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PMC6333586_01
Male
17
A 17-year-old male presented with a one-week history of abdominal pain and dysuria. He described the abdominal pain as sharp and localized to the infraumbilical and right inguinal regions. He reported a decrease in appetite. He lost approximately 15 kg over the preceding five months. He had no fever. He had normal bowe...
crohn disease, inflammatory bowel diseases, intestinal fistula, urachus
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PMC5516656_01
Male
8
Henoch-Schonlein purpura (HSP), which is the most common form of childhood vasculitis, affects mostly skin, joints, gastrointestinal system (GIS), kidneys, and in addition more rarely can have effect on central nervous system (CNS), heart and scrotum. Its pathogenesis and causal factors have not been accurately identif...
epstein-barr virus, henoch-schönlein purpura, children
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PMC3891081_01
Female
28
A 28-year-old woman in her 24th week of pregnancy visited our hospital experiencing febrile sensation and palpitation. The woman was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism 10 years earlier and had taken thionamide periodically. She had not taken any medication recently because she did not display any signs or symptoms of hyper...
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PMC10244928_01
Male
13
Our index case is a 13-year-old male from a rural area in who acquired HIV through vertical transmission. The mother tested negative during antenatal care, but she was not tested at delivery. He was diagnosed with HIV and pulmonary tuberculosis in 2010, started tuberculosis treatment and later on ART. As per the nation...
dtg, hiv, adolescence, dolutegravir, paediatrics, resistance
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PMC4318046_01
Male
38
A 38-year-old male, diagnosed as HIV-positive, presented to our department with multiple painful, erythematous skin lesions over extremities, face and abdomen of 2 days duration along with the history of evening rise of temperature with chills, malaise, body pains, joint pains, and ankle edema. The patient had history ...
erythema nodosum leprosum, immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome, lepromatous leprosy
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PMC4840429_01
Male
75
A 75-year-old white male, weighing 65 kg, presented to our center with complaints of a 3-months history of fatigue, evening rise in body temperature, night sweats, unexplained weight loss of 5 kg, worsening dyspnea, cough and mucopurulent sputum. He was a current smoker (30 pack/years) and worked in a stone quarry up t...
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, copd, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, high resolution computed tomography, hrct, human immunodeficiency virus, hiv, opportunistic infections, pulmonary nocardiosis, pn, pulmonary nocardiosis, tuberculosis, tuberculosis, tb, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, tmp-smx
Chest HRCT scan showing multiple nodular lesions with cavitations in upper lung zone bilaterally.
PMC3291382_01
Male
52
A 52-year-old man with chronic eczema was admitted to the Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, with fever and chills. Before admission, he had been treated for infected eczematous lesions for several weeks with oral ampicillin, cloxacillin, and cefazolin. He had no history of hospitalization in the past 10 years, and n...
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PMC4268755_01
Male
35
We received a spontaneous vaginally delivered male outborn baby at 35 weeks period of gestation, weighing 1900 grams to a 24-years-old primigravida with antenatal risk factors of gestational diabetes mellitus and polyhydramnios. The baby was born limp without any cry and required immediate resuscitation with bag and ma...
absent upper pouch, vacterl association and tracheo-esophageal fistula, laryngeal atresia
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PMC5443919_01
Male
50
A 50 years old black male from Guinea-Bissau and living in Portugal for the past seven months presented to the emergency room complaining of persistent frontoparietal headaches for the past week. The headache was non pulsatile, associated with photo and phonophobia, nausea and anorexia, and it disturbed his sleep, lead...
tuberculosis, cerebral tuberculosis, liver tuberculosis, milliary tuberculosis, prostate tuberculosis, retroesophageal tuberculosis
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PMC9487995_01
Female
29
We report and discuss a case of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) with failure after 9 years (February 2012, to July 2021) systematic treatment. The immunodeficiency workup on the patient, a 29-year-old female, revealed normal immunoglobulin levels and a negative result for the anti-HIV human T-lymphotropic virus. In additi...
computed tomography-three dimensional, multidrug resistance, treatment failure, tuberculosis, whole genome sequencing
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PMC7293903_01
Male
69
In April 2018, a 69-year-old man with a history of DM and chronic kidney disease and undergoing dialysis treatment was admitted to Okinawa Miyako Hospital after complaints of slight bloody sputum for the past seven days and weight loss of 5 kg in the past six months. On admission, he was afebrile and did not present wi...
japan, okinawa, hypervirulent klebsiella pneumoniae, primary lung abscess, sequence type 375, serotype k2
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PMC8631821_01
Male
39
In September 2020, a 39 year-old man was admitted to Shanghai Ruijin Hospital complaining of a serious discharge from a small opening on his left flank. It had been occurring for 2 months without fever or pain. His medical history evidenced a laparoscopic left partial nephrectomy for clear cell renal cell carcinoma (cc...
foreign body reaction, nephrectomy, nephrocutaneous fistula, omentum, sinus tract
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PMC4023550_01
Female
6
The patient, BSB, was a 6-year-old girl, the product of the third pregnancy of a healthy, nonconsanguineous young couple with a previous history of two miscarriages. The pregnancy was uneventful. The mother reported that her younger sister also had three miscarriages, and her older sister gave birth to four normal chil...
15q duplication, 16p duplication, complex ssmc, familial inheritance
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PMC3934610_01
Male
26
An asymptomatic 26-year-old previously healthy white male was referred to us following a routine optometrist visit. Visual acuity was 6/6 in both eyes, with no sign of anterior segment inflammation, but with the presence of a single, inactive, yellow choroidal lesion, 0.75 mm in diameter, located inferior to the left o...
fundus autofluorescence, optical coherence tomography, solitary idiopathic choroiditis
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PMC5336629_01
Female
75
Female patient aged 75 years who had no history of chronic disease apart from depression presented at outpatient clinic with complaints of lassitude, loss of appetite, exertional dyspnea for 4 months, and dry coughing for 2 months. Her examination revealed marked decrease in respiratory sounds at basal segments of the ...
chylothorax, lymphadenitis, tuberculosis
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PMC5758717_01
Female
44
A 44-year-old woman was referred to the gastroenterology practice for evaluation of long-standing heartburn refractory to proton pump inhibitor (PPI) therapy. Her 24-hour multichannel intraluminal impedance-pH study on dexlansoprazole 60 mg daily revealed increased esophageal acid exposure (5.7% total time spent with e...
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PMC5758717_02
Male
70
A 70-year-old man presented with a 10-year history of heartburn, acid brash, and hoarseness. He was placed on oral pantoprazole 40 mg twice daily and oral ranitidine 150 mg at bedtime with some improvement of symptoms. In addition, he had been experiencing episodes of chest pain for 1 year that were attributed to acid ...
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PMC6532328_02
Male
14
After the patient admitted to having concealed a serious bone disease from his treating physicians, so as not to jeopardize the execution of his desired orthodontic-surgical treatment, several medical treatment documents could be requested, from which a complex, long-term illness could be traced. The patient had alread...
bisphosphonate, oral surgery, orthodontics, orthognathic surgery, osteogenesis imperfecta
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PMC3745100_01
Female
0
We present a case of domestic neonatal scald burns in an 11-day-old neonate, who sustained major scald burns in her lower limbs, trunk, and both upper extremities when the hot water bag, being used by her mother for shoulder pain accidentally burst while feeding the baby [Table 1]. The child was immediately rushed to a...
accidental, neonate, scald burns
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PMC4900195_01
Male
22
The patient was a 22-year-old starting NCAA division I wide receiver. He was 6'5", weighed 225lb, and had a BMI of 26.7. After a 12-month history of intermittent low back pain, he presented to his team physician with a complaint of increasing generalized lumbar discomfort. He had been previously diagnosed with sacroili...
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PMC3108789_01
Female
34
A 34-year-old female with systemic lupus erythematosus was admitted due to progressive lower leg edema, massive ascites, and nausea after treatment of bed rest, salt and water restriction, diuretics, intravenous administration of albumin and methylprednisolone, and repeated paracentesis for 2 months. On physical examin...
ascites, lupus, reinfusion, renal failure
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PMC9701777_01
Female
28
A 28-year-old woman presented with "rosacea" of 2 years' duration for which her previous physician had prescribed daily use of triamcinolone 0.1% cream. She complained of swelling and a worsening situation of her rosacea each time she discontinued it. She went to visit another doctor who prescribed tacrolimus and crisa...
jak inhibitors, steroid-induced rosacea, tofacitinib
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PMC3296115_01
Male
2
A 2 year old boy was presented with a swelling of right middle metacarpal for last 4 months. The swelling was initially small gradually increasing in size. It was associated with dull aching pain for the last 3 months. There was no history of any trauma. However, h/o exposure to pulmonary tuberculosis was present. On e...
tuberculous dactylitis, spina ventosa, spindle shaped expansion, tuberculous granuloma
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PMC7181516_01
Male
14
A 14-year-old African-American male with hyperthyroidism and intermittent asthma from Long Island, New York presented with acute onset of bilateral leg weakness. The patient reported experiencing bilateral leg soreness after swimming 2 days prior to presentation but denied particularly intense activity. The soreness pr...
adolescent, hyperthyroidism, hypokalemia, thyrotoxic periodic paralysis, thyrotoxicosis
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PMC9691660_02
Male
7
A 7-year-old boy was admitted to our emergency department after losing consciousness for an hour. The boy suffered a sudden cardiac and respiratory arrest 1 h ago while exercising at school. He was immediately given external chest compression and defibrillation used AED equipped in the school. As a result, his heartbea...
aed, tnni3, constrictive pericarditis, restrictive cardiomyopathy, ventricular fibrillation
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PMC6826313_01
Male
28
A 28-year-old male presented with a chronic dry cough and weight loss of 1-year duration, and 2 months of worsening mid-thoracic back pain accompanied by bilateral lower extremity weakness. Notably, there were no known TB exposure, recent travel, smoking, or history of intravenous drug use. On the initial physical exam...
lung adenocarcinoma, mycobacterium tuberculosis, pott’s disease, spine, thoracic, vertebra
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PMC4491452_01
Male
38
We report a case of 38-year-old businessman who presented to the medical outpatient clinic of the Niger Delta Teaching hospital here in Nigeria, with a 2-week history of bloody ejaculate. He had 3 episodes with bright red blood noticed in the ejaculate. There was no associated history of urgency, urge incontinence or o...
haematopermia, severe uncontrolled hypertension, worried man
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PMC6614786_01
Female
63
A 63-year-old woman with partial Situs Viscerum Inversus (without dextrocardia) was diagnosed with giant sliding hiatus hernia and cholelithiasis. The symptoms were typical: heartburn, chest pain, burping and atypical respiratory symptoms as coughing and asthma. The preoperative evaluations was: gastrointestinal endosc...
cholecystectomy-case report, gastro oesophageal reflux disease, giant hiatal hernia, mesh placement, robotic surgery, situs viscerum inversus, toupet fundoplication
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PMC9637682_01
Male
42
A 42-year-old male with a reported history of resolved hepatitis C was admitted to hospital due to fever and sore throat for 9 days, combined with a generalized rash over the entire body for 5 days. The patient had not taken new medications in the recent 2 months until 8 days prior to this admission, when the patient v...
stevens-johnson syndrome, allergy, drug-induced liver injury, hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, vanishing bile duct syndrome
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PMC6525833_01
Male
63
A 63-year-old male with a history of hypertension, 20 pack-years of smoking, thyroid cancer in remission with partial thyroidectomy, and chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) presented to the emergency department (ED) with acute abdominal pain. Abdominal ultrasound showed gallstones with no evidence of cholecystitis ...
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PMC4354942_01
Female
6
The patient was a 6-year-old, typically-developing bilingual Hispanic female who underwent total surgical resection of a suprasellar cystic and solid, third ventricular craniopharyngioma at a children's hospital when aged 5 years. Eleven months after surgery, she was referred to the authors for assessment and treatment...
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PMC9880383_01
Female
32
A 32-year-old Tunisian woman, presented to our department with a history of painful and dragging swelling of the back of her left hand evolving for 4 months. Originally, she responded well to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs until 2 months before her consultation. She complained also of a long-lasting skin lesion ...
mri, tenosynovitis, treatment, tuberculosis
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PMC4609809_02
Male
56
OLP, a 56-year-old male fashion designer, had a very unhappy childhood, with few friends and many arguments at home. At university, he underwent a substantial change, becoming extroverted, making a lot of friends, and travelling extensively. As a professional, he was very creative, had many friends, and enjoyed going o...
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PMC9224403_01
Male
0
A boy aged 5 years and 2 months presented with recurrent high fever for 18 days, accompanied by a mild cough, abdominal pain, diarrhea and hematochezia. Although he was actively treated with intravenous antibiotics and immunoglobin, his fever was persistent. He was the first child in his family. A single episode of mil...
colitis, intestinal ulcer, moesin gene, primary immunodeficiency disease, very early-onset inflammatory bowel disease
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PMC7569537_01
Female
65
A 65-year-old lady presented with cough, night sweats and exertional breathlessness of two months' duration. There was no history of weight loss or fever. Her past history was significant for hypertension and non-productive cough two years before that was evaluated at another center. CT had shown right paratracheal and...
micronodules, miliary, miliary tuberculosis, sarcoidosis
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PMC7569537_02
Male
40
A 40-year old gentleman presented with polyuria, fatigue and nausea of 20 days duration. There was also history of unquantified weight loss and exertional dyspnea. He did not smoke and did not raise pets, abuse drugs or have exposure to occupational dusts. Physical examination showed raised papulonodular skin lesions o...
micronodules, miliary, miliary tuberculosis, sarcoidosis
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PMC7569537_03
Male
55
A 55-year old gentleman with moderately controlled diabetes mellitus presented with exertional breathlessness, cough, right-sided shoulder pain and weight loss of one month's duration. There was no anorexia or expectoration. He was a farmer by occupation and did not have exposure to poultry or occupational dusts and ch...
micronodules, miliary, miliary tuberculosis, sarcoidosis
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PMC7569537_04
Male
48
A 48-year-old gentleman presented with fatigue for two weeks. There was no history of night sweats, weight loss or fever. He did not smoke, did not raise pets, abuse alcohol or drugs and did not report exposure to occupational dusts. Physical examination was normal. Renal function tests, urine microscopy and hemogram w...
micronodules, miliary, miliary tuberculosis, sarcoidosis
Composite image of the HRCT image of Patient 4 showing. upper lobes) random nodules with perilymphatic predominance, beading of the right oblique fissure, and ,perivascular nodules, and.
PMC4260285_01
Male
27
A 27-year-old male patient presented as multiple fistulas along with pain and swelling of the left hand since 2 years. He was a daily laborer and remembered a history of trauma to his hand around 2 years ago. He received different antibiotics but was left without cure. There was no history of any immunodeficiency or un...
actinomycosis, anaerobicbacteria, hand
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PMC7607950_01
Male
12
A 12-year-old male patient was admitted to the clinic due to mild pain on anterior aspect of his right shoulder with mild limitation in active motion. Medical history of the patient was uneventful except falling to right side while playing football three days before admission. He recalled hitting the lateral aspect of ...
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PMC7733463_01
Male
80
An 80-year-old man was referred to our pain clinic for radicular pain of the left lower limb. Just over 6 months previously, he had presented with severe radicular pain in his left leg. Magnetic resonance (MR) images revealed lumbar intervertebral disc protrusion (migrated to the left, L4-5, L5-S1) (Figure 1A and B), l...
failed back surgery syndrome, lumbar paravertebral block, pre-designed route, ultrasound-guided
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PMC7425252_01
Male
45
The case is of a 45-year-old African American male, nonsmoker, with a history of arterial hypertension, iron deficiency anemia, and auricular fibrillation. For the past 10 years, he had multiple episodes of community-acquired pneumonia, requiring admission to the intensive care unit on several occasions. Immunodeficien...
mounier-kuhn syndrome, bronchoscopy, case report, computed tomography, tracheobronchomegaly
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PMC3004171_01
Male
49
A 49 years old Chinese male patient had a history of paroxysmal palpitation for 25 years, and recurred more frequently in the month before admission. Tachycardia usually burst on and off suddenly. The duration of the development was from a few minutes to 10 hours. A history of hypertension was for 4 years. Physical exa...
atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (avnrt), atrioventricular reentrant tachycardia (avrt), radiofrequency catheter ablation (rfca)
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PMC4513297_01
Male
18
An 18-year-old male patient presented with pain in the nape of the neck since 12 months duration which was not improving with medication. The patient had stiffness of the neck with decreased range of movement in all directions. Routine hematological investigations were within the normal limit, and he was screened for r...
craniocervical junction, posterior fusion, transoral decompression, tuberculosis
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PMC6166387_01
Male
29
A 29-year-old man, a former semiprofessional handball player, had a traumatic rupture of the proximal side of the patellar tendon of the left knee in 2016 during a match. No associated disease was reported. Primary surgery was performed in another health facility through a median approach using 2 anchors for tendon rep...
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PMC9800931_01
Female
72
A 72-year-old woman with a middle school education who presented with headache, dizziness, nausea, and vomiting was admitted to a local hospital. In August 2021, she was diagnosed with tuberculous meningitis and underwent antituberculosis therapy. However, her symptoms did not disappear. After being discharged from the...
cognitive impairment, cryptococcal meningitis, inflammatory cytokines, rehabilitation, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation
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PMC7115113_01
Male
39
A 39-year old man was presented with painful sensation, redness and blurred vision of both eyes for 3 weeks. He also had multiple violaceous skin lesions on both arms and legs. His medical history was unremarkable. He was a non-smoker, but he was social alcohol drinker. He did not have a history of tuberculosis contact...
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PMC7115113_02
Female
58
A 58-year-old woman presented with progressive painless visual loss in both eyes for 1 month. She had low grade fever, non-productive cough, and weight loss for 6 months. Her medical history was notable for right Bell's palsy and bilateral hearing loss 1 year ago and was improved after a short course of oral corticoste...
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Chest CT showed the largest pulmonary mass at lateral segment of right middle lobe.
PMC6785917_01
Female
13
A 13-year-old female athlete presented to the office with left foot pain of 2 weeks duration. The pain had started gradually as she transitioned directly into basketball following her soccer season, moving from soccer cleats to basketball shoes. She participated at a high level for both sports for her age. She had no h...
athlete, cuneiform, foot, stress fracture
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PMC7468610_01
Female
40
In October 2016, a 40-year-old woman was admitted to another hospital for a diagnosis of BC. One month prior to admission, a routinary mammography had shown the presence of a mass of 15 mm in diameter confirmed by a subsequent MRI scan. She was treated with right quadrantectomy and axillary dissection, and the histopat...
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PMC7276589_01
Male
14
A 14-year-old male presented to the emergency department 15 min after a hyperextend and axial load force injury. The boy was trying to push a heavy object during a basketball game, resulting in an open volar fracture epiphysiolysis of the distal radius and fracture on the distal one-third diaphysis of the ulna. The pat...
open fracture, case report, distal radius, epiphysiolysis, pediatric
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PMC5109572_01
Male
39
In 2015, a 39-year-old man presented to our hospital with a four-week history of headache and a two-week history of low-grade fever. He was previously healthy and had not been taking any medications. He was a current smoker (15 pack-years) and occasionally consumed alcohol. Although he had traveled to Hawaii in 2005, D...
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PMC7154234_01
Male
39
We report on a 39-year-old Filipino man who presented to our facility with a 2-week history of headache, easy fatigability, and on-and-off gum bleeds that stopped spontaneously associated with palpitation tremors and unintentional weight loss. He had a history of hypertension diagnosed 2 years ago. Upon presentation, t...
anemia, hyperthyroidism, thrombocytopenia
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PMC6374815_01
Female
70
A 70-year-old woman presented with a 10-month history of left midfoot pain without any trauma. She was diagnosed as having osteonecrosis of the tarsal navicular based on the findings of plain radiographs from the previous hospital. She was initially treated with an insole. However, the conservative treatment was ineffe...
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PMC10203767_01
Male
22
A 22-year-old male patient had been occasionally experiencing left chest pain and dyspnea for several years, but the symptoms had resolved spontaneously, and he had no history of medical examination. He presented to his home physician with persistent complaints of respiratory distress and high-grade fever for one month...
aspergillus empyema, cavernostomy, decortication, minimally invasive surgery, pleural aspergillosis, spontaneous pneumothorax
One month after the decortication, re-infection with Aspergillus occurred and persistent air leak developed. Chest computed tomography revealed parietal pleural thickening in the apical thoracic cavity.
PMC4699733_01
Female
66
A 66 year-old woman with a history of atrial fibrillation, hypertension, gastritis, and hypothyroidism presented to our clinic in July 2014 with progressive dysphagia for solids and liquids over 18 months. Her symptoms occurred daily and resulted in an 11-kg weight loss over this period of time. She denied heartburn, r...
esophageal achalasia, esophageal motility disorders, esophagus, manometry
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PMC10030056_01
Male
1
As an industry that accounts for 21 billion euros annually, football has evolved enormously, whilst remaining rooted in a capitalist rationale. This is shown by the constant change that competition structure has undergone to make the game ever more economically advantageous for the most powerful contemporary football c...
european super league, competitive balance, football (soccer), geopolitics, sports industry
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PMC2647660_01
Female
9
Another approach to assessing the validity of the Lewis/Webster reading is to set it against qualitative evidence of local experience. This section examines public health in a region of the South West of England containing two County Councils, Somerset and Gloucestershire, and three County Boroughs, Bristol, Bath, and ...
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PMC10213385_01
Female
5
A 16.5-year-old Indian female presented with secondary amenorrhea for six months. She had spontaneous thelarche at 9 years of age and menarche at 11 years of age, following which she had regular menstrual cycles for five years. She had a history of pulmonary tuberculosis 2 years prior, for which she received antituberc...
nf1, neurofibromatosis-1, neurofibromatosis-noonan syndrome, turner syndrome
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PMC5548691_01
Male
35
The patient was a 35-year-old male with no history of major illness or family history of immunodeficiency. He had been doing well until he developed general fatigue, low-grade fever, and vomiting 2 weeks before this admission. Four days before admission, he went to a general hospital because of a persistent headache an...
adult, encephalitis, human herpesvirus-7, immunocompetent
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PMC8810502_01
Female
42
A 42-year-old woman presented for presurgical evaluation due to very frequent epileptic seizures. No febrile convulsions or significant medical antecedents in childhood were reported except for rare migraine attacks since puberty. Historically, the patient was operated at the age of 32 for autoimmune Hashitoxicosis (un...
gad, autoimmune, cerebellar, diabetes, epilepsy, insular, surgery, temporal
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PMC3298010_01
Female
44
A 44-year-old native woman was admitted to our hospital for right upper quadrant discomfort and jaundice in July 2006. The patient had been healthy until 4 months prior to admission when upper abdominal pain of unknown origin first began; at that time, icteric eyes and skin with darkened urine were noted. She felt some...
biliary cryptococcosis, cholangiocarcinoma, cryptococcus neoformans, itraconazole, obstructive jaundice
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PMC9125057_01
Female
61
A 61-year-old woman with a kidney-pancreas transplant in 2004 followed by a second kidney transplant in 2017 presented to the emergency department with recurrent falls in the setting of several weeks of diarrhea with generalized weakness and progressive bilateral lower extremity swelling. Prior to admission, the patien...
mycobacterium avium complex, diarrhea, nontuberculous mycobacteria, solid organ transplant
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PMC9633737_01
Male
19
A 19-year-old man presented with peripheral spondyloarthritis characterized by typical magnetic resonance imaging (Fig. 1). The patient was prescribed 150 mg secukinumab monthly starting in May 2020 after a poor response to sulfasalazine and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Before receiving biologic therapy, the ...
secukinumab, spondyloarthritis, tuberculosis
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PMC7531270_01
Male
72
A 72-year-old man with a past medical history of AA, amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia and chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage 3 presented in April 2020 with high fever, cough, and progressive fatigue. Aplastic anemia had been diagnosed in 2014 and initially responded to therapy with horse anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG), ...
covid-19, sars-cov-2, aplastic anemia, cytokine storm, tocilizumab
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PMC6918496_01
Female
57
A 57-year-old woman was hospitalized due to dyspnoea, cough, and bilateral interstitial infiltrates on chest X-ray (Figure 1a). She moved from Venezuela to Germany a year prior to presentation. A chest computed tomography (CT) showed diffuse interstitial changes (Figure 1b). Flexible bronchoscopy revealed a black exoph...
venezuela, female, lung, paracoccidioidomycosis, sarcoidosis
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PMC6157168_02
Female
31
A 31-year-old female patient complained a mass in her maxilla and mandible. The mass was gradually increasing in size over the last 6 months. The mass caused talking disturbances, swallowing difficulty, dilating gap between upper teeth, and narrowing gap between lower teeth. She also complained hard masses in her finge...
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PMC5433578_01
Unknown
74
A 74 years old patient, diagnosed one month prior with giant cells arteritis (GCA), treated with methylprednisolone and azathioprine, presented with a superficial, soft, painless mass on the right frontal scalp region, noticed by the patient to have grown slowly in the previous week. From the medical history we report ...
giant cell arteritis, nocardiosis, subcutaneous abscess
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PMC7481268_01
Female
14
A 14-year-old female previously diagnosed with HGPS was the firstborn child of non-related, healthy parents, with no previous family genetic disorders and a healthy 9-year-old sibling. The mother was aged 20 years during conception, and the father was aged 26 years. Normal weight and height data were recorded throughou...
hgps, genetic assessment, laminopathy, premature aging, progeria, treatment
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PMC5611446_01
Male
34
Physiologic data:RR interval data of twenty healthy "Young" (21-34 years old) and twenty healthy "Elderly" (68-85 years old) subjects were obtained from the Fantasia module of the PhysioNet database (Goldberger et al.,). Each data corresponds to a 120 min recording of the subject's electrocardiogram (ECG) when in conti...
aging, approximate entropy, arrhythmia, distribution entropy, heart rate variability, sample entropy, short-term analysis
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PMC5369860_01
Male
46
A 46-year-old male, with no significant medical or surgical history, was ambulanced to the emergency department in King Abdulaziz Medical City (tertiary care center) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as a result of a motor vehicle accident. The patient had a main complaint of a right first MTP joint that is mildly swollen and p...
case report, delayed, dislocation, first metatarsophalangeal joint, surgery
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PMC9850118_01
Female
37
A 37-year-old lady (para 2 living 2) reported to have last normal menses period 2 years ago. Presented with per vaginal discharge for 2 years which was copious, yellowish, and non-itchy, which made her use one pad each day. She reports to have an intra-uterine device inserted 2 years ago which was later removed. She de...
tuberculosis endometritis, female genital tuberculosis, menstrual irregularity
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PMC9244929_03
Male
0
A 6-month-old boy complained of fever and no other symptoms. Four days later, the fever persisted, then the patient had 1 episode of watery stool and 1 episode of generalized tonic-clonic seizure which lasted for 10 minutes. The patient was awake after the seizure ceased, and he was admitted to a district hospital late...
streptococcus pneumoniae, case series, developing countries, invasive pneumococcal disease, pediatric
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PMC8472319_01
Male
49
A 49-year-old married Indian man presented to the Emergency Department of Hamad General Hospital in Qatar, with fever, headache, lower limb weakness, and urinary incontinence for 1 month. His complaints were also associated with fluctuating episodes of confusion and agitation for 4 days. He had not experienced vomiting...
craniospinal tuberculosis, uncommon presentation
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PMC3843933_01
Male
54
The proband was a 54-year-old French male patient with a personal history of dyslipidaemia and tuberculosis in childhood. From the age of 41 years, he slowly developed progressive weakness and atrophy of proximal upper-limb muscles and later (at 46 years of age) involvement of the lower limbs, associated with axial wea...
frontotemporal dementia, inclusion body myopathy, psychiatric disorders, vcp mutation
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PMC4722727_01
Female
77
A 77-year-old Caucasian woman was admitted to Panevezys regional hospital in Lithuania because of a 1-day history of skin and scleral jaundice and weakness. Her medical history included a laparoscopic cholecystectomy 15 years earlier for a gallbladder stone. A clinical examination revealed only skin and scleral jaundic...
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PMC6859392_01
Male
54
A 54-year-old Japanese man started to take oren-gedoku-to, a type of JHM, because it had been prescribed by a local clinic on Day 1 for the hot flashes he had been experiencing for 2 years. He developed a high fever and chills after taking oren-gedoku-to for 17 days. After developing dyspnea mainly when exercising, he ...
ougon, drug-induced pneumonitis, lymphocyte stimulation test, oren-gedoku-to
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PMC3791626_01
Female
31
A 31-year-old lady came to us with evidence of spontaneous abortion at 14 weeks of her pregnancy, which was conceived following in vitro fertilization. An ultrasound scan done showed an empty uterine cavity, indicating a complete abortion. She had fever at the time, and hence a course of antibiotics was given. Her hemo...
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PMC7492961_01
Male
8
An 8-year-old male patient was sent for management after 3 days of an enamel-dentine-pulp fracture in the upper left central incisor (number 21) and crown-root fracture with pulp exposure in the upper right central incisor (number 11) (Figures 1-4). Trauma occurred during a football match. The patient denied spontaneou...
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PMC7417062_01
Female
70
A 70-year-old woman presented to the Emergency Department (ED) of our hospital with gradually worsening anorexia, and dyspnoea. She was in her usual state up to 2 months prior when she developed dyspnoea and anorexia, leading to her first visit to the ED and hospitalization. During the initial evaluation, chest compute...
adenosine deaminase, lymphoma, pleural effusion, tuberculosis
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PMC10248407_01
Male
49
We described the case of a 49-year-old man with a 1-year history of intermittent cough and sputum production who had worsened over the last 4 days with fever and right chest pain. The patient recently had a history of unexplained weight loss of 5 kg. He has smoked 20 cigarettes per day since the age of 19. The patient ...
fusobacterium nucleatum, empyema, lung cancer, next-generation sequencing, squamous cell carcinoma
CT scan images. (A) Chest CT showed an irregular mass at the right middle lobe of the lung near the interlobar fissure with right atelectasis and encapsulated effusion and pneumatosis.
PMC10248407_01
Male
49
We described the case of a 49-year-old man with a 1-year history of intermittent cough and sputum production who had worsened over the last 4 days with fever and right chest pain. The patient recently had a history of unexplained weight loss of 5 kg. He has smoked 20 cigarettes per day since the age of 19. The patient ...
fusobacterium nucleatum, empyema, lung cancer, next-generation sequencing, squamous cell carcinoma
CT scan images. (B) Chest CT showed no significant changes in the amount of right-sided pleural effusion after thorough pleural drainage and anti-infective treatment for 3 weeks.
PMC10248407_01
Male
49
We described the case of a 49-year-old man with a 1-year history of intermittent cough and sputum production who had worsened over the last 4 days with fever and right chest pain. The patient recently had a history of unexplained weight loss of 5 kg. He has smoked 20 cigarettes per day since the age of 19. The patient ...
fusobacterium nucleatum, empyema, lung cancer, next-generation sequencing, squamous cell carcinoma
CT scan images. (C) Contrast-enhanced CT scan showed uneven enhancement of the mass in the lateral segment of right middle lobe, mediastinal lymphadenopathy with visible enhancement, and a right hydropneumothorax on April 1.
PMC6374571_01
Female
32
A 32-year-old woman presented to the Emergency Department with an initial complaint of pain and swelling in her lower extremities for 54 h, more severe in her left knee over the last 48 h. She denied any history of recent or past trauma to that region. She further added that she had previously experienced similar pain ...
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PMC3621243_01
Female
28
A 28-year-old woman, second gravida, presented at 26 gestational weeks, with 20 day history of intermittent fever and generalized bodyaches, 2 months history of nocturia, and 1 month history of urinary urgency and frequency. She was treated locally with chloramphenicol and norfloxacin. She presented with septic shock a...
acute pyelonephritis, abscess, nephrocalcinosis, pregnancy, psoas
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PMC1361263_01
Male
44
The patient studied in this report is a 44-yr-old male diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (M2 subtype) in December 2000. He responded to induction chemotherapy and achieved complete remission before undergoing allogeneic HSCT. In April 2001 he received a myeloablative preparative regimen consisting of 120 mg/kg cycl...
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PMC10310954_01
Male
32
A 32-year-old man was admitted to a local hospital with paroxysmal episodes of unconsciousness for 6 days and had convulsions 2 days ago. The patient also reported suffering from diplopia for 2 months, accompanied by headache, nausea, and vomiting. Lumbar puncture showed a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure of >330 mmH...
h3 k27-altered, adult, case report, central nervous system infection, diffuse midline glioma, spinal cord neoplasms
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PMC5660782_01
Female
43
A 43-year-old Hispanic woman presented with recurrent asymmetrical bilateral eye redness, tearing, and pain for the past 2 years, with more severe symptoms in the right eye. Her ocular history was negative prior to this presentation. Her past medical history is significant only for rosacea, diagnosed clinically more th...
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PMC5660782_02
Male
51
A 51-year-old African American man presented with bilateral eye pain and redness of four months' duration. Patient denied ocular problems previously. His prior medical history was significant for rosacea, for which he was not receiving any medical treatment. His review of systems was positive for bilateral eye pain and...
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PMC10359671_01
Male
61
A 61-year-old truck driver was referred for a painless mass on the left ring finger that lasted for 1 year; the lesion began to expand aggressively during the last 3 months. It started at the finger base and gradually expanded to involve the entire finger, which markedly limited hand function (Fig. 1a). There was no pr...
benign, desmoplastic, fibroma, phalanges
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PMC6884965_01
Female
52
A 52-year-old female with a history of anti-tuberculosis therapy for six months was referred to our department because a new mass appeared on chest CT during a regular routine checkup. Six months ago, the patient complained of right chest pain for one year. At that time, the CT showed a 1.7x1.4cm nodule in the right-su...
mass, paradoxical reaction, tuberculosis
Case 1. CT-guided percutaneous lung biopsy shows caseous necrosis and granulomatosis surrounded by epithelioid and multinucleated giant cells. Hematoxylin and eosin, x400.
PMC6884965_02
Female
35
A 35-year-old female was admitted to a community hospital because of polypnea, cough, sputum and intermittent fever four months ago. She has a medical history of HBV infection. The patient denied a history of smoking. Local CT scans revealed right pleural effusion and pleural thickening. Diagnostic thoracentesis showed...
mass, paradoxical reaction, tuberculosis
Case 2. CT findings in the right middle and inferior pulmonary lobe. (A and B) A 3.9cmx2.9cm lobulated mass without pleural effusion was found was after four months of anti-tuberculosis treatment.
PMC6884965_02
Female
35
A 35-year-old female was admitted to a community hospital because of polypnea, cough, sputum and intermittent fever four months ago. She has a medical history of HBV infection. The patient denied a history of smoking. Local CT scans revealed right pleural effusion and pleural thickening. Diagnostic thoracentesis showed...
mass, paradoxical reaction, tuberculosis
Case 2. CT findings in the right middle and inferior pulmonary lobe. (A and B) A 3.9cmx2.9cm lobulated mass without pleural effusion was found was after four months of anti-tuberculosis treatment.
PMC6884965_02
Female
35
A 35-year-old female was admitted to a community hospital because of polypnea, cough, sputum and intermittent fever four months ago. She has a medical history of HBV infection. The patient denied a history of smoking. Local CT scans revealed right pleural effusion and pleural thickening. Diagnostic thoracentesis showed...
mass, paradoxical reaction, tuberculosis
Case 2. CT-guided percutaneous lung biopsy shows plentiful infiltration of epithelioid cells and lymphocytes. Hematoxylin and eosin, x400.
PMC6884965_03
Female
17
A 17-year-old female was diagnosed as pulmonary tuberculosis during a physical examination at the local hospital six months ago. She adopted a therapy of isoniazid, rifampicin, ethambutol and pyrazinamide. During the follow-up, CT scans showed that the original lesions were absorbed gradually while a new 1.4cm x 0.8cm ...
mass, paradoxical reaction, tuberculosis
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PMC2810606_01
Female
38
A 38-year-old woman presented to the department of general surgery, Kasturba Medical College Hospital, Manipal, on 15th may 2002, complaining of repeated episodes of abdominal pain, vomiting and loss of consciousness for the past 2 years. She was a tailor by profession. She had first suffered from an attack of severe a...
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PMC7533951_01
Male
23
A 23-year-old Pakistani male biomedical engineer, with no significant past or present medical history, presented to the emergency department (ED) with a 3-day history of severe hearing loss that was associated with fever and disorientation. The patient appeared anxious and agitated due to his apparent hearing impairmen...
salmonella typhi, adult, atypical, hearing loss, typhoid fever
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PMC5491826_01
Male
48
A 48-year-old Japanese man with a 2-month history of general fatigue developed right back pain and edema. He was admitted to a local hospital because of a high level of serum C-reactive protein (CRP) (28.9 mg/dL) and hypoalbuminemia (1.7 g/dL). Soon after admission, he developed a high fever, difficulty of breathing, a...
castleman disease, tafro syndrome, adrenal hemorrhage, procalcitonin, rituximab
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PMC7111179_01
Female
59
A 59-year-old female presented to our clinic in November 2011 for a second opinion regarding complaints of right foot and ankle pain. She stated that the pain had started approximately 1 year earlier and denied any trauma preceding the event. The patient described the pain as both aching and sharp, rating it as 8 of 10...
alcohol, ankle, avascular necrosis, corticosteroids, diaphyseal metaphyseal bone
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PMC6126086_01
Male
56
A 56-year-old healthy man presented to the emergency department in the summer season with three days of fatigue and bilateral thigh pain. He was born in Puerto Rico but resided in the Northeast Region of the US, where he worked as a chef in a major metropolitan city. He had no sick contacts, recent travel, or alcohol o...
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