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PMC8551644_01
Male
82
An 82-year- old man was referred to our hospital with a complaint of a bulge in the left chest wall. On palpation, the cystic mass was soft and highly flexible, without redness or heat. The patient had a history of left pleural effusion developed one year prior, and thoracoscopic examination had been performed because ...
chest wall, scapulothoracic bursitis, tuberculosis
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PMC3922799_01
Male
57
A 57-year-old HIV positive man was referred to the HIV clinic of Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran, Iran, with chief complaint of bilateral slowly progressive hearing loss starting from two months ago. He had no previous cochleo-vestibular symptoms and the hearing loss was described without tinnitus, vertigo or balance ch...
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PMC7365510_01
Male
22
A 22-year-old male presented to the emergency department with high-grade fever and chills for 3 months' duration. Fever was associated with cough and expectoration for the last 11/2 month with occasional brownish-red sputum for 1 month. He had headache and progressive drowsiness for the last 2 days. There was no histor...
amebiasis, entamoeba histolytica, brain abscess, hepatic abscess
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PMC6528075_01
Female
34
A 34-year-old woman suffered hyperemia and blurred vision in the right eye half a year ago and visited a local clinic. Multifocal choroiditis in the right eye was suspected, and she received topical corticosteroid and subconjunctival injection of triamcinolone. However, she developed visual field deterioration in both ...
acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy, adalimumab, relentless placoid chorioretinitis, serpiginous choroiditis, uveitis
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PMC6528075_02
Male
22
A 22-year-old man was examined at a local clinic for visual deterioration in both eyes, and widespread multiple chorioretinal lesions were found in both fundi (Fig. 2a). Fundus autofluorescence demonstrated increase in central hypoautofluorescence within the lesions corresponding to the outer retinal atrophy and RPE hy...
acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy, adalimumab, relentless placoid chorioretinitis, serpiginous choroiditis, uveitis
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PMC6877973_02
Female
42
A 42-year-old female with a past medical history of rheumatoid arthritis diagnosed three months prior to admission, managed with methotrexate with poor adherence, was admitted due to psychomotor agitation without focal neurological deficits and fever (100.4 F) with neutrophilia. Lumbar puncture showed a low glucose lev...
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PMC9482776_01
Male
74
A 74-year-old man was admitted with fever, severe cough, and yellow sputum for 1 month. He was diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma (cT4N2M0, IIIB) 3 months ago and received 2 cycles of pemetrexed-cisplatin adjuvant chemotherapy. He had a history of tuberculosis and a 10-year history of smoking but had quit for 4 years. ...
black-hairy tongue, linezolid, microorganism metabolism, side-effect, treatment, tuberculosis infection
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PMC9482776_02
Male
67
A 67-year-old man was admitted with dry cough and shortness of breath. He had no smoking history and oral hygiene was good. Chest CT revealed massive bilateral pleural effusion. Meanwhile, abdominal ultrasound and echocardiography showed moderate ascites and pericardial effusion. Pleural fluid T-SPOT.TB result was posi...
black-hairy tongue, linezolid, microorganism metabolism, side-effect, treatment, tuberculosis infection
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PMC9482776_03
Male
37
A 37-year-old man presented with low-grade fever, persistent headache, and night sweats for a month duration. He had no smoking history and oral hygiene was good. Chest CT showed multiple nodules. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain showed multiple low-density lesions and small abscesses with surrounding edem...
black-hairy tongue, linezolid, microorganism metabolism, side-effect, treatment, tuberculosis infection
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PMC6545640_01
Female
3
A 3-year-7-month old female neutered domestic shorthair cat presented to the Queen's Veterinary School Hospital with a 2 day history of acute onset progressive ataxia, dullness and reduced appetite. Prior to presentation it had no medical history, had never been outside of the UK, was vaccinated against feline panleuko...
yersinia pseudotuberculosis, yersiniosis, hepatitis
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PMC3399432_01
Male
29
A 29 year old male presented to the Emergency Department with a one week history of painful jaundice, nausea, lethargy, fevers and rigors. He had latent tuberculosis but had otherwise been well and did not consume alcohol. Upon examination he was febrile, icteric and tender in the right upper quadrant with a temperatur...
mrcp, biliary obstruction, biliary stenting yeoh, cholangitis, portal hypertension
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PMC6224867_01
Male
73
A 73-year-old man with several weeks of progressive dysphagia, cough, and hoarseness presented with difficulty tolerating oral intake, with coughing immediately after ingestion of solids and liquids. He denied hematemesis, hemoptysis, or weight loss. He had several hospitalizations for recurrent pneumonia, requiring in...
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PMC7471824_01
Female
70
A 70-year-old Japanese woman who was previously healthy developed progressive paraplegia without a history of injury in the last 2 months. She thus came to our hospital for evaluation. The neurologic findings showed bilateral lower extremity muscle weakness (American Spinal Injury Impairment Scale C level) and severe h...
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PMC7085867_01
Female
27
A 27-year-old female presented to the urgent care with 3 days of fever, generalized myalgia, and sore throat. At the urgent care, she did not receive antibiotics and was symptomatically managed. Her sore throat improved in a day but developed neck pain and hematuria that prompted her to visit emergency department (ED) ...
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PMC6282426_01
Male
44
A 44-year-old man with an active smoking history of 50 pack-years was referred to the local Department of Respiratory Medicine due to at least 1 year of declining general condition with recurrent episodes of acute respiratory worsening interpreted as pneumonias, weight loss of 10 kg, fatigue, dry cough, and progressive...
gm-csf, hrct, pap, wll, crazy paving, granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor, pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, rare lung disease, whole lung lavage
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PMC4769046_01
Male
13
A 13 year-old Tunisian male was admitted in our department of paediatric nephrology on October 2009 with a week-history of fever and asthenia. He was suffering from end-stage renal failure attributed to a vesico-ureteral reflux discovered in 2003. In 2007, the patient had a pre-emptive renal transplant from a living do...
pulmonary tuberculosis, child, renal failure, renal transplantation
Chest computed tomography: anterior mediastinal mass on right and left main stem bronchi.
PMC4769046_01
Male
13
A 13 year-old Tunisian male was admitted in our department of paediatric nephrology on October 2009 with a week-history of fever and asthenia. He was suffering from end-stage renal failure attributed to a vesico-ureteral reflux discovered in 2003. In 2007, the patient had a pre-emptive renal transplant from a living do...
pulmonary tuberculosis, child, renal failure, renal transplantation
Chest computed tomography: cavitatory pneumonia of right lower lobe.
PMC7873883_01
Male
42
A 42-year-old Caucasian male was admitted to our Hospital referring a 4-month history of gradually increasing upper left quadrant pain. His medical history included bladder neck sclerosis, cholecystectomy, diabetes insipidus, hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, allergic asthma, and a smoking history until 10 months before t...
andrology, contrast media, sarcoidosis, ultrasonography, urology
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PMC7596014_01
Female
61
The patient granted permission for the publication of this case report. A 61-year-old woman was referred to our hospital 3 years after undergoing surgery for a left trimalleolar fracture of the ankle due to a road traffic accident. She underwent immediate open reduction and internal fixation at a local hospital. Left a...
ankle, arthroscopic arthrodesis, osteoarthritis, osteophyte, tarsal tunnel syndrome
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PMC6381925_01
Female
75
75-year-old female patient, with no significant comorbidities or family history of cancer, presented to the Emergency Department with severe abdominal pain and progressive weight loss. Computed Tomography (CT) revealed multiple hepatic lesions, omental nodules and pancreatic mass. CA19-9 was 918 u/mL. Liver biopsy reve...
braf, kras, pancreatic adenocarcinoma, ret, targeted therapy
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PMC6381925_02
Male
56
56-year-old male was admitted for evaluation of prolonged abdominal pain and severe weight loss. He has congestive heart failure and no family history of cancer. CT scan revealed pancreatic mass, omental implants and multiple hepatic lesions. CA19-9 was within normal limits (18.5 u/mL). Liver biopsy exhibited poorly di...
braf, kras, pancreatic adenocarcinoma, ret, targeted therapy
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PMC9890191_01
Female
53
A 53-year-old Chinese female presented to the Emergency Department of our hospital for persistent abdominal pain and distension for over two months. Two months ago, the patient went to a local hospital and obtained a transvaginal ultrasound that revealed thickened bilateral fallopian, suggesting adnexitis. She was trea...
nut carcinoma, nut rearrangement, case report, ovarian neoplasms, undifferentiated pelvic neoplasms
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PMC8627817_01
Male
78
A 78-year-old man non-smoker presented with a 1-week history of cough and blood-tinged sputum. There was no history of tuberculosis. A physical examination was unremarkable. The arterial blood pressure was 100/70 mm Hg, pulse 86/min, respiratory rate 20/min, temperature 37.7C, and SpO2 (arterial oxygen saturation) 95%....
fibrotic interstitial lung disease, pathogenesis, tracheobronchopathia osteochondroplatica, transforming growth factor beta
At the time of the diagnosis, CT showed mild subpleural reticulation, ground-glass opacity and bronchiectasis in the left lower lobe medial basal segment (A).
PMC8627817_01
Male
78
A 78-year-old man non-smoker presented with a 1-week history of cough and blood-tinged sputum. There was no history of tuberculosis. A physical examination was unremarkable. The arterial blood pressure was 100/70 mm Hg, pulse 86/min, respiratory rate 20/min, temperature 37.7C, and SpO2 (arterial oxygen saturation) 95%....
fibrotic interstitial lung disease, pathogenesis, tracheobronchopathia osteochondroplatica, transforming growth factor beta
Two years later, follow-up CT showed an interval increased extent of subpleural fine reticulations, honeycomb and bronchiectasis in both lower lobe basal segments, suggesting the progression of underlying idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (B).
PMC3014793_01
Male
27
A healthy 27-year-old man with normal phenotype was referred for the evaluation of infertility. In his physical examination, right testis was 10 cc, left testis was 8 cc with grade 1 varicocele. Vasa deferentia were palpable on both sides. Consecutive two semen analyses of the patient revealed azoospermia with normal e...
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PMC5422832_01
Male
82
An 82-year-old Japanese man complained of a 1-month history of otherwise asymptomatic papules and nodules distributing on the abdomen, shoulders, and extremities. Some of the abdominal skin lesions corresponded with the sites of subcutaneous insulin injection therapy for uncontrollable type 2 diabetes mellitus. Of note...
subcutaneous sarcoidosis, ultrasonography, venous tropism
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PMC7732862_01
Female
80
An 80-year-old woman presented with a 1-month history of fever and appetite loss. Her chest computed tomography (CT) showed multiple miliary nodular shadows and some small cavitary lesions in all lung fields bilaterally (Fig. 1). Acid-fast bacteria staining of sputum was smear-positive, and tuberculosis was demonstrate...
eltrombopag, immune thrombocytopenia, tuberculosis
Chest CT on admission. . Chest CT shows multiple miliary nodular shadows and some small cavitary legions in all lung fields bilaterally. The arrows indicate some small cavitary lesions.
PMC4748620_01
Female
20
A 20-year-old girl, born in Pakistan and living in Italy for 8 years, presented to the emergency room for fatigue, fever, and dry cough, lasting for 1 week. The medical history of the patient revealed coeliac disease. She was never-smoker. On physical examination, the patient was cachectic without any other pathologica...
acute respiratory distress syndrome, acute respiratory failure, sarcoidosis
Computed tomography images demonstrate subcarinal adenopathy (asterisk) and diffuse ground-glass opacities with small nodules (arrows) which tend to be confluent in some areas of the lung (box).
PMC3936947_01
Male
31
A 31-year-old Hispanic male without significant past medical history or medications prior to admission complained of sudden onset of watery, non-bloody diarrhea associated with mucus and crampy abdominal pain. Three days later the diarrhea became more frequent and the patient started to experience severe, sharp, consta...
chest pain, colitis, myopericarditis, pericarditis
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PMC3303584_01
Female
43
We present the case of a 43-year-old female. Shortly after birth, she presented a spontaneous right hip fracture. From then, until now, she has had multiple fractures of both arms and legs, which have required several interventions for correction, needing on the left humerus to be fixed with a medullary locking (Figure...
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PMC3033068_01
Male
58
A 58-year-old man was seen at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India, on August 17, 2001, with two nonhealing, punched-out ulcers near the right lateral malleolus. The ulcers were approximately 2 cm x 2.5 cm in size, with necrotic margins, purulent exudate, and a foul odor. On t...
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PMC6556823_01
Female
53
53-year-old female patient with a history of latent tuberculosis infection in prophylactic treatment with isoniazid, previous surgery of tonsillectomy, appendectomy and cholecystectomy. Family history negative for neoplastic diseases. Hospitalised at another institute in April 2016 with clinical manifestation of intest...
histiocytic sarcoma, peritoneal metastases, peritonectomy
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PMC10312336_01
Male
68
A 68 years old male patient came to the orthopedics department because of pain and swelling of the left shoulder joint. The patient developed left shoulder joint pain without obvious incentive 6 months prior, and there was no obvious shoulder joint swelling or limited shoulder joint movement at that time. He received m...
candida parapsilosis, corticosteroids, fungal arthritis, intraarticular injection, rice body formation
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PMC4205938_02
Male
30
John was a 30-year-old, single, African American medical student seeking treatment at an outpatient BDD clinic. John presented with concerns about short height, a protruding stomach, his body build, which he felt was not sufficiently muscular, and his skin color, which he believed was too dark. He reported spending 1-3...
bdd, body dysmorphic disorder, cultural adaptation, cognitive behavioral therapy, treatment
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PMC6614923_03
Female
8
His sister, female, 8 years old, weighed 19.0 kg (3th percentile), 115.2 cm tall (3th percentile), and low bone density (11th percentile). Main clinical manifestations consist of intellectual disability, severely impaired speech (can only call dad and mom), high-arched palate, dental abnormalities (crowding and abnorma...
satb2-associated syndrome, chromosome microarray analysis, droplet digital pcr, gap-pcr, mosaicism
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PMC8072212_02
Female
16
A 16-year-old girl presented with a 2-year history of remitted focal seizures and memory deficits. She was diagnosed with thyroiditis at 11 years old, and her father had hyperthyroidism. Initial brain MRI revealed bilateral hippocampal hyperintensity in T2-weighted sequences and FLAIR sequences (Figures 1C,D). CSF anal...
anti-glutamic acid decarboxylase 65, autoimmune encephalitis, extralimbic encephalitis, limbic encephalitis, pediatric
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PMC8352853_01
Male
18
An 18-year-old Qatari male, presented in with fever of two weeks duration, not associated with chills, rigors or night sweats. He also complained of left sided neck swelling, decrease oral intake and nausea for the past 2 weeks. No complaints of cough, sore throat and no shortness breath. He denied history of contact w...
covid 19 vaccine, fujimoto, kikuchi, lymphadenopathy, sars cov 2
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PMC4173215_02
Female
23
A 23-year-old female presented with spastic paraplegia and bowel and bladder involvement of 7 days duration. This was preceded by pain in the dorsal spine, radiating to both lower limbs for 2 months, and progressive weakness and spasticity in the lower limbs for 2 weeks. On examination, she had spastic quadriplegia and...
en plaque meningiomas, extradural spinal lesions, spinal meningiomas
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PMC6791014_01
Male
37
A 37-year-old african-american male was referred to the endocrinology department of the Federal Hospital of Lagoa for evaluation of adrenal insufficiency due to chronic and irregular use of steroids (Prednisone 20 to 40 mg/day) for 10 years. He had history of use of anabolic drugs and intramuscular mineral oil (hydroge...
choroidal granuloma, mycobacteria, mycobacteria fortuitum
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PMC9114295_01
Female
37
A 37-year-old female patient, with previous diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis, was under well tolerated therapy with adalimumab (40 mg twice a month since December 2018). She had no other relevant medical, surgical or familial history. She was in her usual state of health when she has received the second dose of BNT162...
covid-19, case report, diabetes insipidus, mrna, vaccine
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PMC4900027_01
Female
16
This 16-year-old woman, an avid basketball player, suffered a noncontact injury resulting in rupture of the ACL of her left knee. This was repaired using a bone-patellar tendon bone (BPTB) autograft harvested from the same knee. The graft was attached firmly to a metal endobutton and pulled up through the tibial and fe...
acl, anterior cruciate ligament, bptb, bone-patellar tendon-bone, mri, magnetic resonance imaging
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PMC9389837_01
Male
36
Our patient, an Italian 36-year-old male spent 5 days in Spain from 16 to 20 June 2022 (Fig. 1 ). Nine days after, he developed fever (up to 39 C), accompanied by sore throat, fatigue, headache and right inguinal lymphadenomegaly. On 2 July he resulted positive for SARS-CoV-2. On the afternoon of the same day a rash st...
covid-19, hiv, monkeypox, sars-cov-2, sexually transmitted infections
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PMC9678970_01
Male
16
A 16-year-old boy admitted to our institution with history of right shoulder pain and limitation of movement following a fall while playing football. He was seen in the Emergency Department and clinical examination showed tenderness around lateral half of clavicle. An A-P radiograph was taken (Fig. 1) and subsequently ...
clavicle, fracture, oblique views
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PMC6107083_01
Male
14
Participant TB01 was a 14-year-old male with a clinical diagnosis of TBI and right hemiparesis. For the barefoot condition, at initial contact, the right ankle was in 13 (1.57 ) of plantar flexion (Figure 2 and 3). This significantly improved to an ankle angle at initial contact of 1 (0.79 , p <0.01) of dorsiflexion ...
articulated ankle foot orthosis, gait analysis, genu recurvatum gait, traumatic brain injury
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PMC6107083_02
Female
12
Participant TB02 was a 12-year-old female with a clinical diagnosis of TBI and left hemiparesis. For the barefoot condition, the left ankle at initial contact was 20 (1.21 ) of plantar flexion, which significantly improved to 7 (1.22 , p<0.01) of dorsiflexion with the application of the AAFO (Figure 3). The left knee...
articulated ankle foot orthosis, gait analysis, genu recurvatum gait, traumatic brain injury
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PMC9424047_01
Female
50
A 50-year-old woman (XY) presented to the emergency department (ED) at a national health service (NHS) hospital trust in England, following several days of shortness of breath, which had suddenly worsened over the previous hour with the patient having increased palpitations. The patient was admitted as she was dyspneic...
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PMC8350049_01
Female
0
Mariam, Namaganda's eldest daughter and firstborn, was just 2 months old when she began to have convulsions, and the family tried to look for medications but not much treatment was found. It was only when Mariam was seven to 10 years of age, that the community members warned Namaganda to not "neglect that daughter, bec...
uganda, caregivers, epilepsy, help-seeking behavior, low middle income country, mental health, pathways to care, qualitative research
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PMC9226341_01
Male
47
A 47-year-old man was admitted to the Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Luhe Hospital, Capital Medical University (Beijing, China) with a 3-month history of mucopurulent expectoration and dyspnea. He was initially diagnosed with bronchitis at a health center in the local town and did not under...
actinomyces graevenitzii, bronchoscopy, consolidation, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry, pulmonary actinomycosis (pa)
Chest computed tomography images at admission. A consolidation shadow in the right upper and middle lobes, with necrosis containing foci of air. lung window.
PMC9226341_01
Male
47
A 47-year-old man was admitted to the Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Luhe Hospital, Capital Medical University (Beijing, China) with a 3-month history of mucopurulent expectoration and dyspnea. He was initially diagnosed with bronchitis at a health center in the local town and did not under...
actinomyces graevenitzii, bronchoscopy, consolidation, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry, pulmonary actinomycosis (pa)
Chest computed tomography images at admission. A consolidation shadow in the right upper and middle lobes, with necrosis containing foci of air. mediastinal window.
PMC9226341_01
Male
47
A 47-year-old man was admitted to the Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Luhe Hospital, Capital Medical University (Beijing, China) with a 3-month history of mucopurulent expectoration and dyspnea. He was initially diagnosed with bronchitis at a health center in the local town and did not under...
actinomyces graevenitzii, bronchoscopy, consolidation, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry, pulmonary actinomycosis (pa)
Chest computed tomography images at admission. A consolidation shadow in the right upper and middle lobes, with necrosis containing foci of air. lung window.
PMC9226341_01
Male
47
A 47-year-old man was admitted to the Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Luhe Hospital, Capital Medical University (Beijing, China) with a 3-month history of mucopurulent expectoration and dyspnea. He was initially diagnosed with bronchitis at a health center in the local town and did not under...
actinomyces graevenitzii, bronchoscopy, consolidation, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry, pulmonary actinomycosis (pa)
Chest computed tomography images at admission. A consolidation shadow in the right upper and middle lobes, with necrosis containing foci of air. mediastinal window.
PMC7590635_01
Male
63
This case study was approved by the relevant institutional review board and informed written consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this case report and accompanying images. A 63-year-old man was admitted to the spine department with intractable back pain as the main symptom, and diagnosed with infect...
ck, creatinine kinase, ck-mb, creatinine kinase myocardial band, ct, computed tomography, delirium, ethanol sanitizer intoxication, infectious spondylitis, mri, magnetic resonance imaging, postoperative spine surgery
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PMC7567047_01
Female
46
A 46-year-old female patient with a history of chronic cough and sputum emission since the age of fourteen was admitted for right chest pain with purulent sputum. She had no history of tobacco smoking or noxious fume exposure. No past history of tuberculosis was found. On physical examination, she had bilateral crackle...
bronchoscopy, computed tomography, mounier-kuhn syndrome, tracheal diverticulum, tracheobronchomegaly
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PMC3775673_01
Female
37
A 37-year-old female with retroviral disease was brought to casualty by caregivers because she was confused. The confusion was preceded by severe headache for 3 weeks. She had no history of vomiting or neck stiffness. She had started antiretroviral drugs 2 months earlier and subsequently defaulted. On initial clinical ...
human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, meningitis, stridor, tuberculosis
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PMC3105561_01
Male
31
A 31-year-old male presented with features of remaining aloof, sad, having prominent guilt ideas and entertaining thoughts of causing self-harm. The symptoms had developed insidiously when his wife learnt about his extramarital affair with a known relative. After his wife left him, the feelings of low mood became more ...
gratification, intermittent explosive episodes, relief
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PMC10203041_01
Male
46
A 46-year-old man was transferred to our hospital due to an unexpandable lung after a closed thoracostomy for his spontaneous pneumothorax (Fig. 1A and B). It had occurred 4 days before the visit of the other hospital. He had a history of recurrent pneumonia. He had a gout without receiving corticosteroid therapy and w...
host factor, nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease, structural lung disease
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PMC5601955_01
Female
70
Twelve non-amputees (five males and seven females, ages 23-30) and two amputees participated in the study. One amputee had a unilateral transfemoral amputation (70 years old and 35 years after amputation), whereas the other had a unilateral, transtibial amputation (72 years old and 22 years after amputation). The trans...
electromyography, myoelectric control, neurorehabilitation, pattern recognition, phantom limb pain, phantom motor execution, virtual reality
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PMC7175444_01
Male
7
We present the case of a 7-year-old boy who was diagnosed with plurimalformative syndrome at birth, presenting clinical features that could not be included in a specific syndrome. He was born at term after an uneventful pregnancy (mother followed isotretinoin therapy in the first two weeks of pregnancy), spontaneous de...
baha system, children, cortical auditory evoked potentials (caeps), cortical auditory function, hearing loss
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PMC8377557_01
Female
8
A thirty eight years old female was diagnosed with SLE with mucocutaneous, musculoskeletal, haematological and renal involvement in April 2020. She is a dedicated kindergarten teacher who frequently involved in gardening work in the kindergarten compound for the past 15 years. The antinuclear antibody (ANA) and double-...
central nervous system melioidosis, systemic lupus erythematosus
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PMC6626106_01
Female
92
A 92-year-old Caucasian HIV-negative female presented with a 6-month history of a cough with yellow to brown sputum, involuntary loss of 2 kg with a generally slender body type, but no fever. The patient did not suffer from any other chronic condition and was HIV-negative. A chest radiograph showed a cavern in the righ...
atypical mycobacterial infection, cavity, mycobacterium celatum, resistance, rifabutin
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PMC9149543_01
Female
39
A 39-year-old woman with a history of Stage IA breast cancer (ER weakly positive, PR negative, HER-2 negative) treated with bilateral nipple-sparing mastectomies 3 years prior, presented to the emergency department with 3 weeks of progressive dyspnea on exertion. Pulse was 108 and oxygen saturation (SpO2) on room air w...
hepatopulmonary syndrome, liver metastasis, metastatic breast cancer
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PMC10404896_01
Female
15
A 15-year-old girl was admitted to our hospital due to intermittent chest pain occurring for more than 2 months and cough and wheezing for 10 days. The patient was a student, and her family denied a history of malignancy. Chest examination revealed solid sounds obtained during percussion and low breath sounds over the ...
extraskeletal ewing’s sarcoma, mediastinum ewing’s sarcoma, pleural effusion
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PMC3959067_01
Female
12
We report the case of a 12-year-old girl; she had a medical history of FH like her brother with tendon xanthomas of the upper and lower extremities [Figure 1]. She was operated two years previously for aortic stenosis associated with mitral valve regurgitation grade 3 without coronary artery disease [Figure 2]. She had...
coronary artery bypass graft, hypercholesterolemia, pediatric
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PMC6387706_01
Female
53
A 53-year-old woman with small stature and dysmorphic features consistent with TS, not previously diagnosed with diabetes, presented to the endocrinology clinic for evaluation of episodes of hypoglycemia <20mg/dl with transient loss of consciousness. She was admitted to the inpatient service and underwent a controlled ...
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PMC5403006_01
Male
28
A 28-year-old man was referred to our hospital with a 2-week history of uveitis in his right eye. The best corrective visual acuity (BCVA) was 20/25 and ocular pressure was within normal range. Ophthalmoscopic examination of the right eye revealed fine keratoprecipitates and moderate cell infiltration into the anterior...
vegf, central retinal vascular occlusion, ranibizumab, tuberculosis, uveitis
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PMC10311070_01
Female
14
The proband was a 14-year-old female who presented with a two-year history of reduced tolerance to physical exertion and subsequently experienced severe dyspnea, respiratory distress, and fatigue following exertion. The patient suffered a sudden cardiac arrest 2 h before arrival at the hospital, during which carotid pu...
alpk3, case report, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, novel variant, whole-exome sequencing
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PMC3580894_01
Male
60
The patient was a 60-year-old male Iraqi refugee in treatment for chronic PTSD and depression in the psychiatric out-patient clinic for PTSD and Transcultural Psychiatry in Aarhus, Denmark. The patient had arrived in Denmark in 1993 and reported a history of persecution, arrest, detention, imprisonment, and torture in ...
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PMC7080855_01
Male
7
A 7-year-old neutered male Domestic Shorthair cat weighing 3.71 kg (8.2 lb), was presented to the Companion Animal Clinic at Midwestern University College of Veterinary Medicine (MWU-CVM) (day 1) with a 4-month history of sneezing, intermittent bilateral epistaxis and mucopurulent nasal discharge, progressive vision lo...
actinomyces spp, escherichia coli, epistaxis, feline, optic neuritis, rhinitis, rhinosinusitis
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PMC8606665_01
Male
67
In October 2019, a 67-year-old man was admitted to our hospital due to left flank pain. He was initially diagnosed with a left renal tumor based on ultrasound examination. The patient had a history of controlled hypertension for approximately 10 years, but no personal or family history of other systemic disorders. Cont...
collecting duct carcinoma, immune checkpoint inhibitor, immunotherapy, kidney cancer, targeted therapy
Radiological examination at initial visit. (C) Chest CT scan showing metastatic nodules in the right lower lung.
PMC6010554_01
Female
35
A 35-year-old female was admitted to our hospital complaining of an intermittent headache for 5 years, menopause for more than 2 months, and blurred vision and lactation for more than 1 month. Five years prior, the patient began suffering from intermittent and gradually deteriorating occipital and frontal headaches. On...
cranial tumors, craniopharyngioma, germinoma, human chorionic gonadotrophin, pituitary neoplasms
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PMC9843462_01
Female
40
We present a case of a 40-year-old female patient who was admitted to the Eye Clinic, Clinical Center of Montenegro (Podgorica, Montenegro) in April 2021. The patient's main complaint was vision impairment in the left eye, which occurred 14 days after a positive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test result for SARS-CoV-...
covid-19, immunity, vasculitis, visual acuity, white dot syndromes
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PMC7609154_01
Male
37
A 37-year-old middle-age gentleman, who was otherwise fit and well, presented with persistent high-grade fever for more than ten days duration associated with intermittent productive cough of whitish sputum. He also had arthralgia and myalgia. He denied any hemoptysis, night sweats, shortness of breath, or pleuritic ch...
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PMC8085411_01
Female
8
Current work aims to present a case of an 8-years old girl with a history of chemosis of the conjunctiva with fevers. These symptoms appeared from full health and were followed by maculopapular exanthema the next day, which progressed to a vesicular exanthema. Moreover, enanthema of the oral cavity appeared, together w...
amniotic membrane, infection control, lyophilised amniotic membrane, reepithelization, toxic epidermal necrolysis
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PMC8068479_01
Male
29
A 29-year-old Taiwanese man presented to the outpatient clinic at the Taipei Municipal Wanfang Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, having experienced a chronic productive cough and yellowish sputum for five months. Prior consultations with local medical doctors left the symptoms unresolved. He reported frequent travel to So...
ltbi, acquired drug resistance, case report, drug-resistant tb, latent tuberculosis infection, subclinical tb, treatment
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PMC8068479_02
Female
36
His wife, a 36-year-old Vietnamese woman without underlying co-morbidities, underwent TB contact investigation. She reported no respiratory or constitutional symptoms. Physical examination revealed no abnormality, and previous medical history was unremarkable. The IGRA test was positive, and chest radiography was norma...
ltbi, acquired drug resistance, case report, drug-resistant tb, latent tuberculosis infection, subclinical tb, treatment
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PMC8195647_01
Female
58
A 58-year-old female patient with no pertinent past medical history presented to the emergency department as a transfer from an outside hospital for computerized tomography (CT) findings of retroperitoneal lymphadenopathy with nodularity and stranding of the omental fat, concerning for malignancy/metastatic disease req...
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PMC10323813_01
Male
45
A 45-year-old male presented to the hospital with complaints of hemoptysis for the last 3 weeks. He also had a cough with mucoid expectoration for 3 weeks. He denied a history of fever/loss of weight and appetite. The patient had a past history of sputum-positive pulmonary tuberculosis 20 years back for which he had ta...
aspergilloma, air crescent sign, monod sign
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PMC8131959_01
Male
79
A 79-year-old man was hospitalized for 6 weeks with L4-L5 spondylodiscitis in September 2019. His medical history consisted principally of membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis treated with rituximab several years ago (currently in remission), hypertension, alcoholic liver disease with chronic cholestasis without si...
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PMC5217606_01
Female
65
A 65-year-old Caucasian lady was referred to our Ataxia Clinic because of a 6-year history of progressive unsteadiness and a 2-year history of slurred speech. Past medical history included arterial hypertension. The patient was a non-smoker was not consuming alcohol excessively. There was no family history of ataxia. N...
amyloid, ataxia, cerebellar, myeloma, paraneoplastic, sensory ganglionopathy
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PMC5318682_01
Female
56
A 56-year-old woman had suffered from abdominal fullness for three months. She had had poor appetite, general malaise, nausea and vomiting two weeks earlier, but denied tarry stool or diarrhea. She had lost about 6 kg over 3 months. Abdominal sonography revealed ascites. Laboratory data showed normocytic anemia, with h...
carcinomatosis peritonei, computed tomography (ct), ovarian cancer, peritoneum, tuberculosis
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PMC9950848_02
Female
4
The patient was started on piperacillin-tazobactam, assuming bacterial abscess. Complete needle aspiration of the collection plus axillary core biopsies were performed, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mt) was actively sought, due to the scrofulous appearance of the skin. The serohematic aspirate was negative for acid-f...
breast abscess, breast cancer differential diagnosis, breast tuberculosis, mastitis, mycobacterium tuberculosis, scrofula
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PMC4405082_01
Female
63
A 63-year-old Hispanic woman, who was born and raised in the Dominican Republic, first presented to the emergency department with complaints of generalized weakness, fatigue, unintended weight loss, anorexia, progressively worsening abdominal pain, and fever of 5 days' duration. She had sought medical care in the Domin...
cholangitis in sarcoidosis, hepatic granulomas, hepatic sarcoidosis, jaundice in sarcoidosis, sarcoidosis of liver
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PMC7273619_01
Female
86
An 86-year-old woman admitted in our geriatric inpatient unit exhibited frequent episodes of involuntary, uncontrolled, particularly disturbing outbursts of crying and, less frequently, uncontrolled episodes of laughing. She also had episodes of wandering at night. The situation was becoming untenable and could not be ...
pseudobulbar affect, alternative nuedexta®, compounded quinidine capsules, crying, dextromethorphan cough syrup, geriatrics, laughing, neurodegenerative disorder
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PMC5328703_01
Female
60
In September 2015, a 60 year-old woman with known history of rheumatoid arthritis (rheumatoid factor >20, cyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies >300, elevated c-reactive protein and erythrocyte sedimentation rate, synovitis in 8 small joints) and co-existing pulmonary fibrosis with chronic type 1 respiratory failure ...
6mwt, 6-min walking test, ctd, connective tissue disease, dlco, diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide, pawp, pulmonary arterial wedge pressure, ph, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary vasodilators, ra, rheumatoid arthritis, ricu, respiratory intensive care unit, rvsp, right ventricular systolic p...
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PMC8592917_01
Male
0
This 5-month-old male infant was born at term to asymptomatic, non-consanguineous emirati parents who belonged to the same tribal descent. The pregnancy and delivery were uneventful. His birth weight was 2.75 kg. He had received the BCG vaccine in the upper left arm at birth (0.05 mL, intradermal injection; manufacture...
bcg vaccine, iei, il2rg, mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial disease (msmd), scid, hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (hlh), lymphohistiocytic proliferation, lymphoid proliferation
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PMC3806709_01
Female
70
A 70-year-old woman was referred to our gastroenterology clinic for colon cancer screening. She denied abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, heartburn, irregular bowel habits or hematochezia. She had undergone colonoscopy 10 years prior at an outside facility which according to her had been unremarkable. Her past medical h...
colonic polyps, intestinal, neurofibroma, neurofibromatosis
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PMC9579323_01
Male
10
A boy who was 10 years and 6 months old was admitted to the hospital due to abdominal pain that persisted for 4 days. The patient also vomited three times without concomitant fever or diarrhea. He was found to have jaundice when referred to a local hospital. The biochemical tests showed exceptionally high levels of ala...
case report, immune injury, methylprednisolone, torque teno virus, unexplained acute hepatitis
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PMC4395945_01
Male
4
A 4-year-old male child born by nonconsanguineous marriage presented to pediatric OPD with complaint of abdominal distension, poor weight gain, and short stature. No history of polyuria or polydipsia was present. He had no previous history of trauma or operation. He was born by normal vaginal delivery at term and was v...
empty sella syndrome, empty sella turcica, failure to thrive
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PMC3180750_01
Female
35
This case is of a 35 year old multiparous woman who was first seen in gynecological Clinic with a 5 months history of unprovoked irregular vaginal bleeding associated with passage of blood clots which necessitated blood transfusion and had 3 units of blood. There was no previous history of post-coital bleeding prior th...
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PMC10203193_01
Female
35
A 35-year-old woman who had comorbid bipolar II and borderline personality disorders began her psychotherapy 3 years ago after transferring care from her resigned psychiatrist. In the past, there were a few unsuccessful medications to contain her emotional dysregulation, impulsivity, and suicidal behaviors. These inclu...
core conflict, dysfunctional mental processing, inhibition of thinking, mentalizing, psychoanalysis, suicide
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PMC8247189_02
Female
68
A 68-year-old Japanese woman who developed fatigue and fever (maximum: 38.8 C) was diagnosed with COVID-19. There had been an outbreak at her swimming club, which was the same club to which the patient in Case 1 belonged. She was diagnosed with mild disease without pneumonia upon arrival. She had two aggravation risk ...
covid-19, cytokine storm, pneumonia, red face, sars-cov-2 alpha variant
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PMC3505913_01
Male
24
A 24-year-old, Vietnamese male, living in Switzerland for the last three years, consulted our unit for unremitting pain in his right knee. He had a right knee contusion two months ago. On history, he related occasional night sweats with chills since that accident accompanied with a weight loss of 5 kg. Otherwise, he is...
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PMC8249757_01
Female
0
A 6-month-old girl presented to our clinic with bilateral hip joint pain, which began 1 year prior to her admission. The pain drastically affected her physical activity and was more evident in the morning. No other symptoms were presented. She then received Plain MRI and enhanced scanning of the hip joints, which revea...
children, epstein barr virus, hip joint, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, smooth muscle tumor
Imaging examination. (B) Plain CT scanning of lungs showed multiple nodules and stripe-shaped shadows in bilateral lungs, and the size of the largest shadow was 0.63 x 0.74 cm.
PMC7119401_01
Female
38
The first patient was a 38-year-old woman who suffered from probable SARS during a nosocomial outbreak in Taiwan. She developed fever and chills on April 20, 2003. Her chest radiograph showed bilateral pneumonic patches. Because SARS was suspected, she was admitted to our hospital on April 28. She was intubated and giv...
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PMC7119401_02
Male
52
The second patient was a 52-year-old-man who suffered from probable SARS during a nosocomial outbreak at the same hospital. He started to have fever and chills since April 21, with myalgia and headache. A dry cough developed since April 24 and a chest radiograph revealed a pneumonia patch over the right lower lung fiel...
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PMC8690251_01
Male
47
A 47-year-old man was admitted to our hospital for progressive cognitive decline and apathy for 10 months. History taking revealed no infection, vaccination, or significant weight loss within 6 weeks and no other medical history. His family had no history of auto-immune and hereditary diseases. Further general and neur...
anti-ampa receptor, autoimmune encephalitis, brain atrophy, case report, relapse
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PMC362879_01
Male
16
This 16-year-old boy, from a village in Fars Province, Southern Iran, developed left paraumblical (sometimes epigastric)abdominal pain with moderate intensity about five months prior to admission. The pain subsided after three months. However, 20 days later, the patient developed right-sided shoulder and chest pain acc...
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PMC8847199_01
Female
54
A 54-year-old female patient was admitted to Lanzhou University Second Hospital on October 31, 2016 because of "intermittent upper abdominal pain and discomfort for 1 month." Symptoms became worse after eating greasy food. She did not receive any treatment before the admission. Because the above symptoms gradually wors...
alpha-fetoprotein, case report, hepatic hydatid disease, hepatitis b virus, hepatocellular carcinoma
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PMC5831313_01
Male
18
An 18-year-old boy immigrant from Guinea was admitted to our hospital because of fever and abdominal pain starting about three weeks before. His past medical history was unremarkable. Physical examination revealed diminished lung breath sounds consistent with pleural effusion and hepatomegaly. Lab tests showed abnormal...
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PMC4753743_01
Female
51
A 51-year-old female was diagnosed to have essential hypertension since 12 years and CKD since last 4 years. She progressed to end-stage renal disease 2 years back and was initiated on maintenance hemodialysis. For initial 1-year, she was on twice-weekly hemodialysis, which was subsequently increased to thrice weekly. ...
chronic kidney disease, cocoon abdomen, maintenance hemodialysis
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