with childhood malignant disease in general. We found that in children of mothers with epilepsy six of the 39 tumours were lymphomas (ICD, ninth revision, categories 200-202); of these six children, one was classified as having Letterer-Siwe disease and two were brothers whose tumours were classified as familial histiocytosis. If the proportion of lymphomas had been the same as that in the stud...

Congenital self-healing Langerhans cell histiocytosis (CSHLCH), or Hashimoto-Pritzker disease, is a rare variant of Langerhans cell histiocytosis that was first described in 1973 by Hashimoto and Pritzker.1-5 It presents at birth or in the neonatal period.1-9 Few case series have been published in the literature.1,4,5 However, it is believed that the actual incidence is higher and that many cas...

atherosclerosis is the most common cause of myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke. various risk factors have been identified for atherosclerosis. recently, bacterial and viral organisms, which are involved in chronic inflammatory processes, have been also implicated in atherosclerosis development. individuals with a prior history of periodontal diseases and/or tooth loss are considered to be...

We report a rare case of solitary Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) involving the clavicle of an adult female. The patient was a 32-year-old female presenting with 1 month history of progressive pain, swelling, and tenderness in the region near the left sternoclavicular joint. Radiograph, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging showed an osteolytic lesion in the clavicle with tumo...

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context celiac disease (cd) is defined as a permanent intolerance to ingested gluten. the intolerance to gluten results in immune-mediated damage of small intestine mucosa manifested by villous atrophy and crypt hyperplasia. these abnormalities resolve with initiationa gluten-free diet. evidence acquisition pubmed, ovid, and google were searched for full text articles published between 1963 and...

background : there is an association   of celiac disease (cd) with several gastrointestinal illnesses. we aimed to determine   the prevalence of cd in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) to evaluate the value of the routine serological tests for cd in these patients. methods : patients with ibd underwent   screening test for cd. the screening test was based on iga anti-ttg antibody e...

one of the most important summary measures of population health, is disability adjusted life years (daly), introduced for the first time in the project of global burden of disease (gbd), that is the newest as well as the most accepted and familial summary measure of health and the burden of diseases has been measured by this measure at national and regional levels in many countries of the world...