Aims: Leukonychia is a white discoloration of nails. Although it usually clinically insignificant, can serve as clue for systemic diseases that sometimes life-threatening. Case Report: A 24-year-old male patient, with resistant acne vulgaris not responding to topicals nor antibiotics and history renal impairment untreated recurrent high blood pressure readings, was started on isotretinoin. Thre...

Situs inversus totalis is a rare autosomal recessive developmental anomaly. There are very few reports in the published literature of abdominal aortic aneurysm in patient with situs inversus totalis, all of whom underwent open aneurysm repair. This is the first case in the world's literature to describe a patient with situs inversus totalis who had a successful endovascular infrarenal aneurysm ...

PEComas are a group of very rare mesenchymal neoplasms, which express myogenic and melanocytic markers, such as HMB-45 and actin. Situs inversus totalis represents a complete left to right side transposition of the asymmetrical thoracic and abdominal organs and incorporates dextrocardia. The presence of uterus PEComa in the setting of situs inversus totalis is extremely rare. Here, we report a ...

Situs inversus totalis is a rare condition, which presents difficulties in diagnosis and treatment of gallstones due to the reversal location of abdominal organs. In this article we present 2 cases of women in age of 51 and 55 years with situs inversus totalis and gallstones. There are described the clinical and imaging features, also the laparoscopic surgery with the difficulties encountered b...

acquired bilateral longitudinal true leukonychia is a rare disorder. we present a case of a 35‑year‑old healthy woman presented with this unusual and rare manifestation. she mentioned a history of unprotected exposure to detergents and bleaching chemical agents. considering her low zinc level, she was prescribed with zinc capsules and recommended to avoid chemical substances for 6 months. durin...

INTRODUCTION Situs inversus totalis (mirror image organs) is a rare condition and may affect the intra-abdominal viscera as well as the intrathoracic organs. Cholelithiasis is not more common in these conditions, but the diagnosis may be more difficult. CASE PRESENTATION We present the case of a 59-year-old African woman with gallstones and situs inversus totalis. A single-port cholecystectom...

Background: Vitiligo is an acquired skin discoloration with melanocytic destruction. Vitiligo is associated with other autoimmune disorders; hence, an autoimmune etiology is among the most important theories for this disorder. The nails can be involved in numerous cutaneous or systemic non-cutaneous disorders. We have taken into consideration previous studies on nail abnormalities in vitiligo a...

A 24-year old female patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia was treated with the induction therapy of the GIMEMA ALL protocol based on vincristine, daunorubicin, asparaginase and prednisone. In the second month of therapy, she was found to have white bands on all her fingernails. There were two bands on each fingernail (Figure), but her toenails were not affected. It was observed that the tr...