Clinical and Demographic Characteristics of Immigrant and Local Multiple Sclerosis Patients in Turkey.

Introduction: Increasing migration, due to wars, is one of the environmental factors in the etiology of multiple sclerosis. This study aims to compare demographic and clinical features of immigrant and local MS patients, as well as relapses during pregnancy and postpartum in female patients.

Method: Immigrant (Group 1) and local (Group 2) MS patients were evaluated between January 2019 - September 2020 retrospectively.

Erratum: Clinical and Demographic Characteristics and Two-Year Efficacy and Safety Data of 508 Multiple Sclerosis Patients with Fingolimod Treatment.

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Clinical and Demographic Characteristics and Two-Year Efficacy and Safety Data of 508 Multiple Sclerosis Patients with Fingolimod Treatment.

Introduction: Fingolimod is the first oral immunomodulatory treatment used as secondary care therapy in the treatment of multiple sclerosis for the last 10 years. The objective of our study is to reveal the experiences of the first generic fingolimod active ingredient treatment in different centers across Turkey.

Method: The first generic fingolimod efficacy and safety data of patients followed-up in 29 different clinical multiple sclerosis units in Turkey were analyzed retrospectively.

Solitary fibrous tumor/hemangiopericytoma of the penis.

Solitary fibrous tumor/hemangiopericytoma (SFT-HMP) is a rare spindle-cell mesenchymal tumor, thought to be of myofibroblastic origin. Penile SFT-HMP was mentioned in the literature in two separate case reports which were published in 2015 and 2017. We present the first case of SFT-HMP which is localized on corpus cavernosum of the penis.