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February2008 wwwhkmjorg 55 Introduction Cryoglobulins were 31rst described by Wintrobe and Buell in 1933 when found in a blood specimen from a patient with multiple myeloma as precipitates th. June2009 www.hkmj.org 217 Case report We report a 38-year-old Chinese man (IV-2) with hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP). He developed bilateral lower limb weakness in his late twenties and within April2008 www.hkmj.org 145 Introduction Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is an invasive procedure that has been commonly used to diagnose and treat hepatobiliary and pancreatic 374 October2009 www.hkmj.org Introduction Kearns-Sayre syndrome (KSS) is a rare mitochondrial disorder with multisystem involvement affecting the eye, muscle, heart, endocrine, peripheral and centr June2007 www.hkmj.org 231 Introduction When a standard obstetrics practice is affected by a socio-economic situation, we describe it as a ‘social obstetrics’ phenomenon. Here we report two cases