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B N Dutta

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Malpighian corpuscles of spleen in infancy and childhood.

In early infancy splenic white pulp is seen arranged around the central arterioles. They do not show any reactive changes even in the presence of systemic infections. Lymphoid follicles are seen at 6 weeks of life. Germinal centres appear from the 8th week of life onwards. Periarteriolar lymphocytic sheaths persist in the older children along with the reactive changes.

Age Factors

Visceral leishmaniasis masquerading as a nasopharyngeal tumour. Report of a case.

A 55-year-old male, a resident of a village in the foothills of the Himalayas in the north-western region of India, presented with a huge nasopharyngeal tumour but was subsequently found to be infected with Leishmania donovani, involving the nasopharyngeal tissue and the draining lymph nodes as well as a visceral infection.

Diagnosis, Differential

Duodenal tuberculosis.

Two patients with duodenal tuberculosis have been presented. Signs and symptoms of the disease are non-specific but may mimic duodenal ulceration. The relevant aspects of the disease process have been reviewed.

Adolescent