conclusions whenever a cushingoid appearance is accompanied by adrenal insufficiency, the exogenous use of steroids, especially topical creams, should be explored. hypertension may persist even after cessation of use and may result in life threatening complications. case presentation the present report describes the cases of three children and a 25-year-old man who presented with clinical featu...

Kwang-Won Lee, Sung-Jin Choi, Jae-Hyuk Ahn, Dong-Il Moon, Tae Jung Park, Sang Yup Lee, and Yang-Kyu Choi School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Division of Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea BioProcess Engineering Research Center, Center for Systems and Synthetic Biotechnology, and Institute for the BioCentury, KAIST, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of K...

This multi-center randomized trial [1] in children with steroid sensitive nephrotic syndrome (NS) compared prednisolone therapy for 2 months versus 6 months. Authors evaluated time to occurrence of frequent relapse, time to first relapse, and various adverse events in 255 children (1-15 years) from 90 Japanese hospitals presenting with first episode of NS. Those who achieved remission within 3 ...

From Australia, three new schizopterid genera are described for six new species. The three new genera and Pachyplagioides Gross, 1951 share a declivent head with well-developed internal postocciptal region and a 3-segmented labium with bulbous base. The new genera and species are Parvodeceptor infrequens gen. n., sp. n., Dextritubus cucullatus gen. n., sp. n., D. acucullatus gen. n., sp. n., D....

Dr. Küpeli and his colleagues[1] should be congratulated for their success in treating hemangiomatosis, which could be life threatining depending on the localization of hemangiomas, with propranolol. I prefer the term infantile hemangiomatosis instead of segmental hemangiomatosis[ 2] for the authors’ patient. My primary reason in writing this letter is to clarify MDMP treatment, which caused se...

Abstract Ectopic Cushing syndrome from a primary carcinoma of the cervix is an exceedingly rare phenomenon. The objective this review to describe our clinical case and summarize characteristics, investigations, outcomes all published cases. We previously healthy 39-year-old woman presenting with abnormal uterine bleeding, leading diagnosis stage IIIC1 small cell neuroendocrine cervix, human pap...

To cite: Patell R, Dosi R, Sheth S, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2014204685 DESCRIPTION An urgent medical consult was called for refractory postoperative hypotension, without any apparent obvious cause, in a 50-year-old previously normotensive woman following bilateral hip surgery under spinal anaesthesia. Blood pressure was persistently ...

\The skull seems broken as with some big weapon, but there's no weapon at all lying about, and the murderer would have found it awkward to carry it away, unless the weapon was to small to be noticed." \Perhaps the weapon was too big to be noticed," said the priest, with an odd little giggle. Gilder looked round at this wild remark, and rather sternly asked Brown what he meant. \Silly way of put...

In situ occurrences of the calcareous marine phylloid alga Calcipatera cottonwoodensis in the Permian Cottonwood Limestone Member (Beattie Limestone) occur in Greenwood County, Kansas, in association with platy algal packstones, which are the phylloid algal facies most commonly described in the literature. The in situ algal facies occurs in the upper 0.45 m of an exposure where it is overlain a...

Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a relatively rare but an aggressive neoplasm that can have variety of manifes­tations. It manifest in the form virilization, hyperaldosteronism, cushingoid features or combination that. Due to rapid appearance signs and symptoms children, these tumours be diagnosed early however if delayed bear worse prognosis as they tend metastasize course disease progression...