A child presented with excessive bruising and prolonged activated partial thromboplastin time. Mixing studies in plasma were positive for phospholipid dependence of the anticoagulant, confirming a diagnosis of lupus anticoagulant. Factor II level was reduced. Laboratory findings normalised after three months, with spontaneous resolution of bruising. This case demonstrates a transient antiphosph...

: The Cushing syndrome typically presents with abdominal obesity, wide purple striae, glucose intolerance, hypertension, easy bruising, and muscle weakness, a rare disorder interfering ovulation, making the combination of pregnancy less common. Nevertheless, has been reported in pregnancy. Here we report another case syndrome, which merely using literature review at end.

Parathyroid adenoma usually manifests with symptoms related to hypercalcemia, such as urinary stone and bone fracture. It may also present with asymptomatic hypercalcemia. However, spontaneous cervical hematoma may occur very rarely as a result of extracapsular hemorrhage of a cervical parathyroid adenoma causing acute painful cervical swelling, bruising, dyspnea, hoarseness and dysphagia. We r...

purpose: to report a case of hermansky-pudlak syndrome (hps). case report: a 7-year-old boy presented with marked generalized hypopigmentation, eye deviation and nystagmus. in addition he had history of easy bruising. visual acuity was 20/200. he had markedly translucent green irides, hypermetropic astigmatism, horizontal nystagmus and marked exotropia. funduscopy revealed a hypopigmented retin...

Two families are described in which the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is apparently transmitted as an X-linked recessive character. The results of tests for the Xg blood groups and for colour vision show that the locus for the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is not close to that for the Xg groups nor very close to the locus for deutan colour-blindness.The clinical features of this variety of the Ehlers-Danlos ...