DR J. SHAUN MURPHY: A 30-year-old woman was found to have human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) at age 22 (1989). She also had a history of moderate asthma. She had been in her usual health until 2 months before hospitalization when nonbloody diarrhea appeared. A month later, she noted a small, yellow mass arising from her umbilicus (Figure 1). Seven days before the patient's admission to the hosp...

Sturge –Weber syndrome (SWS) or encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis is a sporadic,congenital phakomatosis of unknown etiology.Diagnosed by the triad of facial port wine stain(PWS) in the trigeminal nerve distribution, leptomeningeal venous angiomatosis ,and glaucoma. Bilateral Sturge-Weber Syndrome is a rare entity. We present in this report a rare case of bilateral SWS type II , with PWS involvin...

Bacillary angiomatosis and bacillary peliosis are opportunistic infections caused by Bartonella henselae and Bartonella quintana, which occur in patients with late-stage infection. We report a case of bacillary angiomatosis in an HIV-infected patient with skin, bone, and probably liver involvement, The identification of the agent (B quintana ) was done by polymerase chain reaction in the skin s...

Disseminated angiomatosis, also referred to as cystic angiomatosis, is a generalized disease that involves bones and soft tissue. It is characterized by multifocal hemangiomatous lesions of the bones with possible visceral organ involvement. The clinical manifestations differ according to the site and the extension of disorder. Here we describe a case of generalized angiomatosis occurring in a ...

INTRODUCTION Kasabach-Merritt syndrome is a benign condition characterized by hemangiomatosis, severely disseminated intravascular consumption coagulopathy, and thrombocytopenia. The mortality rate increases from 12% to 30% in hemorrhagic cases. In general, the symptoms primarily manifest in the gastrointestinal tract, the skin, and the subcutaneous tissue. There is no publication about pulmona...

A 29-year-old man presented with generalized, painless, erythematous lesions and fever. The patient had recently been diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. His CD4 T-cell count at presentation was 14 cells/ mm, and he had been started on antiretroviral therapy 15 days before onset of disease. The patient reported illicit drug use and alcohol consumption and had regular co...

Multiple variants of haemangiomas are reported, depending on variable histological features. Haemangioma: cavernous, capillary, epithelioid. Angiomatosis: non-aggressive (regional), dissemi-nated (cystic angiomatosis), aggressive (massive osteolysis). Clinics and pathology Disease Haemangioma. Phenotype / cell stem origin Endothelial cell. Etiology It is suggested that these lesions are congeni...

A new disease, angiomatosis, was recognized in 25 of 54 (46.3%) Atlantic bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) necropsied after being stranded along the Texas Gulf coast during 1991-1996. Angiomatosis was first recognized by the authors in 1992 and has increased in incidence and severity, affecting 100% of juveniles and adults. This disease is characterized by proliferation of small, thick-w...