The clinical presentation and autopsy findings in the case of a patient with acute myelomonocytic leukemia and trichinosis are described. Cellular immunity is an important host defense against nematode infections such as strongyloidiasis. It is therefore probable that the severe trichinosis seen in this immunosuppressed patient was more than coincidental. Due to concomitant failure of humoral immunity, serodiagnosis of trichinosis would have been impossible. The only means of making the diagnosis antemortem would have been muscle biopsy.

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Spinal neurofibromatosis.

Neurofibromatosis is a congenital abnormality due to maldevelopment of the neurectoderm and mesoderm. Spinal abnormalities are a frequent occurrence and the roentgenological changes observed in 21 patients are presented. These include scoliosis, posterior scalloping of vertebral bodies, and the roentgenological features associated with intraspinal tumors and thoracic meningoceles.

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Angiographic differentiation of thoracic aneurysms and neoplasms.

The distinction between nondissecting aneuryms of the thoracic aorta and thoracic neoplasms may be difficult. The aortographic findings associated with aneurysms may be subtle. However, when the aortogram is properly performed and interpreted and the findings correlated with the plain chest roentgenograms the distinction between aneurysms and neoplasms may be made consistently. The thoracic aortogram should be filmed in at least 2 projections and abdominal aortography and ultrasonography should be performed. With aneurysms the aortographic signs include widening (often slight) of the aortic lumen, thickening of the aortic wall, small ulcer-like collections of contrast and non-filling of regional intercostal arteries. With neoplasms none of these radiological features is to be anticipated, while the aorta will be normal, displaced or narrowed.

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