have given rise to a misconception on my part. Secondly, with regard to ny " obvious" inference, and the error into which I have fallen thereby, I think we are here at cross-purposes. Your reviewer is perfectly right in thinking that T consider a rinse with antiseptic lotion between two dressings sufficient, with the important proviso that? the directions given above on the same page are compli...

Aseptic diskitis is relatively common. Several rheumatic diseases involving the spine may have this complication. As this condition mimic infectious diskitis, it is important to recognize it. Clinically, it is characterised by vertebral pain of an inflammatory nature, occasionally accompanied by fever and an increase in the erythrocyte sedimentation rate. Radiologically, the decrease in the art...

Drug-induced aseptic meningitis attributable to trimethoprim alone has only rarely been documented in the literature. A previously healthy adolescent male presented to our hospital with recurrent headaches, photophobia, and meningismus after serially starting and stopping trimethoprim. Cerebrospinal fluid studies revealed elevated white blood cell counts with a polymorphonuclear predominance. T...

Splenic abscesses are most often secondary to aerobic bacterial infections due to Streptococcus, Staphylococcus, and Enterococcus species of organisms. Sterile splenic abscesses rarely occur and diagnosis and treatment of those are challenging. We report a case of a previously healthy young female presenting with aseptic splenic abscesses as the initial manifestation of Crohn's disease along wi...

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a clinical form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) presumed to have an autoimmune etiology. The coexistence of UC and aseptic subcutaneous abscess has been extremely rare and almost all are adult case reports or small series and very few pediatric cases have been reported. We describe a 15-year-old girl with UC complicated with concomitant aseptic subcutaneous absces...