Castleman's disease is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder with unknown underlying cause. Three histologic variants (hyaline-vascular, plasma cell and mixed) as well as 2 clinical groups (localized and multicentic) have been described. Most patients with the hyaline-vascular variant are asymptomatic other than localized pressure from the mass. Hyaline-vascular Castleman's disease was commonly f...

The aim of the present study was to determine various types of hemocytes, total and differential hemocyte count and to show some indices of phagocytosis, including percent phagocytosis and phagocytic index in Indian white shrimp, Fenneropenaeus indicus in Iranian shrimp farms. The hemolymph was extracted from the shrimps and mixed with anticoagulant. It then stained and Yeast was added as forei...

J Postgrad Med 2004;50:125-6 n 18-month-old female child born of a second degree consanguineous marriage presented with asymptomatic, pink, raised lesions on the body since the age of six months and boggy swellings on the scalp since the age of 12 months. There was a gradual increase in the size of the skin and scalp lesions. A progressive, painless, flexion deformity of both the upper and lowe...

Boughton, K., Gandy, G., and Gairdner, D. (1970). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 45, 311. Hyaline membrane disease. H: Lung lecithin. The lecithin content of lung, together with its surface tension properties, were determined in 34 stillbirths, and 61 neonatal deaths. Lecithin content ranged widely from 1-5 to 18 6% of dry lung tissue. In 24 cases the 'palmitic-lecithin' was also measured; i...

Angelopteromyia korneyevi Mohamadzade Namin, sp. n. from Iran is described and figured. The new species is similar to other species of Angelopteromyia in having abdominal spiracles 5 of females not approximated medially, as well as clypeus extended postero-ventrally, antenna shorter than face, and R(1) and R(4+5) setulose on dorsal side. It differs from other species of Angelopteromyia by havin...

Hyaline fibromatosis syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disease characterized by the presence of contracture and joint pain, hyperpigmented plaques and nodules and gingival hypertrophy. These findings are the result of the accumulation of a hyaline amorphous material similar to collagen type VI in different tissues. This syndrome includes systemic hyalinosis and juvenile hyaline fibromatosi...