OBJECTIVE To study the clinical profile of patients with giant cell arteritis in Mumbai. METHODS From our database, patients with a diagnosis of giant cell arteritis (GCA) over a fifteen year period (January 1990 to December 2005) were included. Clinical manifestations, temporal artery biopsy, treatment, and follow-up data of these patients were analyzed. RESULTS Twenty one patients with GC...

how to cite this article: allmendinger am, ricci ja, desai ns, viswanadhan n, rodriguez d. atypical neuroimaging manifestations of linear scleroderma “en coup de sabre”. iran j child neurol. summer 2015;9(3):62-68. abstract linear scleroderma “en coup de sabre” is a subset of localized scleroderma with band-like sclerotic lesions typically involving the fronto-parietal regions of the scalp. pat...

Skin lesions are often submitted to oral and maxillofacial pathology practices. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the frequency, distribution, variability, and composition of dermatologic lesions within a large oral and maxillofacial pathology biopsy service. An IRB-approved retrospective search of skin lesions diagnosed at University of Florida oral and maxillofacial pathology biopsy se...

To cite: McGrath RB, Flood SP, Casey R. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2014205752 DESCRIPTION A 61-year-old man presented with right pleuritic chest pain, 15 kg weight loss, shortness of breath and two painful scalp lesions (figure 1). He had a 40-pack a year smoking history with exposure to asbestos. Thoracocentesis of a right pleural effusion de...

results in the first series, cellularity and blood levels were significantly lower in capillary-fnb compared with cfnb (p < 0.001 and p = 0.011, respectively). there was no significant difference between cfnb and vacfnb in cellularity and blood (p = 0.15 and p = 0.1, respectively). in the second series, cellularity was significantly higher in cfnb compared with vacfnb (p < 0.001) with no signif...

Allogenic stem cell transplant (SCT) and bone marrow (BMT) are curative of conditions including Leukemias, Sickle disease, Thalassemia. Cutaneous manifestations in a post-transplant patient may be an early sign acute graft versus host disease (aGvHD), serious potentially life-threatening reaction to the transplant. Other causes can include medications, reactivation latent viral infections, owin...

A 35-year-old Japanese woman was referred to our hospital with a small, asymptomatic tumour on her scalp. The lesion had been present for approximately 3 years and was not associated with any pain or tenderness. Physical examination revealed a 1-cm diameter, firm, and slightly reddish subcutaneous tumour on her scalp (Fig. 1). Clinically, the lesion was initially thought to be a pilomatricoma, ...

background and objectives:breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. fine needle aspiration biopsy (fnab) is one of the methods of breast biopsy which is fast, easy and cost effective. the aim of this study was to evaluate the concordance rate between pathologic results of sonography or stereotaxy guided fnab and guided core needle biopsy (cnb) in the evaluation of breast le...

conclusion st-vab and mgl-eb are reliable biopsy methods for microcalcifications. in proper indications, breast microcalcifications could be obtained by each method without missing diagnosis of breast cancer. objectives to evaluate the outcome of st-vab and mammography-guided localization and excisional biopsy (mgl-eb) for microcalcifications. patients and methods two radiologists retrospective...