1.
West Indian med. j
;
53(1): 47-49, Jan. 2004.
Article
in English
| LILACS
| ID: lil-410562
ABSTRACT
This paper reports the case of a 21-year-old Afro-Caribbean pregnant woman with hyperthyroidism and hypokalaemic quadriparesis and reviews the literature on the topic. Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis is a very rare condition in the Caribbean. This case reminds West Indian physicians to consider this rare condition in any patient that presents with paralysis
Subject(s)
Humans , Female , Pregnancy , Adult , Thyrotoxicosis , Pregnancy Complications/diagnosis , Hypokalemia/etiology , Paralysis/etiology , Antithyroid Agents , Thyrotoxicosis , Black People , Carbimazole/therapeutic use , Pregnancy Complications/drug therapy , Hypokalemia/drug therapy , Potassium/therapeutic use
2.
J. clin. pathol
;
33(6): 544-6, 1980.
Article
in English
| AIM
| ID: biblio-1263521
ABSTRACT
Malignant myeloma is not rare in tropical Africa. Its mode of presentation in Malawi is most often that of a tumour mass in bone. The types of immunoglobulin heavy and light chains in the tumour cells occur with a frequency similar to that observed in temperate countries