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A 55-year-old had been undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. He was admitted to our hospital for nausea-vomiting and back pain that was located at the interscapular area. Urine culture was positive for me...

Tuberculosis is still a major health problem especially among immunocompromised hosts. Another problem is making diagnosis due to the unexpected presentation and localization of disease. Extrapulmonary disease may clinic...

Here, a fifty nine year old woman with extrapulmonary tuberculosis and pyogenic infection involving cervical spine is presented. The patient had chronic renal failure and was on maintenance hemodialysis for two years. Sh...

Rheumatologic and osteoarticular syndromes occur frequently in chronic haemodialysis patients. The number and severity of these complications increase with the time on hemodialysis (HD). Beta-2 microglobulin accumulates ...

We present a 53-year-old female patient who was admitted for renal failure and where spinal ossification similar to ankylosing spondylitis was detected due to hypoparathyroidism. On physical examination, she had extre...

A 41-year old male patient was admitted to our hospital with the complaints of reduced urine, swelling and increased urea and creatinine values. Bilateral hydronephrosis was detected by ultrasonography, but the surroundi...