In Sri Lanka WHO estimates 3.1% of the population to have alcohol used disorder and predicts that nearly 50% of them can present with alcohol withdrawal syndrome. We describe a 51 year old male with the back ground history of alcohol abuse for 20 years duration and series of adve...
Rhabdomyolysis is a clinical condition of potentially life threatening destruction of skeletal muscles caused by diverse mechanisms including drug and toxins. Opioid is one of the encountered drug which cause rhabdomyolysis in association with renal failure. Paraparesis is one of...
Epithelioid Sarcoma of the hand is a rare, high grade soft tissue sarcoma. It accounts for less than 1% of soft tissue sarcoma. It is often misdiagnosed and is a great mimicker of multiple diseases due to its deceptively harmless appearances during the initial stages of the disea...
Objective: Detection of minor (p190) BCR-ABL fusion protein in a CML patients. Case Report: A 26-year-old female presented with complaints of pain abdomen and episodes of vomiting. On examination her vitals were stable and there was moderate splenomegaly. The peripheral blood and...
Rubinstein – Taybi syndrome (RTS) otherwise called as Broad Thumb-Hallux syndrome is considered to be a genetic disorder characterized by facial dysmorphism mental deficiency and growth retardation. Presented here is a case report of the patient with RTS with comprehensive oro-de...
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) associated with hypothyroidism, was reported in literature. Like-wise association between hypothyroidism and Vit. D deficiency was reported. Hypothyroidism, Vit. D deficiency in DM2 patients was also reported, in the literature. But the occurrence of Met...
Hypereosinophilic Syndrome (HES) is diagnosed when there is peripheral hypereosinophilia with eosinophil count of more than >1500/µL. The duration of the illness usually lasts more than 6 months, with evidence of target organ damage, affecting mainly the skin, heart, and neuro...
Back Ground: Both Sirenomelia & Gastroschisis are very rare congenital anomalies & it is extremely rare to find each of the two anomalies in both twins of one pregnancy, here we reported the two anomalies in one twin pregnancy. Case Report: We reported twin pregnancy in G...
Introduction: Neuroblastoma is an extremely rare pediatric neoplasm whose prognosis becomes poor as the age advances. It can be sporadic or nonfamilial in origin. It is primarily a tumor of abdominal origin from where it metastasis to lymph nodes, liver, intracranial and orbital...
Background: Fetus Papyraceus is a rare condition with the intrauterine death and subsequent retention of one or more fetuses of a multiple gestation. Antepartum diagnosis of fetus papyraceus is infrequent and usually it is a chance finding during investigation of some other pregn...