Late osteosynthesis-associated infection (OAI) is an uncommon and potentially serious disease. Its clinical presentation may mimic skin soft tissue infection, leading to misdiagnosis. We report the case of a 64 year-old man with late OAI in frontal bone, initially misdiagnosed as infectious cellulitis. can be difficult suspect, especially if intervention was performed years ago. Because misdiag...

To cite: Ferreira ST, Correia C, Marçal M, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2016-216148 DESCRIPTION A 34-week-old gestational baby boy, weighing 2104 g, was born with multiple organ dysfunction and a skin rash. During pregnancy, the mother had a reactive venereal disease research laboratory (VDRL) test (1:16) that didn’t receive any treatmen...

the most recent studies have explained almost 2.3 million children are affected with hiv up to the end of 2009. sub-saharan africa is the main region to at least 68% of the global total of hiv infection of 22.5 million. despite providing competent healthcare services to prevent mother-to-child transmission which is the main way of infection to a newborn, an estimated 370,000 children were newly...

BACKGROUND AND DESIGN The hyperimmunoglobulinemia D (hyper-IgD) syndrome is characterized by recurrent febrile attacks with abdominal distress, headache, and arthralgias. Physical examination reveals cervical lymphadenopathy in most cases and, sometimes, splenomegaly. Skin lesions have been observed in isolated cases during attacks. We summarize the features of skin lesions and the histopatholo...