Non-systemic diffuse lymphangiomatosis of spleen and liver

We present a 27-year-old woman with non-systemic diffuse lymphangiomatosis of spleen and liver. The tumour consisted of capillary and cavernous lymphatic vessels located in abundant fibrous tissue. The vascular endothelium showed immunoreactivity for factor VIII-related antigen. A basal lamina could be demonstrated immunohistochemically and by electronmicroscopy.     

Pulmonary edema in cocaine smokers

Cocaine smoking can cause a number of medical complications. Pneumomediastinum and pneumothorax due to barotrauma have been the most common radiographic abnormalities reported in the medical literature. The hospital records of five patients with pulmonary edema who smoked cocaine just before admission were reviewed. Except for cocaine abuse no other possible cause for the pulmonary edema was found. Although chest radiographic abnormalities in these patients are uncommon, these cases are reported to inform the radiologist of this possible complication of cocaine smoking. The presence of pulmonary edema in a young, otherwise healthy patient without predisposing risk factors should alert the radiologist to the possible diagnosis of cocaine abuse.     

NEONATAL AORTIC THROMBOSIS: A Possible Clinical Manifestation of Cangenital Antithrombin III Deficiency

Abstract. Bjarke, B., Herin, P. and Blombäck, M. (Department of Pediatrics, Karolinska Institutet, S:t Göran's Children's Hospital and Department of Blood Coagulation, Karolinska Sjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden). Neonatal aortic thrombosis. Acta Paediat Scand 63:297, 1974.–Two cases of neonatal aortic thrombosis are presented. Possible etiologies, as quoted in the literature, are discussed and the fact that the etiology seems to be unknown in at least half of the cases is stressed. The mothers of the two neonates presented had an antithrombin III (AT III) deficiency, which is associated with an increased tendency to thrombosis. One of the mothers had manifested such a tendency. The AT III deficiency as an ethiological factor for the thrombus formation in the two babies is discussed.