A 17 year-old female presented with abdominal pain, due to contained rupture of a left common iliac artery aneurysm. This was accompanied by abdominal aortic and superior mesenteric artery aneurysms. Despite emergency vascular surgery, the patient died a week later. Post-mortem examination revealed intimomedial mucoid degeneration. This rare condition has been described predominantly in South [...]
Tumors with oncocytic features are characterized histologically by cells with eosinophilic granular cytoplasm and by the ultrastructural presence of numerous closely packed mitochondria. Adrenal oncocytic tumors are very rare. We describe the case of a 36-year old white male who was newly diagnosed with hypertension and referred for evaluation. An abdominal computer tomography scan revealed [...]
Alveolar soft part sarcoma is a rare tumour that mostly affects young female patients. Most published literature involves isolated cases or small case series. We report the case of a 23-year-old woman who presented with a fast-growing, isolated alveolar soft part sarcoma of the left calf. She had no co-morbidities and was 22 weeks pregnant [...]
The prevalence of nontuberculous mycobacteria infection (NTM) in Sub-Saharan Africa is estimated to be less than 1%. NTM is often underdiagnosed or misdiagnosed as tuberculosis in patients who present with immune reconstitution syndrome (IRS) following initiation of antiretroviral treatment (ART). Immune reconstitution syndrome is common in patients who start ART with low CD4 counts and [...]
Renal involvement is a common manifestation of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and is a cause of significant morbidity and mortality, even in the age of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). This review discusses the spectrum of renal pathology in the HIV-positive child and includes diseases that occur in any child regardless of the HIV [...]
