Publications by authors named "Kamilah Manan"
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- - Two children with childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) developed unusual splenic abscesses without signs of infection, highlighting a rare complication of the disease.
- - Both girls presented with fever and abdominal ultrasound revealed multiple abscess-like lesions in their spleens, but tests showed no infectious cause.
- - The patients responded well to corticosteroid and immunosuppressive treatment, suggesting that doctors should consider autoimmune diseases, like SLE, in similar cases of unexplained splenic abscesses in children.
A 12-year-old boy was admitted after 11 days of fever and 2 days of nasal obstruction as well as swelling of a right cervical lymph node. Nasal endoscopy and computed tomography of the neck showed a nasopharyngeal mass occupying the entire nasopharynx, extending into the nasal cavity, and obliterating the fossa of Rosenmuller. Abdominal ultrasonography revealed a small solitary splenic abscess.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Melioidosis, the infection caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei, is associated with a high case fatality rate, due in part to difficulties in clinical recognition and diagnostic confirmation of the disease. Although head and neck involvement is common in children, specific disease manifestations differ between geographic regions. The aim of this study was to provide a detailed description of melioidosis of the head and neck among children in Sarawak, Malaysia, and determine if fine-needle aspiration of suspected head or neck lesions could improve melioidosis diagnosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Melioidosis is associated with extremely high case fatality ratios. The aim of this study was to determine whether detection of abdominal visceral abscesses can facilitate diagnosis of melioidosis in children.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis of all children who had liver and/or spleen abscesses on abdominal ultrasonography admitted to Bintulu Hospital in Sarawak, Malaysia, from January 2014 until December 2018.