Yolk sac tumor is a non-seminomatous testicular germ cell rarely found in adults. It an extra-embryonic differentiated tumor. reproduces structures evocative of the yolk humans. We report clinical case 37-year-old patient, with no previous history, who followed up for left testicle revealed by increase size and induration testicle. The orchiectomy, performed through inguinal approach, allowed u...

Scleromyxedema is a rare and distinctive variant of cutaneous mucinoses of unknown etiology. It is presenting with generalized papular eruption and sclerodermoid induration. Numerous treatment modalities have been reported to produce partial or permanent responses. This study reports on a case of scleromyxedema without paraproteinemia in a subject who experienced a partial response to thalidomi...

Guinea pigs sensitized by repeated skin testing with potent, merthiolated coccidioidin, equal to Smith standard, exhibited erythema, edema, and an induration-like reaction to intradermal injection of the preparation. No statistically significant migration inhibition of peritoneal exudate macrophages from these animals was observed.

Lowell’ gave the incidence of allergy to streptomycin as 10 per cent. This high incidence is due to administration of the drug for long periods in tuberculosis. Most of the allergic reactions were not serious. There was no way of knowing whether a patient allergic to streptomycin could react again on re-administration. It might be assumed that he would. Houghton2 in England and Chakravarty3 in ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of cutaneous anergy in pregnant and nonpregnant women who are seropositive for human immunodeficiency virus. METHODS AND MATERIALS The medical records of 159 women seropositive for human immunodeficiency virus were reviewed. Demographic characteristics and tuberculin skin test results were abstracted from the chart. Tuberculin skin testing was performed b...

Congratulations on the publication of the ‘‘Tuberculosis in NSW’’ edition (2013; 24(1)). It makes excellent reading on a disease that continues to smoulder in this country. However, there is one topic on which some authors appear unclear: the limitations of immunological tests for both tuberculosis (TB) disease and infection. I refer to the tuberculin skin test (TST) and interferon-gamma releas...

, 81 infliximab naive RA patients and 47 healthy subjects as controls. At the same time and apart from the purposes of that study, we also had done a pathergy test in those subjects who agreed to participate, with the aim of determining the effect of the pathergy phenomenon on the response of BS patients to the tuberculin test. Informed consent was obtained from all subjects. The study was appr...

he marked annual decrease in the number of Tnewly reported cases of active tuberculosis during the past ten years has been accompanied by a similar decreased effectiveness of chest x-ray mass screening as a tool in community tuberculosis casefinding programs. However, during the same period, tuberculin skin testing of pre-school and school age children, followed by a thorough examination of pos...

In 50 healthy Peruvian shantytown residents, zinc cream applied to tuberculosis skin-test sites caused a 32% increase in induration compared with placebo cream. Persons with lower plasma zinc had smaller skin-test reactions and greater augmentation with zinc cream. Zinc deficiency caused false-negative skin-test results, and topical zinc supplementation augmented antimycobacterial immune respon...