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Publications and source records attributed to M T Kutluk.
The case of a 9-year-old boy diagnosed and treated for cutaneous anthrax is presented. We discuss the clinical features and course of this disease, encountered today only rarely in less developed regions where humans are in contact with infected animals.
In this article a family with five members suffering from primary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (PHO) is reported. Our cases are characterized by swollen and painful joints and clubbing of distal phalanges of hands and feet. The diagnosis made upon on radiological and clinical findings.
The effects of low-dose and short-time acyclovir therapy in 14 children with malignant disease of ages 4-18 years who had developed varicella zoster virus infections while receiving aggressive chemo-/+radiotherapy are reported. Ten of them had chickenpox and 4 herpes zoster. Acyclovir 5 mg/kg was infused IV every 12 h in 9 patients and every 8 h in 5 patients for a median of 4 days' duration. We resumed the primary therapy when the patients' lesions had dried out and became crusted and new lesions had not reappeared. The period of initiation of the acyclovir therapy to the resumption of oncological treatment was 8.4 +/- 2.7 days for chickenpox and 12.0 +/- 3.4 days for herpes zoster patients. After restarting the oncological therapy, no adverse effects of acyclovir or complication of infection were observed. The efficiency of early, short-term, and relatively low dose acyclovir therapy is discussed and compared to the results in the relevant literature.
An unusual case of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with primary renal involvement in a four-year-old boy is presented. The diagnosis was established by renal biopsy. The findings of an exploratory laparotomy and an extensive staging procedure showed no other primary site. The patient has been followed up for 14 months and no evidence of recurrence has been observed.
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