In this report we describe a patient with sub-acute bacteremic brucellosis complicated by Brucella parotitis with abscess formation as a paradoxical reaction on therapy. A 69 years old male known to have Warthin’s tumor of parotid glands two years before his presentation. He presented with generalized ill-health, body-aches and feeling of further enlargement of his previous swellings at jaw ang...

Brucellosis is an endemic disease in developing countries. The most commonly observed complications include bone-joint involvement, particularly sacroiliitis and spondylitis. Epidural abscesses caused by brucellosis are a rare complication. We describe the case of a 33-year-old man presenting with high fever, back pain, and weakness. At physical examination, the patient was found to be parapare...

Swelling in the salivary glands, particularly parotid glands, is observed in approximately one third of Sjögren's syndrome patients. However, such patients should be assessed in terms of causes such as malignancies, infections, amyloidosis, sarcoidosis, and other autoimmune diseases when parotid gland swelling is noted. It should be considered that the incidence of lymphoma increases in Sjögren...

Medicine Service of the Hospital Condes de Castro Guimarães, Cascais Received for publication on the 18 November 97 Abstract The hepatic pseudotumoural localization of brucellosis is rare: only 29 cases have been described in the literature. The authors present a case of chronic hepatic pseudotumoural brucellosis, in a patient who underwent a partial hepatectomy, 14 years earlier, prior to this...

Brucellosis in Britain is usually caused by Brucella abortus and mainly affects those in direct contact with cattle or their unpasteurised milk products.1 2 Bone and joint brucellosis constitutes about 9° of brucellosis infections and the spine is the commonest site of skeletal infection.1 3Brucellar spondylitis most often presents with back pain and leg pain, resembling an intervertebral disc ...

Spinal epidural abscess is rare but serious medical condition which may cause permanent neurological deficits, or even death, if not treated. Staphylococcus aureus is the responsible microorganism in most spinal abscess cases. However, rarely other microorganisms like Brucella may be responsible. Brucellosis, a zoonotic infection endemic in the Mediterranean Region, Middle East; and South and C...

Splenic abscess due to Brucella spp. is extremely rare. We report a case of a splenic abscess due to Brucella spp. in a 61-year-old male patient. Brucella slide and tube agglutination tests (Wright) were positive while blood culture and culture from splenic tissue yielded negative results. The abdominal ultrasonography revealed a hypoechoic intrasplenic mass 15x12 mm in diameter at the middle p...

conclusions in conclusion, in spite of usually benign features, chronic otitis media may lead to serious complications such as brain abscess. every effort should be made for microbiological diagnosis of the causative pathogen(s) for appropriate antibiotic treatment. introduction brain abscess is a rare life-threatening focal intracerebral infection. the etiology of brain abscess depends on trau...

Brucellosis is an acute and chronic disease of cattle and can be transmitted to human beings. This disease is associated with numerous clinical manifestations and the rate of incidence of its skin complications is 5% in the affected patients. One of its rare skin complications is brucella abscess. In this study a 9-years old girl is presented with skin abscess of the posterior part of right ank...