Publications by authors named "S K Ozkara"
Objective: This study aimed to compare bone marrow aspirate (BMA) multicolor flow cytometry (MFC) analysis and bone marrow biopsy (BMB) in detecting bone marrow (BM) involvement in children with neuroblastoma (NB) at diagnosis and during follow-up.
Materials And Methods: A total of 132 BM samples from 39 patients (M/F ratio: 19/20; median age: 38 months) with neuroblastoma were simultaneously obtained for evaluation. The samples were investigated for BM involvement using BMB and MFC.
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that may involve all systems, with the respiratory system being the most commonly affected. Tuberculosis of the chest wall and its structures is rare, in which malignancy and abscess may be counted among possible differential diagnoses. In this case report, a patient with pectoral muscle tuberculosis will be presented.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPeriorbital Tuberculosis: A Rare Case of Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis.
Ocul Immunol Inflamm
September 2024
Purpose: Orbital/periorbital tuberculosis (TB) is an uncommon manifestation of extrapulmonary TB, presenting diagnostic challenges due to its varied clinical features that can mimic other diseases. This report aims to present a rare case of periorbital TB in a young man.
Methods: Case report.
Purpose: To compare bone marrow biopsy (BMB) with [18F]-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) imaging in the demonstration of bone marrow involvement in children with Hodgkin's Lymphoma (HL) and to investigate the effectiveness of PET/CT imaging and thus the necessity for BMB at staging.
Methods: Pediatric patients with HL, who underwent both bilateral iliac BMB and PET/CT imaging at disease staging were retrospectively analyzed. In determining bone marrow involvement (BMinv), BMB and/or first/follow-up PET/CT imaging were eligible for review.
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- Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), a disease that affects the immune system, are more likely to get different kinds of infections when they take medicines that weaken their immune system.
- A 48-year-old woman with SLE had a high fever and low blood cell counts, which doctors initially thought were due to her SLE.
- After further testing showed she had leishmaniasis, a disease caused by a parasite, she was treated successfully with medicine and got better quickly!