Background   Septic arthritis is an acute infection of the joint space and a pediatric emergency. Delay in proper diagnosis and treatment, while prolonging the course of treatment, can have serious complications. The present study aimed to assess the clinical and laboratory profile of septic arthritis among patients hospitalized in the pediatric war...

Early malignant syphilis is a rare and severe variant of secondary syphilis. It is clinically characterized by lesions, which can suppurate and be accompanied by systemic symptoms such as high fever, asthenia, myalgia, and torpor state. We report a diabetic patient with characteristic features of the disease showing favorable evolution of the lesions after appropriate treatment.

Hydatid disease can occur in all viscera and soft tissues, although the liver and the lungs are the organs most commonly involved. Isolated splenic involvement with the disease is extremely rare. Splenic hydatid cysts may suppurate, fistulise to adjacent organs, or rupture into the peritonaeal cavity. However, acute, massive lower gastrointestinal bleeding due to splenocolic communication resul...

One of the most frequent terminations of an advanced extrauterine gestation is its discharge like a pelvic abscess. Authors such as Parry speak of the suppuration of the sac, but this is too general a term, and leads one to suppose that any extra-uterine sac may suppurate; whereas, as a matter of fact, I hope to show that a certain definite case is most likely to do so. Many authors hold that t...

background: the effectiveness of t cell vaccination has been demonstrated in a variety of animal models of both induced and spontaneous autoimmune diseases. objective: the purpose of this study was to test the t cell vaccination protocol to treat and prevent collagen induced arthritis (cia) in a rheumatoid arthritis model. methods: cia was induced by an intradermal injection of an artheritogen ...

This disease is so seldom seen apart from wounds, that I consider the following case worth recording. The patient lived in one of the dirtiest streets in Madras, and is a good example of the effects on the human economy of bad odours with the unsanitary surroundings that accompany them. Four out of the six local swellings did not suppurate ; how far the Sulphide of Calcium administered contribu...

introduction: the purpose of this study was to describe clinical features and serological findings of children with idiopathic arthritis in south-western iran.methods: this descriptive study included 60 patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis who were referred to a pediatric rheumatology clinic at a university hospital during 6-month period. initial manifestations, first laboratory tests an...

background : an accurate and prompt diagnosis of bacterial arthritis is essential for earlier treatment and a good outcome. superantigens produced by staph. aureus are among the most lethal toxins. the paper objective was identification of common bacterial antigens and s.aureus superantigens in synovial fluid (sf) of children with negative culture and direct smear for other bacteria except for ...

background: the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and characteristics of rheumatologic manifestations associated with mds. methods: eighty patients with mds were evaluated by history and physical examination for inflammatory rheumatologic disorders from jan 2013 to may 2014. patients who had any signs or symptoms of rheumatologic disorders underwent evaluation by laboratory test...

a number of patients with inflammatory arthritis due to inadequate clinical or laboratory data do not fulfill diagnostic criteria for a clinical disease categories. these patients with initial diagnosis of undifferentiated arthritis (ua) may remit or progress to a definite well- defined condition such as rheumatoid arthritis (ra) or remain as ua with persistence of inflammatory arthritis. the m...