The efficacy, tolerability and side effects of a 3-day treatment for acute urinary infection in general practice with norfloxacin (400 mg 12 hourly) or nalidixic acid/citrate (1 sachet 8 hourly) were compared in a randomized study. Patient groups had similar demography, symptomatology and initial infecting bacteria. Of the evaluable 55 patients in each treatment group with initial bacteriuria, 53 (96%) had no bacteriuria at immediate follow-up after treatment with norfloxacin and 45 (82%) with nalidixic acid/citrate. The corresponding rates at late follow-up were 40/45 (89%) and 29/43 (67%) (P less than 0.05). Among the bacteriuric patients a significantly greater proportion were recorded as having cured and improved symptoms. The tolerability of norfloxacin seemed to be better than that of nalidixic acid/citrate.
Malignant eccrine poroma is a rare skin adnexal tumor arising from the eccrine sweat glands. It arises from different sites in the body lower extremities, palmand trunk. Porocarcinoma from scalp is rare and we are presenting a case of porocarcinoma arising from the scalp post radiotherapy for the hypo-pharyngeal tumor. The tumor was presented with multiple secondaries in brain and lung.
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