May 2012

Autosomal dominant inheritance with variable penetrance in primary familial and congenital polycythemia: A family tree

  Primary familial and congenital polycythemia is a rare congenital disorder with only one case ever reported from Indian Subcontinent. Here, we are reporting an entire family inflicted with primary familial and congenital polycythemia, first ever of its kind from Indian subcontinent. We are of firm belief that our report would create awareness among medical fraternity in India about this under reported...

Author(s):   Jain P. K., Siddiqui M. Z., Gaba R., Srivastava G., Jaiswal P., Srivastava S. And Shukla A.

May 2012

Immature gastric teratoma in a newborn

  Gastric teratomas are very rare embryonal neoplasms and accounts for less than 1% of all teratomas occurring in infants and children. It is usually seen in male infants who present with upper abdominal mass and commonly it is benign. This report describes a large immature grade II gastric teratoma in a male newborn. The tumor was treated with total excision including part of the stomach.   Key...

Author(s): Ahmed H. Al-Salem