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A prostatic abscess is a rare, but potentially serious disease. The mainstay of treatment for the prostatic abscess is antibiotic administration and drainage. Here, we experienced a 66-year-old man with a prostatic abscess caused by Providencia rettgeri, which has not been reported as a pathogenic agent of a prostatic abscess. He was cured using antibiotics, without surgical drainage. This case suggests that the appropriate selection of patients for antibiotic therapy may provide an excellent prognosis.
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Humans , Abscess , Anti-Bacterial Agents , Drainage , Prognosis , Prostate , ProvidenciaABSTRACT
Fournier's gangrene is a rare, rapidly progressive, necrotizing fasciitis of the genital, perianal and perineal regions. It is usually caused by a synergistic infection of aerobic and anaerobic organisms. A 51-year-old male patient with diabetes mellitus and chronic renal insufficiency on peritoneal dialysis was admitted with severe scrotal pain and swelling that lasted 4 days. An emergent non-contrast-enhanced computed tomography revealed extensive gas formation, fatty haziness and edema in the left scrotal and inguinal area. The patient was successfully treated with immediate surgical debridements and antibiotics. Streptococcus anginosus group Streptococcus anginosus was isolated from surgical wound cultures and identified with biochemical identification methods and direct sequencing of DNA. Herein, we report a rare case of Fournier's gangrene caused by S. anginosus. We also review the relevant literature
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Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Anti-Bacterial Agents , Debridement , Diabetes Mellitus , DNA , Edema , Fasciitis, Necrotizing , Fournier Gangrene , Peritoneal Dialysis , Renal Insufficiency, Chronic , Streptococcus , Streptococcus anginosusABSTRACT
Congenital hemolytic anemia is mainly developed due to intrinsic defects of erythrocytes, but in some cases the cause of hemolytic anemia is unclear. Gilbert's syndrome shows mild, chronic unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia that is due to reduced UDP glucuronosyltransferase (UGT-1A1) activity and this develops because of UGT-1A1 gene mutation. We report here on a case of severe hyperbilirubinemia in a 17-year-old male who was diagnosed with congenital hemolytic anemia of an unknown cause combined with Gilbert's syndrome.
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Adolescent , Humans , Male , Anemia, Hemolytic , Anemia, Hemolytic, Congenital , Erythrocytes , Gilbert Disease , Glucuronosyltransferase , HyperbilirubinemiaABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: Campylobacter is the most common bacterial cause of food-borne infection in developed countries, and handling or eating of contaminated poultry products was reported as the major cause of human campylobacteriosis in sporadic cases. This study was performed to investigate the prevalence of Campylobacter in patients with diarrhea and raw chickens of grocery, and identify the species by multiplex PCR and determine the genotypes of isolates by SmaI pulsedfield gel electrophoresis(PFGE) profiles. METHODS: Eight hundred and fifty six stool specimens obtained from 773 hospitalized patients with diarrhea and 16 raw chickens purchased from grocery were tested. Karmali's charcoal based selective medium and Campylobacter enrichment broth were used for isolation of Campylobacter from patients and chicken, respectively. And membrane filter method with sheep blood agar was also used in both two cases. Isolates were indentified with PCR, PCR-RFLP, and biochemical test. And genotypes were determined with SmaI PFGE profile analysis. RESULTS: A total of 13 Campylobacter strains(1.7%) were isolated from 856 stool specimens of 773 patients with diarrhea, nine isolates were C. jejuni and four were C. coli. All of 16 raw chickens were contaminated with Campylobacter spp., and both of C. jejuni and C. coli were detected from eight chickens. From the SmaI-digested PFGE profile analysis of nine C. jejuni strains and four C. coli strains isolated from patients, eight types and four types of PFGE profile were obtained, respectively. And 15 types and seven types of PFGE profile were obtained from 23 of C. jejuni and 11 of C. coli which strains were isolated from chicken samples, respectively. The several isolates showing the different PFGE patterns were detected in the same chicken. Three PFGE patterns of C. jejuni isolated from patients were observed in the chickens. One type of C. coli PFGE profiles of the patient's isolates were the same as that of chicken. CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of Campylobacter infection is not high compared to the other countries, but most of raw chickens are contaminated with Campylobacter spp. Several genotypes of C. jejuni and C. coli are contaminated in the single chicken. The PFGE patterns of some human isolates are the same as those of chicken so that human infection may be originated from the chicken. But the reason of low infection rate in human in spite of the very high contamination rate of chicken should be clarified in the near future
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Humans , Agar , Campylobacter Infections , Campylobacter jejuni , Campylobacter , Charcoal , Chickens , Developed Countries , Diarrhea , Eating , Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field , Genotype , Membranes , Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction , Polymerase Chain Reaction , Poultry Products , Prevalence , SheepABSTRACT
Basal cell adenocarcinoma is an epithelial neoplasm which is cytologically and histomorphologically similar to basal cell adenoma but is different because of the infilitrative growth. This tumor, a rare salivary gland tumor newly classified as basal cell adenocarcinoma by the WHO in 1991, is infiltrative, locally destructive and tends to recur but metastasis is less common. The differential diagnosis includes basal cell adenoma, adenoid cystic carcinoma, and basaloid squamous carcinoma. Nearly 90 percent of these tumors occurr in the parotid gland and can be classified into low grade carcinomas with a relative good prognosis. Basal cell adenocarcinoma of minor salivary gland is very rare and has a less favorable clinical course compared with that of the major salivary glands. This is a case of basal cell adenocarcinoma occurring at the minor salivary gland of the soft palate. We treated this patient with block excision and adjunctive radiation therapy.
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Humans , Adenocarcinoma , Adenoma , Carcinoma, Adenoid Cystic , Carcinoma, Squamous Cell , Diagnosis, Differential , Neoplasm Metastasis , Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial , Palate, Soft , Parotid Gland , Prognosis , Salivary Glands , Salivary Glands, MinorABSTRACT
A new surgical approach to the area of the infratemporal fossa and parapharyngeal space is described. This approach results in a wide-field exposure of the infratemporal fossa, pterygomaxillary space and parapharyngeal space. We used two osteotomies on the patient's mandible and temporary resection of zygomatic arch for superior margin of tumor. Lower lip splitting was not needed because the incision was started in the frontal scalp, curved in front of and below the external auditary canal, and extended anteriorly to the greater horn of hyoid bone on the neck along a skin crease. We had good results without sacrifice of the facial nerve, mandibular function and sensory supply of the face and oral cavity.
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Animals , Facial Nerve , Horns , Hyoid Bone , Lip , Mandible , Mouth , Neck , Osteotomy , Scalp , Skin , ZygomaABSTRACT
Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome is a multiple malformation syndrome associated with mental and developmental retardation, resulting from a deletion at the short arm of chromosome 4 (4p16.3). We report a 11-year-old girl with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, who was presented with severe growth and mental retardation along with characteristic features-frontal bossing, hypertelorism, downslanting of the palpebral fissures and fishlike lips. The diagnosis was confirmed by fluorescent in-situ hybridization (FISH).
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Child , Female , Humans , Arm , Chromosomes, Human, Pair 4 , Diagnosis , Hypertelorism , Intellectual Disability , Lip , Wolf-Hirschhorn SyndromeABSTRACT
Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome is a multiple malformation syndrome associated with mental and developmental retardation, resulting from a deletion at the short arm of chromosome 4 (4p16.3). We report a 11-year-old girl with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, who was presented with severe growth and mental retardation along with characteristic features-frontal bossing, hypertelorism, downslanting of the palpebral fissures and fishlike lips. The diagnosis was confirmed by fluorescent in-situ hybridization (FISH).
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Child , Female , Humans , Arm , Chromosomes, Human, Pair 4 , Diagnosis , Hypertelorism , Intellectual Disability , Lip , Wolf-Hirschhorn SyndromeABSTRACT
Cyclic Neutropenia is a benign, unusual hematologic disorder characterized by regularly recurring episodes of severe neutropenia occurring approximately every 21 days. Beside neutrophils, monocytes, lymphocytes, platelets and reticulocytes all cycle with strict periodicity suggest that this disease should be viewed as cyclic hematopoiesis, not merely as cyclic neutropenia. During neutropenic periods, patients regularly experience aphthous stomatitis, fever, malaise, cervical lymphadenitis, cutaneous infections and occasional pneumonia and otitis media. The exact cause of cyclic neutropenia is unknown. But it is strongly suggested that cyclic neurtopenia is due to an abnormality in the regulation of early hematopoietic precursor cells. We have documented a case of cyclic neutropenia for a period of 2.5 years in a 11 year-old boy who had suffered from recurrent fever, stomatitis, gingival swelling, cervical lymphadenitis and skin infections at 3 weeks intervals since 5 years of age. A brief review of the related literatures is presented.
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Child , Humans , Male , Fever , Hematopoiesis , Lymphadenitis , Lymphocytes , Monocytes , Neutropenia , Neutrophils , Otitis Media , Periodicity , Pneumonia , Reticulocytes , Skin , Stomatitis , Stomatitis, AphthousABSTRACT
No abstract available.
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Humans , von Willebrand Disease, Type 1 , von Willebrand DiseasesABSTRACT
No abstract available.