OBJECTIVE Lichen planus and lichenoid lesions affecting the oral cavity show similar clinico-pathological features creating a diagnostic dilemma. Hence, the aim of the present study was to establish a clinical and histopathological correlation in the diagnosis of oral lichen planus, based on the modified WHO diagnostic criteria of oral lichen planus and oral lichenoid lesions proposed by Van de...

OBJECTIVE Disturbed renal function may play an important role in the clinico-pathological presentation of primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT). We studied the influence of renal function on the clinico-pathological characteristics of 141 patients (123 women and 18 men) with surgically proven pHPT. METHODS The 141 patients were assigned to one of two groups based on creatinine clearance (C(cr)) ...

A previously well young Filipino boy presented with prolonged recurrent left focal to bilateral seizure. He was born of a non-consanguineous marriage, home-delivered vaginally, full term no perinatal complications. had normal growth and developmental milestones until at the age 7 months when he developed febrile status epilepticus. Since then, residual hemiplegia, dysarthria, cognitive delay se...

Hyperperfusion syndrome, previously known as posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES), is a clinico- radiological entity with characteristic features on neuro-imaging. It is believed to be caused by vasogenic oedema, predominantly in the posterior cerebral hemispheres. We report the case of an elderly man who presented with convulsions and was diagnosed to have PRES due to hypertension.

The authors describe a rare case of increased intracranial hypertension consequent to a spinal cervical glioblastoma multiforme in a young patient. They analyse the physiopathology of intracranial hypertension in spinal tumors and the rarity of such kind of tumor in this location, and its clinico-pathological aspects.

A case of vertebral osteomyelitis is presented where initial presumptive diagnosis of tuberculous infection was made on clinico-radiological grounds but eventually turned out to be Salmonella infection upon exploration, biopsy and culture. Patient recovered completely following debridement and appropriate antibiotics (fluoro-quinolones) for a period of six weeks. Internal fixation allowed early...

L . CONSUEGRA-S ANCHEZ ,* R . L OPEZ-PALOP ,† P . CANO, P . CARR ILLO,† F . P IC O,* M. V ILLEGAS ,* J . SANCHIS‡ and J . C . KASK I§ *Cardiology Department, Hospital Universitario de Santa Lucia, Cartagena, Murcia; †Cardiology Department, Hospital Universitario de San Juan, Alicante; ‡Cardiology Department, Hospital Clinico de Valencia, Valencia, Spain; and §Cardiovascular Research Centre, St....

Mocanu Elena, University Alley, 900437 Constanta, Romania e-mail: [email protected] ABSTRACT Hepatocellular carcinoma is one of the most common cancers and the age distribution of HCC patients has steadily increased because of the improved management of chronic liver diseases. The peak age of onset of hepatocellular carcinoma is continually increasing worlwide. This study aims to evaluate...

protozoal, parasitic, fungal, spirochetal organisms, chemical reagents, drugs, alcohols, allergic condition and radiation." Out of viral myocarditis, the coxsackie virus has been regarded as the most commonly encountered causative factors of human viral myocarditis. The isolation and characterization of the coxsackie virus had been made approximately 3 decades ago. As previously mentioned the c...

Classification tree models have ability to discover and evaluate interactions of multiple predictor variables, and define flexible, nonlinear predictive tools. We have developed tree models for clinical prediction studies with very high-dimensional gene expression data as candidate predictors. A first context is Bayesian tree models for predicting binary outcomes (as an example), that respects ...