Juvenile dermatomyositis in a 4-year-old Kenyan girl.

To our knowledge, this is the first case report of juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) in Tanzania. It demonstrates that the characteristic cutaneous findings of JDM may easily be overlooked, especially on dark skin, and the difficulty of clinical management in resource-constrained settings.

[A woman with acute loss of vision and a mass in her neck]. / Een vrouw met acuut visusverlies.

A 64-year-old woman had acute central vision loss of her left eye. She also had a pulsating mass in the left side of her neck. It appeared the vision loss was caused by a thromboembolism that originated from an aneurysm of the left carotid artery.