The case of Simek Kitty garnered a lot interest in the media between 2002 and 2005. fourteen-year-old girl, who endured her stepfather’s physical, verbal, sexual abuse for ten years, one day shot aggressive man with his own weapon. Although court sentenced young girl deed, President Republic gave amnesty, so she did not have to go jail after all. However, life turned even worse incident. In my ...

In this short presentation I will attempt to accomplish a couple of different goals. First, I will discuss a series of recent cases that set out the doctrine for biotechnology patenting. Judge Lourie of the Federal Circuit has written most of the opinions, and recently one or two other judges have joined in. Looking at these cases is much like looking at a wonderful machine, as the cases progre...

Severe skin involvement complicated a case of sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy in a young Malay girl. The clinical and histological features of this rare manifestation are described.

UNLABELLED Wegeners Granulomatosis is a condition associated with systemic vasculitis which can present with upper respiratory tract symptoms initially. On September 2001, a 15-year-old girl presented with symptoms of nasal block for 3 weeks. She later developed joint pains and worsening renal status requiring dialysis. A renal biopsy was performed which showed pauci-immune cresentric glomerulo...

The screening and detection of recurrent medulloblastoma presents the clinician with significant diagnostic challenges, including the risk of misdiagnosis. The authors present the case of a young girl with a history of a treated standard-risk medulloblastoma that highlights the risk of assuming recurrence has occurred when clinical and/or imaging changes are observed. This girl developed both n...

0882 doi:1 As a pediatric nurse, have you ever wondered whether you're missing the diagnosis of a patient? Have you cared for a young girl who has short stature and frequent ear infections or an adolescent girl without breast tissue? Would you be concerned? If so, would you consider the diagnosis of Turner syndrome? It may be problematic for the pediatric nurse to identify this condition due to...

During a screening program we identified a 5-year old girl with elevated iron parameters. The child was found to have a combination of a novel R176C mutation together with the G320V mutation in the juvenile hemochromatosis gene (HJV). The girl was also homozygous for the H63D mutation in HFE. The possibility of detecting juvenile hemochromatosis before the onset of clinical manifestations raise...