A case of eosinophilic gastroenteritis in a 42-year-old man is described. The patient had diarrhoea, faecal blood loss, a protein-losing enteropathy, malabsorption of fat, xylose and vitamin B12. Co-existent hypopituitarism, diabetes insipidus and hypothalamic dysfunction was demonstrated. Complete clinical recovery occurred with pituitary replacement therapy alone. The association of this endo...

A patient presenting with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and iron deficiency anaemia who, following oral iron therapy, developed the clinical and pathological features of polycythaemia vera is reported. The relationship between these two diseases when co-existing is discussed.

Androids are testbets for studying human-robot interaction. They enable us to compare the developed robot technologies and humans in a direct manner. Especially, they can be used for verifying cognitive and psychological hypotheses. And then the verified hypotheses are applied for improving the androids. This tight connection between robotics and cognitive science is called android science. The...

Paroxysmal tonic upgaze (PTU) is a childhood oculomotor syndrome of unclear etiology characterized by episodic tonic upward eye deviation with neck flexion. Neuroimaging findings are often normal and the electroencephalography during episodes is typically normal. We describe a 2-year-old boy who presented with macrocephaly, hypotonia, developmental delay and episodes of eye fluttering, head nod...

THE co-existence of pulmonary tuberculosis and bronchial carcinoma has been commented on many times and many authors have assessed the relative aetiological importance of the one to the other. It has, for example, been held (Rokitansky, 1854) that tuberculosis and carcinoma were antagonistic, whereas Ewing (1931) believed that tuberculosis was the main aetiological factor in carcinoma of the lu...