Pulmonary mass and air meniscus sign in a 19-year-old man.

Sacrococcygeal teratoma is rarely diagnosed in adults. Pulmonary mass as the presenting clinical form of the malignant variety of this germ-cell tumor is exceptional. We report herein such a case with the noticeable peculiarity of showing the air meniscus sign on chest roentgenographic examination.

[Localized scleroderma (morphea) and septic arthritis. Clinical manifestations of Lyme borreliosis seen in El Ferrol].

Two cases of Lyme's disease seen at El Ferrol (Spain) were described. One of them developed a recurrent knee arthritis and the other had a localized sclerodermia (morphea) syndrome. Diagnosis was established by means of clinical picture and serologic tests (enzyme-linked analysis and/or indirect immunofluorescence tests).

[Milker's nodes: transmission by fomites and virological identification].

We report a case of milker's nodules in a male who was not a professional cattle raiser with indirect and accidental transmission by fomites. A parapoxvirus was demonstrated from cutaneous lesions by electron microscopy with negative stain.

Cyclophosphamide and ifosfamide combination as neoadjuvant chemotherapy for locally advanced nonsmall-cell lung cancer: a meta-analytic review.

Twenty-three patients with marginally resectable and unresectable non-small-cell lung cancer (stages IIIA and IIIB) were treated by neoadjuvant chemotherapy. All patients received three cycles of preoperative chemotherapy with two alkylating agents, cyclophosphamide 2.5 g/m2 intravenously (i.

[Brucellosis and acute inflammatory polyradiculoneuropathy].

Three patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) during active brucellosis are reported: in one of them, who had an unfavorable outcome, the clinical features, the neurophysiological studies and the sural nerve biopsy were consistent with the axonal form of GBS. In the remaining two patients, who had a satisfactory course, the neurophysiological studies and the sural nerve biopsy disclosed the demyelinating character of the disease. We agree with other authors that the axonal and demyelinating forms of GBS should be separated, in view of their different clinical and possibly pathogenetic implications, both in GBS in general and in the form associated with brucellosis.