Legionella lymphadenitis in immunocompetent adult: Case report.

Introduction: Extrapulmonary legionella disease is rare and occasionally reported in immunocompromised patients; it includes lymphadenitis, panniculitis, hepatitis, atrio-ventricular block, arthritis, prosthetic valve endocarditis and myocarditis. In this article, we report a rare case of legionella suppurative lymphadenitis in an immunocompetent patient.

Case: 53-year-old female patient from the Philippines, non-smoker, previously healthy who presented to our facility for chills and respiratory distress following a course of corticosteroid intake.

Communicating pancreatic and splenic pseudocysts: A case report.

A splenic pseudocyst is an encapsulated mature collection located within the splenic tissues. It is usually asymptomatic and is detected incidentally during either radiological workup or laparoscopy for other reasons. Our patient is a 66-year-old male presenting with a history of weight loss, early satiety, and constipation, found to have a splenic pseudocyst communicating with a preexisting pancreatic cyst.

Abandoning the blind legacy passed on horde of routine intra-abdominal drain insertion in cesarean section.

Introduction: Cesarean section (CS) delivery is the most common major obstetrical surgical operation carried out in and is increasing in incidence throughout the world. The major involves some risks that might include: infection, coagulation problem, loss of blood, bowel or bladder injury, abnormalities of the placenta in subsequent pregnancies.

Aim Of The Study: To evaluate the clinical effectiveness of postoperative CS intra-abdominal drain insertion.

The slow-pull capillary technique increases the quality of endoscopic ultrasound fine needle biopsy samples in solid pancreatic lesions.

Introduction: Endoscopic ultrasound-guided sampling is used routinely for the diagnosis of solid pancreatic masses. We aimed to compare the standard suction technique with the recently described 'slow-pull' technique.

Patients And Methods: Patients with a solid pancreatic mass of more than 2 cm undergoing endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle biopsy with the same endoscopist using a 22 G core biopsy needle were included in the study.

Hypercalcemia, hypercalciuria and nephrocalcinosis in a breast-fed term newborn: a rare presentation.

Although hypercalcemia and hypercalciuria are known to occur in breast-fed pre-term infants, to the best of our knowledge, it has never been reported in a term baby previously. We report a term male baby who was followed-up during pregnancy for having bright kidneys, but a follow-up renal ultrasound (US) after birth had revealed normal scan. Laboratory investigations revealed normal serum calcium (Ca), phosphorous (PO₄) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP).

Intussusception in two pediatric patients associated with nephrotic syndrome.

We report two cases of intussusception in two Jordanian boys during a relapse of nephrotic syndrome. The first patient had minimal change disease and the second patient had diffuse mesangial sclerosis. The most prominent symptom was abdominal pain, but the other classic sign of currant jelly stool was absent.