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PMC3396874_01
Female
21
A 21 year-old university student was found to have active TB in May 2009 during a house-to-house TB case finding survey based on chronic cough (=2 weeks). After consenting to participate, she reported a history of productive cough associated with chest pain for 3 months without hemoptysis. She also reported occasional ...
active case finding, contact investigation, tuberculosis
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PMC3396874_02
Female
2
The woman had been in close contact with a confirmed index TB case in her family. The index case experienced five months of coughing prior to diagnosis and started anti-TB chemotherapy in July 2008. The household comprised of five other family members: three adults and two children (nine and two years old). The woman a...
active case finding, contact investigation, tuberculosis
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PMC2956468_01
Male
31
In 2001 a 31-year-old white male (wt 70 kg) presented with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in November 2000. Peripheral WBC was 82 x 109/L. The tumour was CD10+, CD13+, CD19+, CD20+, CD33+, CD34+, HLADR+, and TDT+. Standard cytogenetics failed, but cells were BCR/ABL negative by PCR. He was treated with an aggressive mul...
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PMC6215962_01
Female
61
A 61-year-old woman was admitted to a hospital due to obstructive jaundice. Extensive EC was found by diagnostic imaging, and she was subsequently scheduled for brachytherapy since the tumor was found to be unresectable. Seven years prior at the same hospital, she underwent multi-organ en bloc resection for advanced ga...
careful managements, hepato-pancreaticoduodenectomy, previous poly-surgery
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PMC6032970_01
Female
17
A 17-year-old female student with known SCD (HbSS), on folic acid (FA) since early childhood and on hydroxyurea (HU) 500 mg/day for the past 5 years, was admitted to the medical ward with difficulty in breathing, persistent fever, chest pain, dry cough, and general body malaise for four days prior to admission. Her pre...
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PMC5121159_01
Female
18
An 18-year old woman of Somalian origin was admitted with a two-months history of fatigue, poor appetite and unspecific body pain, but without fever or cough. Four months previously she arrived in Sweden. She was immunocompetent and previously healthy except for a skeletal mass on the sternum and right clavicle at the ...
mycobacterium tuberculosis, myocardial tuberculoma, myocardium, right atrial mass, tuberculosis
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PMC3934681_01
Male
69
A 69-year-old man, with a background of recurrent outbreaks of herpes labialis approximately once every 2 years and childhood varicella, noticed vesicles on the lower lips. Five days later, a skin eruption developed on the right side of his face. Although he had no history of atopic dermatitis, Kaposi varicelliform eru...
concurrent reactivation, herpes simplex, herpes simplex virus, herpes zoster, loop-mediated isothermal amplification, varicella zoster virus
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PMC6466724_01
Female
33
In August 2018 a 33-year old woman presented with a history of progressive headache, nausea and vomiting. The patient is of Thai origin but has resided in Switzerland for 6 years. However, she regularly travels to rural north-eastern Thailand, which was also the case prior to onset of symptoms. Two weeks after arrival ...
angiostrongylus cantonensis, eosinophilic meningitis, seroconversion, switzerland, visiting friends and relatives
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PMC10204046_01
Female
60
A 60-year-old woman developed a fever of >38 C and oral antimicrobial therapy was started. However, the fever lasted for 1 month and echocardiography revealed a large mass in the left atrium. She was transferred to our hospital for surgery in December 2018, before the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. The patient was not imm...
cardiovascular, cardiac disease, infected cardiac myxoma, surgery
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PMC4101951_01
Female
55
We report a case of 55-year-old Guyanese female with the history of seropositive rheumatoid arthritis (RA) for 10 years and history of latent tuberculosis. Isoniazid treatment was not completed due to abnormal liver function tests and rifampin was completed at 4 months. Her RA was poorly responsive to methotrexate 20 m...
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PMC8313788_01
Female
33
A 33-year-old female, homeless, with a history of type 2 diabetes, tabaquism and no previous history of lung disease was admitted with a 10-day history of cough, expectoration and progressive dyspnea. SARS-CoV2 infection was ruled out. Chest X-Ray showed bilateral pleural effusion, left tension pneumothorax and tubercu...
acute respiratory failure, ecmo, empyema, tuberculosis
Radiological follow up of the patient. B and C) Chest computed tomography upon 7 days from admission, previous to left decortication: Right superior lobe extensive pulmonary cavitation with right bud tree micronodules. Left loculated hydropneumothorax with a left chest tube and right pleural effusion.
PMC8313788_01
Female
33
A 33-year-old female, homeless, with a history of type 2 diabetes, tabaquism and no previous history of lung disease was admitted with a 10-day history of cough, expectoration and progressive dyspnea. SARS-CoV2 infection was ruled out. Chest X-Ray showed bilateral pleural effusion, left tension pneumothorax and tubercu...
acute respiratory failure, ecmo, empyema, tuberculosis
Radiological follow up of the patient. B and C) Chest computed tomography upon 7 days from admission, previous to left decortication: Right superior lobe extensive pulmonary cavitation with right bud tree micronodules. Left loculated hydropneumothorax with a left chest tube and right pleural effusion.
PMC8313788_01
Female
33
A 33-year-old female, homeless, with a history of type 2 diabetes, tabaquism and no previous history of lung disease was admitted with a 10-day history of cough, expectoration and progressive dyspnea. SARS-CoV2 infection was ruled out. Chest X-Ray showed bilateral pleural effusion, left tension pneumothorax and tubercu...
acute respiratory failure, ecmo, empyema, tuberculosis
Radiological follow up of the patient. E) Chest computed tomography 6 weeks after left pleural decortication and fistula repair: Complete re-expansion of the right lung, resolution of right pleural effusion with partial left pulmonary re-expansion and persistence of the left hydropneumothorax with decrease of the signs...
PMC117132_01
Female
67
A 67-year-old Caucasian female presented with 4 days of vomiting associated with coffee ground materials, loss of appetite, and new onset of occasional heartburn. She denied any abdominal pain. The physical exam was pertinent for severe obesity with Body-Mass-Index of 52 and frequent desaturations on room air from 90 t...
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PMC9425504_01
Female
46
A 46-year-old black female patient was referred to the Hematological Unit of the University Hospital Prof. Edgard Santos, in Bahia, Brazil in January 2012 with confirmed HTLV-1 infection (ELISA positive confirmed by Western blot) and a history of cervical lymphadenomegaly in the previous month. She had had a diagnosis ...
adult t-cell leukemia/lymphoma, htlv-1 infection, hodgkin-like atll, pulmonary tuberculosis
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PMC5395855_01
Male
28
A 28-year-old right-hand-dominant man was airlifted for limb salvage to the level 1 trauma center where the investigators practice after sustaining an agricultural accident in which his left hand was pulled into a corn augur. The mangling injury of his hand included fractures of his index through ring fingers with exte...
agricultural injuries, mangled hand, mucormycosis, zygomycosis
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PMC9393382_01
Male
66
A 66-year-old Chinese man experienced a cough and blood-tinged sputum for >5 months. On admission, the patient had an intermittent cough, a small amount of blood in sputum, a shortness of breath after activity, and mild pain in the left iliac region but no other complaints of obvious discomfort or disease history. He w...
gcc2-alk, case report, ensartinib, inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors, partial response
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PMC5510523_01
Male
16
A 16-year-old high school male student was admitted to King Abdulaziz University Hospital with complaints of progressive weakness and ascending numbness of the lower limbs. This student is a healthy professional basketball player, who had been experiencing difficulty jumping over the course of one year. The weakness pr...
epidural lipomatosis, paraplegia, review, spinal cord compression
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PMC6375019_01
Female
22
A 22-year-old woman presented to our hospital with pain abdomen and vomiting for 5 days. There was no history of fever, loose stools, dysuria, and hematuria on admission. Examination revealed distended abdomen and diffuse abdominal tenderness. She was oliguric on presentation and her serum creatinine was 2.6 mg%. She h...
acute cortical necrosis, acute pancreatitis, hypercalcemia, tuberculosis
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PMC5216158_01
Male
82
An 82-year-old Japanese man was admitted to our hospital because of a 3-day history of chills and abdominal and back pain. He was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, for which he had been prescribed methotrexate 4 mg/week 2 years earlier. Additionally, he had a history of hypertension and angina pectoris. He had no hi...
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PMC3657414_01
Male
26
A 26-year-old Thai man without underlying disease came to emergency unit because of carpopedal spasm for 4 hours. He also reported numbness and tingling at perioral area and muscle cramps in both legs. The patient's history of birth and development was normal, and he had been previously healthy. He had no history of re...
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PMC3625586_01
Male
25
A 25-year-old male, resident of Srinagar, businessman by occupation returned to Srinagar after a weeklong trip to Delhi in October 2012. The patient started developing fever, chills, myalgias, and headache two days following his return and self-treated himself with Paracetamol. Prophylactic treatment for malaria was no...
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PMC5352940_01
Male
18
An 18-year-old male patient presented to Emergency Room at "blinded for peer review" with right eye (OD) injury by a paintball pellet resulted in sudden drop of his vision and lid laceration which was repaired elsewhere. He was not wearing protective goggles. The patient's previous medical and ocular histories were unr...
eye injuries, ocular, paintball, trauma
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PMC5352940_02
Male
25
A 25-year-old male sustained trauma by paintball gun bullet to his left eye (OS) while he was playing a game with no safety goggles. Two days prior to presenting to the Emergency Room, he gave history of losing consciousness at the playing house. On examination, his best corrected vision BCVA in right eye (OD) was 20/2...
eye injuries, ocular, paintball, trauma
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PMC5352940_03
Male
12
A 12-year-old male presented to the Emergency Room after he sustained trauma to his right eye (OD) with paintball bullet. He was not wearing the safety goggles. On examination, his best corrected visual acuity BCVA was 20/80 in right eye (OD) and 20/20 left eye OS, intraocular pressure was 23 mmHg OD and 24 mmHg OS. Le...
eye injuries, ocular, paintball, trauma
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PMC7821813_01
Unknown
46
Tuberculosis (TB) is still a problem in the developed and underdeveloped countries, and cutaneous TB is a small part of extrapulmonary forms. Two most common forms of cutaneous TB are lupus vulgaris and scrofuloderma. Tuberculosis verrucosa cutis is a less common paucibacillary form of cutaneous TB caused by exogenous ...
keywords
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PMC7821813_02
Unknown
46
A 46-year-old fisherman came to dermatovenereology outpatient clinic with a chief complaint of a raised red-purple rough spot on the right knee as well as reddish patches on the left foot for almost 20 years before admission. The lesion initially appeared on the right knee as small and soft lumps which subsequently ele...
keywords
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PMC8169976_01
Male
3
The proband was the firstborn male from an IVF dichorionic twin pregnancy born by spontaneous vaginal delivery at 37 weeks gestational age weighing 1984 g (-2.53 SDS) to healthy consanguineous parents (first cousins) of Arab-Muslim origin. No family history of diabetes was reported in the extended family. The newborn w...
glis3 mutation, congenital glaucoma, congenital hypothyroidism, neonatal diabetes, β-cell development
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PMC10172659_01
Female
5
In April 2022, an 11.5-year-old intact female Border Collie was presented after experiencing a single generalized seizure. In May 2022, the dog experienced a second seizure episode during which the owner measured the dog's glucose which was 1.5 mmol/l. Apart from these episodes, the dog was considered healthy and had n...
functional neuroendocrine pancreatic tumor, lymphadenectomy, pancreatic lymph node mapping, sentinel node mapping, staging malignant melanoma
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PMC4393328_01
Female
31
An appropriate-for-gestational age newborn female was delivered at term by elective cesarean section, with good Apgar scores. The infant's initial evaluation was unremarkable. The mother was a healthy 31-year-old African from Liberia with good prenatal care, and the pregnancy was uncomplicated. However, intractable pos...
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PMC4393328_02
Female
22
A 22-year-old, Guatemalan woman with poor prenatal care was admitted 10 days before delivery to an outside hospital with a 1-month history of fever and a 14-kg weight loss. She had no respiratory symptoms, but her chest X-ray showed diffuse micronodular infiltrates. Sputum and bone marrow biopsies were positive for aci...
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PMC6786366_01
Male
43
A 43-year-old man with T10 incomplete, ASIA Impairment Scale (AIS) C, patient with paraplegia who is a wheelchair basketball player presented to our electrodiagnostic laboratory with complaints of bilateral hand numbness after intensive training for a local veteran wheelchair basketball tournament. Previously, the pati...
pathogenesis, spinal cord diseases
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PMC5406800_01
Female
27
A 27-year-old female patient presented with a history of swelling in mandibular left posterior region for 1 year and pain for 1 month [Figure 1]. Intraoral examination revealed a bony hard swelling extending from the left mandibular second premolar till retromolar area. Obliteration of buccal and lingual vestibule was ...
follicular ameloblastoma, foreign body granuloma, oral pulse granuloma, oral vegetable granuloma
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PMC5760872_01
Male
56
A 56-year-old male diagnosed case of COPD for the past 2 years presented to the emergency department of our hospital with shortness of breath (Medical Research Council (MRC) Grade 3) and cough with expectoration for the last 3 days and decrease in level of consciousness for 1 day. There was no history of fever, chest p...
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PMC4348613_01
Male
49
We report a case of a 49-year-old man with no significant medical history. The patient was referred to our center in October 2011. The blood count was abnormal with anemia (Hb 11.2 g/dL) and a platelet count of 78000/mm3. The white blood cell count was 11500/mm3 with 30% lymphocytes, 2% monocytes, 2% eosinophils, 0% ba...
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PMC9868471_01
Male
68
A 68-year-old man presented with intermittent right upper quadrant (RUQ) abdominal pain for half a year. Additionally, a temperature of up to 38.3 C occurred more than a month ago with no apparent cause. Upon arrival, he admitted having diabetes for three years, treated with metformin and glimepiride. His vital signs w...
diagnosis, osteoclast-like giant cell, prognosis, treatment, undifferentiated hepatic carcinoma
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PMC8636773_01
Female
38
A 38-year-old woman, gravida 3 para 1 abortion 1, was admitted to the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the China-Japan Friendship Hospital (Beijing, China) on October 5, 2019, with complaints of 7 weeks amenorrhea, cornual pregnancy treated with MTX for 5 days and fever (38.5 C) for 2 days. About a week earli...
ectopic pregnancy, methotrexate, methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (mthfr) gene, myelosuppression, treatment
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PMC9161195_01
Female
96
A 96-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital complaining of cough, fever, and dyspnea which was started from 5 days ago, and it got worse within last 3 days. She was a known case of hypertension and dyslipidemia. Physical examination revealed an axillary temperature of 38 centigrade and a diffuse crackle in lung au...
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PMC4537888_01
Male
27
Hughes-Stovin syndrome is a scarce pathology associating pulmonary artery aneurysms and deep venous thrombosis and affecting commonly the young patient. A 27 year old man was hospitalised for recurrent hemoptysis and a left femoral vein thrombosis. Besides, he had oral ulcers. The ophthalmological examination was norma...
hughes-stovin syndrome, pulmonary aneurysm, hemoptysis
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PMC9007029_02
Female
32
A 32 year-old-woman with symptoms of fatigue and night sweats was admitted to our ENT department in June 2018 with a suspected cervical adenopathy. She had a medical history for Hashimoto's thyroiditis in euthyroidism and thalassemia trait. Suspecting a lymphoma, we performed an excisional biopsy of the lymph node unde...
nasopharyngeal biopsy, nasopharyngeal sarcoidosis, sarcoidosis
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PMC6727454_01
Male
55
A 55-year-old gentleman, presented with complaints of pain over the left knee joint and inability to weight bear over his left leg for the past ten 10 months. The patient was apparently normal ten10 months ago, when he had a history of slip and fall from 10 feet height at his workplace in the month of January 2017 and ...
proximal tibial plateau fracture, osteoarthritis knee, total knee replacement
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PMC9676472_01
Male
41
In February 2015, a 41-year-old man was diagnosed with stage IV, RAS and BRAF WT, ERBB2 not-amplified, MSS rectal cancer with synchronous liver metastases. As presented in Figure 1 and Table 1 , the patient underwent multimodal treatment with initial first-line therapy with FOLFOX and panitumumab, achieving partial ...
map2k1, mek, colorectal cancer, panitumumab, resistance mechanisms
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PMC9676472_02
Male
62
In September 2019, a 62-year-old man was diagnosed with RAS and BRAF WT, ERBB2 not-amplified, MSS, right-sided mCRC with synchronous liver and bone metastases. Initially, the patient underwent FOLFOX first-line therapy for 12 cycles achieving PR, followed by a therapeutic holiday due to an occurring, non-treatment rela...
map2k1, mek, colorectal cancer, panitumumab, resistance mechanisms
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PMC4317211_01
Male
68
A 68-year-old male was admitted in our in-patient ward with a history of low-grade fever for 2 months, epigastric pain with episodic nausea and vomiting, anorexia and history of unintentional weight loss. He was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis thirty years back and had taken a full course of antitubercular drugs....
elderly, mycobacterium tuberculosis, liver abscess
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PMC9640932_02
Male
30
In 2017, the municipal employment service and a social sport initiative (which can be considered as the main program organizers) joined forces with several local partners and initiated two SfE programs targeting NEETs (one male, one female). While the project description of the male program specifically aimed at young ...
flanders (belgium), neets, sport for development, sport for employability, theory of change
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PMC4762276_01
Female
20
KL is a 20-year-old Caucasian woman who presented to the Emergency Department with complaints of opioid withdrawal. She discovered she was pregnant by home pregnancy test a month earlier, but had not yet sought care. She moved back to the area the previous day after leaving a physically abusive relationship, was withou...
ptsd, buprenorphine, methadone, multidisciplinary, opioid, perinatal, pregnancy
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PMC8683458_01
Male
28
A 28-year-old male presented to the pulmonology outpatient department with recurrent respiratory tract infections and a persistent productive cough for 14 years associated with exertional dyspnea, chest pain and an occasional wheeze. He denied having any constitutional symptoms, hemoptysis, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea...
case report, mounier-kuhn syndrome, tracheobronchomegaly, zambia, bronchiectasis, recurrent respiratory tract infections
chest CT showing a dilated trachea (>3cm), dilated main bronchi, and ,cystic bronchiectasis, mainly in the lower lobes.
PMC8683458_01
Male
28
A 28-year-old male presented to the pulmonology outpatient department with recurrent respiratory tract infections and a persistent productive cough for 14 years associated with exertional dyspnea, chest pain and an occasional wheeze. He denied having any constitutional symptoms, hemoptysis, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea...
case report, mounier-kuhn syndrome, tracheobronchomegaly, zambia, bronchiectasis, recurrent respiratory tract infections
chest CT showing a dilated trachea (>3cm), dilated main bronchi, and ,cystic bronchiectasis, mainly in the lower lobes.
PMC7485277_01
Female
41
The 41-year-old housewife was married for 20 years. After the birth of her youngest child 8 years ago, an LNG-IUS (Mirena ) was chosen as a long-term contraception owing to the patients` preference. Of note, there was no other gynecological indication (e.g. menorrhagia) for the insertion of the device. Except for daily...
anxiety, case report, depression, intrauterine device, levonorgestrel
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PMC8490061_01
Male
53
A 53-year-old man who has a history of CSOM in the right ear was suffering for more than 3 months. He had visited various healthcare facilities and hospitals. He was on an antibacterial drug from the last 10 days but was not benefited. Finally, he visited the department of ENT and Head and Neck Surgery OPD of a tertiar...
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PMC7337152_01
Male
4
A four-year-old neutered male Saint Bernard dog weighing 54.9 kg presented for evaluation to the Fox Valley Animal Referral Center emergency service with the chief complaint of severe, recurrent epistaxis of 1 week duration. The patient had been treated by the primary care veterinarian with cold compressing and amoxici...
dermal arteritis, immunology, immunosuppression, nasal resection
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PMC9358288_01
Male
63
A 63-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with left thalamic hemorrhage. He was in a comatose state when he arrived to the emergency room. His initial Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score was 7, but his consciousness level rapidly improved to a GCS score of 14. He had subjective right-sided weakness, but no obvious moto...
cognitive-behavioral therapy, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, intervention, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, thalamic stroke
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PMC8173077_01
Unknown
35
A three-dimensional (3D) geometric representation was derived from an idealized human brain axial section as depicted in Figure 1. This axial section was constructed via computer aided drafting (CAD) software (SolidWorks, 2018) and then extruded to match the overall height of a human brain. The values of height, width,...
blast, cavitation, computation, interfacial injury, simulation, traumatic brain injury
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PMC4310132_01
Female
43
A 43-year-old right-handed African American female with a history of migraines was followed clinically for SLE for 3 years prior to presentation. Her initial diagnosis was based on American College of Rheumatology criteria of: Antinuclear antibodies, dsDNA antibodies, arthritis, and serositis with pericarditis. Recent ...
aneurysm growth, intracranial aneurysms, subarachnoid hemorrhage, systemic lupus erythematosus
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PMC5557159_01
Male
17
A 17 year-old male (height: 1.803 m; weight: 83.235 kg; body mass index (BMI): 25.59 kg/m2) high school varsity athlete (football, basketball) was referred to an outside endocrinologist by his primary care provider after an approximate 2-year history of worsening episodes of exercise-induced excessive sweating accompan...
hyperhidrosis, glycopyrrolate, sweat, thermoregulation
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PMC7279915_01
Male
32
The patient was a 32-year-old man who, approximately 17 years previously, after a penicillin injection, had started to have pain, swelling and erythema in his right buttock. After several days, the lesion started to produce a yellow secretion and made an orifice. Over the years, the secretion continued but the pain, sw...
tuberculous sacroiliitis, case report, sacroiliac joint, tuberculous arthritis
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PMC9755865_01
Female
3
Another relatively rare disease, reported in a 3-year-old child, is alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma (ARMS) (Zhang et al.), which is characterized by its aggressive behavior, poor prognosis, and unfavorable outcome. ARMS may be present in critical organs and can invade the spinal canal that leads to the central nervous system...
18f-fdg, pet imaging, cancer, case report, diagnostics
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PMC5977417_01
Female
36
A 36-year-old female from Tunisia presented with slow-onset, moderate SVCS. She was diagnosed with nodal and oesophageal tuberculosis in 2012 and treated with a 6-month course of anti-tubercular treatment. One year prior she had a mediastinal mass that regressed with corticoids. She presented with symptoms including co...
superior vena cava syndrome, endovascular repair, innominate vein, kissing, mediastinal fibrosis, percutaneous procedure, sandwich technique, stenosis, stent, superior vena cava bifurcation
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PMC4440534_01
Male
20
A 20-year-old Caucasian male was admitted to the emergency department of an external secondary care hospital after he collapsed with syncopation while he watched a football match in the stadium. He had lost consciousness for less than a minute. Two years before he was diagnosed to have hypothyroidism, and the prescribe...
cardiac myxedema, hypothyroid graves’ disease, peri-myocarditis, thyrocardiac axis
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PMC6501497_01
Male
54
A 54-year-old male presented with a long-standing severe photodistributed eczematous eruption on his face, neck, chest, back, and extremities (Figure 1). His past medical history was significant for severe atopic dermatitis (AD), allergic rhinitis, alopecia universalis, hypertension, and dyslipidemia. His medications i...
chronic actinic dermatitis, dupilumab, photodermatosis, photosensitivity dermatitis, thalidomide
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PMC9807123_01
Male
62
A 62-year-old-male patient was referred to our emergency department on August 24, 2020, after experiencing a 28-day history of cough, expectoration and intermittent hemoptysis without fever. He just received treatment of relieving cough and reducing sputum from the outpatient clinic until his symptoms worsened and were...
aspergillus flavus, aspergillus overlap syndromes, klebsiella pneumoniae, coinfection, metagenomic next-generation sequencing
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PMC3184666_01
Male
36
A 36 year old man was referred to our hospital because of palpitations and lypotimia. He experienced presyncope on several occasions in the morning while waking up and when suddenly standing up from a sitting position, but syncope never developed. When he came to our observation, his body weight was 95 kg and his heigh...
hrv, heart rate variability, pots, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, sympathovagal balance
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PMC10267816_01
Male
58
A 58-year-old man was transferred to Peking Union Medical College Hospital for management of newly diagnosed cholangitis. Six months before admission, the patient began to have episodes of epigastric pain after meal, without nausea, vomiting or diarrhea, the pain could be relieved after rest. Three months previously, h...
choledocholithiasis, duodenal dilatation, epigastric pain, reconstruction, trauma surgery
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PMC5322429_01
Male
31
A 31-year-old male with no significant history presented to the emergency department (ED) with left arm and leg weakness accompanied by headache and right-sided neck pain. The day prior while playing basketball, he sustained a blow to the right lateral neck during a collision with the knee of another player. That night...
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PMC5153024_01
Female
5
A 5.5-year-old girl was diagnosed with primary CH through screening at the age of 2 weeks. She was a firstborn child of young, healthy parents. The child was delivered after 39 weeks of gestation with forceps-assisted vaginal delivery. The anthropometric parameters were adequate for the gestational age. The Apgar score...
congenital hypothyroidism, ectopy, subclinical hypothyroidism, thyroid
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PMC5610859_01
Male
23
In March 2016, a 23-year-old young man was admitted to our hospital with main complaint of abdominal pain and nausea after diet as well as loss of appetite for half a month. The vague abdominal pain or discomfort was predominantly in the epigastrium. Meanwhile, the concomitant symptoms did not include fever, night swea...
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PMC4682006_01
Male
42
A 42 year old male, nonsmoker, with no history of diabetes or hypertension, presented with 10 days history of shortness of breath which increased since 1 day. He was diagnosed as a case of sarcoidosis 2 months back based on clinical and radiologic findings when he had presented with history of intermittent fever, short...
effusion, sarcoidosis, thoracoscopy
B: CT-chest on previous admission - showing diffuse micronodules with prediliction for fissures and bronchovascular bundles.
PMC9678121_01
Male
33
A 33-year-old pulmonologist from Southern India, with no known co-morbidities, had a history of COVID-19 infection in January 2022. Following this, he developed an intractable dry cough, which did not settle with the administration of routine cough syrup. Suspecting lung parenchymal involvement, he self-medicated with ...
tuberculosis, anti-tubercular therapy, multifocal skeletal lesions, neoplasm, tracheoesophageal fistula, tropical diseases
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PMC9880881_01
Male
20
A 20-years-old man was admitted to the emergency department after being resuscitated from SCD while playing football. No personal medical history or daily medication, no alcohol or drugs consumption and no history of medical or food allergy was noted. During hospitalization stay, a monomorphic ventricular tachycardia w...
contact allergy, gold-coated, implantable cardiac defibrillator, patch-test
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PMC3986113_01
Male
65
A 65-year-old, obese male with a 40 pack-year tobacco history as well as hypertension requiring four drugs for control presented with a postbronchodilator FEV1 of 45% predicted. His resting oxygen saturation by pulse oximeter measured 92%. He used his short-acting bronchodilator up to five times per day for exertional ...
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, nocturnal hypoxemia, obstructive sleep apnea, sleep
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PMC3134918_01
Female
28
In August 20, 2008, (10:50 AM) a 28-year-old pregnant woman with a 16-week gestational age fetus was involved in a road car crash resulting in multiple traumas. She had two other children; one (a 7 year-old girl) who was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy and the other (an 18 month-old boy) who was in good health. Gravid=3,...
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PMC8144290_01
Male
18
Mr. A, an 18 year-old high school junior with high-functioning autism, was an athlete in Special Olympics, worked as a grocery store stocker, and had aspirations of studying sharks in a university program for students with autism. After 1 week of insomnia, he presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with delusions an...
ect, autism spectrum disorder, catatonia, excited catatonia, pediatric
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PMC5215530_01
Male
45
A 45-years-old male, with no significant past medical history, presented to the outpatient department with 15-year history of painless neck swelling in the left side and 5-month history of purulent discharging sinus over it. The swelling was slowly progressive in nature and he had mild discomfort while swallowing. Ther...
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PMC5845528_01
Male
22
A 22-year-old Hispanic male who recently emigrated from Guatemala within the last six months, without any previous medical history presented with a chief complaint of rectal and abdominal pain. Onset of the pain was four days before; however, he had been experiencing other symptoms for approximately three months. He re...
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PMC3988709_01
Male
36
A 36-year-old Caucasian male was admitted to the hospital on August 2006 with a history of a 15-day low grade fever, weight loss, nonproductive cough, and progressive dyspnea. His previous personal and family history were unremarkable. He was not smoking and was not receiving any medications on a regular basis. Review ...
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PMC4681984_01
Female
21
A 21-year-old female was admitted to our hospital after 3 weeks of marked general symptoms (asthenia, hyporexia and weight loss of 5 kg) accompanied by left chest pain, low-grade fever and shortness of breath on exertion. The patient had no known toxic habits and no significant medical or family history. On clinical ex...
adenosine deaminase, ada, computed tomography, ct, desmoplastic small round cell tumor, desmoplastic small round cell tumor, dsrct, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, elisa, fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/ct, fdg-pet/ct, human immunodeficiency virus, hiv, lactate dehydrogenase, ldh, leukocyte common an...
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PMC8479872_01
Male
30
A 30-year-old man with history of alcohol use was found unresponsive with unknown down time in his hotel room by the hotel staff. While his initial Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) was 13 at the scene, his GCS rapidly declined after arriving in the trauma bay and was emergently intubated for airway protection. Neurological exa...
tbi, takotsubo cardiomyopathy, case report, diagnosis, stress cardiomyopathy, traumatic brain injury
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PMC9127846_01
Male
31
A 31-year-old right-hand-dominant male presented to the emergency department with acute right wrist pain after lifting a box for an upcoming move. The patient was originally from Afghanistan and 7 years prior to presentation had moved to the United States. The patient was diagnosed with a right wrist ligamentous sprain...
septic arthritis, carpus, extrapulmonary, tuberculosis, wrist
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PMC2941604_01
Male
35
A 35-year-old male detected seropositive for HIV-1 diagnosed recently not on antiretroviral therapy (ART) presented with painful swelling over the genital, inguinal and periumbilical regions with distension of the abdomen since 1 month. There was a sudden onset of genital swelling followed by redness and severe throbbi...
hiv, lymphoma, non-hodgkins lymphoma
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PMC2941604_02
Male
40
A 40-year-old male, seropositive for HIV-1, diagnosed 2 months back, presented with cough with expectoration, breathlessness on exertion, bilateral edema feet and intermittent fever since 2 months. He had history of painless swelling over the neck with loss of weight and appetite since 1 month. He was started on antitu...
hiv, lymphoma, non-hodgkins lymphoma
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PMC2941604_03
Male
2
A 5 1/2-year-old HIV-infected boy presented with recurrent fever and cough since 2 years, recurrent diarrhea and vomiting since 6 months and generalized pruritis and abdominal pain since 15 days. He had taken ATT 2 years ago for 6 months. His father was a prisoner and was diagnosed to be HIV-infected 2 years back. His ...
hiv, lymphoma, non-hodgkins lymphoma
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PMC5588403_01
Male
53
A 53-year-old male patient was admitted to a local hospital with recurrent fever and cough in December 2013. He had a smoking history of 40 years, but there was neither immunosuppressive drug intake nor underlying diseases such as tuberculosis, diabetes, and malignancies. Physical examination and laboratory findings we...
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PMC6702657_02
Female
64
The second case was a 64-year-old woman diagnosed with PBC in June 2010, when she started UDCA 750 mg/d. Some months later, she was started on endoscopic sclerotherapy and injection of cyanoacrylate glue for gastric fundal varices. In December 2017, gastroesophageal varicose vein ligation and stripping were demonstrate...
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, immunological mechanism, mitochondrial mechanism, primary biliary cirrhosis, ursodeoxycholic acid
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PMC6512015_01
Male
18
An 18-year-old immune-competent male patient with no significant medical history was admitted to our hospital with 1-week history of headache, fever, and change in mental status suggestive of meningitis. The CSF analysis showed a high leucocyte count, lymphocyte predominance (92%), and high protein (0.92 g/L) and relat...
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PMC9825210_01
Female
78
A total of 24 patients with non-TBM who were admitted to our Department of Neurology from January 2017 to June 2021 and diagnosed with early cerebrospinal fluid changes consistent with the characteristics of TBM were selected. The non-TBM patients included 12 males and 12 females, aged 21-78 years old, with an average ...
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PMC6661782_01
Male
30
A 30-year-old male presented with a witnessed episode of new-onset seizure: the patient reported suddenly feeling numb in his left third through fifth digits, followed by shaking of his left hand and a locking sensation, at which point he called for help. He then recalled waking up on the floor in a state of confusion ...
cryptococcosis, diagnostic delay, infectious disease, pathology, seizure
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PMC5749440_01
Male
65
Despite availability of an effective vaccine, >200,000 cases of yellow fever and >30,000 deaths occur per year. A large epidemic of yellow fever with high death rates recently occurred in Brazil. In December 2016, the first cases of yellow fever during this epidemic were reported in Minas Gerais; cases were later ident...
brazil, yfv, convalescent patient, flavivirus, semen, urine, vector-borne infections, virus diagnostics, viruses, yellow fever, yellow fever virus
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PMC9148242_01
Female
7
A 7-year-old female patient has been initially diagnosed with B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) with hyperdiploidy, which was known to have a favorable prognosis. She underwent combination chemotherapy and achieved initial complete remission. Relapse occurred 6 years following the completion of 2-ye...
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PMC8311846_01
Male
17
The patient is a 17 year old boy with a history of a congenital vesicoureteral reflux and other congenital abnormalities of kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT) which gradually caused nephrosclerosis, secondary hypertension and chronic kidney disease (CKD). In April, 2019 he started peritoneal dialysis (PD) because of CKD ...
kidney transplant recipients, pneumocystis jirovecii, pneumocystis pneumonia, case report
Chest CT. Bilateral ground glass opacities and diffuse centrilobular and peribronchovascular consolidation foci.
PMC3701366_01
Male
45
We encountered a 45-year-old male patient with primary complaints of easy irritability and anger outbursts, verbally and physically abusive behavior towards everyone in the family, and throwing away utensils and valuable things out of the house. Such behavior was reported to persist almost throughout the day. He had al...
alternative psychosis, antiepileptic drugs, antipsychotic drugs, forced normalization
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PMC5791489_01
Male
22
A 22-year-old male patient, known case of seizure disorders, cognitive impairment, and hypothyroidism, diagnosed to have constrictive pericarditis. He was on treatment with multiple antiepileptic medications and implanted VNS for seizure control. After a detailed preoperative anesthesia checkup, a neurology, neuropsych...
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PMC4896116_01
Male
15
A 15-year-old male presented to our emergency room 24 hours after he was playing basketball and was hit in his right eye by a fellow player's knee. Following the impact the patient said that his eye was sore, but he did not experience blurry or double vision. However, several hours after the game, the patient sneezed a...
ct, computed tomography, hu, hounsfield units, mri, magnetic resonance imaging
15-year-old male with occular trauma. Axial CT shows fracture of the right medial orbital wall orbital (white arrow), herniation of orbital fat through the fracture (black arrow), and orbital emphysema (arrowheads). QuickTime movie of axial CT in a separate window or tab (4.28 MB).
PMC4896116_01
Male
15
A 15-year-old male presented to our emergency room 24 hours after he was playing basketball and was hit in his right eye by a fellow player's knee. Following the impact the patient said that his eye was sore, but he did not experience blurry or double vision. However, several hours after the game, the patient sneezed a...
ct, computed tomography, hu, hounsfield units, mri, magnetic resonance imaging
15-year-old male with occular trauma. Coronally reformatted CT shows fracture of the right medial orbital wall orbital (white arrow), herniation of orbital fat through the fracture (black arrow), and orbital emphysema (arrowheads). QuickTime movie of coronally reformatted CT in a separate window or tab (1.34 MB).
PMC4896116_01
Male
15
A 15-year-old male presented to our emergency room 24 hours after he was playing basketball and was hit in his right eye by a fellow player's knee. Following the impact the patient said that his eye was sore, but he did not experience blurry or double vision. However, several hours after the game, the patient sneezed a...
ct, computed tomography, hu, hounsfield units, mri, magnetic resonance imaging
15-year-old male with occular trauma. Sagittally reformatted CT shows orbital emphysema (arrows). QuickTime movie of sagittally reformatted CT in a separate window or tab (1.63 MB).
PMC3418033_01
Female
13
A 13-year-old girl presented to surgical emergency with pain in right iliac region for a day. The pain was localized to right iliac fossa. She also had two episodes of non-bilious vomiting. There was no previous history of such pain or vomiting, however patient gave the history of off and on constipation for the last 2...
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PMC5394818_01
Male
21
A 21-year-old Asian male with no significant medical history presented to us with complaints of pain in the right gluteal region radiating down to right thigh since 6 days and fever since 2 days. There was no history of recent trauma to lower extremity or back. He denied any history of rash, joint pains, weight loss, o...
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PMC7838493_01
Female
4
A 4-year-old girl with a past history of RALF was admitted to our hospital due to nausea and vomiting with a high fever (39.5 C). She had no symptoms of abdominal pain and distention or diarrhea, no chills or convulsions, and no headache, dizziness, diplopia, or blurred vision. The girl was born at full-term and met no...
compound heterozygote mutation, mutational spectrum, neuroblastoma amplified sequence, recurrent acute liver failure, whole-exome sequencing
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PMC3481803_01
Male
45
A 45 year old man presented to us with multiple large joint pains of 8 days duration followed by development of multiple painful red raised lesions over both palms and back of both legs associated with redness of eyes. There was no history of upper respiratory tract infection, gastro-intestinal disturbances or fever. T...
dapsone, erythema elevatum diutinum, scleritis
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PMC4153132_01
Female
35
A 35 year-old female was referred to Masih Daneshvari Hospital with shortness of breath and ascites. She was a single woman with progressive dyspnea, peripheral edema and abdominal swelling from 6 months ago that was controlled with high dose diuretics. ECG showed atrial fibrillation(AF) rhythm with relatively rapid ve...
constrictive pericarditis, mulibrey nanism (mul)
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PMC4604638_01
Male
31
A 31-year-old male of Indian extraction was presented with a 2-month history of progressive nocturnal neck pain and 8 months of multiple skin lesions, but no neurological deficit. He had visited India 12 months previously and had received routine bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccinations before immigrating to Australia at ...
craniovertebral junction, cutaneous tuberculosis, spinal, tuberculosis
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