No abstract available.
Adult* ; Humans

A 56-year- old man showed millet seed to egg sized, yellowish tender papules, subcutaneous mass on the both elbows, dorsa of both hands & feet, and lateral malleoli and helix of right ear for 6 years. the significant laboratory findings were leukocytosis, increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate, glycosuria, hyperuricemia and increased blood glucose level. X-ray findings of both hands & feet demonstrated gouty arthritic patterns. Histopathologic findings of the left lateral malleolar lesion revealed the typical patterns. Histopathologic findings of the left lateral malleolar lesion revealed the typical pattern of gout with needle-shaped urate crystal. Therapy was begun with colchicine & allopurinol but the patient died of renal failure three weeks after the start of therapy.
Allopurinol ; Blood Glucose ; Blood Sedimentation ; Colchicine ; Ear ; Elbow ; Foot ; Glycosuria ; Gout* ; Hand ; Humans ; Hyperuricemia ; Leukocytosis ; Ovum ; Panicum ; Renal Insufficiency ; Uric Acid

Two cases of adenocarcinoma of the urinary bladder with clinical and pathological features, and brief review of the literatureare presented. Case 1: The patient, a 52 year-old man, was admitted to this hospital because of intermittent painless total gross hematuria for 15 years. Cystoscopy was done, and showing a cauliflower mass with broad based diffuse infiltrating lesion at the right anten or portion of bladder. TUR-B was performed. Microscopically, the lesion consisted of colonic metaplastic epithelium with atypical glands and cystic dilatation and adenocarcinoma. Case 2: The patient, a 52-year-old woman, was admitted to this hospital because of total painless gorss hematuria for 1 year. Cystoscopy was done showing a sessile diffuse mass with ulceration on the dome area. Total cystectomy was performed. Grossly, the tumor showed an ulcerative tumor mass with elevated nodular margin at the dome of the bladder. Microscopically, the lesion consisted of anaplastic glands with back to back arrangement and branching glands through the entire thickness of the bladder wall.
Female ; Humans ; Adenocarcinoma

Acute Febrile Neetrophilic Dermatosis(AFND, Sweet's syndrome) ia characterixed by painful erythematous plaquea aaaociatcd with arthralgia, fever and leukocytoeis, We preagented a case of acute febrice neutrophilie denmatoeis in acutemyelogenous leukemia which occurred in a 55-year-old man. After 10 days of treatment with prednisolone, the skin lesion disapceared, but he die of pneumonia in spite of anticancer therapy.
Arthralgia ; Fever ; Humans ; Leukemia ; Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute* ; Middle Aged ; Pneumonia ; Prednisolone ; Skin ; Sweet Syndrome*

Multiple neurilerv,omas occurred i.n a 14-year-old boy with neurofibromatosis and right eye blindness. His father succumbed to neurofibromatosis at the age of 42. Histologically-proved neurilemornas and neurofibromas were noted on the face, neck, trunk and extremities, but no cafe au-Iait spots ohserved. There were nevus anemicus, hairy nevus and pigmented moles. The associated features in this patient includc muscular atrophies, weakness of the left hand, parest,hesia of the medial side of left forcarm and Dupuytrens contracture of left fourth finger.
Adolescent ; Blindness ; Dupuytren Contracture ; Extremities ; Fathers ; Fingers ; Hand ; Humans ; Male ; Muscular Atrophy ; Neck ; Neurilemmoma* ; Neurofibroma ; Neurofibromatoses* ; Nevus ; Nevus, Pigmented

A case of pachyonychia congcnita occurring in a 8 year-old boy is described. A few weeks after delivery, his mother noticed thickening of all the finger and toe nails of her baby. Family history was denied. In addition to characteristic features of pachyonychia congenita of all the nails, follicular keratotic papules were noted on the knees, elbows, buttocks and legs, and also tender thick calluses, on the soles with palnioplantar hyperhidrosis. There were three cornu cutaneurn on the popliteal and left antecubital fossae. Other associated fea.tures include a painful tense bulla at the left fourth finger, irnpetiginous patches on the anterior thighs, hoarseness and leukokeratosis linguae, sparseness of the scalp hairs, and granulosis rubra nasi accompanied by facial hyperhidrosis.
Bony Callus ; Buttocks ; Child ; Elbow ; Fingers ; Hair ; Hoarseness ; Humans ; Hyperhidrosis ; Knee ; Leg ; Leukoplakia ; Male ; Mothers ; Nails, Malformed* ; Pachyonychia Congenita* ; Scalp ; Thigh ; Toes ; Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation

A 23-year-old man had multiple small, skin-colored firm papules on the both sides of the nasolabial folds since the age of approximately 17. His mother had a similar skin lesions on her face. The histopathological findings of skin biopsy specimens from patient(son) showed horn cysts consist of a fully keratinized center surrounded by basophilic cells and tumor islands composed of basophilic cells arranged in a lacelike or adenoid network and occasional solid aggregates and there are also a foreign body giant cell reaction in the vicinity of the ruptured horn cysts.
Adenoids ; Animals ; Basophils ; Biopsy ; Giant Cells, Foreign-Body ; Heredity ; Horns ; Humans ; Islands ; Mothers* ; Nasolabial Fold ; Skin ; Young Adult

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Acrodermatitis*

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Abdomen* ; Humans

No abstract available.
Antibodies, Antiphospholipid* ; Autoimmune Diseases* ; Humans