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The author recently examined four children of clinical macrocephaly. Their occipitofrontal head circumference was exceeded 2 standard deviations above the mean for chronological age. Megalencephaly with normal ventricular system was proved by computerized tomography or pneumoencephalography. The purpose of this paper is to report four cases with various clinical aspects and to discuss the similarity of these patients. Additionally, previously reported syndromes with macrocephaly and multiple hemangiomas were presented in Table 4. Case 1 A 6 year-old was accidentally admitted because of infectious disease. His development was uneventful. Case 2. A 2 year-old boy was admitted because of delayed speech and delayed walking. He had no neonatal complications and no history of convulsions. Case 3. A 4 year-old boy was accidentally admitted because of abdominal pain. His physical examination exhibited diffuse hemangiomatous lesions on the right side of face, neck and chest, and congenital glaucoma. He was diagnosed as Sturge-Weber anomalad at the age of 2 years. Case 4. A 3 year-old girl was admitted because of distended abdomen. She had widely spread strawberry hemangioma on her right abdominal wall and blue and brownish phacomatosis on her back. GI tract examination showed lymphoid hyperplasia of the colon. Clinical profiles are presented in Table 3. These patients were different from Sotos syndrome (cerebral gigantism), but had the following similar findings besides megalencephaly-1) large birth weight (mean; 3961 g), 2) hypotonic and wasting muscles, 3) clumsy in walking and running, 4) no hereditary tendency. The Cases 1, 3 and 4 had normal mental development. The Case 4 was seemed as a previously undescribed clinical syndrome in which the principal features were megalencephaly, distended abdomen, hypotonic and wasting muscles, lymphoid hyperplasia of the colon, retroperitoneal cavernous hemangioma, and cutaneous hemangioma and neuroma. The relationship between cutaneous involvement and megalencephaly was unknown.
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PMID:[Megalencephaly: a report of 4 children including a previously undescribed congenital syndrome and review of the literature (author's transl)]. 616 78

The terminal ileum and proximal colon were resected in two children presenting with fever and right lower quadrant abdominal pain. The pathological findings were characteristic; elongated ulcerations with underlying lymphoid hyperplasia involved the distal ileum and smaller punctate aphthoid ulcers involved the distal ileum and colon. Transmural inflammation was seen in both cases and resulted in thickened, erythematous distal ileum mistaken at surgery for Crohn's disease. Yersinia enterocolitica was recovered from operative cultures of both the specimens. One of the two patients had a 1:1280 serological titer for Yersinia enterocolitica 1 week after surgery. The pathologic findings of Yersinia enterocolitica ileocolitis are distinctive and easily differentiated from Crohn's disease and other pathologic processes in this region. Operative diagnosis can be difficult but if the possibility of Yersinia infection is considered, the correct diagnosis can usually be made without unnecessary surgical resection.
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PMID:The pathology of Yersinia enterocolitica ileocolitis. 711 60

A 15-year-old male ruptured his enlarged spleen while body surfing. He experienced sharp abdominal pain after being thrown and pinned to the sand by a wave. He developed signs and symptoms of intraperitoneal bleeding and was taken to surgery. The pathology report confirmed the presence of a laceration of the capsule of a spleen with reactive lymphoid hyperplasia. It is suggested that the usual definition of "contact sports" be expanded to include body surfing.
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PMID:A ruptured spleen due to body surfing. 733 36

A 16-year-old boy was hospitalized because of abdominal pain, diarrhea, and weight loss. Serum immunoelectrophoresis showed an absence of IgA and diminished levels of IgM and IgG. Radiological examination of the upper gut was suggestive of lymphoid nodular hyperplasia, a diagnosis confirmed by endoscopy and intestinal biopsy. In addition, infestation with Giardia Lamblia was proven by duodenal aspirate at the time of endoscopy.
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PMID:The value of endoscopy in the diagnosis of lymphoid nodular hyperplasia. 744 Sep 50

Intravascular lymphomatosis (IL), previously called "malignant angioendotheliomatosis", is a rare neoplastic disease in which mononuclear cells, of demonstrated lymphoid origin, proliferate in small blood vessels lumen. Any organ may be involved, standing out general status affectation, skin and central nervous system (CNS) because their frequency. A case of this disease is reported, who presented general impairment with prolonged fever, abdominal pain and cutaneous arborescent telangiectasias as the most significant clinical data. It become fatal in a short time. It was clinically considered to be a sepsis and diagnosis was only obtained in post-mortem study. This study revealed multiple organ infiltration by this neoplasm, with the notable exception of CNS. Immunohistochemical study confirmed the lymphoid origin of neoplastic cells. The main characteristics of IL are reviewed.
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PMID:[Intravascular lymphomatosis. Report of a case and brief review of the disease]. 766 79

Multiple lymphomatous polyposis (MLP) is a term used to describe malignant lymphomas of the gastrointestinal tract that manifest as polyposis. The cell population of MLP is identical to that in "mantle cell lymphoma." In most instances, relatively small segments of small and large intestine are affected. We report a case of MLP in which involvement was unusually widespread. A 56-year-old man, with abdominal pain and weight loss, proved to have a large mass at the ileocecal valve as well as multiple polyps of the stomach and small and large intestine. MLP is distinctive both grossly and microscopically. Clinically, it may be confused with epithelial polyps, and histologically it must be distinguished from benign lymphoid proliferations as well as other types of lymphoma. The latter distinction is important because of the relatively poor prognosis (median survival of < 3 years).
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PMID:Multiple lymphomatous polyposis of the gut. A case with unusually widespread distribution. 796 62

Three 10- to 16-day-old Boer goat kids died and one kid was euthanased after showing depression, abdominal pain and refusal to suckle. Gross lesions in 2 kids comprised ulcerative and necrotic lesions in the ileum, colon and caecum. Microscopically, the mucosal lesions in the ileum of one kid were associated with necrosis of lymphoid follicles and acidophilic intranuclear inclusions in epithelial cells and in what appeared to be macrophages and dendritic reticular cells. Foci of necrosis and intranuclear inclusions were also present in the mesenteric lymph node, kidney and lung. Electron microscopy of sections of the intestine demonstrated the presence of intranuclear virus-like particles, morphologically compatible with a herpesvirus.
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PMID:Systemic herpesvirus infection in neonatal goats. 817 98

Recent antigliadin antibody (AGA) determination has become an important diagnostic tool in coeliac disease (CD). Although this test has high sensibility for the disease, it is less specific, especially for IgG class, because of its having been found in some acute and chronic common intestinal childhood diseases. We studied the behaviour of AGA, IgA and IgG, in 234 children affected by various gastrointestinal diseases, comparing the results with those obtained in 125 coeliac children and 788 normal children. The intestinal diseases were as follows: irritable bowel syndrome, cow's milk protein intolerance, acute infectious diarrhoea, parasitosis, lactase deficiency, recurrent abdominal pain, cystic fibrosis, chronic constipation, gastroesophageal reflux, intestinal lymphangiectasia, chronic intractable diarrhoea and nodular lymphoid hyperplasia. Our results showed that while AGA-IgA were absent in all children studied, with the exception of 3 cases of acute diarrhoea, a moderate percentage of AGA-IgG was observed in subjects with cow's milk protein intolerance, acute diarrhoea, irritable bowel syndrome, lactase deficiency, chronic intractable diarrhoea and in a low percentage of children with parasitosis, intestinal lymphangiectasia and nodular lymphoid hyperplasia. There was no antibody movement in subjects with cystic fibrosis, gastroesophageal reflux, recurrent abdominal pains and chronic constipation. The different behaviour of the two antibody classes could be explained by the fact that AGA-IgG were detected in diseases where scattered areas of mucosal damage could allow the permeability of the macromolecules inducing passage of gliadin through the mucosal barrier and immune system-induced antibody stimulation.
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PMID:[The predictive value of antigliadin antibodies (AGA) in the diagnosis of non-celiac gastrointestinal disease in children]. 834 Dec 33

We describe the clinicopathologic characteristics of three patients with chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction and malabsorption. The patients were young women (average age, 25 years) who presented with abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and weight loss that led to extreme inanition and death in two patients despite multiple treatment schemes. The evolution of the process averaged 8 years. No case manifested evidence of malignant lymphoproliferative progression. Histologically, a diffuse lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate that affected all the layers of the intestinal wall was observed in full-thickness biopsy specimens. The proliferating lymphocytes were small and mixed with mature plasma cells that proved to be polyclonal on immunohistochemical analysis. An outstanding finding in all three cases was extensive damage to submucosal and myenteric nerve plexus associated with a lymphoid infiltrate. Quantification of the myenteric plexus by using immunohistochemical and morphometric techniques also revealed a marked reduction in their number. We concluded that diffuse lymphoplasmacytic infiltration of the small intestine associated with damage to the intestinal nerve plexus constitutes a specific disorder that is different from other diseases that produce intestinal pseudo-obstruction.
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PMID:Diffuse lymphoplasmacytic infiltration of the small intestine with damage to nerve plexus. A cause of intestinal pseudo-obstruction. 834 45

Idiopathic intussusception in adults is rare. In tropical climates, enteric infection is causally implicated. Three cases of intussusception in AIDS patients have been reported, two of which were associated with enteric infection. We report the fourth case of ileocolonic intussusception in an AIDS patient in whom lymphoid hyperplasia of the terminal ileum was found but no infection documented. The relationship between lymphoid hyperplasia and intussusception is discussed. The previous cases of AIDS and intussusception are reviewed. Idiopathic intussusception may become more prevalent as the number of AIDS cases increases, and must be considered in the differential diagnosis of abdominal pain in AIDS patients.
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PMID:A case of intussusception and lymphoid hyperplasia in a patient with AIDS. 912 53


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