HIV-associated histoplasmosis is mainly misdiagnosed for granulomatous diseases, such as tuberculosis. Nonetheless, malignancy-like lesions have been reported sporadically in HIV-infected patients. Although the main reported lesions are erosive or ulcerated, here a rare case of oral tumor is reported. This case raises the awareness of this presentation, and the importance of accurate identifica...

A 72-year-old white female presented with 3-week history of increasing abdominal pain, bilateral leg swelling, decreasing urine output and shortness of breath. She started to have worsening bilateral leg edema right greater than left. She had Doppler ultrasound of her legs which was negative for deep vein thrombosis. She was prescribed furosemide two times daily with minimal improvement in swel...

A group of clinical conditions with the spectrum of adult onset Spondyloarthritis (SpA) characterized at presentation by the inflammatory involvement of the lower limb joints and entheses and in some cases, particularly those with HLA-B27, sacroiliac and spinal joint involvement. Enthesitis Related Arthritis (ERA) and Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA), both categories of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis c...

Cardiac echinococcosis is extremely rare. Its incidence, even in countries where it is endemic, is less than 2 per cent of the total incidence of echinococcosis. Since the first case described by Deve (I9OI) less than ioo have been reported. The diagnosis can easily be suspected and surgical treatment is simple and lifesaving if it is done before complications set in. We present 6 cases of hyda...

A 38-year-old Caucasian woman was referred to the hematology clinic for unexplained leukocytosis and thrombocytosis and ‘possible myeloproliferative disorder’. Her history included only Grave’s disease (GD) in remission for 2 years after methimazole treatment. A recent blood count revealed hemoglobin content to be 12.8 g/dl; white blood cells 20.7 10 m/l (neutrophils 9.5 10; lymphocytes 8.3 10;...

Clinical features and laboratory data are presented for 100 patients with benign gastric ulceration and 150 patients with duodenal ulceration confirmed endoscopically in a district general hospital unit. Abdominal pain was the commonest indication for endoscopy, but one third of examinations were performed for acute gastrointestinal haemorrhage. Although the patients were selected by referral f...

BACKGROUND Sarcoidosis is a multisystem disease affecting different organs with different frequency rates depending on geographical location. Musculoskeletal abnormalities includes osseous lesions (small and large bone sarcoidosis), sarcoidal arthropathy, and sarcoidal myopathy. Musculoskeletal involvement is reported in a significant number of patients. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to determi...

Abstract Background Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) is an uncommon and lethal side effect of neuroleptics. The clinical expression this diverse. Even with criteria diagnosis, it hard to recognize easily. We report a series 25 cases NMS among patients hospitalized in psychiatric service at Oujda for 5 years. have described the characteristics these patients, treatments received, management,...