DELAYED HEALING OF VARICOSE ULCER WITH LEVAMISOLE

Measles giant-cell pneumonia has mainly been described in children with immunological deficiencies,1 2 although a paper describing Kenyan children with measles and pneumonia concluded that most cases of pneumonia were viral.3 In adults two cases of measles pneumonia have been reported, both fatal. One patient had a malignant reticulosis,4 and the other, also a 28-year-old woman, had an unclassified blood dyscrasia since childhood.5 The case I describe had no significant past history or gross immunological deficiency. Giant-cell measles pneumonia is a histological diagnosis not usually made during life, but the clinical picture, specific rise in antibody titre, and lack of bacterial growth lead us to consider this such a case.