Whipple's disease is a rare multi-organ infectious disease caused by Tropheryma whipplei. It is fatal without treatment. We report on a 40-year old Afro-Jamaican man who presented with a six-month history of weight loss and diarrhoea. Investigations revealed iron deficiency anaemia and hypoalbuminaemia. ...
Cutaneous involvement associated to multiple myeloma varies from 5 to 10% of cases and is infrequently recognized. Cutaneous metastatic plasmacitomas are rare. We present the case of a 72-year-old man with multiple myeloma in complete remission since 2 years ago with cutaneous tumors on the trunk and fac...
Brooke-Spiegler syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder with variable penetrance and expression. It is characterized by a genetic predisposition to develop multiple adnexal neoplasias: cylindromas, trichoepitheliomas, and trichoblastomas. We describe a 54-year-old male patient with cylindromas, tricho...
Pemphigoid gestationis is a rare, autoimmune blistering dermatosis of pregnancy. No increase in fetal or maternal mortality has been demonstrated, but a greater prevalence of premature and small-for-gestationalage babies has been reported. Topical and systemic corticosteroids and antihistamines are the m...
Subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis is an infection caused by dematiaceous fungi which mainly affects immunosuppressed patients. We report a case of subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis on the back of the left hand in a kidney transplant patient who had been taking prednisone, tacrolimus, and azathioprine daily for...
Introdução: O diagnóstico da grande variedade de lesões que ocorrem na cavidade bucal é fundamental para a prática odontológica. Na clÃnica, é comum o cirurgião-dentista se deparar com lesões bucais de diagnóstico duvidoso. Nessas situações, o clÃnico deve pensar na indicação da realizaÃ...
La enfermedad de Ménétrier es una enfermedad poco frecuente que se caracteriza por presentar hipertrofia gástrica asociada con hipoproteinemia. Objetivo:Presentación de caso clÃnico y revisión de la literatura, de un paciente con el diagnóstico de enfermedad de Ménétrier, tratado en el servici...
La Amiloidosis Sistémica (AS) es un grupo heterogéneo de enfermedades caracterizadas por el depósito de proteÃnas fibrilares en los tejidos. Se presentan tres casos con compromiso cutáneo. Se revisan las amiloidosis sistémicas y se enfatiza en las caracterÃsticas clÃnicas, especialmente las manif...
Objetivo: La insuficiencia pancreática en especial la de carácter endocrino, reviste vital relevancia como complicación tardÃa de la cirugÃa pancreática esto debido a la morbilidad asociada y el difÃcil manejo de la diabetes pancreaticogénica, ante esta situación, se han ideado técnic...
La vasculitis nodular es poco frecuente en la edad pediátrica. Se presenta el caso de una niña de 11años, procedente del área urbana del cantón Pasaje, con dermatosis persistente localizada en región posterior de pierna derecha; ha recibido múltiples tratamientos sin diagnostico especifico y sin p...
