Three cases of local extraocular extension of retinoblastoma following intraocular surgery via a transscleral approach have been seen in one centre during a 12-month period. This number represents a significant increase on the previous incidence of this serious complication, which may be related to more widespread use of vitrectomy techniques. Orbital and local lymph node recurrence of retinobl...

Subglottic stenosis is a complication of Wegener’s granulomatosis caused by tracheal tissue damage and scarring. It may occur as a presenting feature of the disease leading to diagnosis, or instead as a late-stage manifestation. Frequently, it occurs or progresses independently of other features of active disease, and sometimes appears while the general disease is in remission under therapy. Th...

Osteoarticular amyloidosis can be one of the musculoskeletal system manifestations related to dialysis. We share our experience in dealing with a case of disseminated haemodialysis-associated amyloidosis in a 74-year-old end-stage renal failure patient. This patient suffered from a serious complication, namely an unprovoked pathological fracture at the basal neck region of the right femur. Poly...

Mondor's disease is a rare, benign condition characterised by thrombophlebitis affecting subcutaneous veins of the chest and/or abdomen without an accompanying inflammatory response. The disease has a multifactorial etiology and its course is benign. It is usually self-limiting or it is eliminated by local treatment. Mondor's disease in the thoracoepigastric region may be a rare complication of...

Immunoglobulin A (IgA) nephropathy associated with cirrhosis is the most common form of secondary IgA nephropathy (IgAN). Cirrhosis-related IgAN is usually clinically silent with a rare occurrence of gross hematuria, unlike in cases of idiopathic IgAN. Especially, acute tubular necrosis (ATN) associated with gross hematuria is very rare in cirrhosis-related IgAN, although acute renal failure is...

Renal cell carcinoma is usually seen in the native kidney but may be seen in the renal allograft. We report a rare case of renal cell carcinoma in a 56-year-old renal allograft recipient who was transplanted for end-stage renal disease induced by analgesic nephropathy. This complication developed after 13 years of renal transplantation. Patient was investigated for hematuria and abdominal pain ...

Congenital hypomyelinating neuropathy (CHN) is a rare congenital neuropathy characterized by non-progressive weakness, areflexia, hypotonia, slow nerve conduction velocities, and hypo-, or in some cases, amyelination. Patients usually present in infancy and may die within the first several years of life, usually after infectious complication. Infantile CHN presents later and patients survive se...

The carotid body tumour is the most common head and neck paraganglioma arising from the carotid bodies located at the bifurcation of the common carotid arteries. These are very rare tumors with an incidence of 0.012% in general population. They present as slow growing, asymptomatic neck masses of varying duration. They occur in sporadic, hereditary and hyperplastic variants. The hereditary form...

In a dental hospital, patients reporting with exposed bone in the palate/maxilla with or without pus discharging sinuses are generally clinically diagnosed as osteomyelitis which can occur as a complication of odontogenic bacterial infections, traumatic injuries, herpes zoster infection, aspergillosis, mucormycosis or iatrogenic infections. We present a series of four cases, all of which were i...

Nipple necrosis is a usual complication after breast plastic surgery, however a spontaneous necrosis of the nipple is exceptional and especially without any apparent etiology. We searched in all accessible databases without finding a similar case in the literature. It's a about a 14 years old girl, refugee in Zaatari camp in Jordan. In her medical history, we found a purulent pleurisy of atypic...