Selenium toxicity: A rare diagnosis

Prepubertal Diagnosis of Klinefelter Syndrome: A Rare Case Report

Klinefelter syndrome is characterised by advancing testicular function deterioration causing aspermatogenesis and androgen deficiency. Klinefelter patients characteristically have complete male sex differentiation, and genital anomalies are infrequently associated. Penoscrotal malformations at birth are very rare in this syndrome. Nonetheless, it is important to know the association, as one of...

Selenium Deficiency and Toxicity in the Environment

Selenium safeguards the liver against 5flurouracil-induced toxicity

Hepatotoxic effect of 5-Fluourouracil (5-FU) can deprive cancer patients of maximum therapeutic benefits. Aim: This study assessed the ability of selenium (Se) to protect against hepatotoxicity induced by 5-FU in rats. Forty adult albino rats were groups and used. Rats in group A (control) were treated intraperitoneally (ip) with 0.2ml of normal saline daily for 5 days. Rats in groups B1-B3 wer...

Hemarthrosis subtalar, a rare diagnosis☆

Type B hemophilia usually affects patients with a family history of this disease and has a typical clinical picture. However, in the present case it appeared in a patient outside the typical age with no family history of hematologic malignancies and with an unusual clinical picture.

[Purulent pericarditis: a rare diagnosis].

The authors present two cases of purulent pericarditis secondary to pneumococcus pneumonia, a rare entity in the antibiotic era, one of them in an apparently healthy person. A systematized diagnostic approach to moderate pericardial effusion is presented, together with a review of purulent pericarditis. The presence of pericardial effusion with persistent fever with or without known etiology, p...