We present here an account of two infant sisters suffering from a congenital and, probably, inherited disease, the chief features of which were epilepsy, cataracts, renal tubular necrosis and an encephalopathy comprising micrencephaly, lack of myelination and cerebellar dysplasia. The condition resembles the so-called Marinesco-Sjogren syndrome and also the oculo-cerebro-renal (Lowe's) syndrome...

Bertie L., aet. 6, has been noticed by his parents never to shed tears from the right eye. On several occasions I have seen him crying, and though the tears flowed copiously from the left eye, they never came from the right. That they were not secreted was demonstrated by drawing away the lower lid from the globe, when there was no accumulation of tears in the cul-de-sac thus formed. In the lef...

Multiagent chemotherapy as neoadjuvant treatment for multifocal intraocular retinoblastoma. Ophthalmology. 2001;108:2106-2115. 9. Madreperla SA, Hungerford JL, Cooling RJ, Sullivan P, Gregor Z. Repair of late retinal detachment after successful treatment of retinoblastoma. Retina. 2000;20:28-32. 10. Baumal CR, Shields CL, Shields JA, Tasman WS. Surgical repair of rhegmatogenous retinal detachme...

matosus. A similar case of Sjogren syndrome and subsequent development of systemic lupus erythematosus has been reported in a 12 year old boy.3 In our patient, two points remain to be clarified, whether the seizures were the first symptom of systemic lupus erythematosus central nervous system involvement and whether any relation can be found between the phenobarbitone treatment and the onset of...

We herein describe a case of an unusual multicentric castleman disease(MCD) accompanied by Thrombocytopenia, Anasarca, myeloFibrosis and Renal failure, compatible with TAFRO syndrome and associated with Sjogren disease. The treatment with corticosteroids dramatically improved the symptoms. The clinical features of this case were similar to those reported previously in Japan but this appears to ...