نتایج جستجو برای: Elephantiasis

تعداد نتایج: 545  

Journal: :Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 1934

2010
Chintamani JP Singh Megha Tandon Rohan Khandelwal Tushar Aeron Sidharth Jain Nikhil Narayan Rahul Bamal Yashwant Kumar S Srinivas Sunita Saxena

INTRODUCTION Elephantiasis as a result of chronic lymphedema is characterized by gross enlargement of the arms, legs or genitalia, and occurs due to a variety of obstructive diseases of the lymphatic system. Genital elephantiasis usually follows common filariasis and lymphogranuloma venereum. It may follow granuloma inguinale, carcinomas, lymph node dissection or irradiation and tuberculosis bu...

AR HONARMAND, MR RAFII, MR RAZZAGHI,

Neurofibromatosis being manifested as scrotal elephantiasis is a very rare condition and in review of the literature no such presentation was found. Here we report a 20 year old man who presented with scrotal elephantiasis and consequently, a pathological diagnosis of neurofibromatosis was reached.

Journal: :Journal of vector borne diseases 2015
Mulat Yimer Tadesse Hailu Wondemagegn Mulu Bayeh Abera

Elephantiasis is a symptom of a variety of diseases that is characterized by the thickening of the skin and underlying tissues, especially in the legs, male genitals and female breasts. Some conditions having this symptom include: Elephantiasis nostras, due to longstanding chronic lymphangitis; Elephantiasis tropica or lymphatic filariasis, caused by a number of parasitic worms, particularly Wu...

2011
Isao Tada

1.1 Pathogenesis of elephantiasis, and historical controversy as to on the role of bacterial infection Elephantiasis occurs in the chronic stage of lymphatic filariasis due to the obstruction of lymphatic vessels by filariae. After invasion into lymph vessels, third stage larvae grow to maturity in the lymphatic system, mainly in and around the genitourinary system. Amaral et al. (1994) [1] obs...

Journal: :Journal of the American Medical Association 1918

2012
Harsh Mohan Bhumika Bisht Poonam Goel Geeta Garg

Introduction. Elephantiasis is a chronic manifestation of filariasis; it commonly affects limbs, scrotum, and trunk. Females have lower incidence of filarial infection. Vulval elephantiasis due to filariasis is still rarer. It is difficult to make the diagnosis on histopathology alone, more so in view of the fact that the parasite is usually not identified in tissue sections. Identification of ...

Journal: :medical journal of islamic republic of iran 0
mr razzaghi from the departments of urology . medical school, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran. islamic republic of iran. ar honarmand from the departments of urology . medical school, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran. islamic republic of iran. mr rafii from the departments of *pathology. medical school, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran. islamic republic of iran.

neurofibromatosis being manifested as scrotal elephantiasis is a very rare condition and in review of the literature no such presentation was found. here we report a 20 year old man who presented with scrotal elephantiasis and consequently, a pathological diagnosis of neurofibromatosis was reached.

2016
Joseph Fayrer

an early mpjfcality of twenty-seven per cent, in sixty-one cases of operation for Scrotal Elephantiasis reported by Fayrer Oh" referring to my published record of these cases, I obsor-ve that the total number of cases operated upon during, .the yea-s, 1859 to 1871 amounted to 193, of which 35, or a fraction over 18 per cent., proved fatal. This is befit'dr than represented by Koch's, as above q...

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