Purpose Juvenile xanthogranuloma (JXG) is a rare histiocytic skin disease primarily of young children, which may also affect ocular structures and in particular the iris. Observations This is a case report of a fifty-year-old patient without skin lesions showing a progressive decrease of visual acuity, iris vascularization and a yellowish iris tumor in the iridocorneal angle of his right eye....

The present article reports the case of a 22-yr-old female with new onset Crohn's colitis, anterior uveitis and multiple pulmonary nodules which, on histological examination, were necrobiotic nodules. This is a rare but recognised pulmonary extraintestinal manifestation of Crohn's disease and only the fourth reported case. The present case report is followed by a brief review of the relevant li...

Patients with rheumatoid disease may develop thoracic complications, including pleural effusion, solitary or multiple necrobiotic nodules, pulmonary fibrosis, and Caplan's syndrome.1-3 Although vasculitis occurs in rheumatoid disease in a number of sites, pulmonary vasculitis has received little attention in the literature. We describe a case of acute, localised, necrotising pulmonary arteritis...

An 18-year-old white man presented with a non-painful yellow raised swelling on the inferior limbus of his right eye. Systemic and ocular examination revealed no other abnormalities. The lesion was dealt with by simple excision, but when it recurred fairly soon it was removed in toto and replaced by a lamellar graft, without recurrence. Histological examination revealed a typical xanthogranulom...