Cat-scratch disease: a rare cause of osteomyelitis.

Cat-scratch disease is a zoonosis caused by , characterised by regional lymphadenopathy. Rarer presentations, such as osteomyelitis, can occur.We present an adolescent girl with severe right lumbar pain and fever, without animal contacts or recent travels.

Kaposiform Lymphangiomatosis in a Male Adolescent: A Clinical Challenge and the Role of Genetics.

Kaposiform lymphangiomatosis (KLA) is a rare and aggressive generalized lymphatic anomaly (GLA), with distinctive clinical, radiology, morphologic, and genetic features. It does not have a current standard treatment and presents poor overall prognosis. Somatic mutations in the RAS pathway were reported as the likely driver for the majority of patients.

Liver abscess of the caudate lobe due to Staphylococcus aureus in an ulcerative colitis patient: First case report.

Liver abscesses are very rare complications of ulcerative colitis, with only nine cases described in the literature, to our knowledge. We report a case where a recurrence of liver abscess occurred in an ulcerative colitis patient, in two different hepatic lobes, which has not been previously described. The recurrence was in the caudate lobe having the cultures yielded Staphylococcus aureus.