Severe congenital cutis laxa with pulmonary emphysema: a family with three affected sibs.

Clinical and morphologic findings in 3 sibs with congenital cutis laxa are presented. A severe urinary malformation in one affected infant is reported in detail. Elevated serum copper concentrations were observed in 2 of the sibs and in the healthy mother.

[Lethal midline granuloma. A case report].

In their study of a case of lethal midline-granuloma, the authors describe the relations between this affection, Wegener's granulomatosis and lymphoma. The case under review illustrates the difficulty in accurately defining the nosologic picture of the disease. Anatomo-pathological examinations present two possibilities: one being malignant granuloma of the Stewart type, the other that of lymphoma.