necrobiotic disorders/fever

Necrobiosis lipoidica is an idiopathic dermatosis of unknown origin, occurring mainly in patients with diabetes. Splenic abscesses are rare entities. We report a case with concomitant necrobiosis lipoidica and splenic abscess. A 58-year-old man presented to emergency center with a two day history of

Bone marrow necrosis (BMN) is a rare entity characterised by fever and bone pain, accompanied by hypercalcemia and increased LDH. Amorphous eosinophilic material is present in the bone marrow aspirate, with isolated cells in different degrees of necrobiosis. These are frequently post-mortem

Nine cases in which subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules were observed in the absence of any evidence of rheumatoid arthritis are recorded. In four of these cases, the nodules appeared during adolescence or adult life, a very rare phenomenon. Synovitis occurred in only one patient, after an interval of

About 50 cases of histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis without granulocytic infiltration were published till now. The authors describe the case of a 19-year-old patient with the right ear and the right ring finger bitten by squirrel about 40-50 days before the appearance of an axillary homolateral

The authors present a plan for pharmacological treatment of pressure sores in patients affected by neurological pathologies: cerebrovascular accidents, head injuries, spinal cord injuries. This plan is easily applicable to all pressure sores included between first and third degree of the Reuler and

A case of bone marrow necrosis (BMN) in transplanted acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is presented. The propositus is a 16 year-old boy with L-2 type ALL on whom allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) had been performed after the second relapse. He was admitted to hospital at 415 after BMT

Smooth-muscle tumors of uterine origin encompass a broad family of neoplasms. The leiomyoma, by far the most common of all the neoplasms, generally is hormone sensitive, with rates of growth semiquantitatively related to estrogen and progesterone receptor levels. Several forms of degenerative change