Acute calcific periarthritis (ACP) is an uncommon forefoot condition with a few cases reported in the literature. It often misdiagnosed and may result unnecessary diagnostic therapeutic procedures due to its association other systemic diseases similar clinical presentation. A 70-year-old man presented emergency room soft tissue swelling local erythema tenderness fifth metatarsophalangeal region...

Salmonella infections in infancy and early childhood show a marked tendency to invade the blood-stream and produce foci of suppuration in various organs and tissues. Certain strains appear to become localized in particular sites; thus b. enteritidis (Gaertner's bacillus) and the closely related b. dublin, frequently infect the meninges causing suppurative meningitis. B. suipestifer (the hog cho...

All the 64 cases in this series were outpatients with their diagnosis made according to the Criteria of Diagnosis and Therapeutic Effects for TCM Syndromes (1999 Edition) stipulated by the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Of them, 5 cases were at the age of 40-48 years, 52 cases 49-55 years, 7 cases 56-65 years. 38 cases were female and 26 male, ranging in course of disease...

The effects of prednisolone and anti-macrophage serum (AMS) on the development of cardiac and articular lesions were compared in experimentally infected mice with group A hemolytic streptococci. The predonine-treated mice had a higher mortality rate and greater abscess formation than in the AMS-treated mice. The predonine-treated group had a higher incidence of cardiac lesions due to chronic pe...