Rationale:Fever with myositis and rhabdomyolysis is a medical emergency requiring prompt diagnosis and management.Scrub typhus associated myositis with rhabdomyolysis is rare.Patient concerns:A 36-year-old female pres...Rationale:Fever with myositis and rhabdomyolysis is a medical emergency requiring prompt diagnosis and management.Scrub typhus associated myositis with rhabdomyolysis is rare.Patient concerns:A 36-year-old female presented with intermittent fever up to 38.6℃,jaundice and progressive weakness of all four limbs.Diagnosis:Scrub typhus associated myositis and rhabdomyolysis.Intervention:Doxycycline 100 mg twice daily and injection of ceftriaxone 1 gm twice daily along with continuous intravenous fluids.Outcome:Fever resolved with normalization of liver function and recovery of muscle power.Lessons:Presence of myositis and rhabdomyolysis is uncommon in scrub typhus;high clinical suspicion should be kept in patients with atypical manifestations of scrub typhus.展开更多
Angioleiomyoma of the hand is a rare differential diagnosis of painful soft tissue nodule in the extremity.It arises from smooth muscle of the blood vessels and the most common symptom is pain.Imaging with magnetic re...Angioleiomyoma of the hand is a rare differential diagnosis of painful soft tissue nodule in the extremity.It arises from smooth muscle of the blood vessels and the most common symptom is pain.Imaging with magnetic resonance imaging shows characteristic features like a hypodense peripheral capsule with linear or branching internal hyperdensities on T2-weighted images,and post-contrast diffuse homogenous enhancement with a vessel leading up to the lesion.Histopathological examination shows well circumscribed fascicles of mature smooth muscle cells surrounding vascular lumina,lined by normal appearing endothelium without elastic lamina present.These cells stain positive for smooth muscle actin,desmin,vimentin,type IV collagen and S100,but stain negative for HMB-45 and ER.Angioleiomyoma is amenable for surgical resection.We report a case of painful subcutaneous nodule of hand,with radiological and histopathological findings suggestive of angioleiomyoma.We outline the clinical,radiological and histopathological features of this rare diagnosis for painful nodule of extremity.展开更多
文摘Rationale:Fever with myositis and rhabdomyolysis is a medical emergency requiring prompt diagnosis and management.Scrub typhus associated myositis with rhabdomyolysis is rare.Patient concerns:A 36-year-old female presented with intermittent fever up to 38.6℃,jaundice and progressive weakness of all four limbs.Diagnosis:Scrub typhus associated myositis and rhabdomyolysis.Intervention:Doxycycline 100 mg twice daily and injection of ceftriaxone 1 gm twice daily along with continuous intravenous fluids.Outcome:Fever resolved with normalization of liver function and recovery of muscle power.Lessons:Presence of myositis and rhabdomyolysis is uncommon in scrub typhus;high clinical suspicion should be kept in patients with atypical manifestations of scrub typhus.
文摘Angioleiomyoma of the hand is a rare differential diagnosis of painful soft tissue nodule in the extremity.It arises from smooth muscle of the blood vessels and the most common symptom is pain.Imaging with magnetic resonance imaging shows characteristic features like a hypodense peripheral capsule with linear or branching internal hyperdensities on T2-weighted images,and post-contrast diffuse homogenous enhancement with a vessel leading up to the lesion.Histopathological examination shows well circumscribed fascicles of mature smooth muscle cells surrounding vascular lumina,lined by normal appearing endothelium without elastic lamina present.These cells stain positive for smooth muscle actin,desmin,vimentin,type IV collagen and S100,but stain negative for HMB-45 and ER.Angioleiomyoma is amenable for surgical resection.We report a case of painful subcutaneous nodule of hand,with radiological and histopathological findings suggestive of angioleiomyoma.We outline the clinical,radiological and histopathological features of this rare diagnosis for painful nodule of extremity.
