Introduction.?? Eosinophilia ' is very much in fashion just now in medical literature. Terms such as ' eosinophilia of lungs ' tropical eosinophilia ' and ' idiopathic eosinophilia' do certainly connote certain syndromes the existence of which cannot be denied. However, experience with certain peculiarly staining leucocytes met with under varying conditions of health may prove interesting in th...

Introduction: Eosinophils produce proteases that stimulate invasion in cancers. Due to the more malignant potential of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) compared to cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC), the aim of the present study was to compare tissue eosinophilia between OSCC and CSCC samples to understand whether tissue eosinophilia play a role in different biological...

BACKGROUND Blood eosinophilia is a common laboratory abnormality, and its characterization frequently represents a quandary for primary care physicians. Consequently, in France, specialists and particularly hematologists, often must investigate patients who present with blood eosinophilia that often, but not always, occurs because of allergic causes. Both the Departments of Hematology and Paras...

BACKGROUND Eosinophilia is common in premature infants, though its clinical significance remains unknown. This study investigated the pattern of eosinophilia and related factors in very low birth-weight (VLBW) infants. METHODS The medical records of VLBW infants (birth body weight < 1500 g) admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit of a tertiary care center of Cheng Kung University Hospita...

a search was made for the existence of tropical eosinophilia among the patients of this hospital. It would have been an enormous task if every case with a complaint of chest symptoms was subjected to rr-ray investigations and blood counts, so a plan was hit upon, which was as follows. It is the routine of this hospital to have a thick smear of blood examined for malarial parasites for each pati...

Asthma and eosinophilia are two closely related pathologies whose interaction is key in the era of precision medicine. However, this relationship rarely taken into account without influence therapeutic prescriptions. In study involving 1296 subjects, between asthma was analyzed taking other biases. We observed that rhinitis only appears non-asthmatic patients with elevated blood eosinophil leve...

Myeloid sarcoma is a rare extramedullary tumor of immature myeloid cells. It has been very rarely reported as lateral cervical mass in English literature. Myeloid sarcoma has also been reported with marked eosinophilia. Here we present a 17 year old boy with lateral cervical mass and persistent eosinophilia. The mass was isointense in MRI and homogenously enhanced after contrast injection which...