SURGICAL TREATMENT OF ELEPHANTIASIS SCROTI COMPLICATED WITH REDUCIBLE SCROTAL HERNIA, 1st BY PERFORMING A MODIFICATION OF WOOD'S OPERATION ON THE HERNIA; AND 2ndlt, BY EXCISION OF THE DISEASED SCROTUM. Case I.? Aheer, u Mahoinedan cultivator, aged 40 years, who Lad long been in bad health, was admitted into Mr. Cntcliffe's ward on the 28th November, 1871, with elephantiasis of the scrotum of tw...

BACKGROUND Scrotal lymphedema is rare outside endemic filariasis regions in Africa and Asia. It is of variable origin in the western world. CASE PRESENTATION We present a case of a 40-year-old European man with massive elephantiasis of the scrotum attributed to chronic inflammation of the lower urinary tract caused by urinary outlet obstruction and diabetes mellitus. The patient underwent sub...

Cutaneous tuberculosis can present as either primary or secondary infection, or it can be associated with systemic tuberculosis. It can present with unusual clinical and histological features causing delay in diagnosis and treatment. Tuberculosis verrucosa cutis occurs as a single verrucous lesion over exposed areas of the body along with inflammatory borders and discharging sinus. Here, we are...

Sera from cases of elephantiasis due to Wuchereria bancrofti infection promoted an intense adhesion of peripheral blood leukocytes to W. bancrofti microfilariae in vitro. A similar adhesion was also seen using sera from some normal persons living for several years in areas where filariasis is endemic. No such adhesion was evident with sera from microfilaria carriers or from normal subjects from...

This study examines the effect of pH changes on photosynthetic characteristics and the role of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) in determining the dominance of three species of macroalgae Chaetomorpha linum (O.F. Müller) Kützing, Gracilaria verrucosa (Hudson) Papenfuss and Ulva sp. in a Mediterranean coastal lagoon. Fluctuations of pH were measured in the lagoon in summer. Water column CO(2) an...

In this study, renewable marine cellulose from red algae Gracilaria verrucosa was utilized for the production of bioethanol. Bioethanol from the red alga cellulose was produced by the enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation methods and the conversion value of the cellulose in Gracilaria verrucosa was estimated. Trichoderma viride fungus and Zymomonas mobilis bacterium were used for enzymatic hydr...