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Background: Infantile choriocarcinoma is usually fatal without appropriate treatment. Casecharacteristics: A 3-month-old boy who presented with respiratory distress, hepatomegaly,amemia and bilateral nodular lesions on chest X-ray. Observation: Fine-needle liveraspiration revealed necrotic tumour cells. The serum ?-hCG level was very high (2057 mIU/L), supporting a diagnosis of infantile choriocarcinoma of the liver. Surgical resection aftercisplatin-based multiagent chemotherapy afforded successful remission. Message: Earlytreatment of infantile choriocarcinoma can yield a successful outcome.
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Primary infection with varicella zoster is characterzed by a generalized vesicular rash usually without significant systemic illness. Encephalitis, pneumonitis, pancreatitis, nephritis, Reye and Guillan-Barre syndrome transvers myelitis, myocarditis have been reported before, but there is not any case having all these system to be involved during the same infection in a sequential manner ending up with multiorgan failure. We wanted to represent 21-month-old boy had a multiorgan failure due to varicella zoster infection.