Juvenile papillomatosis of the breast ("Swiss cheese disease'') is a benign localized proliferative condition of the breast which occurs almost exclusively in young adult women. Patients with this lesion often have a family history of breast carcinoma, but rarely carcinoma may coexist with the lesion at the time of diagnosis. We present a case of a young male with juvenile papillomatosis of the...

TOPIC: Chest Infections TYPE: Fellow Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) is a rare disease characterized by lesions within the tract secondary to human papilloma virus (HPV) [1]. The carries bimodal distribution, further classified as juvenile or adult onset dependent on age at diagnosis. Juvenile-onset RRP thought be vertical transmission birth, and often self...

The sequence of cellular alterations in urinary bladder epithelium associated with uracil-induced reversible urolithiasis was investigated in male F344 rats. Initial changes were submucosal edema with occasional mucosal erosion or ulceration which appeared on Day 2 of uracil administration. Simple hyperplasia of bladder epithelium was already evident at this time and calculus formation was note...

To cite: Shiau E-L, Li M-F, Hsu J-H, et al. Thorax 2014;69:302–303. A 49-year-old male had history of recurrent laryngeal papillomatosis spreading to the bronchus and lung parenchyma since childhood. He had been treated with repeated endoscopic CO2 laser excision (figure 1). He had no smoking history. He was admitted with a 3-day history of worsening fever, cough and dyspnoea. Chest radiography...