ciated with diabetes mellitus, with only LN associated to this condition. However, this theory was proven to be unfounded, as it was discovered that both diseases can be associated or not with diabetes mellitus.1,2,3 In the present case, a 46-year-old female patient reported the appearance of annular lesions on her forearms and legs over the past three years, with local yet discreet pruritis. T...

introduction: the aim of this study was to evaluate mental health in temporomandibular disorders (tmd) patients considering: gender, age, and grade of chronic pain scales (gcps). materials and methods: the data were collected using general health questionnaire (ghq-28) for evaluating mental health and research diagnostic criteria for tmd for evaluating gcps, age, and gender from 75 tmd patient ...

We report a case of a 45 year old non HIV infected female, who presented with multiple painful, livid reddish brown plaques, papules and nodules on both lower limbs and left index finger. The cutaneous nodular lesions on biopsy showed characteristic features of Kaposi's sarcoma. This case is reported due to paucity of Kapsi's sarcoma in non HIV Persons. It is typically a disease of older men fr...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains prevalent in developing countries and has recently re-emerged in the Western world. The spread of the disease is aided by poverty and overcrowding. However, the increased prevalence of HIV and multidrug-resistant TB has accelerated the gravity of this epidemic [1-5]. The true incidence of intra-abdominal TB is unknown as patients with concurrent pulmonary TB may be asy...

A 26-year-old female, immunocompetent, with dysmetria and dysarthria. Diagnostic imaging (Fig 1) demonstrated a cerebellar mass, with a pattern which may be associated to a tumor, although multiple hypointense centers surrounded by ring enhancement after gadolinium may suggest the possibility of many types of infectious lesions, including cryptococcoma. Histological analysis (Fig 2) confirmed t...