Pediatric Visceral Leishmaniasis Caused by Leishmania infantum in Northern Cyprus.

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a vector-borne disease widespread in the Mediterranean basin, including Cyprus. During the last decades no cases were notified from northern Cyprus, but herein three cases of VL (female: 2, male: 1, median age: 24.6 months) diagnosed during their hospital admission between January 2011 and December 2012 are reported.

Obstructive jaundice: an unusual initial manifestation of intra-abdominal non-Hodgkin lymphoma in a child.

Obstructive jaundice is an unusual manifestation of non-Hodgkin lymphomas in children. Although surgical drainage is one of the initial treatment choices in some cases, usually lymphomatous masses rapidly response to chemotherapy and jaundice decreases due to regression of the mass, without any surgical procedure. The authors report the case of a 16-year-old girl who presented with biliary obstruction due to a neoplasm involving the duodenum.