Felty's syndrome - a rare case of febrile neutropenia.

Felty's syndrome (rheumatoid arthritis with neutropenia and splenomegaly) is a rare condition with poor long-term prognosis, mainly as a result of severe infection risk. An effective treatment strategy has not been developed so far and current treatment options are based upon case reports, small series and clinical experience since no randomized clinical trials are available. The authors describe the case of a 53-year-old female patient with a 14-year history of rheumatoid arthritis presenting with fever, neutropenia and splenomegaly.

Reactive Arthritis - A Rare Complication of Intravesical BCG Instillation.

Unlabelled: Reactive arthritis (ReA) with the classic triad of arthritis, conjunctivitis and urethritis, previously termed Reiter's syndrome, is a systemic illness, usually induced by genitourinary or gastrointestinal infections. However, it can be a rare complication of intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin instillation (iBCG), a therapy prepared from attenuated strains of , a common and effective treatment for carcinoma in situ of the bladder (CisB). We report a case of a patient with CisB who developed ReA after iBCG.

Occam's razor versus Hickam's dictum: two very rare tumours in one single patient.

Occam's razor, the principle that a single explanation is the most likely in medicine, assumes that when a patient has multiple symptoms the clinician seeks a single diagnosis rather than diagnosing multiple and different ones. However, as proposed by Hickam's dictum, sometimes rare different diseases occurred in only one patient. We present a patient with a simultaneous diagnosis of two rare tumours, a cardiac hemangioma (primary cardiac tumour, often misdiagnosed as myxoma) and an appendiceal mucocele (a lesion of the appendix that can be neoplastic or not).

[Subcutaneous Emphysema and Pneumomediastinum During a Tooth Extraction].

Subcutaneous emphysema is a possible but rare complication after dental procedures. The condition should be distinguished from other situations, such as hematoma, allergic reaction or angioedema, and infection. We describe the case of a 20-year-old puerperal woman, with multiple dental caries, who developed cervicofacial subcutaneous emphysema complicated by pneumomediastinum, following an incomplete extraction of the lower right second molar.