the information here given is quoted from Cohen and Jones.f In animals this phenomenon is known to occur and is not so uncommon in them as in the humans. Klein (1902) first observed it in horses. Later, Landsteincr (1903) studied this phenomenon in greater detail. Ottenberg and Thalhimer (1915) observed it in a cat. It was experimentally produced ...

INTRODUCTION Diagnosing of foreign body aspiration in children is often postponed. The aim of this study was to evaluate complications, clinical signs and radiological presentation of respiratory illness arising from unrecognized foreign body aspiration in pediatric population. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study sample consisted of 33 patients aged from one to 18 years who had undergone bronchosc...

ABSTRACT: We describe an outbreak of leishmaniasis in seven guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) which nodular ulcerated skin lesions varying sizes were observed the nasal cavity, upper lip, pinnae, vulva, and periarticular region limbs. Cytologic exam collected samples auricle one animals revealed macrophages containing parasitophorous vacuoles approximately 4.0μm diameter their cytoplasm with morpho...

Chronic atelectasis and pneumonia of the middle lobe have been described as a clinical syndrome, of which the essential pathological feature is an obstruction of the middle lobe bronchus. The cause of obstruction may be intraluminal or extraluminal, specific causes such as tumour or active tuberculosis not included. Graham, Burford, and Mayer (1948) reported 12 cases in which the syndrome resul...