[Symmetric multiple lipomatosis. A case report with an unusual onset]. / Lipomatosi multipla simmetrica. Descrizione di un caso clinico con inusuale insorgenza.

The authors report a case of symmetric multiple lipomatosis in a young woman with chronic liver disease caused by previous alcohol abuse whose onset occurred three years after the suspension of the toxic agent. The introduction includes a review of the latest literature, focusing in particular on the most probable etiopathogenetic causes, the most common clinical presentations and therapeutics choices. After a description of this particular case, the authors discuss the unusual presentation of the syndrome caused by the rapid onset of lipid accumulation a long time after the suspension of alcohol abuse.

[Adult-onset Still's disease. Report of 5 cases]. / La malattia di Still dell'adulto. Osservazioni su 5 casi.

The authors report 5 cases of Still's disease in adults whose symptoms were mainly characterised by high fever, transient exanthema, polyarthralgia and/or polyarthritis, lymphoadenomegaly, splenomegaly and neutrophil leukocytosis. Assays for leukocytosis were positive, as were those for inflammatory markers and serum ferritin was also high in all 3 patients in which it assayed. On the contrary, serum ferritin latex test, Waaler-Rose reaction and all other tests commonly used to diagnose long-term fevers were all negative. All the subjects examined recovered after prolonged steroid therapy. Only one patient reported severe sequelae in the hip joints and subsequently underwent bilateral hip replacement surgery.