A 24-year-old man presented with a recurrent epithelioid angiomyolipoma (EAML) [ 1 ] . Five months earlier, the patient had undergone a right radical nephrectomy with removal of a 24-cm EAML that ruptured during surgery. At the time of presentation, there was a 20-cm tumor with evidence of intratumoral hemorrhage (Fig. 8.1 ), and the patient’s hemoglobin was 3.8 g/dL. After transfusion, arteria...

We report an unusual malignant tumour affecting an unusual site. Epithelioid haemangioendothelioma was formerly considered a tumour of intermediate malignancy but has been reclassified as fully malignant. It is important to be aware of this clinical entity as the best hope of cure is timely radical resection. There is a paucity of evidence concerning the efficacy of alternative treatments becau...

OBJECTIVE Children with leprosy attending a tertiary care hospital during the post-elimination period, in the Karnataka state of south India, have been studied. Data on childhood leprosy collected by the field health workers from district leprosy office during the same period through community survey was also analysed. RESULTS In the hospital, 61 new childhood cases were diagnosed, 19.7% of t...

Pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (PEH) is a rare neoplasm, largely unresponsive to chemotherapeutic medications, and with varied prognosis. Imaging on computerized tomography may demonstrate perivascular nodules, but diagnosis is ultimately made on biopsy with immunohistochemical analysis. Here we describe a case of PEH in a 14-year-old male with Crohn's disease, which, to our knowled...

In a previous communication (Mackie, 1938) we have reported observations upon the Shigella dysenteriae agglutinin curves in a group of patients presenting the intestinal pathology of chronic bacillary dysentery and bacteriologic or serologic evdence of infection by these organisms. Fluctuation of the titre curves in individual patients, the common finding of higher titres in the culture-negativ...

This study reports a retrospective analysis of the records of 2709 leprosy patients, attending the Out patient’s Clinic at Agra, over a 1-year period, 2005. The patients with leprosy have been categorized into three groups, viz., regular, irregular and the drop-outs. The number of drop-out patients was significantly higher [Z=2.16, p=0.05] among males, 32.14% (667) when compared with females, 2...

It is difficult to evaluate the effect of treatment on any disease. This is particularly true of gram-negative bacillary infections of the urinary tract. Criteria for infection are different today from what they were ten years ago and definitions of successful treatment differ from one report to the next. New forms of treatment are being tested before the effect of available methods is establis...

Intravascular papillary endothelial hyperplasia (intravascular angiomatosis) is a lesion which several authors regard as a reactive phenomenon associated with such vascular alterations as hemangiomas, hematomas, varix, thrombi or dilated vessels while others consider it a neoplasm. An extensive review of the literature and a discussion of the previously reported points of view with a report of ...