Castleman’s disease (CD) is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder of unknown cause. In even rarer circumstances, it can be associated with POEMS (peripheral neuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy and sk in changes) syndrome. We report a case of multicentric plasma cell CD with POEMS syndrome, who presented with inguinal masses and lower extremity weakness for years. Compu...

BACKGROUND Polyneuropathy organomegaly endocrinopathy M-protein skin changes (POEMS) syndrome is a rare cause of polyneuropathy. Calciphylaxis, a severe disease leading to necrotic ulcers of the skin, is associated with POEMS syndrome and also with renal disease. This case report describes a patient with POEMS syndrome plus primary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. CASE PRESENTATION A 27-ye...

Now, thirty-two years after graduating from the Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing (BS ‘84) in my hometown of Richmond, I can safely say that the single most important course I took in nursing school was not in nursing. Rather, it was a health humanities and medical ethics course taught in the School of Medicine by a hospital chaplain, Reverend Bob Yo...

This research article makes a Post-Structuralist study of seven of Wilfred Owen’s war poems: these are 'Futility", "Dulce et Decorum est", "Disabled", "Exposure", "The Show", and "Mental Cases”. Believing in the Post-Structuralist fact that language is not static but perpetually in process, and that the texts are plural, open to number of interpretations, this article makes an analysis of Owen'...

It is a well known fact that written culture suppressed oral culture in the historical process, but often in such a way that oral creations were also written down (and not simply rejected). So it is that it happened that the manner of notation adapted to the needs of the written media was in fact built into the texts of oral poems. For that reason, the history of oral lyrics together with the o...

This article presents a discussion of 'Place Name' based poems in post-independence Odia poetry. That is the 'Poetry Regional Geography', other words Place Names'. In all these 'Geography' not only expressed here as source natural beauty; History, society, culture, people's life, struggles, revolutions and new surgeon's public consciousness have emerged it! poems, Geographical field, kind etern...

Lenalidomide is an effective therapy against malignant plasma cells and a potent agent against proinflammatory and proangiogenic cytokines. The use of lenalidomide in POEMS (polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal protein with plasma cells, skin changes) has been reported, but its benefit in long-term use is not well established. A 55-year-old man with POEMS and debilitating po...

Chylothorax results from various causes, such as malignancy, trauma, or infection. POEMS syndrome (polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy, and skin changes) is a multisystemic syndrome that is associated with plasma cell disorder. Pleural effusion is a common manifestation of POEMS syndrome, but the association of POEMS syndrome with chylothorax has not been reporte...

‘Hojjat-al-Tafasir’ commentary is a ten volume commentary among Shiite contemporary commentaries. It has been written by an Iranian Persian scientist, Sayyed Abdol Hojjat Balaghi. Seven volumes assigns to commentary and the first two volumes is about general setting of descent of the Quran and its elements and tenth volume also belongs to complementary explanations. Sayyed Abdol Hoj...