A healthy postnatal woman succumbed to fulminant iatrogenic Aspergillus infection of the central nervous system, following accidental inoculation into the subarachnoid space at spinal anesthesia, during an outbreak of ...

To the Editor, The characteristic fungal bodies of chromoblastomycosis, known as Medlar bodies, are visualized as golden brown rounded bodies in routine hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stained tissue sections of the skin (Fig. ...

Abstract. The impact of repeated malarial infections on the school performance of children was investigated in 571 school children 6–14 years of age in a malaria-endemic area in southern Sri Lanka where both Plasmodium ...

Introduction: The educational environment is crucial in determining the success of undergraduate medical education. The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) is a validated tool to assess the educational ...

A 23 year-old, recently married Omani lady was admitted with 7 weeks of amenorrhoea, abdominal pain and bleeding per vagina. Her abdominal examination was unremarkable; a bimanual examination showed a uterine size of 12 ...

Goal: To assess the association between duration of breastfeeding and the risk of breast cancer in Sri Lankan women. Methods: We conducted a case–control study in women aged 30–64 years in selected health care facilities ...

Giagantomastia is a rare disorder known to occur in pregnancy, causing enlargement of the breasts greater than that of gravid enlargement. The histological features of gigantomastia are glandular hyperplasia and an increase ...

There is growing evidence of considerable burden of morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases and undernutrition in school children. This study describes the nutritional status and parasitic infections of school ...

A series of 71 patients with multiple measured biopsies of the gastroesophageal junctional region permitting assessment of the presence and length of different glandular epithelial types is presented. All but nine of 53 ...