[Death from fluoro-silicate in floor polish].

A fatal case of poisoning due to ingestion of an apparently innocuous household product is described. A healthy 28-year-old man accidentally drank floor polish (Cristalizador, a Spanish import). On arrival at the emergency room a few hours later he passed large amounts of bloody stool and lost consciousness.

[Alcoholic rhabdomyolysis with myocardial involvement].

A case of severe rhabdomyolysis with extensive myocardial involvement in a 32 year old alcoholic man is reported. He referred effort dyspnea for the last eight months which worsened thirteen days before his death. Admitted at the institute he was obnubilated and dyspneic.

[POEMS syndrome: report of a case and review of the literature].

A case of POEMS Syndrome of six years of evolution is reported. This syndrome is characterized by Raynaud phenomenon, polyneuropathy, edema, anasarca, papilledema, osteosclerosis and lymphadenopathy with the histopathology of Castleman's disease, hypothyroidism, hypogonadism, cutaneous sclerosis, hyperpigmentation, axillary alopecia and the presence of urinary lambda light chains. A bone marrow biopsy did not show plasmocytic infiltration and there was no evidence of extramedullary plasmocytoma.