Solitary ileal lipoma presenting with ileocolic intussusception: an unusual cause of enteritis cystica profunda.

We report a 63-year-old man who presented with a history of intermittent vague abdominal pain, diarrhea, and weight loss. Colonofibroscopic examination disclosed an ileocolic intussusception with a polypoid tumor on the leading edge of the intussusception. Both double contrast barium enema and computerized tomography of the abdomen confirmed this finding.

Delayed manifestation of congenital diaphragmatic hernia with intrathoracic kidney: report of one case.

Intrathoracic kidney is a very rare congenital anomaly with only about 50 cases reported in the world literature. Incidence of intrathoracic kidney with Bochdalek hernias was reported to be less than 0.25 percent.

Cold agglutininemia with acrocyanosis in multicentric Castleman's disease: a case report.

We report the first case of multicentric Castleman's disease with acrocyanosis due to cold agglutinins. A 75-year-old female patient presented with fever, weight loss, general malaise and multiple lymphadenopathy for 2 months. During admission, supportive treatment was given and several episodes of acrocyanosis were relieved by oxygen inhalation.

Changes in coagulatory profile after orthopedic surgery.

Platelet count, prothrombin time (PT), partial thromboplastin time (PTT) and fibrinogen concentrations were prospectively evaluated in 65 patients undergoing orthopedic surgery at the National Cheng-Kung University Hospital between June 1990 and February 1991. All patients were hospitalized for at least 7 days after surgery. Coagulation data were collected preoperatively and on the first, third and seventh postoperative days (POD 1, 3, 7).

Granulosa cell tumor and dermoid cyst--report of one case.

Granulosa cell tumor combined with dermoid cyst in the same ovary is extremely rare. This report describes such a case in a 55-year-old postmenopausal woman presenting with left lower abdominal pain. The resected fist-sized left ovary disclosed a dermoid cyst containing a mural nodule which was found to be a sarcomatoid granulosa cell tumor histologically.

[Clinical study of infants with birth weight less than 1500 grams].

One hundred and seventy-seven infants of birth weight less than 1500 grams admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit of Mackay Memorial Hospital in 1987 were studied. The sex distribution, male to female ratio was 100:77, inborn 78 cases, outborn 99 cases. At one year follow-up, the mortality rate of these weighed between 500 gm and 799 gm was 100%, between 800 gm and 999 gm 54%, between 1000 gm and 1249 gm 17%, between 1250 gm and 1499 gm 19% respectively.

The high jugular bulb: report of five cases and a review of the literature.

The jugular bulb varies widely in position and dimensions. A high jugular bulb is not an uncommon finding in temporal bones. Besides our five cases with different clinical manifestations, we review 52 cases diagnosed clinically and published previously in the English literature.

Osler-Weber-Rendu disease: a six generation family.

A Taiwanese family, with at least nine members in six generations has been affected with Osler-Weber-Rendu disease, also known as hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia. It is an autosomal dominant familial disease which involves systemic subepithelial fibrovascular dysplasia and manifests with telangiectasia or angiomas of the face, the palms, or the mucosa of the aerodigestive tract (such as the nose, lips, oral cavity, or stomach, etc.).