Renal complications of Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (WM) are rarely observed. Nephrotic syndrome in association with WM has most often been secondary to amyloidosis. This article reports a case of WM with nephrotic syndrome as a result of…
The present study addresses the specificity of lyric osseous impact for distinguishing among metastatic cancer, tuberculosis, and fungal disease. Osseous impact is used in this manuscript as a convention to describe the macroscopic appearance of…
Thin section and freeze-fracture transmission electron microscopy were used to examine and identify the cytoplasmic and membrane structures in a cell line derived from a melanotic neuroectodermal tumor of infancy (MNTI). The cultured cells had a…
A 59-year-old previously healthy man had flulike symptoms of fever and diarrhea for a week, which worsened despite treatment with antibiotics. After admission, his medical condition rapidly deteriorated with renal failure, heart failure, and a marked…
A 3-year-old girl with rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata (RCDP) had severe micrencephaly but a normal gyral pattern, neuronal density, and cortical cytoarchitecture. The white matter was diffusely decreased in mass but normally myelinated. There…
A 67-year-old woman had fever, myalgias, progressive weakness, and respiratory insufficiency. In 9 days, flaccid areflexic quadriparesis and bulbar palsy developed. She died 26 days after the onset of her illness. Serum and cerebrospinal fluid…
