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A 15 year old boy with autoimmune polyendocrinopathy-candidosis-ectodermal dystrophy syndrome suffered recurrent episodes of severe intractable diarrhoea, steatorrhoea, and hypocalcaemia. The only treatment modality, which controlled the malabsorption syndrome, was immunosuppression with intravenous high dose methylprednisolone and oral methotrexate maintenance therapy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A 17-year-old Jewish Sephardi male is described with symphalangism, short stature, multiple skeletal anomalies, and an accessory testis, which appears to be a new malformation syndrome of possible genetic aetiology. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Subacute thyroiditis is extremely rare during the first decade of life. We describe a case of subacute thyroiditis in a 2 year old child whose initial clinical, sonographic, and radioisotopic features were indistinguishable from acute suppurative thyroiditis. The diagnosis was established by a raised antibody titre against adenovirus and typical increased thyroid function tests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]