Several observers have previously noticed that intercurrent febrile diseases may? bring about an improvement and amelioration of symptoms in ' lipoid nephrosisThe most common febrile disorders influencing the condition mentioned are various types of pneumonia, bronchitis, rhino-pharyngitis, erysipelas, otomastoiditis, sinusitis, etc. Rapid subsidence of massive ccdema in terminal infection of n...

Mucormycosis is a rare life threatening fungal infection predominately seen in immunocompromised or diabetic patients. The following case is of a known type II diabetic patient who presented with sepsis and sudden unilateral loss of vision secondary to infective rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis. Treatment of the condition required extensive surgical intervention and medical management for a l...

Four successive cases of rhino-occulo-cerebral mucormycosis [ROCM] in patients suffering from type 2 diabetes mellitus are described. The clinical presentation is given in details. The need for high degree of suspicion, prompt diagnosis and complete surgical evacuation of inflammatory mass; and prompt initiation of antifungal therapy is discussed. The side effects associated with amphoterecin a...

Head and neck diseases in children and adolescents present special diagnostic and differential diagnostic challenges to ENT surgeons as well as to radiologists. Both disciplines have to adapt the latest radiological and interventional technologies to the needs of the pediatric patient in order to enable a minimally invasive but successful diagnostic procedure. High quality sonography by an expe...