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PMC8493109_01
Male
8
Sixty-eight-year-old farmer, case of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, presented to our outpatient department with fatigue, dizziness, pigmentation, and low blood pressure. He had these symptoms for three months. Suspecting adrenal insufficiency, we sent concordant random serum cortisol and plasma adrenocorticotro...
histoplasma, adrenal metastasis, anal carcinoma, ulcerated anal mass
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PMC6260184_02
Female
0
The patient presented with ostium secundum-type atrial septal defect, muscular ventricular septal defect, and pulmonary hypertension that worsened when she was 6 months old. Due to this worsening, she was placed under pediatric critical care again. The computerized tomography scan showed diffuse cerebral edema with a p...
holt-oram syndrome, tbx5, de novo mutation, heart-hand syndrome
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PMC9194368_01
Female
7
A 7-year-old girl was admitted to our hospital with frequent focal seizures for fifteen days. The seizures manifested as bilateral eye deviation to the right; rhythmic clonic movements of the right facial muscles; upturned corners of the right mouth; and clawing of the right hand with right upper limb tonic movements, ...
lgi1 antibodies, autoimmune encephalitis, children, immunotherapy, isolated seizures
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PMC7838352_01
Male
2
A 2-year-old, 22.6 kg castrated male Vietnamese Potbellied pig presented to the Food Animal and Camelid Hospital at Iowa State University's College of Veterinary Medicine for a 2 week history of "toe-touching" lameness. Two weeks prior, the pig was noted to have fallen while running across a wood floor and was immediat...
medial patellar luxation, miniature pig, patellar luxation, sulcoplasty, tibial tuberosity transposition
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PMC9918330_01
Female
53
A 53-year-old female, with Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status (ECOG PS) 0, and a background history of hypertension and dyslipidemia. Due to heartburn, nausea and postprandial fullness, she underwent an upper digestive endoscopy with a biopsy, which revealed a gastric adenocarcinoma. Complete staging...
bladder metastasis, clinical case, gastrointestinal cancer, haematuria, penile metastasis
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PMC9437258_01
Male
13
A 13-year-old boy presented 30 min after symptom onset with a sudden weakness of the right side and slurred speech. In the 3 weeks before, he had complained about headache, mild flu-like symptoms, fatigue, and myalgia. Neurological examination revealed a right directional nystagmus, dysarthria, brachiofacial hemiparesi...
lyme neuroborreliosis, acute treatment, childhood stroke, endovascular treatment, focal cerebral arteriopathy, intravenous thrombolysis
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PMC5548680_01
Male
69
A 69-year-old man was started on pirfenidone (600 mg/day) for progressive dyspnea due to IPF. He had a 51 pack-year smoking history, but no occupational exposure to inhaled irritants. He had been taking omeprazole and mosapride to treat reflux esophagitis for at least 1 year. The patient had no history of allergies, re...
drug-induced pleurisy, eosinophilic pleurisy, medical thoracoscopy, pirfenidone
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PMC6431524_01
Male
37
A 37-year-old Japanese man presented to our hospital with a nonproductive cough of two weeks in duration. He did not have fever or dyspnea. He had a history of right hemiparesis, intellectual disability with pica, and symptomatic epilepsy caused by intracerebral hemorrhage, which occurred at two years of age. He had ne...
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PMC5415297_01
Unknown
0
A 6-month-old prepubertal entire domestic shorthair cat presented with bilateral closed femoral fractures due to unobserved trauma that had occurred up to 4 days prior. The cat had indoor/outdoor access and road trauma or a fall was considered likely. Radiographs revealed Salter Harris type-1 physeal fracture in the ri...
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PMC9742681_01
Male
52
A 52-year-old HIV-negative African American man was sent to the hospital for persistent fever and newly elevated liver tests. He noted intermittent fevers over the past 4 years, with minimal outpatient workup pursued but patient was lost to follow-up. He also reported a 100-pound intentional weight loss over the past 2...
ascites, extrapulmonary, peritoneal, tuberculosis
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PMC7745549_01
Male
8
An 8-year-old boy was referred to our hospital for subacute stroke. Three days prior, he fell and hit the right side of his head on a coffee table. He seemed fine immediately after, but the following 2 days, he had right facial weakness, difficulty concentrating, and was doing and saying things that did not make sense....
anxiety, basal ganglia, children, depression, mental health, pediatric stroke
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PMC3586992_01
Female
54
A 54 year-old diabetic woman complained of blurred vision in the left eye for 5 days without scalp tenderness or headache. Visual acuity (VA) was 20/20 right eye and 20/30 left eye. Intraocular pressures were normal. Funduscopic examination revealed left optic nerve edema and a small disc margin hemorrhage. WBC count w...
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PMC9651478_01
Male
74
A 74-year-old man was admitted to the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine of the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University on 25 March 2022 with a complaint of dry cough, fever, and intermittent chest pain for 17 days and shortness of breath after activity for 4 days. He denied night sw...
p micra pneumonia, dysbiosis, new etiology, oral flora, poor oral hygiene
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PMC3170764_01
Male
11
A healthy 11-year-old boy landed on his trampoline and complained immediately to his parents of bilateral knee pain. He was jumping vertically straight up and down at the time and no other person was on the trampoline. He had no significant past medical, drug, or family histories. He specifically had no history of ante...
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PMC4405693_01
Unknown
0
On October 2012, an onset of high acute mortality in a flock of 2-day old broiler chickens was reported to Veterinary Clinic, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran. During the disease outbreak, the farm was visited regularly. The farm was located in northwest of Kermanshah province. Totally,...
adenovirus, broiler, hepatitis, inclusion body, iran
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PMC8243228_01
Male
32
A 32-year-old man presented to the Emergency Department (ED) of Hospital Regional Lambayeque in Peru on July 21, 2019. He had been diagnosed with diabetes mellitus (type 2) two years before, but he did not follow treatment because of financial reasons. He denied risky sexual behavior, smoking, alcoholism, or any previo...
acute abdomen, cancer, gastrointestinal tuberculosis, neoplasm, tuberculosis, tuberculous peritonitis
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PMC8243228_02
Male
20
A 20-year-old man presented to the ED of Hospital Regional Lambayeque on July 18, 2020. He denied any previous disease, but had been incarcerated for almost two years before admission. He presented for six months before admission with fever, productive cough, abdominal pain, nausea and weight loss. One week before admi...
acute abdomen, cancer, gastrointestinal tuberculosis, neoplasm, tuberculosis, tuberculous peritonitis
Contrast-enhanced computed tomography showing massive pleural effusion (red stars) with consolidation of both lungs (yellow arrows) (A and B).
PMC8243228_02
Male
20
A 20-year-old man presented to the ED of Hospital Regional Lambayeque on July 18, 2020. He denied any previous disease, but had been incarcerated for almost two years before admission. He presented for six months before admission with fever, productive cough, abdominal pain, nausea and weight loss. One week before admi...
acute abdomen, cancer, gastrointestinal tuberculosis, neoplasm, tuberculosis, tuberculous peritonitis
Contrast-enhanced computed tomography showing massive pleural effusion (red stars) with consolidation of both lungs (yellow arrows) (A and B).
PMC5124728_01
Female
23
A 23-year-old healthy African woman, mother of a healthy child, born by C-section for obstructed labor, presented at 12 weeks and 5 days' gestation of the second spontaneous pregnancy for the first trimester echography. The exam revealed an anechoic structure appearing like a possible right ureteral dilatation (Figure ...
22q11 deletion syndrome, catch22 syndrome, digeorge syndrome, hypospadias, renal agenesis, urogenital manifestations
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PMC4681979_01
Female
19
A 19-year-old Vietnamese lady was diagnosed with culture positive, left upper lobe pulmonary tuberculosis for which medical treatment was initiated. Four months into treatment, she developed a 'rubber-band-like' stretching sensation in her left chest with wheezing and shortness of breath. Decreased respiratory excursio...
endobronchial, mechanical, tuberculosis
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PMC7256294_01
Male
63
The patient was a 63-year-old Vietnamese man with history of HIV/AIDS who was brought to the emergency department by the family after he was found down in his home for an undetermined amount of time. Two years prior to presentation the patient was hospitalized with Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia. During that hospital...
hiv, opportunistic infection, oral lesion, talaromyces marneffei, tonsillar mass
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PMC6875228_01
Female
36
A 36-year-old female with history of diabetes and hypertension presented with complaints of pain in the abdomen and fatigue for a duration of one month. She denied history of vomiting, diarrhoea, fever, chills, rashes, haematuria, cough, weight loss, chest pain, and shortness of breath. On examination, vitals were stab...
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PMC4983411_01
Female
3
A sixty-three year old woman presented with progressive pain and thickening of the right skull frontal bone. Physical examination revealed a swelling of the right frontal region about 12 cm in diameter; the lesion was not adherent to the overlying skin and was not mobile or tender. The patient had no neurologic deficit...
calvarium, intraosseous, meningioma, skull
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PMC6150562_01
Male
32
A 32-year-old male was admitted to clinic with abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea. The patient had been well until 5 years earlier when he began to experience recurrent diarrhea and abdominal pain. He had been seen at many centers for these complaints but no specific disease had been diagnosed. The abdominal pain had c...
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PMC7520010_02
Male
0
An eight-month-old male child presented with fever, diarrhoea, and difficulty in breathing was admitted to the paediatric ward of the Amirou Boubacar Diallo national hospital (HNABD) of Niamey. The mother of the child had fever and shortness of breath approximately four weeks prior to admission and subsequently died. U...
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PMC9146591_02
Female
23
Patient information: on the 20th of November 2021, a 23-year-old girl presented to the multispecialty hospital with complaints of abdominal pain for the past two days that were subtle at the beginning and eventually evolved in nature, as well as vomiting (6-7 episodes) and constipation for the past two days. Soft wides...
abdominal surgery, abdominal tuberculosis, case report, physiotherapy management, small bowel obstruction
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PMC4337931_01
Male
21
A 21-year-old man was brought to our Emergency Room presenting with a one-month history of abdominal pain, which had increased during the last 48 h. The pain was originally localized in the epigastrium and had migrated to the right lower abdominal quadrant. The patient complained of nausea, diarrhea and weight loss dur...
abdominal tuberculosis, adalimumab, difficult diagnosis, medical treatment, surgery
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PMC5925957_01
Female
67
A 67-year-old Caucasian non-smoker female with a past medical history of hypertension and hypothyroidism presented to our clinic with a 12-month history of exertional dyspnoea and dry cough. She was otherwise well with no systemic, nasal or gastro-oesophageal symptoms. Her prescribed medications were levothyroxine, asp...
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PMC6416759_01
Female
52
A 52-year-old female patient was admitted to our hospital. The patient presented with ongoing (3 days) ataxia in the right lower limbs, in addition to dizziness and a progressive headache. No fever was noted in the past month before admission. Her medical history was unremarkable; she was immunocompetent, her diabetes ...
cerebellar abscess, grocott stain, nocardia infection, nocardia paucivorans, brain abscess, surgery
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PMC5676970_01
Male
61
A 61-year-old African-American male came to the emergency department with a history of back and hip pain, night sweats, and decreased appetite coupled with an unintentional weight loss of 40 lbs. He also reported feeling fatigued and had generalized malaise. His history was also significant for hemoptysis and pleuritic...
pulmonic valve, streptococcus sanguinus, infective endocarditis, musculoskeletal manifestation, subpulmonic valve stenosis, vegetation
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PMC9650066_01
Male
45
A healthy 45-year-old Filipino male initially presented to the emergency department with flu-like symptoms and cough. He also endorsed rare chest burning after heavy meals which was managed with over-the-counter antacids as needed. Prior to these symptoms, the patient had excellent exertional capacity such as playing s...
dendriform pulmonary ossification, nodular pulmonary ossification, pulmonary calcification, pulmonary ossification
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PMC8202316_01
Male
32
A 32-year-old human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-negative male patient was referred to our unit with a 2-week history of bilateral flank pain and nausea. He was found to have gross bilateral hydroureter and hydronephrosis and a blood serum urea level of 87.5 mmol/l, creatinine 1840 mumol/l and an estimated glomerular f...
benign bladder lesions, cystitis cystica, cystitis cystica et glandularis, cystitis glandularis, obstructive uropathy, renal failure
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PMC3528111_01
Male
45
A 45-year-old car spare parts dealer presented to the Abnira medical centre with a five-year history of left scrotal swelling and a two-week history of left scrotal ulcer. The swelling, which had being increasing in size, regressed some months before presentation and became hardened with ulcerated foci some weeks after...
caseous necrosis, left scrotal mass, tuberculosis, tuberculous granulomas
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PMC4356049_01
Male
76
A 76-year old Caucasian priest with hypothyroidism and recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) presented to our hospital in 2010 with shortness of breath, a non-productive cough and right-sided pleuritic chest pain of a few weeks duration. He had a 78 pack-year history of tobacco use, but quit in 1986. He had no prio...
giant cells, interstitial pneumonia, lung toxicity, metals, nitrofurantoin
CT scan of the chest (during first hospitalization) shows pleural thickening and severe fibrotic changes with honeycombing in both lungs.
PMC6367194_01
Male
24
Brodie's abscess is a sub-acute form of osteomyelitis, presenting as a collection of pus in bone, often with an insidious onset. It's first description in the medical literature was in 1832 by sir Benjamin Brodie during a lecture held for the Medical and Surgical Society. The first case he described, a 24-year old male...
brodie's abscess, case report, osteomyelitis, systematic review
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PMC7757284_01
Male
35
A 35-year-old male was referred to our outpatient clinic with a large verrucous plaque and malodorous purulent discharge on the buttocks, thigh and scrotum. The lesion started two years ago as small, mildly pruritic and multiple plaques that were limited to the buttocks. Some painful and itchy nodules then developed ov...
atypical, annular hyperkeratotic plaque, central healing, tuberculosis verrucosa cutis
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PMC6139222_01
Female
60
We present a case of a 60-year-old overweight female with a past medical history of type 2 diabetes, hypothyroidism, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and internal hemorrhoids presented to her primary care physician for a health maintenance exam. She does not drink alcohol, is a lifelong nonsmoker, and denies illicit drug ...
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PMC3220172_01
Female
36
A 36-year-old female reported to the department of periodontics, Subharti Dental College, Meerut, U.P., with progressive, non-painful swelling of the upper anterior gingiva for the past 1 year. The patient had a history of rising temperature in the evening and weakness over the past 4-5 months, loss of appetite, and a ...
caseating necrosis, langhans-type giant cells, chronic granulomatous infection, epithelioid cells, tuberculosis
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PMC7292970_01
Male
19
JD is a 19-year-old Caucasian male with pertinent history of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus on an insulin pump and unconfirmed Gilbert's syndrome with no psychiatric history who presented to the emergency department with a chief complaint of nicotine withdrawal, stating "I quit vaping cold turkey yesterday." The p...
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PMC5140876_01
Female
71
A 71-year-old woman with polymyositis presenting with left thigh pain and an intermittent fever came to Osaka Rosai Hospital for treatment. She had been diagnosed with polymyositis by a muscle biopsy 17 years previously and placed on prednisolone therapy at that time. Initially, the dose of prednisolone was 30 mg/day, ...
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PMC10294282_01
Male
57
A 57-year-old man first presented to our hospital in 2014 due to progressive hearing and visual loss over the previous 3 years. Except for a history of recurrent anterior uveitis of both eyes and secondary glaucoma on the left, his past medical history was unremarkable. On examination, vision on the right eye was intac...
case report, cytokines, hypertrophic pachymeningitis, intraventricular chemotherapy, neurosarcoidosis
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PMC2633327_01
Male
24
A 24-year-old black man, presented with an one-month history of productive cough, weight loss and malaise. He was diagnosed to have systemic lupus erythematosus 6 years ago and he had pulmonary tuberculosis 4 years ago and for this he received one year of antituberculosis treatment. Furthermore he underwent renal trans...
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PMC9525766_03
Female
0
At 14 months old, she was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) lymphadenitis, evidenced by bilateral enlarged cervical nodes with constitutional symptoms of 1-month duration. Her ESR was 130 mm/hr and fine needle aspiration (FNA) from her lymph nodes revealed caseous necrosis. Her HIV test was negative; she was treated wit...
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PMC9525766_04
Female
3
When she was 3 years old, she presented with a cough and fever for 3 weeks. Upon physical examination, she had generalized lymphadenopathy and left posterior lung field crepitation. Laboratory investigation showed leukocytosis with left shift and raised ESR. Her chest X-ray revealed left paratracheal and basal ill-defi...
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PMC3103257_01
Male
46
The patient was a 46 year old man first seen in February 2009 with a referral from a Private Facility in Lagos state. He presented with a 5 month history of generalized lymphadenopathy, weight loss and low grade pyrexia. Essential findings on physical examination included bilateral axillaries', inguinal, submandibular ...
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PMC4350222_01
Female
1
A twenty-one-year-old primigravida with an uneventful antenatal period presented two weeks postpartum with new onset of behavioral abnormalities and irrelevant talking since prior five to seven days. She underwent hospital-based normal delivery at full term. She was noticed by her family to behave abnormally in the for...
mri, postpartum psychosis, reversible splenium lesion, splenium hyperintensity
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PMC8732773_01
Female
52
A 52-year-old female presented with recurrent fever for more than 1 month, with a highest temperature of 38.8 C and chills. The patient experienced numbness in her left mandible and slight pain in her left teeth. The blood routine examination was normal, C-reactive protein (CRP) was 7.33 mg/L, erythrocyte sedimentation...
copy number variations, diffuse large b-cell lymphoma, fever of unknown origin, mandibular nhl, metagenomic next-generation sequencing, non-hodgkin lymphoma
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PMC3350269_01
Male
18
An eighteen-year-old student from one of the South Asian countries reported with a sudden blurring of vision and redness in the right eye (OD) for which he sought a local ophthalmologist's opinion. The patient underwent a lensectomy along with vitrectomy, elsewhere for suspected endophthalmitis. The vitreous sample was...
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PMC9880853_01
Female
51
In March 2022, a 51-year-old woman was referred to our institution for a second opinion. Her past medical history was significant for the diagnosis, at the age of 47 years, of endometrial cancer. In April 2018, she underwent a radical hysterectomy with pelvic lymphadenectomy. Histology revealed an intermediate differen...
pi3k inhibitor, pik3ca mutation, alpelisib, endometrial cancer, genomic profiling, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (pi3k) pathway
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PMC7787842_01
Female
14
A 14-year-old previously healthy child was referred to the paediatrician by the gynecologist as she had unexplained hair loss on the left side of forehead for two-week duration. She did not have hair loss at any other sites of her body initially. In addition, parents also reported that she had poor sleep at night and a...
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PMC4553191_01
Male
22
22-year-old male patient from Turkey, who was a wrestler, applied to the Emergency Service with joint open dislocation in finger due to a ball hitting his extension in his right hand, while he was playing football as a goalkeeper without gloves in an astro pitch. He had a proximal interphalangeal joint dislocation inju...
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PMC10312206_01
Male
49
A 49-year-old male came to our hospital to seek medical advice in May 2020 with frequent episodes of hypoglycemia. Since January 2020, he had experienced recurrent attacks of dizziness, palpitations, tremors, and sweating, both when fasting and after meals, with a documented hypoglycemia (peripheral blood glucose level...
ias, diabetes mellitus, exogenous insulin, hyperinsulinemia, insulin antibodies
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PMC10312206_02
Female
65
A 65-year-old female was admitted in September 2020 for diabetic ketosis. She had a history of T2D for 16 years. Acarbose and metformin were initially prescribed but were switched to insulin Aspart 30 (20-15 units twice a day) because of poor glucose control since November 2019. She denied a history of using lipoic aci...
ias, diabetes mellitus, exogenous insulin, hyperinsulinemia, insulin antibodies
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PMC7470406_01
Male
37
In 2016 a 37-year-old man with X-linked CGD and lupus-like skin lesions presented with red discoloration of the skin around the xiphoid process, fever and heavy pain in the abdomen that had begun 3 days earlier. He was on vacation in Suriname and had visited a creek recreational area a few days earlier. His initial dia...
chromobacterium violaceum, chronic granulomatous disease, septicaemia
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PMC3964674_01
Female
25
A 25-year-old woman of Bangladeshi origin presented with an insidious onset of swelling over her right knee. This had been present for three months following a fall. She had been treated previously with oral flucloxacillin by her general practitioner with no resolution of symptoms. Walking had become increasingly diffi...
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PMC9889298_02
Male
36
A 36-year-old man with a history of previously treated latent tuberculosis and syphilis presented with right eye pain, redness, blurry vision, photosensitivity, and watery discharge for one month. Review of his medical records revealed that he was previously evaluated for a facial rash one week prior. Swab of a facial ...
human monkeypox, monkeypox, mpox, ocular mpox, viral infections with ophthalmic manifestations
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PMC8044672_01
Male
54
A 54-year-old male, who was an active smoker of 36 pack-years, presented with pleuritic right-sided chest pain for 5 days. He also suffered from a cough, productive of white sputum for the past month, and had visited a general practitioner who prescribed a course of antibiotics. However, his symptoms persisted. There w...
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Images of lipoid pneumonia. . C. Computed tomography showing a lung mass with central low attenuation and adjacent interstitial thickening and ground glass changes.
PMC8044672_01
Male
54
A 54-year-old male, who was an active smoker of 36 pack-years, presented with pleuritic right-sided chest pain for 5 days. He also suffered from a cough, productive of white sputum for the past month, and had visited a general practitioner who prescribed a course of antibiotics. However, his symptoms persisted. There w...
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Images of lipoid pneumonia. . D. Interval computed tomography showing significant decrease in the size of the lung mass.
PMC7350396_01
Male
73
A 73-year-old Caucasian male with a past medical history of hypertension presented to the hospital for progressive lower extremity edema and shortness of breath. Laboratory work showed a worsening of creatinine at 3.1 mg/dL, an increase from 1.1 mg/dL 1 month ago. Twenty-four-hour urine quantification showed nephrotic ...
focal, gammopathy, glomerulosclerosis, monoclonal
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PMC10406563_01
Male
14
The patient, a male of white European descent with British and German ancestry, was admitted for evaluation of liver transplantation at age 20 years. Beginning at approximately 9 months of age, he presented with recurrent episodes of PALF. His mother found him icteric after febrile illness. Between these episodes, live...
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PMC4988456_01
Male
88
An 88-year-old male patient was diagnosed with superficial transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder (T1). He underwent multiple sessions of TURBT followed by weekly intravesical BCG therapy in June 2013. Immediately following his fourth BCG session, he developed fever, rigors, respiratory distress, episodes of syncop...
bladder carcinoma, disseminated bcg disease, intravesical bcg
CT scan of chest showing bilateral ground glass and air space opacities and a ground glass nodule seen in the right upper lobe.
PMC8189807_01
Male
36
On the 14th of March 2020, a 36-year-old gentleman presented at the emergency unit of a nearby hospital with fever, dry cough, and head and limb aches that started three days earlier. In good physical condition and otherwise healthy, he had completed a half-marathon the week before, but on admission to another hospital...
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PMC6330808_01
Female
60
A 60-year-old female on prednisone 60 mg daily for a medical history of unspecified rheumatologic disorder was suspected to have interstitial lung disease seen on computed tomography scan of the chest [Figure 1]. She underwent bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage and TBLC. Her steroids were not held before the proc...
cryoadhesion, cryobiopsy, diffuse parenchymal lung disease, interstitial lung disease, transbronchial biopsy
Computed tomography chest before bronchoscopy demonstrating widespread airspace disease in the lower lobes bilaterally without volume loss, air bronchograms, or cavitation.
PMC6330808_01
Female
60
A 60-year-old female on prednisone 60 mg daily for a medical history of unspecified rheumatologic disorder was suspected to have interstitial lung disease seen on computed tomography scan of the chest [Figure 1]. She underwent bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage and TBLC. Her steroids were not held before the proc...
cryoadhesion, cryobiopsy, diffuse parenchymal lung disease, interstitial lung disease, transbronchial biopsy
Computed tomography chest showing cavitation in the right lower lobe with an air-fluid level that measures 2.6 cm x 3.2 cm, highly suggestive of lung abscess.
PMC8616675_01
Male
17
A 17-year-old sports student suffering from stress-related pain in the knee joint presented in our outpatient clinic. The pain has been present for about 1 year, mainly during sports activities, but also when walking stairs. Currently, the student is completing his high school diploma and is planning to become a junior...
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PMC8360741_01
Female
47
A 47-year-old female, previously known to have type 2 diabetes mellitus, was admitted to a tertiary-care hospital in Al Ain city, with complains of severe headache, dizziness, and right-sided facial weakness. She has been complaining of headache and dizziness for a duration of 2 months, which has been ongoing intermitt...
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PMC10195982_01
Male
46
A 46-year-old male patient with a past medical history of pulmonary tuberculosis and gastroesophageal reflux, was diagnosed with intermediate risk AML following bone marrow biopsy and flow cytometry in a local hospital in August 2019. He presented with leukocytosis, anemia, malaise, fever and excessive sweating complai...
acute myeloid leukemia, epstein-barr virus, post transplant lymphoproliferative disorder, rituximab
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PMC9877286_01
Male
80
An 80-year-old white man with a history of HCL presented with complaints of fatigue, dizziness, shortness of breath, blurring of vision, and headache. He also had a history of diabetes, hypertension, and sleep apnea. HCL was initially diagnosed 9 years prior and treated with cladribine with partial response. He relapse...
brain metastasis, hairy cell, hairy cell leukemia, hematologic malignancies, leukemia, vemurafenib
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PMC5223753_01
Male
42
A 42-year-old man was admitted with complaints of low back pain and intermittent right thigh pain. Three months previously, he fell from the stairs and reported immediate pain with intermittent right thigh pain. Initial L-spine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed left central disc herniation at the L4-5 level (Fig....
complication, discogenic back pain, intradiscal electrothermal therapy, osteonecrosis
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PMC9578903_01
Male
49
A 49-year-old male presented for evaluation of lung nodules found incidentally on imaging. His medical history was significant for a gunshot wound, which he sustained 26 years earlier, to the left paraspinal muscle exiting the left upper quadrant of the abdomen. As a result of this trauma, he required a splenectomy, pa...
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PMC6398402_01
Male
66
A 66-year-old man presented with a 2-month history of sustained hoarseness, sore throat, and dysphagia. The syndromes progressed 1 month later, and a left neck mass was found accidentally. His past medical history included 20 years of hypertension that was controlled by oral irbesartan (one tablet per day) and 20 years...
warburg effect, hypopharyngeal, literature review, neuroendocrine carcinoma
CT revealed the presence of irregular soft tissue in the left side of the anterior chest wall (red arrow), sized ~2.7x4.7 cm, invading the corresponding ribs, and multiple high-density nodules (blue arrow) in the bilateral lungs. . Abbreviation: CT, computed tomography.
PMC6768005_01
Male
60
Patient 1 was a 60-year old man, without any past medical history, admitted in the emergency room of a nearby hospital in September 2012 for progressively increasing headaches, fever and confusion. The CT scan revealed no parenchymal abnormality. The cerebrospinal fluid examination showed 400 white blood cells/mm3 (95%...
cerebral amyloid angiopathy (caa), cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related inflammation (caa-ri), meningeal inflammation, subarachnoid hemorrhage, xanthochromia
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PMC4904551_01
Female
5
A 5-year-old girl presented with an acute onset fever, for about 4 days. She was seen initially in her local emergency room and a chest X-ray was done to rule out pneumonia. This showed a marked, diffuse reticulonodular pattern of parenchymal opacity bilaterally (Figure 1), incongruous with her clinical appearance. In ...
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PMC3573453_01
Male
49
A 49-year-old male patient, a known case of ulcerative colitis on prophylactic sulfasalazine since 10 years, presented to us with two nontraumatic, painful, expanding ulcers; one each over anterior and anterolateral aspect of the left leg since 2 months. These lesions started as small follicular pustules that evolved i...
pyoderma gangrenosum, tuberculosis, ulcerative colitis
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PMC7210424_01
Male
34
A 34-year-old male, natural from Arequipa, Peru, with no previous medical conditions, presented with a seven-day history of progressive headache and photophobia, associated with fever, rash, weakness, myalgia and arthralgia. During physical examination on admission, patient showed irritability due to photophobia and hi...
encephalitis, myopericarditis, toxoplasma gondii, toxoplasmosis
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PMC5843191_01
Female
19
A 19-year-old woman presented with ecchymoses and epistaxis. A complete blood cell count showed white blood cells 4.5K/uL, hemoglobin 9.1g/dL, and platelets 29,000K/uL, with 28% promyelocytes. She had prolonged prothrombin (19.6 seconds) and activated prothrombin (46.3 seconds) times, elevated D-Dimer (>20mcg/mL), and ...
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PMC8819730_03
Male
69
During the autumn of 2017, a 69-year-old man suffering from edema in both lower legs was admitted to our hospital. He was diagnosed with NS (membranous nephropathy), and an intravenous methylprednisolone therapy (32 mg/d) was initiated. There was no improvement 1 month post-treatment, so the patient was started on a co...
nocardia, immunosuppression, infection, nephrotic syndrome, nocardiosis
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PMC6077153_01
Male
61
A 61-year-old man presented with a 4-month history of progressive biventricular failure with predominantly right heart symptoms. He had a history of tuberculosis pericarditis and type 2 diabetes mellitus. He was hospitalized with dyspnea, edema of the lower extremities, and pleural effusion. Computed tomography showed ...
constrictive pericarditis, coronary artery disease, intra-aortic balloon pumping, pericardiectomy
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PMC4153532_01
Male
26
A 26-year-old man, with a known case of hepatitis B, was referred to our hospital from the ENT clinic after a severe respiratory distress and hoarseness, which had occurred after an episode of upper respiratory tract infection (URTI). The condition was started 2 weeks earlier. His symptoms were started and exacerbated ...
hepatitis b, larynx, lymphoma, subgluttic mass
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PMC10084863_01
Male
24
A 24-year-old male patient without a personal or family history of psoriasis visited our department because of a 13-year history of recurrent redness, swelling, pustules and tenderness on the tips of several digits on both the hands. Pustules were initially found around the nails, followed by scales and crusts, leading...
anti-psoriatic therapies, biological agent, pustular psoriasis, sterile pustules
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PMC6251782_01
Male
63
A 63-year-old man was initially evaluated by Urology for right testicular swelling and pain for 3 months. As part of the workup, he underwent an ultrasound of the scrotum which showed 0.1 x 0.3 x 0.1 cm irregular hyperechoic focus with no shadowing or internal vascularity in the superior pole of the right testicle (Fig...
bacillus calmette guerin, intravesical, mycobacterium bovis, orchitis
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PMC3920414_01
Male
66
A 66-year-old man with no past history of pulmonary TB or immunocompromised status presented at the National Hospital Organization Shikoku Cancer Center with a chief complaint of a painless mass in his left chest wall. Computed tomography (CT) revealed an 8-cm tumor and peripherally enhancing fluid collection in the ch...
chest wall, cold abscess, pulmonary carcinoma, tuberculous
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PMC4728965_01
Male
7
A 7-year-old male (pseudonym Tom) presented with Apert and Asperger's Syndrome exhibiting the characteristics of difficulty following directions, lack of emotions, irritability, shyness, and poor coordination. In addition, his unusual mannerisms of looking around frequently impaired his engagement with yoga program. Lo...
apert syndrome, asperger syndrome, behavior, multisensory yoga, social skills
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PMC7270407_01
Male
54
A male, 54-year-old patient with body mass index 25.7 kg/m2 was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) isolation ward of Liaocheng People's Hospital after 8 days of fever and 7 days of coughing. No accurate contact history was available. The patient had been diagnosed with diabetes 2 years earlier and had been on or...
covid-19, case report, clinical characteristics, clinical diagnosis and treatment, critical covid-19 patient, high-flow nasal cannula, plasma exchange
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PMC4348614_01
Female
46
A 46-year-old nondiabetic woman from a middle-class family, presented with discharging sinuses over the lower anterior abdominal wall for the past 2 years. There was no rise of temperature or weight loss. Her incision wound from laparoscopic appendectomy in 1998 did not heal properly and the surgical site was reopened ...
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PMC6415777_01
Male
20
We present the case of a 20-year-old man presented because of increasingly frequent spells of gait instability, dizziness, and dysarthria. The patient's identity may not be ascertained from this report. These attacks began at age 10 and typically lasted 3-6 hours. He was having 2-4 episodes per month, mostly evoked by ...
cacna1a, acetazolamide, ataxia, episodic ataxia, episodic ataxia type 1, episodic ataxia type 2
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PMC9909183_01
Female
53
A 53-year-old woman, with a history of having been hypertensive for 8 years but displaying no prior record of cardiac illness, came to the hospital with complaints of shortness of breath (class IV) for 1 week. This was aggravated 2 days prior to her visit, associated with orthopnea, a dry cough, and a low-grade intermi...
fdg (18f-fluorodeoxyglucose)-pet/ct, cardiac tamponade, cardiac tumor diagnosis, liposarcoma—diagnosis, right atrium (ra)
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PMC9365015_01
Male
53
On 8 May 2021, a 53-year-old man was admitted to the hospital for treatment at the Fourth People's Hospital of Nanning (Nanning, Guangxi, China) for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Marneffei talaromycosis and fungal esophagitis. The patient's baseline HIV RNA was 559,000 copies/mL and the CD4 count was 12 ce...
bic/ftc/taf, dtg/3tc, hiv-naïve, resistance, resource-limited area
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PMC7187894_01
Male
27
Male, 27 years old, woodworker, who was admitted to the Department of Neurology of Zhongda Hospital on April 18th, 2019, because of a cough with fever for 12 days and headache for 4 days. Twelve days prior to admission, he presented with a cough and fever of up to 38.0 C, without expectoration or headache, and accepted...
rhizopus microspores, cerebrospinal fluid, histopathological examination, isolated cerebral mucormycosis, next-generation sequencing technology
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PMC5402628_01
Male
73
The patient was a previously healthy 73-year-old man who had been experiencing left chest pain for several days. The pain subsequently worsened, so he visited a primary care clinic and underwent chest radiography. It revealed left pleural effusion and a consolidation in the left upper lung. The patient was referred to ...
pulmonary actinomycosis
Computed tomographic images with 1-mm collimation three months after discharge. The previously existing consolidation in the left upper lung has worsened, expanding particularly in apicoposterior segment of left upper lobe. A cavitary lesion has also developed.
PMC2910379_01
Male
42
A 42-year-old Chinese male with asymptomatic thalassemia minor presented with a non-productive cough of several weeks duration. The patient also had intermittent soreness along the right chest wall in the area of the 7th and 8th ribs radiating from the spine to the anterior axillary line. Medical history was significan...
hematopoiesis, mediastinal mass, posterior mediastinum, thalassemia, thoracoscopy, thoracotomy
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PMC5224769_01
Female
64
A 64-year-old female was diagnosed with adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL), which became clinically overt as acute and lymphoma type 4 months prior to a bone marrow transplantation (BMT). She first received a modified LSG15 regimen 8, with three intensified and alternating regimens of VCAP (vincristine, cyclophospha...
adult t‐cell leukemia/lymphoma, chryseobacterium indologenes, carbapenem, pneumonia, stem cell transplantation
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PMC10038010_01
Male
26
A male, 26 years old, was admitted to our hospital with a fever and altered mental status. He reported a 12-day history of fevers (38-39 C), headaches, photosensitivity, diplopia, and severe fatigue. His relatives stated that he was self-employed, a mild smoker, a non-drinker, and denied drug use. In the emergency depa...
immunocompetent, meningitis, tuberculosis
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PMC2967834_01
Male
31
A 31-year-old man was admitted to our department in April 2009 with the history of right upper abdominal pain, fever, and bilious vomiting. In his medical history, there was a posttraumatic splenic hematoma in August 2007 which required splenectomy. No tuberculosis exposure was mentioned. Physical examination revealed ...
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PMC5215642_01
Male
2
We report a case of 2-year-old male patient, resident of Punjab, Pakistan, presenting with high grade fever along with seizures and left sided weakness of face, arm, and leg. An MRI was recommended along with a CSF culture; the MRI did not show any signs of stroke; it was deduced to be an episode of a transient ischemi...
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PMC8169974_01
Female
61
A 61-year-old Japanese woman lost consciousness at her office and recovered a few minutes later. Eight days after this episode, she was admitted to a hospital due to the appearance of diverse and fluctuating symptoms, such as sub-stupor, disorganized behavior, and paranoia. She had no relevant medical history. She was ...
gaba, amygdala, dissociation, freezing, serotonin, stupor, tonic immobility
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PMC6700263_01
Female
20
A 20-year-old female presented to the emergency department with weak- ness of the lower limbs and activity disorder. After 10 days, the condition was aggravated with paralysis of the lower limbs, urinary and fecal incon- tinence, low-grade fever and night sweats, weight loss, and no cough and expectoration. Physical ex...
magnetic resonance imaging, tuberculous meningomyelitis
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PMC7298550_01
Female
39
A 39-year-old female patient with no antecedent comorbidities presented to the emergency department of Mayotte hospital with fever at 38.7 C associated with chills, headache, cervical pain, and asthenia of 4 days' duration. She received symptomatic treatment and was discharged. Five days later, she returned to the eme...
adem, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, csf, cerebrospinal fluid, dengue infection, eeg, electroencephalography, mri, magnetic resonance imaging, mayotte, pcr, polymerase chain reaction
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PMC9763888_01
Female
42
A 42-year-old woman revealed that, during childhood, a soft tissue mass near the anus was found. The mass was about 4 cm x 5 cm in size, with a slightly tough texture, and she did not experience pain; thus, she received no special attention. In 2019, she felt an obvious pain in the lump and went to the hospital for loc...
adenocarcinoma, anterior sacral, enterogenous cyst, malignant transformation, soft tissue
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PMC8046485_01
Male
65
A 65-year-old male presented to us in the outpatient department on March 2019 with complaints of pain in the right shoulder for the past 6 months and dumbbell-shaped swelling progressively increasing in size around the same region for the past 4 months. He had severe pain and global restriction of movements in the righ...
caries exudate, caries sicca, glenohumeral joint, injection streptomycin
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