Scrotal calcification in a symptomatic paediatric population: Prevalence, location, and appearance in a cohort of 516 patients.

Aim: To describe the prevalence of all forms of scrotal calcification within a symptomatic paediatric population and to compare this with previous reported data in paediatric and adult populations.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective analysis of testicular ultrasound examinations performed in a single institution over a 55 month period. All examinations were performed by experienced operators using high-frequency linear array transducers.

Remission induced by Campath-1H for thymoma-associated agranulocytosis.

Thymoma-associated agranulocytosis is a rare but almost universally fatal condition. Reports to date have described several immunosuppressive therapies including steroids, cyclophosphamide and vincristine as adjuvants to thymectomy, in an effort to improve neutropenia. We report the response to the monoclonal antibody Campath-1H of a patient with a thymoma and associated agranulocytosis with complete absence of bone marrow granulocyte precursors, which had failed to respond to thymectomy.