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PMC3615962_01
Female
50
A 50 year-old female presented to the emergency room with back pain and left leg numbness of four days duration. The patient did not identify any contributing factors but did recall being thrown to the ground during an assault several weeks earlier. No fecal or urinary incontinence, lower extremity weakness or saddle a...
mycobacterium abscessus, epidural abscess, osteomyelitis
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PMC4153214_01
Male
46
A 46-year-old man (employee) presented with a history of right upper lobectomy of the lung eight years ago due to complicated tuberculosis with hemoptysis. He complained of chronic cough, severe right upper arm and shoulder pain and sweating. His vital signs were as following: Pulse rate=80, respiratory rate=16, body t...
lobectomy, pancoast tumor, squamous cell carcinoma, tuberculosis
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PMC6581877_01
Male
20
A 20-year-old Hispanic male presented with oral ulcers, fever, fatigue and headache. Prior to presenting to the emergency department, he had received a course of antibiotics for suspected sinusitis. He had developed a pruritic drug rash over his legs, buttocks and abdomen following the antibiotic use. His medical histo...
aml, acute myeloid leukemia, hand-mirror blasts, runx1, t(1, 19)
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PMC6481144_01
Male
79
A 79-year-old male with past medical history of hypertension, atrial fibrillation (CHA2DS2-VASc score = 4, only on Aspirin), type 2 diabetes mellitus, and right lower extremity leiomyosarcoma with lymphedema of the affected limb treated with surgical resection and radiotherapy presented to the emergency department with...
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PMC6812137_01
Female
72
A 72-year-old woman was referred to our hospital for evaluation of left pleural effusion of unknown origin. She had a history of bronchial asthma with noteworthy findings in her family history, including autoimmune diseases and tuberculosis. She reported never smoking or drinking. She had general fatigue for 6 months a...
adenosine deaminase, igg4-related disease, pleural biopsy, pleural effusion, spontaneous remission
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PMC4532018_01
Male
36
A 36-year-old man was admitted to Yong Dong Severance Hospital because of a 10-day history of jaundice and epigastric discomfort. He had suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis about 15 years and 6 years before. On admission, he had pruritus, icteric sclerae and skin. The breathing sound was decreased on the right lower l...
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PMC10228720_01
Male
79
A 79-year-old male was admitted to our hospital with abdominal pain, jaundice and weight loss. No obvious abnormality was found in the physical examination of the patient. Laboratory results: carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9)>400 U/ml(normal range <37 U/ml), total bilirubin (TBIL) 267.1 mumol/L (normal range <23 mumol...
xgi, xgp, xanthogranulomatous cholangitis, xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis, xanthogranulomatous pancreatitis
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PMC10282974_01
Unknown
2
We assume that the hydrocephalus and enlarged brain volume were not TBI related. Rather, they were pre-existing, resembling a case recently reported on by Ferris and colleagues, who reported a 1.8-fold increase in brain volume of a 2-year-old R222 RNaseT2 knockout rat with severe "spontaneous hydrocephalus." The etiolo...
brain injury, case study, electroencephalography, hydrocephalus, lateral fluid-percussion injury, sleep
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PMC10282974_02
Female
2
The pre-injury performance of rat #112 in the beam walking test was normal given that it scored 5.3 of 6. Consistent with this finding, other laboratories have reported minimal behavioral impairments in uninjured hydrocephalic Sprague-Dawley rats or golden hamsters. Tu and colleagues found no phenotypical signs of hydr...
brain injury, case study, electroencephalography, hydrocephalus, lateral fluid-percussion injury, sleep
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PMC7332489_01
Female
31
The patient was an obese 31-year-old woman (body mass index: 43.7 kg/m2). She was examined at our hospital laboratory 1-year before severe SAS, with 132 episodes of apnea/hour and significant hypoxia in polysomnography. A 24-h electrocardiogram (ECG) detected an inverted T wave, but no arrhythmias. She denied a history...
endovascular surgery, sinus arrest, sleep apnea syndrome, subarachnoid hemorrhage
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PMC7773813_01
Male
45
A 45-year-old male underwent a left upper lobectomy and postoperative pathology revealed invasive stage IIIA lung adenocarcinoma ( Figure 1 ). Targeted next- generation sequencing (NGS) with a customized panel (Geneseeq Prime panel) designed to target 425 cancer-specific genes was performed, and four somatic mutations ...
egfr-kdd, nivolumab, osimertinib, lung adenocarcinoma, targeted next-generation sequencing
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PMC9168402_01
Female
8
Five patients diagnosed with spinal TB with the average age are 25.8 years old, and included two males and three females [Table 1]. Four patients presented with paraparesis and one patient presented with low back pain that radiates to both legs. MR studies showed hypointense to isointense lesion in T1-weighted images a...
diagnosis, management, pott’s disease, spinal tuberculosis, spondylitis tuberculosis
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PMC6664009_01
Male
40
A 40 years old man, was injured in a car accident as a front passenger, occurred during a frontal collision with another vehicle passing illegally in continuous white line down the center of a national road, the impact speed was 100 km per hour. Unfortunately, the patient was not restrained by seatbelt and sustained lo...
bilateral, femoral head, fracture, hip dislocation, pipkin
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PMC6804672_01
Female
72
A 72-year-old female patient developed a gallbladder tumor in December 2017 due to pain in the right upper quadrant. The biopsy showed poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma. She was diagnosed as stage IIIA gallbladder carcinoma (T3N1M0) bacause of lymph node metastases at hepatic hilar and pancreatic head by positron em...
hydrogen gas, metastatic gallbladder cancer, programmed cell death receptor-1, pseudo-progression
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PMC9610691_01
Male
31
A 31-year-old male patient presented with a 3-month history of gradually worsening headache and progressive left-sided weakness. He denied any history of seizures or any other significant medical or surgical history. On examination, the patient had papilledema, left-sided upper motor neuron type facial weakness, and le...
brain, infiltration, oligodendroglioma, spectroscopy, tumor
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PMC4407774_01
Male
66
The patient in our case was a 66-year-old man. His chief complaint was the abnormality observed in his chest computed tomography (CT) images. The patient was initially suspected of having an ulcerative invasive tumor in his stomach based on endoscopic findings by a clinic in Pusan on September 8, 2012. He then underwen...
asbestos, asbestosis, gastric cancer, risk assessment, spinning, textile
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PMC8390688_01
Male
77
A 77-year-old man with a smoking history (96 pack-years) was diagnosed with T4aN1M1 liver and peritoneal metastasis, stage IVB advanced gastric cancer (Japanese Classification of Gastric Carcinoma, 15th Edition). He had no recent history of exposure to dust. He was prescribed acetaminophen and acetaminophen, started 3 ...
drug related pneumonitis, everolimus, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, nab-paclitaxel, nivolumub
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PMC7528204_01
Male
16
A 16-year-old left-handed male patient of Caucasian British ancestry presented with a mild, non-progressive upper limb postural tremor but no other symptoms for several years until, without clear precipitant, he experienced two unprovoked generalised tonic-clonic seizures, both occurring in sleep. His antecedent histor...
ancl, ancl, adult neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, bmipb, the brain injury rehabilitation trust memory and information processing battery, cln6, kufs disease, lincl, late-infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, merrf, mitochondrial epilepsy with ragged red fibres, moyamoya, ncl, ncl, neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, ne...
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PMC3339714_01
Female
43
In 1996, a 43-year-old Hispanic female was diagnosed and treated for breast cancer. After a recurrence 11 years later, she underwent a bilateral mastectomy in 2007. In January 2008, she complained of a 2-week history of worsening headaches, photophobia, and vertigo. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging sh...
anticonvulsants, nanocrystalline silver dressing, radiotherapy, toxic epidermal necrolysis syndrome
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PMC4549551_01
Female
41
Fitzgerald et al. report rTMS treatment for a pharmacotherapy-resistant 41-year-old female patient with severe recurrent depression [Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) = 34; Inventory of Depressive Symptomology-Clinical Rated (IDS-CR) = 49] persisting for 14 years with onset following a mild closed-head ...
altered states of consciousness, depression, non-invasive brain stimulation, rehabilitation, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, trancranial direct current stimulation, traumatic brain injury
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PMC4549551_02
Male
4
Kreuzer et al. report rTMS treatment of severe tinnitus [tinnitus questionnaire (TQ) = 53] persisting for 4 years following a severe TBI in a complex 53-year-old male patient. The patient presented with co-morbid post-injury onset depression and associated severe sleep disorder, alcohol and benzodiazepine abuse, as wel...
altered states of consciousness, depression, non-invasive brain stimulation, rehabilitation, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, trancranial direct current stimulation, traumatic brain injury
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PMC4549551_04
Male
20
Theta burst stimulation (short trains of rTMS at high frequencies) applied to the left hemisphere has been seen to improve the symptoms of hemispatial neglect in patients with brain injury due to stroke. Bonni et al. extended these insights for use in a patient with brain injury due to trauma. The authors used continuo...
altered states of consciousness, depression, non-invasive brain stimulation, rehabilitation, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, trancranial direct current stimulation, traumatic brain injury
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PMC4549551_05
Male
26
Pachalska et al. administered rTMS to a 26-year-old male who had previously (3-5 years) suffered a severe TBI which left him in a coma for 2 months. Brain scans revealed diffuse atrophy and enlarged ventricles in the right hemisphere, and the patient exhibited anosognosia, executive dysfunction, behavioral changes; per...
altered states of consciousness, depression, non-invasive brain stimulation, rehabilitation, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, trancranial direct current stimulation, traumatic brain injury
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PMC4549551_06
Male
26
Louise-Bender Pape et al. examined the safety and restorative effects of rTMS by attempting to restore consciousness following a severe TBI. They used rTMS to induce neurobehavioral changes in a 26-year-old male who remained in a vegetative state 287 days after a severe TBI. Computerized tomography (CT) scans revealed ...
altered states of consciousness, depression, non-invasive brain stimulation, rehabilitation, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, trancranial direct current stimulation, traumatic brain injury
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PMC4549551_07
Male
31
Cavinato et al. report the occurrence of a partial and secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizure in a 31-year-old male patient who suffered a severe TBI 8 months prior to rTMS intervention. MRIs following the TBI revealed diffuse hematoma in corpus callosum with mass effect over the fourth ventricle and upstream hyd...
altered states of consciousness, depression, non-invasive brain stimulation, rehabilitation, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, trancranial direct current stimulation, traumatic brain injury
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PMC4549551_08
Male
32
Louise-Bender Pape et al. report an electrographic seizure with no clinical accompaniment in a patient in a vegetative state following 21 sessions of rTMS. The patient was a 32-year-old male who had suffered a TBI 9 years prior and had a GCS score of 6 at injury. Head CT prior to treatment revealed "multicystic encepha...
altered states of consciousness, depression, non-invasive brain stimulation, rehabilitation, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, trancranial direct current stimulation, traumatic brain injury
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PMC4549551_09
Female
22
Angelakis et al. report an attempt to restore consciousness through the use of tDCS in patients with persistent unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS) following a severe TBI. Five daily sessions of tDCS were administered with the anode over the left DLPFC or left primary sensorimotor cortex (1 mA/35 cm2 x 20 min) and ...
altered states of consciousness, depression, non-invasive brain stimulation, rehabilitation, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, trancranial direct current stimulation, traumatic brain injury
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PMC9809383_01
Male
31
The patient was a 31-year-old homosexual Chinese male with a 6-year history of multiple erythematous scaly plaques. Since June 2016, he has developed erythema, papules, plaques, and scales of various sizes throughout his body. Four months later, the rash increased rapidly, diffusing erythema all over the body, accompan...
hiv, biologics, etanercept, psoriasis, secukinumab
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PMC10225632_01
Female
30
Our patient was a 30 year-old female, 5-weeks pregnant at presentation, with no history of epilepsy or neurological disease. She was brought to her local emergency department (ED) after she was found shaking and unresponsive by her partner. The seizure lasted for more than 1 h, and was aborted by 10 mg diazepam given b...
norse, vns, outcomes, pregnancy, status epilepticus
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PMC6479155_01
Female
12
A 12-year-old girl presented with a 2-week history of coryza, cough, poor appetite and localised left sided chest pain. There was no history of fever or notable weight loss. Important aspects of her past medical history included a liver transplant nine years previously for idiopathic liver cirrhosis and subsequent righ...
chylothorax, lymphadenopathy, parapneumonic effusion, pleural fluid, tuberculosis
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PMC6479155_02
Male
10
A 10-year-old male presented with 3 weeks of chest pain that was worse on the right side, dry cough, poor appetite, fever and night sweats with progressively worsening respiratory distress and weight loss. He was HIV-exposed but un-infected and there was no household TB exposure. He had received all childhood immunizat...
chylothorax, lymphadenopathy, parapneumonic effusion, pleural fluid, tuberculosis
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PMC3964902_01
Male
25
A 25-year-old Caucasian male patient presented with a three-week history of a red right eye. He complained of blurred vision on the affected eye without pain or other sensations. He had no fever, fatigue, and denied weight loss. His past medical and family history were unremarkable. On examination, the patient's visual...
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PMC7750025_01
Female
82
An 82-year-old woman presented to our hospital emergency department because of repeated vomiting that persisted for 2 days without induction. She had a history of cerebral infarction, hypertension, dementia, and surgery for a perforated sigmoid diverticulum. An upper gastrointestinal endoscopy had been performed at ano...
circulatory failure, diaphragmatic hernia, esophageal hiatal hernia, tension gastrothorax, upside‐down stomach
Chest and abdominal computed tomography scans (plain films) showing a significantly dilated stomach incarcerated within the mediastinum. A marked displacement of the heart and the left lung can be observed. Craniocaudal inversion of the incarcerated stomach, leading to an "upside-down stomach," can also be visualized. ...
PMC4070324_01
Female
66
The patient is a 66-year-old Caucasian female who presented to our hospital with three weeks history of fever of unknown origin with no specific pattern, associated with nausea, vomiting, fatigue, and pruritus. The patient was already admitted twice to an outside hospital within the last month and underwent extensive d...
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PMC3924946_01
Female
30
Mr. A, 30 years old, small and shy, was born in a north-western Portuguese village near an internationally renowned Casino-beach-resort and lived there until the age of 18. He is the only son of a working-class couple, both in employment. Mr. A attended a college in Lisbon, which was a three hour drive from his parent'...
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PMC8222915_01
Male
33
A 33-year-old Indian male had the following subjective symptoms from June 2016 till November 2016: Sharp pain in the right testicle radiating to the right buttock, right lower back, pelvic region both left and right sides, and perineal pain. He also experienced perspiration, generalized weakness and malaise in the body...
antibiotic resistance, bacteriophages, biofilm, case report, chronic bacterial prostatitis, phage therapy
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PMC7171671_01
Female
70
A heterotopic pancreas (HP) is a congenital anomaly that is anatomically separate yet histologically the same as the pancreas. This anomaly is also known as ectopic, aberrant, or as an accessory pancreas as it does not have anatomic, vascular, or ductal continuity. Cases are most commonly seen in the upper gastrointest...
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PMC7171671_02
Male
70
This is a case of a 70-year-old male with a medical history significant for hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, melanoma, and atrial fibrillation who presented with complaints of heartburn, nausea, and abdominal bloating. Patient reported to also have hiccups along with nausea but no episodes of vomiting. Patient endor...
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PMC4782473_01
Female
3
A 3-year-old girl presented with cyanosis. On examination heart rate of 130/min, blood pressure of 100/64 mmHg, and arterial oxygen saturation of 81% were noted. Echocardiography revealed an unbalanced atrioventricular septal defect with double outlet right ventricle and left atrioventricular valve stenosis. The ostium...
constrictive pericarditis, heart surgery, postoperative
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PMC10332765_01
Male
49
The patient was a 49-year-old male visiting Catalina Island when he suffered a fall from the back row of a concrete amphitheater. He described a fall of approximately ten feet, where he landed on the lateral aspect of his right heel on concrete ground. He then fell sideways and rolled through the rest of the fall. The ...
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PMC7265266_01
Female
7
A seven-year-old female patient with clinical manifestations of PCG referred to us [Table 1] to receive genetic counseling and molecular testing. The subject was born of consanguineous marriage [Figure 1a]. All family members received genetic counseling, and informed consent was obtained from her parents for participat...
cyp1b1, cytochrome p450 family 1 subfamily b member 1, deletion mutation, iran, primary congenital glaucoma
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PMC3471405_01
Male
33
The patient was a 33-year-old Caucasian male with advanced AIDS (CD4+ cell count: 59 cells/mm3, HIV-1 RNA level of 308,000 copies/mL) and an extensive history of opportunistic infections including prior disseminated histoplasmosis, disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC), Pneumocystis jirovecii (PCP) pneumonia, ...
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PMC3275940_01
Female
65
A 65-year-old woman with a medical history significant for diabetes mellitus, hypertension, peripheral vascular disease, and stage IV chronic kidney disease was scheduled for urgent coronary artery bypass grafting surgery (CABG). She was found to have severe triple vessel coronary artery disease after she sustained a n...
anti-coagulation, argatroban, cardio-pulmonary bypass, heparin alternative, heparin induced thrombocytopenia
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PMC7068122_01
Male
85
The patient was an 85-year-old man who had undergone a total gastrectomy because of gastric cancer 8 years prior and had been diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome (RAEB-T, IPSS-IR 8.5 points) 2 years prior. He was categorized as "high risk" when considering hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, therefore azacitid...
lung abscess, mucormycosis, myelodysplastic syndrome, pulmonary infarction, superinfection
Enhanced chest computed tomography (CT) images on the 21st day after admission. Pulmonary embolism of the left descending pulmonary artery was observed. . a. The arrow indicates the left anterior descending pulmonary artery and the arrowhead indicates the point where blood flow is interrupted by the embolus in the midd...
PMC7068122_01
Male
85
The patient was an 85-year-old man who had undergone a total gastrectomy because of gastric cancer 8 years prior and had been diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome (RAEB-T, IPSS-IR 8.5 points) 2 years prior. He was categorized as "high risk" when considering hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, therefore azacitid...
lung abscess, mucormycosis, myelodysplastic syndrome, pulmonary infarction, superinfection
Enhanced chest computed tomography (CT) images on the 21st day after admission. Pulmonary embolism of the left descending pulmonary artery was observed. . b. The arrow indicates a wide homogenous poor-contrast region of the left lower lobe. The arrowhead indicates the left descending pulmonary artery filled with the em...
PMC7068122_01
Male
85
The patient was an 85-year-old man who had undergone a total gastrectomy because of gastric cancer 8 years prior and had been diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome (RAEB-T, IPSS-IR 8.5 points) 2 years prior. He was categorized as "high risk" when considering hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, therefore azacitid...
lung abscess, mucormycosis, myelodysplastic syndrome, pulmonary infarction, superinfection
Enhanced chest computed tomography (CT) images on the 21st day after admission. Pulmonary embolism of the left descending pulmonary artery was observed. . c. Ground-glass opacity, which is one of the typical CT finding in invasive fungal infection, was not observed in the pulmonary window setting.
PMC5851171_01
Female
71
A 71-year-old right hand dominant female patient with no comorbidities was admitted in our institution after suffering a fall from her own height. Plain radiographs and CT scan were performed. The patient had a C2 fracture according to AO/ASIF classification with dorsal metaphyseal comminution (Figure 1). Seven days la...
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PMC6250891_01
Male
23
A 23-year-old man was admitted in a local general hospital on Dec. 12, 2015, because of complaints of chest tightness, shortness of breath, and dyspnea starting a week prior. He was diagnosed as bilateral tuberculous pleural effusion. Anti-tuberculosis treatment with four drugs (rifampin, isoniazid, pyrazinamide, and e...
anhydrous ethanol, chronic empyema, tuberculous
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PMC3263066_01
Male
27
A 27-year-old man with end-stage kidney disease from chronic glomerulonephritis received a renal allograft from his mother in 2005 using prednisolone, cyclosporine and azathioprine, without induction therapy. During the immediate post transplant period, he received three intravenous pulses of methylprednisolone 1 g eac...
immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome, intussusception, kidney transplantation, renal allograft recipient, tuberculosis
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PMC5768976_01
Female
39
A 39-year-old woman (gravida 6, para 3-0-3-3) underwent a standard protocol of artificial cycle FET and had been transferred two in vitro fertilization-derived embryos at a fertility clinic. Detailed information about the transferred embryos was not available for this case. The patient had episodes of spontaneous and a...
artificial cycle, cervical heterotopic pregnancy, frozen‐thawed embryo transfer, placenta accreta, progesterone
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PMC6657625_01
Male
45
A 45-year-old male was admitted to the hospital with a one-day history of abdominal pain and dyspnea. The abdominal pain started the day of admission; however, he noted worsening shortness of breath and a productive cough with clear sputum over the course of several days. He also noted a 20-pound weight loss occurring ...
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PMC5337328_01
Female
52
A 52-year-old female patient, who works as a microbiologist, presented with a headache, dizziness, and partial seizures. The onset of symptoms was subacute with gradual progression. She was previously healthy with no past medical or surgical diseases or events, and she was not using any medications. There was no histor...
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PMC8529316_01
Female
22
A 22-year-old Hispanic woman was in her usual state of health until she developed severe headache (8 of 10 scale) and blurred vision for last 5 days. She was seen at the ophthalmology clinic with marked reduction in vision of her right eye more than left that slowly progressed over 5 days. The patient reported this pro...
mcadam criteria, aseptic meningitis, glucocorticosteroids, pleocytosis, relapsing polychondritis
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PMC8034239_01
Male
65
A 65-year-old man underwent radical esophagectomy 5 months ago following the diagnosis of esophageal cancer by gastroscopy. The postoperative pathology was well-differentiated squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus, involving the adventitia and local foci around the esophagus. Approximately 40 days later, mediastinal...
camrelizumab, immune-related hepatitis, immune-related pneumonia, intrahepatic cholestasis
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PMC5610866_01
Male
56
A 56-year-old male with obesity, hypertension, diabetes mellitus type 2, and dyslipidemia presented with nonexertional chest pain that wakes him up at night exacerbated by coughing and laying supine. There were no associated fever, dizziness syncope, and palpitation. He recalls symptoms of an upper respiratory tract in...
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PMC3075160_01
Female
30
A 30-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with a history of abdominal pain, anorexia, weight loss and fever for one month. On physical examination, except hepatomegaly, no other physical finding was detected. Liver function tests (ALT 64 U/l, AST 76 U/l) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP 310 U/l) were elevated. Ches...
cystic liver lesions, hepatic tuberculosis, liver abscesses
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PMC5458703_01
Male
57
A 57-year-old obese (body mass index = 39) afebrile male patient, with breathing, constrained disturbances, resident of the province with domestic animals was transferred to our clinic from another hospital, where he was treated with bed rest for 2 weeks for spine fracture (Fig. 1) due to misdiagnosis. On admission, he...
immunocompetent patient, salmonella enteritis spondylodiscitis, extra-intestinal focal infections, immunosuppression, relapse, thoracic vertebrae, titanium mesh cage
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PMC1065094_02
Male
53
Dr A As we stand at the bedside, reviewing the admission laboratory findings and waiting impatiently for a chest radiograph, let us try and put these findings together. First of all, this patient presents with an acute illness with fever, chills, a cough that is productive of purulent sputum, and 3 days of watery diarr...
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PMC5960857_01
Female
18
This is a case of an 18-year-old Caucasian female who was referred to us from an outlying facility for evaluation of heartburn and chronic abdominal pain. The patient started experiencing the pain several months before presentation. The pain was cramping in nature, intermittent, occurring approximately 3 times per week...
abdomen, abdominal pain, bezoars, gastric outlet obstruction, heartburn, trichobezoar, trichophagia, trichotillomania
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PMC5523342_01
Female
76
A 76-year-old woman with a long history of diabetes mellitus was referred to our hospital with complaints of severe claudication in bilateral lower limbs. She had noticed claudication symptoms approximately 10 years earlier. Recently, she could not walk 100 m without needing to rest. Her long history of diabetes mellit...
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PMC9749414_01
Male
50
A 50-year-old Chinese male presented to a local hospital with right ankle pain and limited mobility 23 months ago and underwent a synovectomy of the ankle. Specimen culture revealed brucellosis infection in sheep. The patient came to the department of Orthopaedics of our hospital 18 months ago because his symptoms did ...
brucella arthritis, ankle arthritis, brucellosis, synovitis
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PMC7440848_01
Female
55
A 55-year-old woman with a history of adjustment disorder with anxiety, eczema, seasonal rhinitis, and cough variant asthma was referred to pulmonology for 1 month of worsening wheezing, cough, and dyspnea. Her asthma had been diagnosed 2 years prior, and her moderate persistent symptoms remained uncontrolled despite t...
complementary therapies, glucocorticoids, humanized monoclonal antibodies, mepolizumab, pulmonary eosinophilia
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PMC5580054_01
Female
37
A 37-year-old woman, born in September 1977, first presented to our clinic in February 2015 because of severe aggressive outbursts. She was the only child of healthy, unrelated Caucasian parents with an unremarkable family history. She was born 3 days after the due date following an uneventful pregnancy with a birth we...
2q32q33 microdeletion syndrome, satb2 gene, behavioural problems, developmental delay, secondary cognitive decline
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PMC5676088_01
Female
25
We present a 25 year old lady, recently diagnosed asthmatic who presented to Emergency Department (ED), with sudden onset of difficulty breathing associated with noisy breathing for 3 days and hoarseness of voice for 6 months. A year ago, she was treated as PTB and had completed treatment. Since then, she had multiple ...
bronchial asthma, bronchospasm, ct, computed tomography, ebtb, endobronchial tuberculosis, ed, emergency department, ett, endotracheal tube, endobronchial tuberculosis, fnpls, flexible nasopharyngolaryngoscope, ptb, pulmonary tuberculosis, subglottic stenosis
CT Thorax pre intervention, Sagittal plane: Trachea narrowing 4.6 cm from hyoid bone, 0.8 cm length and 9.5 cm from hyoid bone, 8.7cm length. Right main bronchus narrowest diameter was 0.3 cm.
PMC7239889_01
Female
9
Recent thymic emigrants (RTE) influence the rate of infections and deaths in patients with renal transplants. The immunophenotype of the naive RTE is CD45RA+CD45RO- CCR7+CD62L+. In a study by Bugault et al, CD45RA+ CD62L+CD4+ T cell population in patients with ICL was reduced, while CD45RA-CD62L- effector memory cells ...
cd4 t cell lymphocytopenia, autoimmune disease, neoplasia, opportunistic infections
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PMC7784812_01
Female
44
A 44-year-old previously healthy woman with a body mass index of 33.5 sustained a motor vehicle accident in March 2018. Patient's vehicle was rear-ended on the driver's side, in a diagonal manner. She was restrained with a seatbelt. She sustained lower back injury and reported experiencing numbness and tingling in the ...
gynecology, persistent genital arousal disorder, women's health
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PMC6057532_01
Female
23
We present a 23 years old woman case known epilepsy treated with carbamazepine and phenobarbitalum, 26-28 weeks pregnant brought by the ordinary ambulance to a level III medical center in epileptic status since 1 hour. The patient was out with HIV encephalitis and pulmonary TB in inconsistent treatment. BP 96/68mmHg. H...
cesarean section, eclampsia, pregnancy, seizures, tocography
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PMC1334183_01
Female
21
Conflict in Sudan has displaced millions of people and forced hundreds of thousands to flee across borders. In the south of the country, the 21-year old war between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People Liberation Movement/Army has caused the internal displacement of approximately 4 million people, to which the ...
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PMC5011344_01
Female
15
A 15-year-old girl was referred to our centre at day 3 post-burn to her thigh. She dropped a small amount of nail glue onto her thigh when she had been applying nail glue on to her fake nails (Fig. 1). The nail glue remained in contact for a total of 5 min before she felt the burning sensation. She then removed her tro...
chemical burn, first aid, nail adhesive, nail glue, paediatric burns
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PMC8260849_01
Male
4
There were two patients enrolled in this study. The proband was a 4-year-old boy and the other patient was his mother, both of them manifested with recurrent urticaria and arthralgia. Clinical data, family history and blood samples were collected when the proband first visited us in May 2019. Informed consent was obtai...
nlrc4, autoinflammatory disease, mild phenotype, novel mutation, urticaria
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PMC8502103_01
Male
31
A 31-year-old man with no significant past medical history presented to an urgent care center with complaints of fatigue, rash, and epistaxis. Two and a half weeks prior, he received his second scheduled dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. Within twenty-four hours of vaccine administration, he develope...
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PMC6589228_01
Male
28
A 28-year-old male semiprofessional basketball player presented to our orthopaedic practice with pain proximal and lateral to the left knee joint. He was treated for a tibial shaft stress fracture with tibial intramedullary nail (IMN) fixation 1 year prior at an outside hospital. He first noticed pain proximal and late...
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PMC8634897_01
Female
52
A 52-year-old female from a remote village in southern India, who is a known case of uncontrolled type 2 diabetes and hypothyroidism for the past 5 years, presented with a 1-year history of pain over her left shoulder and 2 months of increasing swelling of the same shoulder after a trivial fall. She had undergone an ar...
arthroscopy, fungal septic arthritis, rotator cuff repair, shoulder, uncontrolled diabetic
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PMC5739149_01
Male
66
The patient was a 66-year-old man with a 1.15-mm thick, nonulcerated primary melanoma on the upper back diagnosed in October 2011 who had undergone wide local excision and left axillary sentinel lymph node dissection, revealing 1 lymph node positive for metastatic melanoma. In May 2015, he had a locoregional recurrence...
pet/ct, positron emission tomography/computed tomography, anti–pd-1 antibody, granulomatous, immune-related, melanoma, nivolumab, panniculitis
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PMC4654435_01
Male
77
The patient was a 77 year-old Hispanic male who initially presented to the emergency room with a 6-week history of progressive dyspnea on exertion, cough productive of yellow sputum, intermittent hemoptysis, worsening fatigue and weight loss of 10 lbs. On admission, he denied fever, chills, chest pain, sick contacts, r...
kaposi sarcoma, lymphoma, pulmonary, bronchoscopy
CT of the chest on admission to hospital. . CT of the chest demonstrating several nodular opacities throughout both lungs. Two nodules are measured to show size. Arrows point to pleural effusions on both lungs.
PMC4654435_01
Male
77
The patient was a 77 year-old Hispanic male who initially presented to the emergency room with a 6-week history of progressive dyspnea on exertion, cough productive of yellow sputum, intermittent hemoptysis, worsening fatigue and weight loss of 10 lbs. On admission, he denied fever, chills, chest pain, sick contacts, r...
kaposi sarcoma, lymphoma, pulmonary, bronchoscopy
CT of the chest during hospitalization. . CT of the chest showing nodular opacities that persisted in both lung fields and worsening bilateral pleural effusions (arrows).
PMC5264175_01
Unknown
55
We report the case of a 55-year-old patient, active smoker without occupational exposure who, after the discovery of a pulmonary nodule on thoracic computed tomography (CT), underwent a right upper lobectomy with lymphadenectomy that was diagnostic of pulmonary adenocarcinoma (pT1b pN0). All the lymph nodes sampled in ...
endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration, surgicel®, foreign body reaction, lung cancer
(a) Lymph node 4R with sinus histiocytosis, anthracosis, and a piece of bronchial cartilage (H and E, x4). (b) Thoracic computed tomography axial section showing the right low paratracheal lymph node of 14 mm.
PMC5264175_01
Unknown
55
We report the case of a 55-year-old patient, active smoker without occupational exposure who, after the discovery of a pulmonary nodule on thoracic computed tomography (CT), underwent a right upper lobectomy with lymphadenectomy that was diagnostic of pulmonary adenocarcinoma (pT1b pN0). All the lymph nodes sampled in ...
endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration, surgicel®, foreign body reaction, lung cancer
(a) Lymph node 4R with sinus histiocytosis, anthracosis, and a piece of bronchial cartilage (H and E, x4). (b) Thoracic computed tomography axial section showing the right low paratracheal lymph node of 14 mm.
PMC3033829_01
Male
32
A 32 year old male who was a known IVDU, presented with a 12 hour history of increasing swelling in his left leg. He had a purulent discharge from a chronic sinus in his left groin. On examination, he had warm erythematous sinuses in both groins. The left sinus was discharging foul smelling pus. He had a tachycardia 12...
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PMC9129884_01
Male
28
A 28-year-old male patient was admitted to the hospital after having oral pain for 1 month, skin ecchymosis with ulceration for 20 days, and abnormal renal function test results for 3 days. He had a medical history of chronic, untreated hepatitis-B for 18 years. One month prior to the admission, the patient began to ex...
anca-associated vasculitis (aav), antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody, case report, eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis, myeloperoxidase
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PMC9986552_01
Male
21
Mr. A, a 21-year-old male with no prior psychiatric history, was brought to the emergency room by police after being found wandering outside talking to himself. On arrival, the patient was afebrile at 98.1 F, with a heart rate (HR) of 64, respiratory rate (RR) of 18, and blood pressure (BP) of 136/96. The patient's com...
cannabis sativa, case report, delta-8-thc, delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, psychosis
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PMC9986552_02
Male
23
Mr. B is a 23-year-old male with a past medical history of schizophrenia and intellectual disability who presented to the emergency department via EMS after having a violent outburst at home. He broke the windows out of his house and tried to "arrest" his mother, stealing her car keys and breaking her arm. The patient ...
cannabis sativa, case report, delta-8-thc, delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, psychosis
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PMC9986552_03
Male
39
Mr. C is a 39-year-old male with a history of schizoaffective disorder, traumatic brain injury (TBI), and borderline intellectual functioning, who presented to the ER complaining that he felt unsafe at home. Patient C was historically prescribed oral aripiprazole 2 mg daily. On arrival, he was afebrile, with HR 68, RR ...
cannabis sativa, case report, delta-8-thc, delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, psychosis
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PMC5390657_01
Male
66
The patient is a 66-year-old male with stage IV chronic kidney disease (CKD) who was admitted with right sided chest pain and transient hypotension which resolved with fluid resuscitation on arrival. Computed tomography angiography (CTA) was performed immediately and revealed a 5 cm aneurysm confined to proximal descen...
aortic arch, aortic dissection, endovascular surgery, thoracic aneurysm
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PMC3420786_01
Male
30
A 30-year-old man, of East African origin, was admitted to our hospital for a constrictive chest pain. The patient's history included acute methanol intoxication with bilateral permanent blindness, due to necrosis in bilateral putamen demonstrated on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The patient was followed in the rhe...
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PMC9583524_01
Male
55
A 55-year-old-male was admitted due to dark urine and jaundice. Before admission, he took two capsules of artemisinin extract (containing 200 mg artemisinin extract + 10 mg alkaloid) per day for 1 month for shoulder pain. Gradually, he developed symptoms such as loss of appetite, tiredness of oil and itchy skin. He had...
artemisinin, cholestatic hepatitis, drug-induced liver injury, jaundice, plasma exchange (pe)
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PMC9427407_01
Male
21
A 21-year-old man presented with sloping cervical mass. He was diagnosed with lymphadenitis caused by tuberculosis and taking antituberculosis drugs for 5 months. He received isoniazid, rifampin, ethambutol, and morfosinamide for 2 months and then continue with isoniazid and rifampin. At the end of second month the lea...
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PMC9758986_01
Male
31
A 31-year-old man presented to our outpatient clinic with redness, swelling, and severe pain in both knees as well as an inability to walk since one year ago. The patient who has been HIV positive for 7 years had a history of severe prurigo nodularis for four years and had tubercle bacillus bloodstream infection two ye...
hiv, bone and bone marrow infection, non-tuberculous mycobacteria
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PMC8517639_01
Female
66
A 66-year-old woman, a retired hotel caretaker, was admitted to the Respiratory Department of the First Hospital of the China Medical University with the chief complaint of 'intermittent fever and lung occupation for 2 months'. Six months prior, the patient was diagnosed with primary nephrotic syndrome (idiopathic memb...
brain abscess, disseminated nocardiosis, fever, renal insufficiency, space-occupying lesions
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PMC4531972_01
Female
55
A 55-year-old woman with end-stage renal failure due to chronic glomerulonephritis was hospitalized for severe pain, numbness and paresthesia in both wrists, with progressive paralysis of the thenar muscles and both shoulders' pain for about 1 year. She had been on maintenance hemodialysis for 14 years at Chonnam Unive...
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PMC6610690_01
Male
63
The patient was a 63-year-old male smoker (40 pack-years). He presented with symptoms of cough, hemoptysis, fever, and weight loss for 2 months. The patient was admitted to the local hospital in 2016-03-21. The chest CT scan showed a soft tissue shadow of 2.8*3.5 cm with large patchy shadows around the upper lobe of th...
lung cancer, secondary organizing pneumonia
Pathology of lung and lymph node from March 2016 to May 2016. . (A) Pathology of CT scan-guided percutaneous lung biopsy in the apical segment of the right lung's upper lobe. HE staining of the lung biopsy showed organizing pneumonia lesions (white arrow).
PMC9376587_01
Male
80
An 80-year-old Chinese man who had a more than 50-year smoking history and occasionally consumed alcohol was admitted to the local hospital in October 2020 because of hoarseness, shortness of breath after activity, decreased activity endurance, and chest tightness. The patient was otherwise in good health and did not h...
rmst-alk rearrangement, ceritinib, next-generation sequencing, non-small cell lung cancer, sensitive
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PMC3915437_01
Male
5
A 1/5 year old boy was hospitalized for lymphadenopathy and low grade fever for 1 week. His weight was 7 kg. In physical examination, multiple lymphadenopathy in cervical and inguinal areas together with hepatosplenomegaly were diagnosed. He was the second child of non relative parents. The first child of family died b...
child, hiv, signs and symptoms
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PMC5369255_01
Male
34
A 34-year-old man with a medical history of cerebral palsy and spastic quadriparesis underwent an ITB Prometra programmable 20 ml pump (Flowonix Medical Inc., New Jersey, USA) implantation for spasticity refractory to high doses oral baclofen 2 years ago. ITB therapy resulted in a progressive improvement in patient's s...
infection, intrathecal baclofen pump, intrathecal teicoplanin
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PMC8053494_01
Male
53
A 53-year-old man presented to our hospital with a 4-month history of cough and polypnea for 2 months. He was a former smoker and consumed 30 cigarettes daily for 40 years, and no particular personal or family medical history was reported. Physical examination showed stable vital signs, including blood pressure of 126/...
case report, pulmonary tuberculosis, squamous cell carcinoma
Chest CT on admission. The lung window of the left upper lobar bronchus level.
PMC8053494_01
Male
53
A 53-year-old man presented to our hospital with a 4-month history of cough and polypnea for 2 months. He was a former smoker and consumed 30 cigarettes daily for 40 years, and no particular personal or family medical history was reported. Physical examination showed stable vital signs, including blood pressure of 126/...
case report, pulmonary tuberculosis, squamous cell carcinoma
Chest CT on admission. The white arrow indicated the lobular mass with heterogeneous enhancement on mediastinal window in the right hilar region (B).
PMC8053494_01
Male
53
A 53-year-old man presented to our hospital with a 4-month history of cough and polypnea for 2 months. He was a former smoker and consumed 30 cigarettes daily for 40 years, and no particular personal or family medical history was reported. Physical examination showed stable vital signs, including blood pressure of 126/...
case report, pulmonary tuberculosis, squamous cell carcinoma
Chest CT on admission. , the left lung basal trunk bronchus level.
PMC8053494_01
Male
53
A 53-year-old man presented to our hospital with a 4-month history of cough and polypnea for 2 months. He was a former smoker and consumed 30 cigarettes daily for 40 years, and no particular personal or family medical history was reported. Physical examination showed stable vital signs, including blood pressure of 126/...
case report, pulmonary tuberculosis, squamous cell carcinoma
CT-guided percutaneous lung biopsy. The second specimen was obtained at the peripheral site of the mass.
PMC2631494_01
Male
91
A 91-year-old Caucasian male farmer presented at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota for evaluation of the acute complaint, "My feet aren't working." Specifically, he reported difficulty with balance leading to inability to walk, and extensive, painful bilateral ecchymoses of his heels (Figures 1 and 2). His distress...
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PMC5750492_01
Female
31
In the last five years of our clinical and surgical activity 3800 cesarean deliveries (CS) have been performed and in 57 cases (1.5%) cesarean deliveries followed a laparoscopic myomectomy. We report the only two cases (3.5%) of uterine rupture that occurred among these 57 CS following laparoscopic myomectomy. The firs...
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