BACKGROUND Steroid-responsive encephalopathy associated with subacute thyroiditis has, to our knowledge, not been reported previously. CASE REPORT A 49-year-old woman was found collapsed and brought to our institution with decreased mentality, dysarthria, and gait disturbance. Brain magnetic resonance imaging and angiography were normal but blood tests revealed thyroid-autoantibody-negative t...

OBJECTIVES To describe a case of Meckel's diverticulum with an unusual complication of iron deficiency anaemia due to chronic intestinal bleeding. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 12-year-old boy presented with bloody diarrhoea and abdominal pain in association with a long-standing history of black stools and progressive pallor. Biochemical tests revealed low serum iron (1.2 mmol/l) i...

In vitro gastrointestinal (GI) bleed testing such as the UltraTag kits has been successfully used for a number of years. None of the research studies identified reported any significant bone marrow and liver uptake. An 80-y-old male patient was admitted to the hospital for rectal bleeding. An initial GI bleed study using the UltraTag kit was normal. Two days later, a second GI bleed scan was pe...

Thyroid gland enlargement is a common problem in clinical practice. The clinical presentation and etiology of thyroid disorders differ substantially in adolescents from that in adults. Purpose: This study was conducted to describe clinical characteristics of adolescent patients referred for thyroid scan during 5-years period in Mansoura University Hospital. Methods: this retrospective study inc...

Liposomes (phospholipid vesicles) have been proposed as carriers of materials of therapeutic interest, and work in this area has been reviewed (Tyrrell et al., 1976). The possibility of utilizing such a system in tumour therapy has received some attention, and Gregoriadis et al. (1974) injected patients with liposomes using entrapped l3II labelled albumin as a marker. Tissue distribution was me...

tc-99m pertechnetate scintigraphy is the modality of choice for diagnosis of meckel's diverticulum. interpretation of meckel's scan identifies a focal area of radiopharmaceutical uptake in the anterior abdomen similar to normal gastric mucosa. the activity must be of the same pattern and intensity as gastric uptake. we present a 13-year-old patient with gastrointestinal bleeding and anemia. tc-...

We describe herein an unusual case of subacute thyroiditis presenting as acute psychosis. An 18-year-old male presented at the emergency department due to abnormal behavior, psychomotor agitation, sexual hyperactivity, and a paranoid mental state. Laboratory findings included an erythrocyte sedimentation rate of 36 mm/hr (normal range, 0 to 9), free T4 of 100.0 pmol/L (normal range, 11.5 to 22....

Ectopic thyroid tissue is most commonly located in a single location, this being the lingual area. Presentation with two ectopic thyroid foci is quite unusual. A girl patient aged 7 years who presented with complaints of two masses in the right anterior neck and submandibular area is reported. Her growth pattern and development were normal. The masses were detected to be dual ectopic thyroid gl...