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We report on a female patient who had a tumour below the mandibular, on the right side of the neck, aged 70 years. When she was 74 years old easy discomfort characterized by trembling of the hands while resting and moving to the target as well as a certain stiffness of the neck, appeared. Three years later, at the age of 77, she felt fatigue, ptosis, double vision, weakness of the jaws while chewing, speech and swallowing disturbances, and weakness of the legs, that led to disability. In such state of health the patient was admitted to hospital for medical examination. Hypomimia, rigor of the neck muscles, vesting tremor, and, above all, clearly marked signs of myasthenic weakness and fatigue of the extraocular, masseteric, mimic, and bulbar muscles and those of the limbs, but in a lesser degree, were found. With Tensilon test we registered a positive response, and by an electrophysiological examination we defined a myasthenic decrement under the repetitive stimulus. Biopsy of submandibular tumour and histologic analysis indicated tuberculous lymphadenitis. Most symptoms of the disease disappeared during the treatment with anticholinesterase drugs and amantadine.
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PMID:[An unusual association of myasthenia gravis and Parkinsonism in a female patient with tuberculous lymphadenitis]. 179 25

Fourteen patients with tuberculosis of the orbit and lacrimal gland seen over a period of 20 years have been presented. The majority of them were between the ages of 4 to 15 years. Males were affected twice as frequently as females. Left side was affected four times as frequently as the right side. There were eight patients of periostitis of orbital margin, one patient of dacryoadenitis, three patients of tuberculoma of orbital tissues, and two patients of tuberculoma of maxillary sinus. One patient with periostitis had involvement of the greater and lesser wings of sphenoid in addition to the involvement of upper-outer orbital margin. Two periostitis patients had prolapse of the palpebral portion of the lacrimal gland. The clinical presentation and gross appearance of the tuberculoma of the lacrimal gland was similar to those found in benign mixed tumor. The patients with tuberculoma of orbital tissues presented as pseudotumors. The mimicry of tuberculoma of maxillary sinus to carcinoma has been mentioned. Associated tuberculous lesions were pulmonary in eight patients, cervical lymphadenitis in ten patients, intestinal in one patient, and caries spine in one patient. In two patients the disease developed in the absence of any other tuberculous lesion discovered in the body. The cases were cured by wide surgical removal of all the diseased tissues combined with antituberculous chemotherapy.
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PMID:Tuberculosis of the orbit and lacrimal gland: a clinical study of 14 cases. 741 35

We reported a unique case of myasthenia gravis in association with tuberculous mediastinal lymphadenitis. A 56-year-old man suffering from generalized myasthenia gravis underwent thymothymectomy followed by good clinical recovery for 2 years. Thereafter, the patient complained of acute onset of ptosis, diplopia, dysphagia and limb weakness with elevated titers of serum anti-acetylcholine receptor antibody. CT scans of the chest showed a mediastinal lymphadenopathy and the Thallium-201 SPECT revealed an abnormal mediastinal accumulation, suggesting recurrence of thymoma in the mediastinal lymphonode. Histologically, the re-operated mediastinal tumor was of tuberculous lymphadenitis. This patient gives us a caution that we must guard against errors in differentiation between thymoma and tuberculous mediastinal lymphadenitis, particularly when myasthenic patients with mediastinal tumors are expected to receive the corticosteroids therapy. (120 words).
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PMID:[Acute deterioration of myasthenia gravis in association with tuberculous mediastinal lymphadenitis, simulating recurrence of thymoma. A case report]. 761 72

A 44-year-old man presented with painful Horner syndrome: severe periorbital pain, ptosis, and miosis of his right eye, with intact facial sweating. Lymphadenitis at the right side of his neck preceded the symptoms. MRI and magnetic resonance angiography showed thickening of the right internal carotid artery, extending from the bifurcation to the cavernous sinus, without evidence for dissection. The patient was treated with corticosteroids with immediate improvement. Control MRI scanning was normal after 6 weeks. We conclude that the painful Horner syndrome was caused by a reactive arteritis of the right internal carotid artery.
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PMID:Painful Horner syndrome due to arteritis of the internal carotid artery. 981 86

The presence of preputial Demodex species in four captive, wild-caught big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) in eastern Tennessee, USA, examined between 2008 and 2010 is reported. In three of four cases, there was associated folliculitis, dermatitis, or preputial adenitis. There were no clinical signs directly attributable to the mites, although penile prolapse was present in one case. Mites were retrieved from preputial skin samples of other archival big brown bats by potassium hydroxide digestion and analyzed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). DNA sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene revealed 99.6% homology to Demodex canis, although morphologic differences distinguish the two species. Mites of this report differ in anatomic location from Demodex spp. previously reported in bats and represent a species unreported to public databases.
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PMID:Preputial Demodex species in big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) in eastern Tennessee. 2350 12