BACKGROUND Intestinal tuberculosis can closely mimic Crohn's disease and colon cancer. Presented here is a case of intestinal tuberculosis that closely mimicked both. CASE REPORT A 23 year old Hispanic female presented with several months of weight loss, recurrent fever, and emesis. The patient did not have pulmonary symptoms or radiographic evidence of tuberculosis. Colonoscopy evaluation wi...

The current study presents a case of sarcoidosis manifesting as hepatic and splenic nodules, which was difficult to differentiate from ovarian cancer metastases. A 24-year-old female, who was previously diagnosed with right ovarian cancer and underwent surgery at the age of 21, was found to have two nodules in the spleen revealed by contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT). 18F-fluorodeoxyglu...

A 63-year-old woman developed conjunctival hyperemia and blurry vision. She was diagnosed with uveitis. A chest computed tomography (CT) scan detected mediastinal and hilar lymphadenopathy (Picture 1A) and the diffuse small nodules that were slightly predominant in the left lower lobe (Picture 1B). A scalene lymph node biopsy demonstrated non-caseating granulomas (Picture 2A, ×200). She was dia...

We report herein a case of laryngeal sarcoidosis that was refractory to systemic corticosteroids, but that improved spontaneously. A 49-year-old woman complained of dysphagia and hoarseness with accompanying edematous swellings of both arytenoid regions. She was referred to our hospital after systemic corticosteroid therapy failed to achieve any improvement. Laryngoscopy showed marked edema of ...

INTRODUCTION The prevalence of tuberculosis is increasing and musculoskeletal tuberculosis, although currently rare, may become an important problem. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a 20-year-old Somalian man, who presented with an inversion injury to his ankle. When further history was taken, it transpired that he had sustained trauma to his ankle in Somalia 4 years previously, compl...

Tuberculosis is one of the major causes of ill health and death worldwide. Isolated tuberculosis of tonsil in the absence of active pulmonary tuberculosis is a very rare clinical entity. A 10-year-male child presented with recurrent episodes of upper respiratory tract infections, with 2-3 occurrences per month for the past 6 years. On general physical examination, bilateral tonsils showed grade...

Sarcoidosis is a disease of unknown cause that is characterized by the presence of non-caseous granuloma. The diagnosis is made whenever this histological finding occurs in the absence of other known causes. of non-caseating granulomas and whenever compatible clinical and radiographic findings are present. The usual chest radiographic findings in sarcoidosis are (1) bilateral hilar and occasion...

BACKGROUND With the world becoming a global village, tuberculosis is no longer limited to endemic areas. Our case emphasizes the impact of immigration on infectious disease epidemiology and challenges associated with diagnosis and treatment in pregnancy. CASE A 21-year-old Hispanic female presented in preterm labor and was found to be hypoxic. Chest X-ray revealed a paratracheal mass which a ...

Depending on the location, dermatoses can produce blemishes that severely impair quality of life and require highly effective treatment that is otherwise used for extensive skin involvement. We report the case of a 39-year-old, otherwise healthy male disfigured by an 8 × 7-cm hypopigmented and centrally atrophic annular plaque with erythematous indurated borders in an area of scar tissue on his...

AIMS To assess the frequency and cause of incidental (non-metastatic) lymph node pathology discovered before or at radical prostatectomy. METHODS Eight hundred and fifty four consecutive lymphadenectomies received between 1988 and 2001 were reviewed. All had been processed and stained routinely. Additional techniques, indicated by morphology, were then performed. RESULTS Incidental patholog...