- Rhinoscleroma: A case report.
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Joung Ho Han, Joon Mee Kim, In Sun Kim, Seung Young Paik
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Korean J Pathol. 1990;24(2):166-170.
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- Rhinoscleroma, or scleroma, is a chronic, slowly progressing granulomatous disease involving the upper respiratory tract, especially the nasal vestibules, choanae, pharynx, and larynx. Almost certainly the causative agent is Klebsiella rhinoscleromatis. The disease occurs frequently in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Latin America, but it is hard to find such case in Korea. We prisent a case of rhinoscleroma involving the nasal vestibule in a 18-year-old male who was admitted due to nasal obstruction for 5 years and epistaxis for 2 months. The resected specimen was an irregular polypoid mass with relatively firm consistency and measured 3 cm in the largest diameter. Microscopically, the lesion was characterized by extensive fibrosis and inflammatory cell infiltration. The infiltrates consisted of predominantly lumphocytes, plasma cells, foamy or granular histiocytes which were singly scattered or grouped in clusters. In the cytoplasm of the histiocytes, round slightly basophilic bodies were noted. Warthin-Starry satin showed short positive rods within the cytoplasm of the cell (Mikulicz cell). Electron microscopically, the cytoplasm of Mikulicz cells contained large, round or irregular shaped clear vacuoles in which numerous Klebsiella bacilli attached to the boundaries of the vaculoes were noted. With higher magnifications, the bacilli were seen as roung or rod-shaped organisms.
- Sturge-Weber Syndrome: Report of an incomplete form.
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Hye Yeon Kim, Kap No Lee, Seung Young Paik, Ki Chan Lee, Chang Soo Lim, Suck Ho Nam, Je G Chi
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Korean J Cytopathol. 1985;19(2):226-230.
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- The Sturge Weber syndrome is an uncommon disorder characterized by port-wine nevus of the face with angiomatosis of the ipsilateral cerebral leptomeninges and extensive calcification in the underlying cerebral cortex.
Associated with this syndrome are mental retardation, choroidal angioma, buphthalmus or glaucoma, seizure and hemiplegia. We studied a case of incomplete form of Sturage Weber syndrome in a 12 year-old boy, who had generalized seizure, a homonymous hemianopsia, intracranial calcification and leptomeningeal angiomatosis. There are no characteristic facial nevus, mental retardation, occular changes and hemiplegia.
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