Hepatic angiomyolipoma is an extremely rare benign hamartomatous lesion. Situs inversus totalis is a genetic condition occurring in 0.01% of the population. Following the kidney, the liver is the second most common site of angiomyolipoma. No consensus on the treatment of hepatic angiomyolipoma has been reached. However, the majority of these tumours are managed conservatively. Situs inversus to...

A patient with Crohn's disease and alopecia totalis is described. Despite relative inactivity of the Crohn's disease, treatment with azathioprine was commenced. This led to complete regrowth of hair which was lost when the drug was discontinued. Re-institution of azathioprine restored hair to normal again and the patient has since declined to try stopping the drug despite the knowledge of poten...

We present a case of sarcoidosis complicated by total alopecia and a myopathy occurring in a young West Indian woman. There was a very satisfactory response to oral steroids.

Introduction: Situs inversus totalis is an uncommon anomaly which exist a complete transposition of organs and it's occasionally associated with congenital heart diseases, such as tetralogy of fallot. Pheochromocytoma is a rare neuroendocrine tumor with an annual incidence of 2-8 cases per million people and for years has been studied its relationship with the hypoxic pathway. Case Report: A 29...

OBJECTIVES To study the frequency of nail changes in a population of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients and to evaluate the specificity of these findings by comparison with HIV-negative control subjects. DESIGN Prospective controlled study. Nail changes were recorded by a standardized clinical examination (curvature, nail plate, color, onychomycosis). In case of clinical dia...

In 1886 Hutchinson described the first case of alopecia totalis congenita associated with atrophy of the skin, and in 1904 Gilford reported a similar case and described it as premature senility (senilitas praecox) or progeria. From that time to the present about 20 cases have been described in the world literature (Curtin and Kotzen, 1929; Talbot, Butler, Pratt, MacLachlan and Tannheimer, 1945;...