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PMC4664794_01
Female
57
A 57-year-old woman presented to the rheumatology clinic with recurrent fever and painful ulcers on her legs since two months. Eight months prior to current presentation, she developed vertigo and decreased hearing in her left ear which she felt was "full of air" all the time. She was found to have sensorineural deafne...
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PMC3949549_01
Male
47
A 47-year-old male with no medical history was referred to the St. Catharins Hospital (Eindhoven, the Netherlands) in May 2010 following a two-week history of fever and dyspnoea. There were no complaints of cough and no history of smoking. His mother died in an other hospital three months before this episode due to an ...
aetiology, sarcoidosis, tuberculosis
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PMC5866856_01
Female
76
A 76-year-old woman was admitted to our department because of 10-day history of right upper quadrant abdominal pain that extended to the back and progressive deep jaundice. The patient had sought medical help 7 days before admission because of the same pain which was considered as of musculoskeletal origin and, therefo...
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PMC7582096_01
Female
48
A 48-year-old woman with no significant past medical history apart from elective bilateral breast implantation 10 years prior, presented with new onset of fever, rigors, night sweats and shortness of breath. Initial workup revealed microcytic anemia (Hb 8.9 g/dL, MCV 78 fL leukopenia and elevated CRP 143 mg/dL and ESR ...
disseminated, lymph node biopsy, lymphoma, mycobacterium avium complex
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PMC3914247_01
Female
45
A 45-year-old female resident in Ireland, originally from the Philippines, was transferred to our institution for further management of acute renal failure. She initially presented to the referring hospital with generalized malaise and fatigue over the preceding month associated with a small, painless swelling on the l...
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PMC10407729_01
Female
41
Two months prior to presentation, the patient, a 41-year-old woman, was accidentally bitten by a "wild dog" on the skin at the back of the middle and lower parts of the right leg while walking. After the incident, the patient experienced a localized pain and discomfort associated with minimal bleeding. Later, she went ...
dog bite, metastatic abscess, necrosis of lymph node
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PMC7256686_01
Female
32
A fit, physically active 32-year-old female with no underlying risk factors underwent a left knee anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction and partial lateral meniscectomy. She was not taking oral contraceptives. She presented 19 days postoperatively with acute dyspnea, chest pain, tachycardia, and complaints of...
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PMC8184137_01
Female
26
A 26-year-old female was referred to our hospital in June 2014 with a complaint of dull pain in the right knee for six months. Physical examination showed tenderness in the proximal right tibia. Radiography and computed tomography (CT) revealed eccentric, well-defined osteolytic destruction in the proximal metaphysis o...
vegfr-2, apatinib, denosumab, giant cell tumor of bone, pulmonary metastasis
CT of the chest. (A) Local recurrence but without pulmonary metastasis.
PMC8184137_01
Female
26
A 26-year-old female was referred to our hospital in June 2014 with a complaint of dull pain in the right knee for six months. Physical examination showed tenderness in the proximal right tibia. Radiography and computed tomography (CT) revealed eccentric, well-defined osteolytic destruction in the proximal metaphysis o...
vegfr-2, apatinib, denosumab, giant cell tumor of bone, pulmonary metastasis
CT of the chest. (B) Multiple pulmonary metastases were found and denosumab initiated.
PMC7170120_01
Male
47
A 47-year-old male patient suffered from intermittent cough and fever for over 2 months, these symptoms aggravated for at last 20 days without sputum, shortness of breath, thoracalgia or hemoptysis. Initially, computed tomography (CT) scan of his chest showed a mass lesion in right upper lobe of his lung and partial of...
lung cancer, peripheral adenocarcinom, pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
Chest computerized tomography (CT) before any therapy. (A, B) CT slices showed a mass lesion in the upper lobe of right lung and partial of right pleural thickening.
PMC7170120_01
Male
47
A 47-year-old male patient suffered from intermittent cough and fever for over 2 months, these symptoms aggravated for at last 20 days without sputum, shortness of breath, thoracalgia or hemoptysis. Initially, computed tomography (CT) scan of his chest showed a mass lesion in right upper lobe of his lung and partial of...
lung cancer, peripheral adenocarcinom, pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
Chest computerized tomography (CT) before any therapy. (A, B) CT slices showed a mass lesion in the upper lobe of right lung and partial of right pleural thickening.
PMC7170120_01
Male
47
A 47-year-old male patient suffered from intermittent cough and fever for over 2 months, these symptoms aggravated for at last 20 days without sputum, shortness of breath, thoracalgia or hemoptysis. Initially, computed tomography (CT) scan of his chest showed a mass lesion in right upper lobe of his lung and partial of...
lung cancer, peripheral adenocarcinom, pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
Chest CT after 2 cycles of postoperative chemotherapy. (A) No tumor recurrence in right upper lobe of lung.
PMC7170120_01
Male
47
A 47-year-old male patient suffered from intermittent cough and fever for over 2 months, these symptoms aggravated for at last 20 days without sputum, shortness of breath, thoracalgia or hemoptysis. Initially, computed tomography (CT) scan of his chest showed a mass lesion in right upper lobe of his lung and partial of...
lung cancer, peripheral adenocarcinom, pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
Chest CT of ninth months after therapy. (B) A part-solid nodule found in the upper lobe of left lung.
PMC7170120_01
Male
47
A 47-year-old male patient suffered from intermittent cough and fever for over 2 months, these symptoms aggravated for at last 20 days without sputum, shortness of breath, thoracalgia or hemoptysis. Initially, computed tomography (CT) scan of his chest showed a mass lesion in right upper lobe of his lung and partial of...
lung cancer, peripheral adenocarcinom, pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
Chest CT of ninth months after therapy. (C, D) Multiple subsolid nodules in lower lobe of both lungs.
PMC7170120_01
Male
47
A 47-year-old male patient suffered from intermittent cough and fever for over 2 months, these symptoms aggravated for at last 20 days without sputum, shortness of breath, thoracalgia or hemoptysis. Initially, computed tomography (CT) scan of his chest showed a mass lesion in right upper lobe of his lung and partial of...
lung cancer, peripheral adenocarcinom, pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
Chest CT of ninth months after therapy. (C, D) Multiple subsolid nodules in lower lobe of both lungs.
PMC5608601_01
Male
65
A 65-year-old man presented with a one-month history of cough, sputum and chest pain. He was a current smoker (20 cigarettes a day for 40 years) and reported no occupational exposure. His medical history was unremarkable. Symptoms persisted without medication. At admission, temperature was 36.5 C, respiratory rate was...
bronchofibroscope, cop, cryptogenic organizing pneumonia, crp, c-reactive protein, ct, computed tomography, fio2, fraction of inspiration o2, op, organizing pneumonia, organizing pneumonia, pet-ct, positron emission tomography-computed tomography, paco2, partial pressure of carbon dioxide in artery, pao2, partial press...
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PMC4106255_01
Male
60
A 60-year-old man with a medical history of schizoaffective disorder and polysubstance abuse presented in Birmingham, Alabama, with bilateral "black feet." He reported "a few hours out in the cold" 3 weeks ago. Physical examination revealed forth degree frostbite of the bilateral lower extremities (Figs 1 and 2). What ...
cold, frostbite, injury, salvage, tissue
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PMC8342167_01
Female
26
A 26-year-old African American female with a medical history of SLE, ESRD due to LN, remote history of Steven-Johnson Syndrome due to sulfa allergy, and resistant hypertension presented to the emergency department with painful, peeling, blistering, rash and fever. She reported that the rash developed over a period of 3...
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PMC3253153_01
Unknown
19
Three young men (Case A 19 year-old, Case B 21 year-old, Case C 25 year-old) came to our observation for recurrent attacks of migraine-like headache of a pulsating quality and severe intensity, with nausea, photo- and phonophobia, that resolved spontaneously within 12 h if untreated. The attacks were preceded by revers...
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PMC6256140_02
Female
4
Personal pathological antecedents: chicken pox at four years old. Heredo-collateral antecedents: healthy parents, 3 healthy brothers, an aunt, related to her mother, with psoriasis. Anamnesis. The onset was 2 weeks before, with an erythematous rash at the abdominal level. She went to the dermatologist who recommended ...
child, diagnosis, psoriasis
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PMC7533271_01
Female
55
A 55-year-old Caucasian woman was admitted to our Hospital after a two-day history of fever (38.5 C) and acute dyspnea with severe respiratory distress and room-air oxygen saturation of 70% occurring few hours after the administration of chemoimmunotherapy. The patient was diagnosed with a triple negative, BRCA1-relate...
covid-19, sars-cov2, staphylococcus aureus, cancer patient, computed tomography, pneumonia
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PMC4897600_01
Female
16
A 16-year-old previously healthy female presented to this hospital with a two-year history of treatment-refractory tinea capitus of the scalp, left ear, and neck. At that time, she denied fever, malaise, arthralgia, fatigue, weight loss, or any other constitutional symptoms. She further denied cough, shortness of breat...
ct, computed tomography, mri, magnetic resonance imaging
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PMC6430072_01
Male
64
A 64 year old Caucasian male with recent history of constrictive pericarditis and 4.7 cm ascending aortic aneurysm was admitted to the hospital for an elective surgery. He underwent repair of his ascending aortic aneurysm and pericardiectomy on day 1 of admission. During his hospital stay, he had a cardiac arrest with ...
atypical mycobacteria, cvc infection, line infection, m smegmatis, mycobacterium
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PMC4354055_01
Female
50
A 50-year-old female from low socioeconomic background presented at Lok Nayak Hospital, New Delhi, India in 2011 with complaints of a dull aching suprapubic pain for the past six weeks. The pain was persistent throughout the day and increased further on standing and walking. Patient also had a history of low grade even...
musculoskeletal, osteitis pubis, tuberculosis
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PMC5856679_01
Female
59
Following SCARE Guidelines and with the patient consent we present the case of a Hispanic unemployed, female patient 59 years old, with a history of high blood pressure and overweight. Surgical history of OTB at the age of 29. She came with symptoms abdominal pain, emesis of intestinal characteristics and obstipation, ...
case report, giant paraesohagic hernia, intestinal occlusion, laparoscopic surgery
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PMC6330799_01
Female
34
A 34-year-old female presented to the emergency department of our institute with massive hemoptysis. Initially, the patient had streaky hemoptysis for 1 week, followed by a bout of massive hemoptysis (~300 ml in 24 h). The patient had a past history of sputum positive pulmonary TB for the past 2 years, for which she ha...
embolization, endovascular, hemoptysis, intercostal artery pseudoaneurysm, tuberculosis
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PMC8075734_01
Unknown
49
The disease profile which is dominated by infectious and neglected tropical diseases is not uniform across the country. Higher prevalences are found in the north and central regions. Taken together HIV/AIDS and malaria account for over half of the deaths in the general population, with 27% and 29% of the rate mortality...
mepi, faculty development, health professionals education, health system strengthening, implementation science, research capacity building
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PMC5683279_03
Female
39
To date, there is no report of the use of ustekinumab for pediatric JIA, uveitis, or BD. Of note, there is one case report of the successful use of ustekinumab for the treatment of BD in a 39-year-old woman with concurrent psoriasis and hidradenitis suppurativa. After a flare-up of psoriasis, she was prescribed 45 mg o...
il-12, il-23, tnf agent, pediatric psoriasis, ustekinumab
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PMC7256324_01
Male
50
A 50-year-old man presented to the hospital with cervical nodules evolving 3 weeks before admission. He was an active smoker with 68 pack-year tobacco intoxication. He had an history of pulmonary tuberculosis treated 20 years ago. He was admitted first in Otorhinolaryngology (ENT) Department. Initial physical examinati...
adenocarcinoma of lung, neoplasm metastasis, thyroid neoplasms
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PMC5018067_01
Female
55
We describe the case of a 55 year old Italian female with an AIDS diagnosed in June 2015. At diagnosis, CD4 cell count was 20/mm3 and plasma HIV-1-RNA was 796,000 copies/mL. Antiretroviral treatment with elvitegravir/cobicistat/emtricitabine and tenofovir disoproxil ( Stribild) was initiated. The patient was subsequen...
hiv infections, molecular assays, splenic tuberculosis
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PMC6404043_02
Female
39
His 39-year-old partner presented a normal weight (body mass index: 24.6 kg/m2). She had no significant medical history concerning assisted reproduction. She has a normal menstrual history. Since 2003, she has had two spontaneous pregnancies that resulted in one birth and one late-term abortion. The cause was determine...
growth hormone, insulin-like growth factor, oligoasthenoteratozoospermia, sperm quality
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PMC10159276_01
Male
5
A 5-year-old boy from South Sudan presented with complaints of sudden onset, progressive bilateral lower limb weakness for the past month, and inability to walk or stand without assistance. Before the onset of symptoms, he could walk and run without support. He has had urinary incontinence since the onset of weakness. ...
conus intramedullary schistosomiasis, schistosoma mansoni, schistosomal myeloradiculopathy, schistosomiasis, spinal neuroschistosomiasis
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PMC10344630_01
Male
40
M.D., a 40-year-old male patient, presented to the Emergency Department (ED) of Dubti General Hospital, the Afar regional state in Ethiopia, with a complaint of shortness of breath, palpitation, extreme fatigue, and chest pain of a day's duration. He had a dry, intermittent cough, a low-grade intermittent fever, and fa...
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PMC5749263_01
Female
15
A fifteen-year-old female was transferred to the intensive paediatric care unit due to pulmonary haemorrhage, requiring mechanical ventilation, and renal insufficiency. She has no relevant family history and has neonatal antecedents of extreme prematurity and bronchopulmonary dysplasia. At eleven years of age, she star...
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PMC9837258_01
Male
28
A 28-year-old married male sought medical advice at a urology clinic in his rural hometown after complaining of painful scrotal swelling for 1 week. On a spot diagnosis, the urologist identified the patient as having bilateral EO. The only requested investigation, at that time, was a urine analysis, which indicated 12-...
epididymo-orchitis, abscess, seminal vesicle, testis
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PMC8054818_01
Male
60
A male patient, 60 years old, was admitted due to an intermittent cough that had been present for 2 weeks. According to the patient, he had suffered from tuberculous pleurisy about in 20 years ago, and at that time an assessment, made after 3 months' regular anti-TB treatment, showed no explicit evidence indicated the ...
calcification, pleura, thickening, tuberculosis
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PMC5009572_01
Male
54
A 54-year-old man with a history of diverticulitis complicated by intra-abdominal abscess status postbowel resection presented with nuchal rigidity, proximal weakness from upper extremities to lower extremities, and associated numbness shortly after surgery. Admission LP revealed a leuko-pleocytosis (146 cells/mul) wit...
cauda equina, epidural hematoma, lumbar puncture, mass effect, spinal hematoma, spinal hemorrhage, subdural hematoma
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PMC3843700_01
Unknown
0
Of the 614 children, 41.2% (95% CI: 37.3 - 45.2) had features of asthma syndrome, 27.2% (95% CI: 23.7 - 30.9) had bacterial pneumonia, 26.5% (95% CI: 23.1 - 30.2) had viral pneumonia, while 5.1% (95% CI: 3.5 - 7.1) had other diagnoses including pulmonary tuberculosis and pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (Figure 1). Of ...
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PMC7714592_01
Male
27
A 27-year-old Caucasian male with a noncontributory medical history and no previous trauma was referred from the maxillofacial department of the hospital for the endodontic evaluation of the mandibular right first and second molars, which were connected to an extensive asymptomatic osteolytic lesion incidentally discov...
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PMC5227131_01
Male
21
A previously well 21-year-old Bangladesh-born man presented with a six-month history of night sweats, fever, and axillary lymphadenopathy and a four-week history of evolving neurological symptoms including vertigo, diplopia, ataxia, left sided weakness, and right facial droop. On examination there were multiple cranial...
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PMC9533801_01
Female
31
A 31-year-old woman presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with generalized fatigue and lethargy. Medical history was significant for type II diabetes mellitus, sickle cell trait and SLE complicated by lupus nephritis class III. SLE was diagnosed one-year prior following presentation with discoid cutaneous lesions ...
hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, kikuchi-fujimoto disease, latent tuberculosis, lymphadenopathy, systemic lupus erythematosus
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PMC4729429_01
Female
34
A 34-year-old Nigerian woman presented to the ED with a chief complaint of dyspnea, cough, and fever for two days. The patient also complained of epigastric pain and intermittent emesis. She denied any significant prior medical or surgical history. Physical exam revealed a toxic-appearing female in respiratory distress...
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PMC115203_01
Male
61
A 61-yr-old man, born and raised in Crete, was admitted to our hospital with a 6-month history of diarrhea, weight loss of 7 kg, weakness, anorexia, low grade fever, and episodes of pain in the right lower abdominal quadrant. He did not reported arthralgias, rash, cough, or the presence of blood in his stools. There wa...
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PMC3226427_01
Male
18
An 18-year-old man with past medical history significant only for asymptomatic creatine phosphokinase (CPK) elevation (familial) was transferred to our medical intensive care unit after developing malignant hyperthermia (MH) intraoperatively at an outside hospital. History of his presenting illness revealed that the p...
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PMC8560286_01
Female
55
A 55-year-old woman with no notable medical and family history was referred to our department by her general practitioner following the appearance of multiple lesions of the oral mucosa. The intraoral clinical examination revealed poor oral hygiene, hypersialorrhea, and extensive mucosal damage affecting the entire ora...
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PMC4868928_01
Female
57
A 57-year-old woman was diagnosed with SS-DE and pemphigus vulgaris at another hospital and had been experiencing severe subjective symptoms such as dryness, ocular pain, and foreign body sensation in both eyes. Although she was treated with sodium hyaluronate (SH) ophthalmic solution 0.3% (Hyalein mini, Santen Pharma...
dry eye, fluorometholone, muc16, muc5ac, mucin, rebamipide
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PMC4868928_02
Male
62
A 62-year-old man with a clinical diagnosis of cGVHD-DE had undergone related-donor bone marrow transplantation for acute myelogenous leukemia in 2011 and experienced irritation and foreign body sensation in both eyes. He was treated with ophthalmic administration including rebamipide ophthalmic suspension four times d...
dry eye, fluorometholone, muc16, muc5ac, mucin, rebamipide
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PMC9801097_01
Male
66
A 66-year-old man visited our hospital complaining of fever with chill which has started three days prior. The patient had a history of appendectomy for appendicitis, hypertension, hyperuricemia, and gastroesophageal reflux disease, which were managed with allopurinol 100 mg once a daily, amlodipine 5 mg once a daily, ...
bacteremia, liver abscess, pyogenic, streptococcus intermedius
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PMC8291962_01
Male
75
A 75-year-old male patient was admitted to Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital on 23 November 2018 after two-week-history of post-exercise dyspnea and chest pain. Physical examination revealed decreased breath sound, increased tactile fremitus on the affected side, and dullness to percussion of the left lung. Chest c...
asbestos, malignant pleural mesothelioma, pleural effusion
Mediastinal windows of computed tomography (A and B) confirm the previously noted bilateral pleural thickening, calcification. There is associated left lobe Pleural effusion and atelectasis.
PMC8291962_01
Male
75
A 75-year-old male patient was admitted to Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital on 23 November 2018 after two-week-history of post-exercise dyspnea and chest pain. Physical examination revealed decreased breath sound, increased tactile fremitus on the affected side, and dullness to percussion of the left lung. Chest c...
asbestos, malignant pleural mesothelioma, pleural effusion
Mediastinal windows of computed tomography (A and B) confirm the previously noted bilateral pleural thickening, calcification. There is associated left lobe Pleural effusion and atelectasis.
PMC8291962_01
Male
75
A 75-year-old male patient was admitted to Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital on 23 November 2018 after two-week-history of post-exercise dyspnea and chest pain. Physical examination revealed decreased breath sound, increased tactile fremitus on the affected side, and dullness to percussion of the left lung. Chest c...
asbestos, malignant pleural mesothelioma, pleural effusion
PET-CT suggests thickening and calcification of the pleura on both sides, increased FDG metabolism, more pronounced on the left.
PMC3550313_01
Female
70
A 70-year-old female presented with a history of painless swelling of the left lower eyelid for one year (Fig. 1A). She had no systemic complaints. On examination, her visual acuity was 20 / 20 (left eye), and a slitlamp examination of the left eye revealed no abnormalities except for corneal granular dystrophy. The lo...
chronic swelling, lower lid, orbital sarcoidosis
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PMC9561240_01
Male
53
A 53-year-old man from Hubei Province, China, was admitted to our hospital with a 1-month history of intermittent fever (highest temperature, >39 C), abdominal pain, diarrhea, fatigue, and weight loss associated with anorexia and cough. However, the patient had lived in Guangdong Province for a long period of time. Hal...
hiv, talaromyces marneffei, endoscopy, intestine, talaromycosis
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PMC4844496_01
Male
16
A 16 year old boy presented to the outpatient department in November 2009 with the history of painful swelling around the anterior aspect of both proximal tibia. On examination both the tibial tubercles were tender and prominent. Knee joints examination did not have any positive findings. He was diagnosed clinically to...
osgood-schlatter disease (osd), avulsion of tibial tubercle, tibial tubercle fracture, traction apophysitis
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PMC8555708_01
Male
0
A previously healthy 16-month-old male child was transferred to our hospital for continuous high-grade fever associated with erythematous and target-like rash (Figure 1) 5 days after the beginning of fever. At the local hospital, on clinical examination neurological symptoms such as irritability and lethargy were noted...
cns inflammation in kawasaki disease shock syndrome, cns involvement in kawasaki disease, kawasaki disease, kawasaki disease shock syndrome, misc
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PMC3738493_02
Female
19
A 19-year-old female presented to our clinic with fever, headache, retro-orbital pain, and muscle ache for two days. In addition hematemesis and epistaxis started on the day of admission. Her medical history revealed sickle cell anemia (SCA) (homozygosity for abnormal HbS; HbSS). On examination she was alert, with a te...
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PMC9039355_01
Female
13
A 13-year-old girl with T1DM was admitted to our hospital for poor glucose control under multiple daily insulin injections. A review of her medical history and physical examination at presentation suggested that the girl had been suffering from chronic spontaneous urticaria unresponsive to antihistamine therapy. T1DM w...
chronic spontaneous urticaria, glycemic, omalizumab, pediatrics, type 1 diabetes
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PMC3087462_01
Female
64
A 64-year-old female patient with a 30-pack-year smoking history was admitted to the outpatient clinic for analyses of a hilar and mediastinal lymphadenopathy. Her past medical history revealed a follicular NHL stage IVa diagnosed in 2003. This disease presented with iliac lymphadenopathy and bone marrow localisation. ...
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PMC5828649_01
Female
44
The patient, a 44-year-old woman, was admitted to our center in December 2011 suffering from cough, asthma, and asthenia. Peripheral blood studies showed severe iron-deficiency anemia, elevations of C-reactive protein, and polyclonal hypergammaglobulinemia. Computed tomogram demonstrated diffuse (lung, axillary, and me...
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PMC6757007_01
Male
56
A 56-year-old male with a past medical history of seronegative rheumatoid arthritis (treated with abatacept 1000 mg every 4 weeks and sulfasalazine), neuropathy, obstructive sleep apnea and prior right hip arthroplasty completed 9 years previously in the setting of avascular necrosis, presented to clinic with a 3-month...
mac, immunosuppression, joint infection, prosthetic joint
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PMC7283146_01
Female
64
A 64-year-old woman with a history of heart transplantation and renal failure requiring dialysis was admitted to our hospital in September 2019 with a suspected diagnosis of lung cancer. The patient had been complaining about progressive dyspnea, a productive cough, chest pain, and weight loss for about six weeks. In A...
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PMC7176938_01
Female
43
A 43-year-old woman with well-controlled HIV was prescribed a 6-month course of isoniazid preventative therapy (IPT) (300 mg daily) and pyridoxine (50 mg daily) for latent tuberculosis as part of a nationwide effort in Uganda to decrease the burden of tuberculosis among persons with HIV. Approximately 4 months later, s...
adverse drug reaction, hiv, ipt, latent tuberculosis
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PMC3322896_01
Female
36
A 36-year-old, previously healthy, Asian woman (gravida 2, para 1) at 19 weeks' gestation with a low-lying placenta traveled in late February from the United States to Hong Kong with her husband and child. Before departing from the United States, the patient had been complaining of a mild, intermittent cough without fe...
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PMC1187886_01
Female
17
A 17-year-old girl was admitted to the local gynaecology unit with recurrent abdominal cramps, nausea and vomiting. She had a history of repeated episodes of abdominal pain in the past. The symptoms had begun some years earlier, causing several hospitalizations and two laparoscopic interventions. Medical history reveal...
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PMC4027829_04
Male
46
Father, 46 years old, body weight 68 kg, height 176 cm and BMI 22 kg/m2. In the early years of his life he suffered from recurrent respiratory infections, diarrhoea, abdominal pain and aphthae on oral cavity mucosa, then at the age of 16 he was treated due to tuberculosis (similar pathological symptoms and tuberculosis...
antibodies, celiac disease, children, genotype, gluten
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PMC5820662_01
Female
65
The students in the EG had to solve five virtual patient cases chosen by the lecturer in order to be in line with the learning objectives of the subject. Each student had to solve the same five virtual patient cases. The students in the CG had to solve five paper-based clinical cases, which were the same as the virtual...
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PMC6423671_01
Male
14
A 14-year-old boy was in his usual state of good health until October 2015, when he developed psychiatric symptoms including feeling overwhelmed, confused, depressed, and agitated. He said that he was an "evil, damned son of the devil" and wanted to kill himself because he was afraid of his new-onset homicidal thoughts...
bacteria, bartonella, psychosis, schizophrenia, stretch marks, transmission
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PMC3369392_01
Male
47
A 47-year-old Sri Lankan male presented in October 2006 with a 3-month history of bilateral red watery eyes with a foreign body sensation. He had RA, which was quiescent at presentation for which he was taking oral diclofenac, prednisolone (PDN), and methotrexate (MTX) with calcium and folic acid supplements. On examin...
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PMC8120316_01
Female
4
We provide an interactional analysis of a therapy session with a young child. Ina (pseudonym) is a 4-year-old girl. After giving birth to her, her mother left her in the care of a hospital. Ina was placed with a foster care family for half a year and then was adopted. She is brought to treatment because of frequent out...
adoptive children, children in treatment, conversation analysis, doing contrariness, psychotherapy, trauma
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PMC6487351_01
Male
32
A 32 year-old male presented with a 6 day history of an intermittent fever with chills and non-productive cough. He was previously well and did not report any haemoptysis, night sweats, weight loss or chest pain. His past medical and surgical histories were unremarkable. There was no history of exposure to ill contacts...
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Computed Tomography (CT) scan of the chest showing a right pleural effusion with air pockets and compressive right lower lobe atelectasis, suggestive of an early empyema.
PMC7254079_01
Female
26
Our patient was a 26-year-old female with history of end-stage renal disease secondary to systemic lupus erythematosus. She received her first kidney transplant from a living donor in 1994 and the second transplant from a deceased donor in 2003 due to primary loss of the first graft. She had no history of acute rejecti...
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PMC2964912_01
Female
20
A 20-year-old woman presented with a five-week history of otalgia, ear discharge, and deafness. There were no additional systemic symptoms or signs. Audiometry showed bilateral conductive hearing loss. She initially received antibiotics; however due to severe otalgia, she had bilateral myringotomies with grommet insert...
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PMC5849790_01
Male
68
A 68 year old Caucasian male initially presented to outpatient infectious disease clinic with a chief complaint of intermittent fever for 3-4 weeks. The fever was associated with chills, night sweats, nausea, headaches, and a fifteen pound unintentional weight loss. His past medical history was significant for recurren...
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CT scan showing pulmonary nodules before treatment.
PMC6260530_01
Female
48
A 48-year-old woman presented with a rapid enlargement of a preexisting goiter without compressive symptoms. Her past medical history included type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, goiter, and primary hypothyroidism for fifteen years. There was no past or present history of smoking and her family history was unremark...
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PMC3916803_01
Female
78
A 78-year-old Japanese-Mongoloid woman (body weight: 48kg) with a 3-year history of hypertension and hyperlipidemia visited our hospital because of a persisting fever and generalized joint pains which had developed 2 weeks before initial presentation. She had been treated as having a common cold at a local clinic for 2...
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Chest X-ray and computed tomography scan images on admission. (A) Chest X-ray showing minimal bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy with clear lung fields.
PMC3916803_01
Female
78
A 78-year-old Japanese-Mongoloid woman (body weight: 48kg) with a 3-year history of hypertension and hyperlipidemia visited our hospital because of a persisting fever and generalized joint pains which had developed 2 weeks before initial presentation. She had been treated as having a common cold at a local clinic for 2...
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Chest X-ray and computed tomography scan images on admission. (B) Chest computed tomography scan clearly showing mild bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy (arrows) without pulmonary infiltrates.
PMC4927215_01
Male
62
A 62-year-old man referred to our facility for the management of abnormal computed tomography of the chest identified during investigation for atypical chest pain. His past medical history was significant for chronic hepatitis C complicated by liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). He underwent chemoemboli...
endobronchial ultrasound, liver transplantation, recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma
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PMC3500405_01
Male
58
A 58 year old right handed man with 14 years of education presented to the UCLA Behavioural Neurology Clinic with a chief complaint of memory loss. He had worked as a salesman and then owned a lamp manufacturing company for 38 years before retiring. The patient had been having trouble remembering names for the last 3 y...
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PMC3996915_01
Female
58
The participant in this case study was a 58-year-old Caucasian female who was recruited to participate in a larger research study (data not published) observing the effects of an 8-week exercise intervention on CR fitness and a physical function test (six-minute walk test). Prior to the onset of stroke, the participant...
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PMC5237735_01
Female
17
Seventeen-year-old girl, Guinea native, living in Portugal, was screened for tuberculosis after pulmonary tuberculosis was diagnosed in a girl living in the same school residence. She had a positive tuberculin skin-test and interferon-gamma release assay, and a nodular image on the chest X-ray. Mycobacterium tuberculos...
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PMC9540073_01
Male
74
This report involves a 74-year-old male, suffering from metabolic syndrome with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus type 2, arterial hypertension, obesity (BMI 39 kg/m2), and hypercholesterolemia. Furthermore, the patient has a medical history of pontine stroke, leading to dysarthria and an atactic paresis in the right...
case report, laminectomy, stress fracture
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PMC6791237_01
Male
4
A four-year-old Maasai boy who was accompanied by his elder brother presented to the hospital with a one-year progressive history of dry cough and difficulty in breathing to the extent of compromising the child's physical activity accompanied by intermittent fever. There was no history of tuberculosis contact or trauma...
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PMC4075924_01
Female
62
A 62-year-old female patient with a 20-year history of RA had been on methotrexate, leflunomide, and prednisone. Because the articular inflammatory process persisted, we decided to start the patient on adalimumab, continuing her on methotrexate. A chest X-ray showed no changes suggestive of previous tuberculosis or sig...
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PMC8064790_01
Male
61
Our patient was a 61-year-old Hispanic man who had not seen a health care provider in many years and presented with one month history of vague abdominal pain, 20 pound weight loss in 1 month, and generalized weakness with malaise as well as occasional cough that worsened and became productive of clear sputum over the l...
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PMC10350683_01
Female
68
In February 2020, a 68 years-old woman with an ECOG performance status of zero presented with dry cough and hemoptysis. She never smoked and had a medical history of arterial hypertension, an adrenal non-progressing hyperplasia, a gastric bypass and a cholecystectomy. In the familial oncological history, we note an adr...
egfr, exon 20, multimodal, non-small cell lung cancer, osimertinib, stereotaxic radiotherapy, tyrosine kinase inhibitor
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PMC6606769_01
Female
62
A 62 year-old woman was admitted after 4 months history of intermittent frontal headache, nausea, and gait and balance disturbances. She had a 3 year history of IgM-RF and anti-CCP positive RA, with a previously episode of pleuritis. Within the last year, she had been treated with Leflunomide, Infliximab, and was curre...
cxcl13, anti-ccp, biomarker, inflammation, rheumatoid meningitis
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PMC4861884_01
Female
56
At our institution, IRB approval is not required for case report studies. Our patient was a 56-year-old Caucasian female who presented to her gastroenterologist with nonspecific epigastric pain. She was subsequently found to have a 2cm intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma infiltrating the liver hilum and resulting in right-...
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PMC5113911_01
Female
27
A 27-year-old woman was seen in the eye emergency department with a 10-day history of decreased vision and pain in her right eye. The visual acuity measured by the Snellen chart was limited to 20/100 in her right eye. The visual acuity in her left eye was 20/20. Fundus examination showed an elevated nonpigmented mass i...
mycobacterium tuberculosis, oct, quantiferon-tb, choroid, choroidal mass, optical coherence tomography, tuberculoma
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PMC3271300_01
Female
0
A 9-month-old Korean girl was referred to our clinic because of a progressive inability to move her right elbow on January 9, 2007. Approximately 3 weeks ago, the child was seen by a local orthopedic physician. The parents had noted that she was reluctant to move her right arm through complete ranges. Also, the patient...
bacilli calmette-guérin vaccination, complication, osteomyelitis
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PMC7531285_01
Male
69
A 69-year-old male presented with thoracic pain, cough and fever. Past medical history consisted of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, kidney transplant (immunosuppressive regimen consisting of betalacept and sirolimus), myocardial infarction requiring the placement of a coronary stent, dual chamber pacemaker, anticoagul...
case report, laparoscopic cholecystectomy, spilled gallstones, thoracic complications
CT guided thoracostomy tube placement. B) Thoracentesis needle advancing into the pleural space.
PMC10333569_01
Female
0
The mother was a first-time mother, and the baby was conceived naturally. The mother enjoyed eating cheese both before and during the pregnancy. She noted decreased fetal movements at 31 weeks and 1 day, and increased abdominal tension and bloating at 31 weeks and 2 days. Ultrasonography revealed intestinal dilatation ...
fetal gastrointestinal bleeding, food allergy, honeycomb sign, neonatal transient eosinophilic colitis, non-ige-mediated gastrointestinal food allergy, premature infants
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PMC5322244_01
Female
77
A 77-year-old female residing at home with probable AD of moderate severity and history of depression for two to three years prior to the onset of AD, was evaluated for increasing agitation and psychosis. Caregivers reported that the patient was sleepless, had intense anger outbursts, persecutory auditory hallucination...
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PMC5322244_02
Male
67
A 67-year-old male with probable AD and a history of depression was evaluated for worsening auditory and visual hallucinations, paranoia, anxiety, anger and frustration. He presented with persistent agitation, anger outbursts and shuffling gait. The patient repeatedly called his son every day. At the time of evaluation...
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PMC5322244_03
Male
79
A 79-year-old male with mild probable AD and a history of late-onset anxiety and depression was evaluated for uncontrollable anger outbursts and agitation. He had become extremely argumentative with both his wife and his co-workers at a part-time job. When unable to complete a task he would become uncontrollably angry ...
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PMC5322244_05
Male
55
A 55-year-old male with semantic variant-primary progressive aphasia was evaluated for outbursts of severe agitation, skin picking, frequent elopement attempts, and multiple instances of shoplifting. At the time of evaluation, he was being treated by another psychiatrist with donepezil 23 mg, clonazepam 1 mg, duloxetin...
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PMC3685357_01
Female
72
A 72-year-old woman, in good general performance status, with 4-year symptoms of a slowly growing tumor located at the base of the nose, is presented. The first symptom of disease was a small tubercle located at the base of the nose, near to the internal angle of the right eye, which occurred in January 2003. The patie...
wegener's granulomatosis, head and neck, radiotherapy, treatment
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PMC3578668_01
Female
19
A 19-year-old girl presented to the Emergency Department at 1 am after having a football kicked from a distance of 5-10 m into her abdomen 7 h previously whilst watching a game. She complained of worsening diffuse abdominal pain and vomiting. Her observations were stable; however, on examination, her abdomen was diffus...
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PMC5686224_01
Female
64
A liver tumor was incidentally detected in a 64-year-old female during a medical examination. The patient had no significant past medical history, drug history, family history, including any relevant genetic information, or psychosocial history. The results of a general physical examination were normal. No abnormal lab...
cholangiocarcinoma, cholangiocellular carcinoma, hepatic sarcoidosis, liver, sarcoidosis, surgery
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PMC2874368_01
Female
39
We report pneumonia associated with pandemic (H1N1) 2009, which resulted in respiratory and renal failure and death, in a 39-year-old HIV-positive woman. She had type 1 diabetes and a diagnosis of AIDS 7 years ago and had received highly active antiretroviral therapy. She also had an ill child at home with an influenza...
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PMC5461570_01
Female
49
A 49-year-old woman presented with the chief complaint of "I can hear my eyes move." Her symptoms included chronic dizziness, sensitivity to loud sounds, and autophony. Approximately 10 years prior to presentation, she began noticing that she would feel vertigo when near sirens, during applause in stadiums, or when the...
electrocochleography, auditory brainstem response, superior canal dehiscence syndrome
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