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Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is an enigmatic disease usually occurring in children. Tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) is a clinical syndrome associated with severe metabolic derangement and oliguric acute renal failure. In this report, we present the clinical course of an infant with advanced LCH
A 15-year-old girl presented with many round to oval erythematous indurated plaques on the trunk, scalp, and proximal portion of the extremities. The individual lesions showed ulceration within a short period but spontaneously healed after 2 or 3 months. The main histological feature was dermal
Hypothalamic lesions occasionally lead to excessive hypernatraemia and hyperosmolarity which cannot be explained by defective ADH secretion alone. As osmoregulation is a complex system the clinical features differ widely from one patient to another. In general central dysregulation of osmolarity is
Diaper dermatitis is the most common dermatologic disorder of infancy. Its cause can often be determined clinically based on the clinical presentation. Primary diaper dermatitis is associated with irritants and spares the deep skin folds. Secondary diaper dermatitis is most often caused by Candida
Studies were done to characterize the chronic toxicity, metabolism, and pharmacokinetics of a 5-HT3 receptor antagonist in Fischer 344 rats. Animal were given daily gavage doses of 10, 30, or 90 (females only were increased from 90 to 120 mg/kg for months 7-12) mg/kg of zatosetron for 1 year.
Erdheim-Chester disease (ECD), first described by Jakob Erdheim and William Chester in 1930, is a rare form of non-Langerhan's cell histiocytosis with unknown aetiology, is charaterized by systemic xanthogranulomatous infiltrative disease. To date, about 350 cases of ECD have been described in the
Commercial preparations of vasopressin for the treatment of diabetes insipidus are not available in Mexico. Besides, the hormone is useless in the nephrogenic variety. In the department of Endocrinology at the Hospital Infantil de Mexico, a preparation containing hydrochlorothiazide, aminopyrine and