BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES The study was aimed at determining the prevalence and intensity of Wuchereria bancrofti microfilaraemia in a high altitude region of south-eastern Nigeria, and ascertaining the prevalence of clinical signs and symptoms associated with the filarial infections. METHODS Thick smear of 50 μl finger-prick blood collected at night between 2200 and 0200 hrs from consenting pe...

Yaumatei Dermatology Clinic, 12/F, Yaumatei Specialist Clinic, 143 Battery street, Kowloon, Hong Kong A 52-year-old Chinese man with twenty years of psoriasis presented with characteristic cobblestonelike lesions over his legs. Biopsy of the lesions showed pseudo-epitheliomatous hyperplasia typical of elephantiasis nostras verrucosa. This is the first reported case of elephantiasis nostras verr...

SURGICAL TREATMENT OF ELEPHANTIASIS SCROTI COMPLICATED WITH REDUCIBLE SCROTAL HERNIA, 1st BY PERFORMING A MODIFICATION OF WOOD'S OPERATION ON THE HERNIA; AND 2ndlt, BY EXCISION OF THE DISEASED SCROTUM. Case I.? Aheer, u Mahoinedan cultivator, aged 40 years, who Lad long been in bad health, was admitted into Mr. Cntcliffe's ward on the 28th November, 1871, with elephantiasis of the scrotum of tw...

BACKGROUND Scrotal lymphedema is rare outside endemic filariasis regions in Africa and Asia. It is of variable origin in the western world. CASE PRESENTATION We present a case of a 40-year-old European man with massive elephantiasis of the scrotum attributed to chronic inflammation of the lower urinary tract caused by urinary outlet obstruction and diabetes mellitus. The patient underwent sub...