Tuberculosis remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in diabetes in developing countries. The magnitude of the problem should be considered with serious concern as overwhelmingly larger number of people in our country have type 2 diabetes and they are more likely to suffer from reactivation of old foci and contracting fresh infection. Tuberculosis is a chronic and serious infecti...

Objective. To study histopathology of the thyroid and parathyroid glands in HIV-infected African Americans in the United States. Methods. A retrospective review of 102 autopsy cases done by the Department of Pathology at Howard University Hospital from 1980 through 2007 was conducted. The histopathological findings of the thyroid and parathyroid glands were reviewed, both macroscopically and mi...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of tuberculous cervical lymphadenopathy mimicking metastasis from papillary thyroid cancer. STUDY DESIGN Case series. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Surgical Unit-I, Ward-3 of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi, from March 2005 to March 2010. METHODOLOGY All patients above 12 years of age of either gender diagnosed on investigations as papillary ...

A 35-year-old Chinese man who was known to have insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus was admitted for fever and weight loss. During his hospital stay, he fell to his death from his ward at the twelfth floor. The clinical features, radiological findings and gross organ changes at autopsy closely simulated miliary tuberculosis. Histology, however, revealed extensive necrosis of the adrenal glands,...

Lurie et al. ' have found that administration of thyroid hormones can increase the level of native resistance to tuberculosis in rabbits, and that thyroidectomy and antithyroid drugs have the opposite effect. On the other hand, the harmful effects of iodides on the clinical manifestations of human leprosy are well known. 0 'Byrne2 and Roj as' have reported favourable responses in the treatment ...