Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic granulomatous infection caused by acid-fast mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli. Spinal involvement occurs in less than one percent of TB. Spinal TB (Pott's disease) accounts for 50% of skeletal TB. Though it most commonly affects the thoracolumbar junction, it can occur at any level of the spine. Early diagnosis and treatment is mandatory in order to avoid neurolo...

Congenital Pulmonary Airway Malformation (CPAM) is a rare abnormality of pulmonary airway malformation and may remain undiagnosed until it discovered as an incidental finding later in life. Reported here are two cases CPAM, seven-month-old infant two-year-old toddler. A ex-premature male presented with recurrent pneumonia failure to thrive. He had unresolving consolidation on chest radiograph w...

To have the privilege of presenting the 1956 Varrier-Jones Memorial Lecture here, where, within a relatively short radius nearly all of the fundamental inventions and discoveries in tuberculosis were made, is a most significant honor. With a disease of such antiquity, so widespread and so destructive among people and animals, it was to have been expected that various methods of dealing with the...

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) plays an etiological role in various diseases. EBV-associated lymphoproliferative disorder (LPD) is usually observed in individuals with congenital or acquired immune deficiencies but was also recently reported in non-immunocompromised individuals. Two cases of immunocompetent patients with EBV-associated T-cell LPD of the small bowel and colon who were initially misdia...

Non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis again becomes a major health problem due to inappropriate antibiotic use and increasing frequency of protracted bacterial bronchitis. The aim was to determine the changes in etiology of bronchiectasis. Patients who admitted to Behçet Uz Children Hospital between 2005 and 2015 (n=110) were retrospectively examined. The etiology of bronchiectasis was detected as...

Multifocal cystic lung disease in infants is most commonly congenital, and is managed surgically with perioperative mechanical ventilation. Multifocal cystic lung disease in infants may be due to tuberculosis. We report a young infant with tubercular multifocal cystic lung disease and respiratory failure. The initial chest imaging revealed diffuse nodular infiltrates. Soon after admission he re...