H pylori infection among 1000 southern Iranian dyspeptic patients.

Aim: To describe the frequency of H pylori infection among 1000 southern Iranian dyspeptic patients.

Methods: A prospective study was performed in a referral hospital in south of Iran from 1999 to 2005. One thousand dyspeptic patients (518 males, mean +/- SD age of 49.

Multicentric reticulohistiocytosis presenting with papulonodular skin eruption and polyarthritis.

Multicentric reticulohistiocytosis is a rare multisystem disease, presenting with skin lesions and erosive polyarthritis, which is often associated with malignancy. A 2 year untreated natural course of multicentric reticulohistiocytosis, in which the typical nodular skin manifestation of the disease and polyarticular arthritis was present, is described in a 34-year-old lady with no history of major medical disease. Histopathology showed the characteristic histiocytic and multinucleated giant cell infiltrate with ground glass cytoplasm.