Dyslipidemia, carotid intima-media thickness and endothelial dysfunction in children with chronic kidney disease.

Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) predisposes to accelerated atherosclerosis that is measured by carotid artery intima-media thickness (cIMT) and brachial artery flow-mediated dilation (FMD). Information on the association of these parameters with dyslipidemia in pre-dialysis pediatric CKD is limited.

Methods: Eighty patients aged 9.

Retroperitoneal and mediastinal follicular dendritic cell sarcoma: report of 3 cases with review of literature.

Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma (FDCS) is a rare malignant histiocytic proliferation of antigen presenting follicular dendritic cell. It is an uncommon primary malignancy first described by Monda et al. in 1986.

18F-FDG-PET/CT in staging, recurrence detection and response evaluation of primary splenic lymphoma with eight years follow up.

Primary splenic lymphomas (PSL) are rare malignancies which involve spleen with or without splenic hilar lymph nodes. Confirmation of diagnosis depends upon tissue sampling but noninvasive methods are useful in early diagnosis, treatment response monitoring and recurrence detection. Here we describe a case of PSL detected by ¹⁸F-FDG-PET/CT which was histopathologically proven to be diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) treated with CHOP regimen.