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{ "authors": [ "Abdol Reza Sabahi", "Zahra Amini-Ranjbar", "Ali Sharifi", "Ali Kheradmand" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": null, "journal": "Addict Health", "journal_detail": "2014 Winter;6(1-2):81-4.", "keywords": [ "eye enucleation", "hashish", "substance use" ], "license": "...
PMC4137443
Background: Enucleation is a topic discussed in psychiatry which is a self-injury matter. Enucleation is observed as psychotic disorder due to substance abuse. In people with mental disorders who also have substance use leading to hallucinations and delusions, unusual eye evacuation were reported. In most cases, enucle...
{ "authors": [ "Kazunori Imai", "Kohei Aoyama", "Takato Goto", "Tamao Kitaori", "Toshiyuki Iguchi", "Hiroshi Sasano", "Tomonori Hattori", "Mayumi Sugiura-Ogasawara", "Shinji Saitoh" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1002/ams2.832", "journal": "Acute Med Surg", "journal_deta...
PMC9990086
Background: Hematocolpos due to imperforate hymen is an important differential diagnosis of abdominal pain in early adolescent stage. However, hematocolpos due to lower vaginal agenesis must be considered because the management differs. Case presentation: A healthy 11-year-old girl presented with a 2-day left lower abd...
{ "authors": [ "Wei-Hsin Yuan", "Anna Fen-Yau Li", "Hui-Chen Hsu", "Yi-Hong Chou" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1186/2193-1801-3-642", "journal": "Springerplus", "journal_detail": "2014 Oct 30;3:642.", "keywords": [ "computed tomography (ct)", "male breast cancer", "panniculi...
PMC4227985
Introduction: We report a case of a 54-year-old male patient with a hard, painful nodule within his right breast which was misdiagnosed preoperatively as breast cancer. Case description: Preoperative work-up included physical examination, non-contrast chest computed tomography (CT), sonography, and sono-guided breast b...
{ "authors": [ "Hemlata Bhaskar", "Rekha Chaudhary" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2010/691563", "journal": "Case Rep Med", "journal_detail": "2010;2010:691563.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21461374/", "major_mesh_terms": [], "mesh_...
PMC3065218
Background. Vitamin B12 is vital for optimal functioning of various organ systems but more importantly the central nervous system and the hematological system. Deficiency of vitamin B12 clinically manifests as excessive daytime fatigue, memory difficulties, encephalopathy, myelopathy, peripheral neuropathy, and optic n...
{ "authors": [ "George St Stoyanov", "Deyan Dzhenkov", "Lilyana Petkova" ], "case_amount": 4, "doi": "10.4322/acr.2021.301", "journal": "Autops Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2021 Aug 20;11:e2021301.", "keywords": [ "aortic aneurysm", "autopsy", "digestive system fistula", "path...
PMC8387084
Aortoduodenal fistula (ADF) is the most common type of aortoenteric fistula (AEF). This is a rare entity, which produces communication between an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and the gastrointestinal tract (GIT), resulting in massive gastrointestinal bleeding. AEF/ADF is difficult to recognize clinically, with the c...
{ "authors": [ "Xinmin Xu", "Angcheng Li", "Xia Xu", "Qiangjun Gong", "Shengjie Zhu", "Wenya Chu", "Shubo Ding" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3389/fneur.2022.964856", "journal": "Front Neurol", "journal_detail": "2022 Aug 9;13:964856.", "keywords": [ "adolescent", "ca...
PMC9395982
Ependymoblastoma is a rare embryonal neoplasm of the nervous system, and the entity is even rare with distant metastasis. This case can help refine the existing literature and provide lessons for the management of other patients with ependymoblastoma. The present case concerns an adolescent with supratentorial ependymo...
{ "authors": [ "Sophie Carr", "Arash Safavi", "Erik D Skarsgard" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.3389/fped.2021.659083", "journal": "Front Pediatr", "journal_detail": "2021 Apr 15;9:659083.", "keywords": [ "alpha-fetoprotein", "germ cell tumor", "malignant", "recurrence", "...
PMC8081829
Germ cell tumors in infants are most frequently extragonadal, benign, and amenable to surgical resection. An unusual feature of germ cell tumors is the potential coexistence of malignant with benign disease which makes it possible for patients with incompletely resected tumors to experience either a benign or malignant...
{ "authors": [ "Naoki Kato", "Shota Kakizaki", "Yusuke Hirokawa", "Shotaro Michishita", "Takuya Ishii", "Tohru Terao", "Yuichi Murayama" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.1155/2023/1787738", "journal": "Case Rep Neurol Med", "journal_detail": "2023 Jan 17;2023:1787738.", "keyword...
PMC9873458
Moyamoya disease is often diagnosed after intracranial hemorrhage in adult patients. Here, we report a case of unilateral moyamoya disease treated with indirect revascularization combined with cranioplasty after treatment for acute subdural hematoma and subcortical hemorrhage. A middle-aged woman with disturbed conscio...
{ "authors": [ "Giuseppe Giannaccare", "Michela Fresina", "Alberto Pazzaglia", "Piera Versura" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.2147/IMCRJ.S107926", "journal": "Int Med Case Rep J", "journal_detail": "2016 Jul 11;9:187-91.", "keywords": [ "confocal microscopy", "corneal graft reject...
PMC4946863
Graft rejection is the most significant complication corneal transplantation and the leading indication for overall corneal transplantation. Corticosteroid therapy represents the mainstay of graft rejection treatment; however, the optimal route of administration of corticosteroid remains uncertain. We report herein for...
{ "authors": [ "Naohiro Yoshida", "Fumihiko Fujita", "Kosuke Ueda", "Suguru Ogata", "Takahiro Shigaki", "Takato Yomoda", "Takafumi Ohchi", "Tomoaki Mizobe", "Tetsushi Kinugasa", "Yoshito Akagi" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.ijscr.2019.07.040", "journal": "Int J...
PMC6717955
Introduction: Small bowel obstruction (SBO) caused by an internal hernia through a mesocolon after retroperitoneal laparoscopic nephrectomy (RLN) is rare. Presentation of case: A 66-year-old man who had undergone RLN with bladder cuff excision for a left renal pelvic cancer. After the surgery, he experienced SBO repeat...
{ "authors": [ "C R Travis", "G A Ray", "K F Marlowe" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2012/543747", "journal": "Case Rep Med", "journal_detail": "2012;2012:543747.", "keywords": null, "license": "NO-CC CODE", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22611407/", "major_mesh_terms": [...
PMC3352322
Introduction. This is the first reported case of gastrointestinal symptoms associated with withdrawal after chronic use of this substance. Case Presentation. A 51-year-old Caucasian woman was referred to a hospital with a 3-day history of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal discomfort. She reported no sick family...
{ "authors": [ "Taryn Schuelke", "Jared Rubenstein" ], "case_amount": 4, "doi": "10.1089/pmr.2020.0015", "journal": "Palliat Med Rep", "journal_detail": "2020 Aug 6;1(1):156-160.", "keywords": [ "dignity therapy", "legacy", "pediatric palliative care" ], "license": "CC BY", "link...
PMC8241326
Objective: To report our first case series of Dignity Therapy modified for a pediatric palliative care population. Background: Dignity Therapy has been utilized successfully with terminally ill adult patients to help restore a sense of dignity and personhood as well as cope with existential distress near the end of lif...
{ "authors": [ "W X Yeo", "K K Tan" ], "case_amount": 3, "doi": "10.1155/2018/1403912", "journal": "Case Rep Otolaryngol", "journal_detail": "2018 Apr 19;2018:1403912.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29850332/", "major_mesh_terms": [], "mesh...
PMC5933031
Teratomas are the most common germ cell tumors of childhood. Head and neck teratomas, however, account for less than five percent of all teratomas. Considered rare at an incidence of 1 in 20,000 to 40,000 live births, they may occur in the cervical region, nasopharynx, brain, orbit, or oropharynx. Teratoma presenting a...
{ "authors": [ "Amoolya Bhat", "Madhuri Rao", "V Geethamani", "Archana C Shetty" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.4103/0973-029X.157211", "journal": "J Oral Maxillofac Pathol", "journal_detail": "2015 Jan-Apr;19(1):106.", "keywords": [ "basal cell adenoma", "basal cell adenocarcinom...
PMC4451648
Basal cell adenoma (BCA) is a rare benign epithelial tumor of the salivary gland, displaying monomorphic basaloid cells without a myxochondroid component, representing 1-3% of all salivary gland neoplasms seen predominantly in women over 50 years of age. It is uncommon in young adults. Cytodiagnosis of basaloid tumors ...
{ "authors": [ "Mark R Zonfrillo", "Caitlin M Locey", "Steven R Scarfone", "Kristy B Arbogast" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1080/15389588.2014.934959", "journal": "Traffic Inj Prev", "journal_detail": "2014;15 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):S49-55.", "keywords": [ "children", "crash", "di...
PMC4841261
Objective: Motor vehicle crash (MVC)-related spinal injuries result in significant morbidity and mortality in children. The objective was to identify MVC-related injury causation scenarios for spinal injuries in restrained children. Methods: This was a case series of occupants in MVCs from the Crash Injury Research and...
{ "authors": [ "Elizabeth Psoma", "Petros D Karkos", "Stamatia Dova", "Michail Gavriilidis", "Konstantinos Markou", "Constantinos Kouskouras", "Afroditi Haritanti", "Stefanos Finitsis" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3332/ecancer.2016.692", "journal": "Ecancermedicalscience", ...
PMC5130329
Sinonasal glomangiopericytoma is a benign rare tumour of pericytes that accounts for less than 0.5% of all sinonasal tumours. It is an indolent tumour with a macroscopic appearance of common inflammatory polyps. We report the case of a 55-year-old male who presented with right nasal obstruction. CT and MRI examinations...
{ "authors": [ "Nooshin Bazzazi", "Alireza Yavarikia", "Fariba Keramat" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.4103/0974-9233.106407", "journal": "Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol", "journal_detail": "2013 Jan-Mar;20(1):95-7.", "keywords": [ "bilateral optic disc swelling", "brucellosis", "oc...
PMC3617540
A 29-year-old male diagnosed with brucellosis a week earlier was referred to the ophthalmology clinic with visual complaints. On examination, visual acuity was 20/25, he had conjunctival injection on slit lamp examination. There was also bilateral optic disk swelling plus retinal hyperemia (optic disc hyperemia and vas...
{ "authors": [ "Vu Nguyen Le", "Lu Huu Pham", "Dang Hai Do", "Huong Lan Nguyen", "Dung Thi Kim Dao", "Nghia Quang Nguyen" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.ijscr.2020.11.022", "journal": "Int J Surg Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2020;77:418-421.", "keywords": [ "arterial h...
PMC7689325
Introduction: Severe atherosclerosis is a complicated condition in chronic kidney disease (CKD) and could lead to the operation's failure, when it was not detectable by pre-operative diagnostic imaging. Several methods including two-stage approach, synthetic graft, stent… have been reported, but complications (i.e. inf...
{ "authors": [ "Anmar M Abdul-Rahman", "Jagjit S Gilhotra", "Dinesh Selva" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.4103/0301-4738.73717", "journal": "Indian J Ophthalmol", "journal_detail": "2011 Jan-Feb;59(1):51-3.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2...
PMC3032245
A 48-year-old man presented following an episode of sudden onset simultaneous inferior altitudinal visual loss in his left eye and visual obscuration with shimmering in the inferonasal quadrant of the right eye. Clinical examination demonstrated left superior hemiretinal artery occlusion and an area of focal dynamic sp...
{ "authors": [ "Moritz Schumann", "Nils Freitag", "Eva Haag", "Wilhelm Bloch" ], "case_amount": 6, "doi": "10.1016/j.rmcr.2019.100925", "journal": "Respir Med Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2019 Aug 16;28:100925.", "keywords": [ "aerobic fitness", "ciliary dysfunction", "exercis...
PMC6710229
Background: Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD) is an autosomal recessive disease, characterized by ciliary dysfunction and impaired mucociliary clearance. Previous studies have indicated a low physical fitness in PCD patients but currently it is not known whether physical training beneficially affects fitness, inflammato...
{ "authors": [ "Fernando Luiz Westphal", "Renato Telles de Sousa", "Luiz Carlos Nadaf de Lima", "Luís Carlos de Lima", "Márcia dos Santos da Silva" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.5935/1808-8694.20130023", "journal": "Braz J Otorhinolaryngol", "journal_detail": "2013 Jan-Feb;79(1):122.",...
PMC9450856
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{ "authors": [ "Aslı Aksu Çerman", "Ezgi Aktaş Karabay", "Özben Yalçın", "Ilknur Kıvanç Altunay" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.14744/SEMB.2017.39306", "journal": "Sisli Etfal Hastan Tip Bul", "journal_detail": "2018 May 28;52(2):142-144.", "keywords": [ "dapsone", "granuloma", ...
PMC7315059
Lupus miliaris disseminatus faciei (LMDF) is a rarely seen, granulomatous disease of the face with an unknown etiology. Clinically, the disease is characterized by monomorphic, reddish-brown, dome-shaped papules symmetrically distributed on the face. Histopathologically, a perifollicular caseating granuloma is the hall...
{ "authors": [ "Zachariah Chowdhury", "Yookarin Khonglah", "Vandana Raphael", "Pranjal Kalita", "Umesh Das" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.18502/ijhoscr.v16i1.8444", "journal": "Int J Hematol Oncol Stem Cell Res", "journal_detail": "2022 Jan 1;16(1):66-73.", "keywords": [ "bicytop...
PMC9339126
Hepatosplenic T cell lymphoma (HSTCL) is a very rare and aggressive peripheral T cell lymphoma that comprises less than 1% of Non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL). It is derived from cytotoxic T-cells, usually of γδ T cell receptor type, and is characterized by primary extranodal disease with typical sinusoidal infiltration of ...
{ "authors": [ "Alanna Barrios-Ruiz", "Alejandra Yu Lee-Mateus", "Britney N Hazelett", "Katherine L Walsh", "Sebastian Fernandez-Bussy", "Vichaya Arunthari", "Brendon Colaco", "Bryan J Taylor", "David Abia-Trujillo" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.rmcr.2023.101889", ...
PMC10344674
Expiratory Central Airway Collapse (ECAC) is a multifactorial, underdiagnosed entity that poses unique challenges. Airway stenting is used as a predictor for successful outcomes after central airway stabilization surgery via tracheobronchoplasty (TBP). This approach may pose suboptimal performance in certain ECAC varia...
{ "authors": [ "Conghui Cao", "Xiaoli Wang", "Xiaojuan Zhao" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3389/fendo.2022.914863", "journal": "Front Endocrinol (Lausanne)", "journal_detail": "2022 Jul 25;13:914863.", "keywords": [ "becker muscular dystrophy", "case report", "chromosome 8p112 de...
PMC9359072
Background: Chromosome 8p11.2 includes several key genes in development such as the FGFR1, ANK1, KAT6A, and SLC20A2 genes. Deletion of this fragment causes a contiguous gene syndrome. Currently, few cases of interstitial deletion of whole 8p11.2 have been reported. We report a rare case of 8p11.2 deletion syndrome with...
{ "authors": [ "Masamichi Itoga", "Wataru Ito", "Shigeharu Ueki", "Masahide Takeda", "Yuki Moritoki", "Yoshiki Kobayashi", "Mami Chihara", "Naoshi Suzuki", "Hideto Sasaki", "Junichi Chihara" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2013/496304", "journal": "Case Rep Med", ...
PMC3603195
Pulmonary metastasis from leiomyosarcoma is rare and its clinical management is challenging. A single lung metastasis from a perineal leiomyosarcoma occurred in a 79-year-old woman. Five months after resection of the lung metastasis, a new metastatic tumor developed in the contralateral lung. Since the patient did not ...
{ "authors": [ "Timm Höres", "Knut Wendelin", "Kerstin Schaefer-Eckart" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3892/ol.2017.7288", "journal": "Oncol Lett", "journal_detail": "2018 Jan;15(1):115-120.", "keywords": [ "acute lymphoblastic leukemia", "case report", "pancytopenia", "sepsis...
PMC5738709
Spontaneous remission (SR) in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a rare phenomenon, but the disease course and its underlying processes are of basic and clinical interest. Herein is reported the case of a pregnant, 31-year-old patient who developed ALL, followed by septic shock and SR of ALL. Information is summariz...
{ "authors": [ "Benjamin Kloesel", "Latonya J Hickson" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2013/923602", "journal": "Case Rep Neurol Med", "journal_detail": "2013;2013:923602.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23476842/", "major_mesh_terms": []...
PMC3576736
Guillain-Barré syndrome is an immune-mediated polyneuropathy that frequently presents with progressive muscle weakness. Hyponatremia has recently been described as a feature of this condition, generally appearing over the course of the illness and following the diagnosis of this demyelinating process. We report a case ...
{ "authors": [ "Ryusuke Tanaka", "Kenji Shinohara", "Yohei Hidai", "Chiaki Kiuchi", "Satoshi Tanaka", "Mikito Kawamata", "Junichi Sasao" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1097/PR9.0000000000001059", "journal": "Pain Rep", "journal_detail": "2023 Jan 19;8(1):e1059.", "keywords": [...
PMC9857349
Introduction: Recent advances in stimulation techniques have improved the efficacy and expanded the applicability of spinal cord stimulation (SCS). Among these techniques, there are no reports on the efficacy of differential target multiplexed (DTM) SCS for chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP) after abdominal surgery. Ther...
{ "authors": [ "Soheila Aminimoghaddam", "Ara Omranipoor" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.34171/mjiri.33.100", "journal": "Med J Islam Repub Iran", "journal_detail": "2019 Sep 23;33:100.", "keywords": [ "actinomycin-d", "beta hcg", "ectopic pregnancy" ], "license": "CC BY-NC-SA", ...
PMC6825387
Ectopic pregnancy is an urgent clinical condition that represents a serious hazard to reproductive power, and thus threatens woman's health. Commonly, methotrexate is considered for early resolution of placental tissue. Despite its potential advantages such as minimizing hospitalization and quick recovery, its high ski...
{ "authors": [ "Kristin Klein", "A M James Shapiro" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.5402/2011/610747", "journal": "ISRN Surg", "journal_detail": "2011;2011:610747.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22084766/", "major_mesh_terms": [], "mesh_ter...
PMC3200155
Spontaneous hepatic rupture is a rare event most often occurring in association with underlying liver disease or pregnancy. We report two unusual cases of hepatic rupture without any identifiable pathology, trauma, or comorbid conditions.
{ "authors": [ "Andrés-Trasahedo Estíbaliz", "Labrador-Sánchez Eztizen", "Salazar-Asencio Osman-Alberto", "Flores-Robles Bryan-Josué", "Pinillos-Aransay Valvanera", "Laura Torrecilla Lerena", "López-Martín Juan-Antonio" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2022/2078772", "journal":...
PMC9256417
Hypothenar hammer syndrome is a rare cause of vascular insufficiency. Generally, patients report a history of repetitive trauma to the hypothenar region of the hand. Symptoms often consist of cold intolerance, pain, paleness, and paresthesia due to digital ischemia. The severity of these symptoms will depend on the ext...
{ "authors": [ "Gernot Rott", "Frieder Boecker" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2017/2790290", "journal": "Case Rep Radiol", "journal_detail": "2017;2017:2790290.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28487803/", "major_mesh_terms": [], "mesh...
PMC5402238
We report on a patient who was referred for port implantation with a two-chamber pacemaker aggregate on the right and total occlusion of the central veins on the left side. Venous access for port implantation was performed via left side puncture of the horizontal segment of the anterior jugular vein system (AJVS) and i...
{ "authors": [ "Concetta Alafaci", "Giovanni Grasso", "Francesca Granata", "Mariano Cutugno", "Daniele Marino", "Francesco M Salpietro", "Francesco Tomasello" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.4103/2152-7806.155256", "journal": "Surg Neurol Int", "journal_detail": "2015 Apr 16;6:60...
PMC4405893
Background: Cavernous malformations (CMs) of the optic chiasm are rare lesions often presenting with acute chiasmal syndrome or a progressive visual loss. The case of a 48-year-old female with an intrachiasmatic CM is presented. Case description: The patient presented with an insidious history of progressive visual los...
{ "authors": [ "Héctor Joaquín Pérez Corzo", "Angélica Katherine Romero Suárez", "Roberto Esau Salgado Salas", "Felipe Nieto Segura", "José Sergio Verboonen Sotelo", "Jeffry Romero Manzano", "José Aldo Guzmán Barba", "Isaac Esparza Estrada" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1093/js...
PMC9831643
Obesity is a chronic disease with pandemic levels of prevalence worldwide. The most often performed bariatric procedure is sleeve gastrectomy. Although the patient's history may not indicate preoperative imaging studies, coincidental findings of unexpected pathology are not uncommon, such as leiomyoma. A 41-year-old fe...
{ "authors": [ "Hiroyuki Obata", "Tomonori Baba", "Kentaro Futamura", "Osamu Obayashi", "Atsuhiko Mogami", "Hideki Tsuji", "Yoshiaki Kurata", "Kazuo Kaneko" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.1155/2017/6269081", "journal": "Case Rep Orthop", "journal_detail": "2017;2017:6269081....
PMC5306963
Recent reports suggest the presence of a rare fracture type for which reduction and fixation cannot be achieved with volar locking plate (VLP). In particular, it is difficult to achieve reduction and fixation with volar lunate facet (VLF) fragments present on the volar ulnar aspect of the lunate facet, because of the a...
{ "authors": [ "Ratko Yurac", "Juan Jose Zamorano", "Andrea Marre", "Cristian Diaz" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.25259/SNI_159_2022", "journal": "Surg Neurol Int", "journal_detail": "2022 Apr 22;13:162.", "keywords": [ "cervical", "injury", "pole dance", "spine", "tr...
PMC9062954
Background: Pole dancing is a sport that has become very popular. However, there is scarce literature on injuries associated with this sport. Here, we present a 23-year-old female who sustained a traumatic C4-C5 vertex cervical spine injury caused by a fall of 1 m while practicing pole dancing in an inverted position, ...
{ "authors": [ "Inukonda Lakshmi Mounica", "Katne Tejaswi", "Tirumala Chennaiah", "Janumpally Varshitha Thanmai" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.11604/pamj.2020.37.129.25295", "journal": "Pan Afr Med J", "journal_detail": "2020 Oct 6;37:129.", "keywords": [ "herpes simplex virus", ...
PMC7755351
Erythema multiforme (EM) is an acute, self-limiting hypersensitivity reaction that ranges from a mild cutaneous, exanthematous variant with minimal oral involvement to a progressive fulminating severe variant with extensive mucocutaneous epithelial necrosis (SJS & TEN). Knowing the etiological spectrum is the key for m...
{ "authors": [ "Sara Wouters", "Linda De Meirleir", "Edward Campforts", "Annik Lampo" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.1186/1753-2000-8-20", "journal": "Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health", "journal_detail": "2014 Jul 11;8:20.", "keywords": [ "adolescents", "children", "nieman...
PMC4112998
Niemann-Pick disease type C (NP-C) is a rare autosomal-recessively inherited lysosomal storage disorder. It is caused by mutations in the NPC1 (95%) or NPC2 gene. It is a progressive and highly heterogeneous disease, characterized by the presentation of visceral, neurological, and psychiatric symptoms. Apart from the p...
{ "authors": [ "Kenneth N Hiller" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.4103/0970-9185.173347", "journal": "J Anaesthesiol Clin Pharmacol", "journal_detail": "2016 Jan-Mar;32(1):112-4.", "keywords": [ "dual antiplatelet therapy", "platelet mapping", "clinical history and physical exam" ], "l...
PMC4784190
Dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) is the standard of care for primary and secondary prevention strategies in patients with coronary artery disease after stenting. Current guidelines recommend that DAPT be continued for 12 months in patients after receiving drug eluting stents. Approximately 5% of these patients will pre...
{ "authors": [ "Vikas M Agashe", "Hitendra Patil", "Manit K Gundavda" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.13107/jocr.2250-0685.245", "journal": "J Orthop Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2015 Jan-Mar;5(1):15-8.", "keywords": [ "fibrous myopathy", "multiple skin abscesses", "mycobacterium ...
PMC4489418
Introduction: Prescription drug abuse is a major health problem across the globe. Various complications associated with repeated injection of pentazocine are reported in the literature, including skin fibrosis, skin abscesses and ulceration, abnormal skin pigmentation and fibrous myopathy. Case report: We present a cas...
{ "authors": [ "Hamoon Eshraghi", "Aria Mahtabfar", "Mohammad H Dastjerdi" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2017/3939413", "journal": "Case Rep Med", "journal_detail": "2017;2017:3939413.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29129978/", "ma...
PMC5654256
Purpose: To describe a case of peripheral ulcerative keratitis in the setting of autoimmune hepatitis and possible overlap syndrome with primary sclerosing cholangitis. Case report: A 48-year-old African American female with autoimmune hepatitis with possible overlap syndrome with primary sclerosing cholangitis present...
{ "authors": [ "Mohammed Jasim Al-Juboori", "Mohammed Ahmed Al-Attas", "Luiz Carlos Magno Filho" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.2147/CCIDE.S179751", "journal": "Clin Cosmet Investig Dent", "journal_detail": "2018 Nov 8;10:245-249.", "keywords": [ "flap", "growth factor", "maxillar...
PMC6233470
An oroantral fistula is a complication of the maxillary posterior teeth that can occur after a tooth extraction that affects the maxillary sinus. Improper management may lead to a persistent fistula, which may become chronic. In this case report, platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) was used with a collagen membrane to close a c...
{ "authors": [ "C F Tufan", "R E Bohîlţea", "A Tufan", "A Marinescu", "A Baros", "M M Cîrstoiu" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": null, "journal": "J Med Life", "journal_detail": "2016 Jan-Mar;9(1):70-73.", "keywords": [ "cervical insufficiency", "cervical-length screening", ...
PMC5152606
The case presentation of a transvaginal cervical cerclage performed at a 7 cm dilation in a patient in the 22nd week of pregnancy, followed by a prolongation of the pregnancy until the gestational age of 38 weeks, was reported in the context of many similar cases managed by the authors of the article during a program o...
{ "authors": [ "Yiqi Hu", "Chenao Zhan", "Chengyang Chen", "Tao Ai", "Liming Xia" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1371/journal.pone.0237302", "journal": "PLoS One", "journal_detail": "2020 Aug 25;15(8):e0237302.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.n...
PMC7447035
Background: As the current outbreak of COVID-2019 disease has spread to the other more than 150 countries besides China around the world and the death number constantly increased, the clinical data and radiological findings of death cases need to be explored so that more physicians, radiologists and researchers can gai...
{ "authors": [ "Emad S Rajih", "Mohammed F Alotaibi", "Waleed K Alkhudair" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.2147/RSRR.S106718", "journal": "Robot Surg", "journal_detail": "2016 Jul 21;3:49-52.", "keywords": [ "partial nephrectomy", "renal pseudoaneurysm", "robotic" ], "license":...
PMC6193420
Renal artery pseudoaneurysm is an uncommonly recognized complication following partial nephrectomy. It is more common with trauma and percutaneous renal intervention. Furthermore, it is rarely reported with minimally invasive laparoscopic partial nephrectomy. Herein, we report the first case to our knowledge of renal a...
{ "authors": [ "Patrick Stoner", "Eric Hilgenfeldt", "Alexander Schlachterman" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2017/5468131", "journal": "Case Rep Gastrointest Med", "journal_detail": "2017;2017:5468131.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...
PMC5736938
Foreign body ingestion is a commonly encountered problem and can cause significant morbidity and mortality. When removal of a foreign body from the upper gastrointestinal tract is indicated, endoscopy is the modality of choice and has a high reported success rate. However, in less than 1% of cases, endoscopic removal o...
{ "authors": [ "Rodrigo Rizek Schultz", "Paulo Henrique Ferreira Bertolucci" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1590/S1980-57642011DN05010010", "journal": "Dement Neuropsychol", "journal_detail": "2011 Jan-Mar;5(1):54-57.", "keywords": [ "agnosia", "congenital", "face recognition", "p...
PMC5619140
Prosopagnosia is a visual agnosia characterized by an inability to recognize previously known human faces and to learn new faces. The aim of this study was to present a forty-six year-old woman with congenital prosopagnosia, and to discuss the neural bases of perception and recognition of faces. The patients had a life...
{ "authors": [ "J A Stephenson", "S Panteleimonitis", "E Choke", "M Dennis", "M Glasby" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2011/818241", "journal": "Case Rep Vasc Med", "journal_detail": "2011;2011:818241.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.n...
PMC3420425
Aneurysms of the maxillary artery are rare and the majority of the literature refers to false aneurysms. We report the first case of what we believe to be a spontaneous true maxillary artery aneurysm and its endovascular management.
{ "authors": [ "Atsuyoshi Iida", "Yuki Fujiwara", "Tsuyoshi Nojima", "Hiromichi Naito", "Atsunori Nakao", "Takeshi Mikane" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1002/ams2.720", "journal": "Acute Med Surg", "journal_detail": "2021 Dec 28;8(1):e720.", "keywords": [ "asystole", "bra...
PMC8713731
Background: With the introduction of electronic cigarettes, reports of nicotine intoxication due to ingestion of large amounts of liquid nicotine have increased. This report presents a rare case of cardiac arrest due to nicotine intoxication that was successfully treated with appropriate respiratory and circulatory sup...
{ "authors": [ "Saravanan Kandasamy", "Reena Rachel John" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.4103/njms.NJMS_224_20", "journal": "Natl J Maxillofac Surg", "journal_detail": "2022 Jan-Apr;13(1):117-120.", "keywords": [ "condylar fractures", "extracapsular fractures", "jaw fixation technique...
PMC9326208
Condylar fractures alone accounts to about 25% to 40% of all the fractures of mandible. Management of condylar fractures has always been a controversy. Nowadays there has been more emphasis on open reduction of condylar fractures by the surgeons.The reasons could be the result of complications of closed reduction where...
{ "authors": [ "Francis Chukwuebuka Campbell", "Bibiana Oti", "Ned Michael Ndafia", "Idawarifagha Hart", "Okwuoma Okwunodulu", "Chika Anele Ndubuisi", "Birinus Adikaibe Ezeala-Adikaibe", "Samuel Chukwunonyerem Ohaegbulam" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.25259/SNI_636_2022", "jo...
PMC9699861
Background: Balo's concentric sclerosis (BCS) is a rare variant of multiple sclerosis (MS) that usually runs a benign course. Typically, brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) shows concentric lamella of areas of demyelination alternating with normal zones of myelin preservation. Clinically, it may be mistaken for othe...
{ "authors": [ "Yumiko Nagao", "Masahide Tsuji" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1159/000528681", "journal": "Case Rep Gastroenterol", "journal_detail": "2023 Jan 9;17(1):26-33.", "keywords": [ "chronic hepatitis c", "direct-acting antivirals", "hepatitis c virus", "interferon", ...
PMC9893994
Oral lichen planus (OLP), a chronic inflammatory mucocutaneous disease, is an extrahepatic manifestation of a hepatitis C virus infection. In recent years, direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) have made great strides in the treatment of hepatitis C. However, there might be a lack of information about the treatment strategie...
{ "authors": [ "Kawtar Nassar", "Wafae Rachidi", "Saadia Janani", "Ouafa Mkinsi" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.11604/pamj.2016.24.195.7325", "journal": "Pan Afr Med J", "journal_detail": "2016 Jul 7;24:195.", "keywords": [ "aseptic necrosis", "femoral head", "pregnancy", ...
PMC5072858
A documented case of beginning aseptic necrosis of the femoral head associated with pregnancy together with a review of the literature about this rare complication of pregnancy is presented. The known risk factors of osteonecrosis are; steroid use, alcoholism, organ transplantation, especially after kidney transplant o...
{ "authors": [ "Rens Zonneveld", "Jimmy Roosblad", "Jan Willem van Staveren", "Jan C Wilschut", "Stephen G S Vreden", "John Codrington" ], "case_amount": 3, "doi": "10.1016/j.idcr.2016.07.009", "journal": "IDCases", "journal_detail": "2016 Jul 22;5:49-53.", "keywords": [ "hemor...
PMC5007293
Acute Zika virus infection usually presents with a self-limiting triad of fever, rash and arthritis. There is limited information on severe or lethal cases. We report three cases of lethal acute Zika infection, confirmed with polymerase chain reaction, in adult patients with some co-morbidities. The patients showed rap...
{ "authors": [ "Takashi Omoto", "Chisato Agata", "Reina Akiyama", "Kohdai Kitamoto", "Tetsuya Toyono", "Junko Yoshida", "Satoru Yamagami", "Tomohiko Usui", "Takashi Miyai" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1159/000513793", "journal": "Case Rep Ophthalmol", "journal_detail":...
PMC8077475
We report a case of bilateral iridoschisis with corneal oedema and a quantitative evaluation of the changes in iridotrabecular and iridocorneal contact before and after cataract surgery and after Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK). A 76-year-old woman with iridoschisis and cataracts, previous...
{ "authors": [ "Devin R Halleran", "David R Halleran" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.ijscr.2014.11.058", "journal": "Int J Surg Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2014;5(12):1295-8.", "keywords": [ "colon", "gallstone", "obstruction", "perforation", "sigmoid" ], "license...
PMC4276087
Introduction: Herein we present the case of an 86-year-old woman with gallstone perforation of the sigmoid colon. Presentation of case: An 86-year-old woman with known cholelithiasis presented to our office with one week of abdominal pain and nausea. X-rays taken at presentation demonstrated pneumobilia, and CT scan sh...
{ "authors": [ "Jihyun Lee", "Dong Won Kim", "Joo Yeon Song", "Seong Kuk Yoon" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3348/jksr.2021.0022", "journal": "Taehan Yongsang Uihakhoe Chi", "journal_detail": "2022 Jan;83(1):173-177.", "keywords": [ "cyst", "kidney", "neoplasm" ], "licens...
PMC9238200
Multilocular cystic renal neoplasm of low malignant potential (MCRNLMP) is a rare subtype of renal cell carcinoma that has a favorable outcome. Most cases of MCRNLMP usually present as distinct multilocular cystic lesions; however, they may appear as small complicated cysts with hemorrhagic components. Herein, we prese...
{ "authors": [ "Sachiko Ito", "Shihoko Iwata", "Izumi Kondo", "Motoyo Iwade", "Makoto Ozaki", "Tatsuya Ishikawa", "Takakazu Kawamata" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1186/s40981-017-0124-3", "journal": "JA Clin Rep", "journal_detail": "2017;3(1):54.", "keywords": [ "antipla...
PMC5804650
Background: Esophageal submucosal hematoma is a rare complication after endovascular surgery. We report a case of an esophageal submucosal hematoma which may have been caused by rigorous cough during extubation. Case presentation: A 75-year-old woman underwent endovascular treatment for unruptured cerebral aneurysm und...
{ "authors": [ "Daegeun Lee", "Seong Mi Moon", "Dongwuk Kim", "Juwon Kim", "Haseong Chang", "Bumhee Yang", "Suk Hyeon Jeong", "Kyung Jong Lee" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.rmcr.2016.10.009", "journal": "Respir Med Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2016 Oct 7;19:177-180....
PMC5078677
Since superior vena cava syndrome (SVCS) is a critical condition, immediate diagnostic approach and therapy are imperative to avoid potentially life-threatening complications. Here, we report a case of lung cancer with SVCS, which was diagnosed through intravascular tumor biopsy using endobronchial ultrasound-guided tr...
{ "authors": [ "Fatih Firinci", "Alper Soylu", "Belde Kasap Demir", "Mehmet Turkmen", "Salih Kavukcu" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2012/428749", "journal": "Case Rep Med", "journal_detail": "2012;2012:428749.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.n...
PMC3332234
Patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease become symptomatic and are diagnosed usually at adulthood. The rate of nephrolithiasis in these patients is 5-10 times the rate in the general population, and both anatomic and metabolic abnormalities play role in the formation of renal stones. However, nephrol...
{ "authors": [ "Apostolos S Gogakos", "Dimitrios Paliouras", "Christos Asteriou", "Thomas Rallis", "Achilleas Lazopoulos", "Fotios Chatzinikolaou", "Athanassios Zissimopoulos", "Drosos Tsavlis", "Katerina Tsirgogianni", "Konstantinos Zarogoulidis", "Konstantinos Porpodis", ...
PMC4723023
Metastases from melanoma have a very poor prognosis for the patient. Single metastatic lesions in the sternum due to melanoma are extremely rare. A rare case of a presternal mass in a 56-year-old patient who had undergone excision for malignant melanoma is presented. Review of the patient's history and surgical resecti...
{ "authors": [ "Melanie R Shackleford", "Virendra Mishra", "Zoltan Mari" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.prdoa.2022.100148", "journal": "Clin Park Relat Disord", "journal_detail": "2022 Jun 8;7:100148.", "keywords": [ "fog", "fog, freezing of gait", "freezing of gait", "...
PMC9218161
Introduction: Freezing of gait (FOG) is a highly disabling symptom in Parkinson's Disease (PD) with varying degree of benefits from oral dopaminergic medications and several subtypes that present with different medication states (e.g., off FOG, on FOG, pseudo-on FOG, supra-on FOG). Levodopa-Carbidopa Intestinal Gel (LC...
{ "authors": [ "Anthony Maurice Kordahi", "Ahmed S Suliman" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": null, "journal": "Eplasty", "journal_detail": "2017 Sep 18;17:ic25.", "keywords": [ "fournier's", "gangrene", "perineum", "severity index", "systematic review" ], "license": "CC BY", "...
PMC5609248
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{ "authors": [ "Sotirios H Saravelos", "Ting Zhang", "Jacqueline Pui Wah Chung", "Lu-Ming Sun", "Yun Sun", "Tin-Chiu Li", "Zi-Jiang Chen" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.1007/s10815-015-0611-2", "journal": "J Assist Reprod Genet", "journal_detail": "2016 Jan;33(1):27-32.", "key...
PMC4717140
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to report two cases of monozygotic quadruplet and triplet pregnancies following single embryo transfer (ET). Methods: A 29-year-old woman and a 34-year-old woman underwent ART treatment in two affiliated University based ART units. The first woman underwent ICSI with day 3 embryo b...
{ "authors": [ "Yoshiyuki Yamashita", "Kazuhiro Kurisu", "Satoshi Kimura", "Yasutaka Ueno" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1186/s40792-015-0079-4", "journal": "Surg Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2015;1(1):74.", "keywords": [ "diastolic heart failure", "liposarcoma", "pericardia...
PMC4560154
Although liposarcoma often metastasizes to various organs, cardiac metastasis, including to the pericardium, is rare. We present a case of a third recurrence of pericardial metastasis from the thigh, which required surgical resection because of cardiac failure. Surgery was effective for improving cardiac function and r...
{ "authors": [ "Giuseppina Massini", "Stefan Hohaus", "Francesco D'Alò", "Valentina Bozzoli", "Barbara Vannata", "Luigi Maria Larocca", "Luciana Teofili" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.4084/MJHID.2013.016", "journal": "Mediterr J Hematol Infect Dis", "journal_detail": "2013;5(1)...
PMC3591278
Lymphedema (LE) is a chronic medical condition characterized by lymphatic fluid retention, resulting in tissue swelling. Cancer treatments involving lymph nodes can damage lymph drainage routes, causing accumulation of lymph fluid in the interstitial tissue of related limbs and body areas and secondary LE. Basically, t...
{ "authors": [ "Yuta Kurashige", "Tokuya Minemuta", "Tetsuo Nagatani" ], "case_amount": 3, "doi": "10.1159/000350286", "journal": "Case Rep Dermatol", "journal_detail": "2013 Mar 14;5(1):73-8.", "keywords": [ "aging skin", "chronological aging", "dermatoporosis", "photoaging", ...
PMC3617970
The relatively new term dermatoporosis refers to chronic deficiencies in the skin's functions in the elderly population due to aging. This syndrome is marked by chronic cutaneous fragility clinically represented by skin atrophy, senile purpura, stellate pseudoscars, skin laceration, and dissecting hematoma of the skin....
{ "authors": [ "Fernando Perretta", "Norberto Antongiovanni", "Sebastián Jaurretche" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2017/9543079", "journal": "Case Rep Nephrol", "journal_detail": "2017;2017:9543079.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/290...
PMC5642869
Fabry disease is an X-linked lysosomal storage disorder resulting from the deficiency or absence of the enzyme alpha galactosidase A; this defect leads to the systemic accumulation of globotriaosylceramide and its metabolites. Organic involvement in men is well known, but in women it is controversial, mainly due to the...
{ "authors": [ "Anupam Das", "Karan Sancheti", "Indrashis Podder", "Nilay Kanti Das" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.4103/0253-7613.174565", "journal": "Indian J Pharmacol", "journal_detail": "2016 Jan-Feb;48(1):83-5.", "keywords": [ "azithromycin", "bullous", "fixed drug erupt...
PMC4778214
Fixed drug eruption (FDE) is a common type of drug eruption seen in skin clinics. It is characterized by solitary or multiple, round to oval erythematous patches with dusky red centers, some of which may progress to bulla formation. Bullous FDE may be caused by a number of drugs. We hereby describe a case of azithromyc...
{ "authors": [ "Mohammad Ali", "Mohamed A Yassin" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.1159/000506472", "journal": "Case Rep Oncol", "journal_detail": "2020 Mar 16;13(1):219-224.", "keywords": [ "autoimmune hemolytic anemia", "chronic lymphocytic leukemia", "liver iron concentration" ], ...
PMC7154280
Iron overload is commonly seen in the context of hematological diseases in patients who require frequent transfusions. On the other hand, an association between autoimmune hemolytic anemia complicating chronic lymphocytic leukemia and iron overload is unusual. Here, we report 2 cases of iron overload in patients with a...
{ "authors": [ "Saori Itoi", "Atsushi Tanemura", "Chie Tsuji", "Shun Kitaba", "Akinori Yokomi", "Ichiro Katayama", "Chiharu Tateishi", "Daisuke Tsuruta" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1159/000360980", "journal": "Case Rep Dermatol", "journal_detail": "2014 Mar 19;6(1):91-7."...
PMC3995401
A 57-year-old male had been suffering from an itchy map-shaped symmetrical erosive erythema with a crust that was attached to his upper arm and buttock, and occasionally he suffered from spiking fever. Laboratory examinations showed neither anti-desmoglein 1/3 antibodies nor anti-BP 180 antibodies, and he fulfilled the...
{ "authors": [ "R Gersner", "L Oberman", "M J Sanchez", "N Chiriboga", "H L Kaye", "A Pascual-Leone", "M Libenson", "Y Roth", "A Zangen", "A Rotenberg" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.ebcr.2016.03.001", "journal": "Epilepsy Behav Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2...
PMC4832041
Low frequency repetitive TMS (rTMS) of a cortical seizure focus is emerging as an antiepileptic treatment. While conventional rTMS stimulators activate only superficial cortical areas, reaching deep epileptic foci, for example in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), is possible using specially designed H-coils. We report the ...
{ "authors": [ "Christopher Smelick", "Jeffrey W Britton", "William O Tatum", "Anteneh M Feyissa" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.ebcr.2018.02.003", "journal": "Epilepsy Behav Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2018 Mar 14;10:54-56.", "keywords": [ "focal evolution", "focal-gener...
PMC6031237
Seizure types have been described that do not conform to traditional classification schemes. We present another unusual type characterized by focal onset with secondary generalization, that is followed immediately by continued focal activity that generalizes again without an intervening break. Better understanding of t...
{ "authors": [ "Nouf Faisal Alharbi", "Mohammed Mubarak Hajla", "Tarek Elsharkawy", "Ashraf Alharbi", "Randa Abdelsayed", "Fathia Ebrahim Aljama" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.4103/sjmms.sjmms_249_22", "journal": "Saudi J Med Med Sci", "journal_detail": "2023 Jan-Mar;11(1):93-97.",...
PMC9997864
Endometriosis-related neoplasms may arise within endometriotic cysts of organs of the female genital tract or other organ systems. Herein, we present a case of endometrioid adenocarcinoma arising within an endometriotic cyst in the mesosalpinx. A 27-year-old single female presented to the clinic with a history of right...
{ "authors": [ "Meghan E McDevitt-Murphy" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.1037/a0022346", "journal": "Prof Psychol Res Pr", "journal_detail": "2011;42(1):40-46.", "keywords": [ "posttraumatic stress disorder", "veterans", "alcohol use disorders", "cognitive behavioral therapy" ], "...
PMC3673281
This manuscript describes early work to develop a cognitive-behavioral therapy protocol for returning OEF/OIF Veterans with co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol use disorders (AUD). Based on the unique characteristics of this population, and on the literature supporting cognitive behavioral cop...
{ "authors": [ "Renata Conforti", "Raffaele Stefano Parlato", "Danilo De Paulis", "Mario Cirillo", "Valeria Marrone", "Sossio Cirillo", "Aldo Moraci", "Ciro Parlato" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1007/s10072-012-0942-z", "journal": "Neurol Sci", "journal_detail": "2012 Dec;...
PMC3506834
We report a case of trigeminal neuralgia caused by persistent trigeminal artery (PTA) associated with asymptomatic left temporal cavernoma. Our patient presented unstable blood hypertension and the pain of typical trigeminal neuralgia over the second and third divisions of the nerve in the right side of the face. The a...
{ "authors": [ "Michael A Lavor", "Georgina M Michael", "Yeabsera G Tamire", "Nicole D Dorofee" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": null, "journal": "Eplasty", "journal_detail": "2018 Jul 5;18:e22.", "keywords": [ "autograft failure", "autologous tissue transfer", "chronic wound", ...
PMC6036685
Introduction: Meshed split-thickness skin grafting represents a rapid and effective technique for surgical wound closure. Factors such as ongoing inflammation, microbial colonization, and a poorly vascularized wound bed increase the rate of skin autograft failure up to 33%. Because of the inherent angiogenic, anti-infl...
{ "authors": [ "Kobi Faierstein", "Noya Shilo", "Asaf Levartovsky", "Roy Raphael", "Amir Givon", "Nancy Agmon-Levin", "Haim Mayan" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.3389/fimmu.2022.880016", "journal": "Front Immunol", "journal_detail": "2022 May 9;13:880016.", "keywords": [ "...
PMC9124847
Background: Autoimmune neutropenia (AIN) is divided into primary and secondary forms. The former is more prevalent in children and is usually a self-limiting disease. Secondary AIN is more common in adults and often occurs in the setting of another autoimmune disorder or secondary to infections, malignancies or medicat...
{ "authors": [ "Shahed Tish", "Ghaith Habboub", "Richard A Prayson", "Troy D Woodard", "Varun R Kshettry", "Pablo F Recinos" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.25259/SNI-30-2019", "journal": "Surg Neurol Int", "journal_detail": "2019 May 10;10:82.", "keywords": [ "extraventricular...
PMC6744785
Background: Extraventricular neurocytoma (EVN) is a rare variant of central neurocytoma which arises outside of the ventricular system. Diffuse ganglioid differentiation is a characteristic seen in a subset of these tumors which has an uncertain prognostic significance. Typically, EVN presents in children and young adu...
{ "authors": [ "Yasuhiro Yamada", "Yoshiaki Ikuta", "Kisato Nosaka", "Nobutomo Miyanari", "Naoko Hayashi", "Hiroaki Mitsuya", "Hideo Baba" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2010/802312", "journal": "Case Rep Med", "journal_detail": "2010;2010:802312.", "keywords": null, "l...
PMC2837905
Accidental cisplatin overdose has been occurring with an increasing frequency due to expanding usage of the agent. However, the optimal strategy to treat such patients remains to be established. Here, we report a case of large cisplatin overdose, successfully managed by plasma exchange, intravenous hydration, granulocy...
{ "authors": [ "Giada Giovannini", "Stefano Meletti" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.ebcr.2014.06.001", "journal": "Epilepsy Behav Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2014 Aug 19;2:136-41.", "keywords": [ "epilepsy", "ictal asystole", "ictal bradycardia syndrome", "sudep", "sy...
PMC4307958
We report the case of a 69-year-old woman who presented with recurring episodes of mental confusion/dizziness followed by loss of consciousness, intense pallor, and sweating. Cardiologic investigations were unremarkable. The electroencephalogram recorded during one typical episode allowed the demonstration of a right f...
{ "authors": [ "R Grech", "A Mizzi", "S Grech" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2013/945726", "journal": "Case Rep Pulmonol", "journal_detail": "2013;2013:945726.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23984155/", "major_mesh_terms": [], "m...
PMC3747420
Primary cardiac tumours are rare; their prevalence ranges from 0.0017% to 0.28% in various autopsy series. Cardiac lipomas are well-encapsulated benign tumours typically composed of mature fat cells, and their reported size ranges from 1 to 15 cm. They are usually seen in the left ventricle and the right atrium. Lipoma...
{ "authors": [ "Emilly Caroline de Freitas Silva", "Camila Ronchini Montalvão", "Simone Bonafé" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2017/3095031", "journal": "Case Rep Infect Dis", "journal_detail": "2017;2017:3095031.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.n...
PMC5564126
Introduction: Enterococcus faecalis (E. faecalis), a constituent of the gut microbiota, can be associated with both colonic lesions and endocarditis. Since this microorganism is one of the endocarditis etiological agents, there is a need for greater study in regard to the association with endocarditis and colonic lesi...
{ "authors": [ "Ye Rin Kim", "Yu Sung Yoon", "Hyerim Park" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.5334/jbsr.2848", "journal": "J Belg Soc Radiol", "journal_detail": "2022 Sep 21;106(1):81.", "keywords": [ "desmoid", "fibromatosis", "magnetic resonance imaging", "paraspinal muscle", ...
PMC9504096
A 27-year-old woman was confirmed to have extraabdominal desmoid-type fibromatosis. Desmoid-type fibromatosis is a very rare connective tissue neoplasm with the extraabdominal type even more rare. It is most commonly found in proximal structures such as shoulders, neck, chest, and extremities. There are few case report...
{ "authors": [ "Reem M A Shafi", "Jennifer L Vande Voort", "Paul E Croarkin", "Magdalena Romanowicz" ], "case_amount": 6, "doi": "10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00427", "journal": "Front Psychiatry", "journal_detail": "2018 Sep 10;9:427.", "keywords": [ "behavioral issues", "developmental dela...
PMC6143813
Parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT) is an evidence-based, behavioral dyadic treatment for caregivers and their children aged 2-7 years old with emotional and behavioral disorders. Here we present a treatment course of a 3-years-old girl with leukoencephalopathy, dysgenesis of the brainstem, and associated global de...
{ "authors": [ "T Chiba", "Y Yasukochi", "Y Moroi", "M Furue" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": null, "journal": "Iran J Parasitol", "journal_detail": "2012;7(3):103-6.", "keywords": [ "elisa", "sparganosis", "surgery", "ultrasonography" ], "license": "CC BY", "link": "http...
PMC3469180
Cases of Sparganum mansoni, caused by the plerocercoid larva of the tapeworm S. mansoni, occur throughout the world, particularly in Asian, Middle Eastern, and European countries. However, cases of infection with this parasite are rarely seen in Japan. Here, we present a case of a 61-year-old woman with a solitary subc...
{ "authors": [ "Olivia Cohen", "Mathilde Boutrou", "Mathieu Nacher", "Eric Caumes", "Félix Djossou", "Loïc Epelboin" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1590/S1678-9946202365003", "journal": "Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo", "journal_detail": "2023 Jan 16;65:e3.", "keywords": null, "lic...
PMC9870253
The use of herbal tea with Artemisia annua by travelers and traditional communities in Africa has increased in recent years as a supposed form of malaria prophylaxis, although its use is not recommended due to lack of efficacy. The risk of severe malaria complications that can lead to death is real regarding said behav...
{ "authors": [ "Anna Lin", "Lawrence Chi Ngong Chan", "Kam Lun Ellis Hon", "Siu Yan Bess Tsui", "Kristine Kit Yi Pang", "Hon Ming Cheung", "Alexander K C Leung" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.1155/2019/3549242", "journal": "Case Rep Pediatr", "journal_detail": "2019 Apr 28;2019:...
PMC6512031
Foreign body ingestions are frequent in the childhood population. Most foreign bodies are passed spontaneously through the gastrointestinal tract. However, on occasion, they can also be a rare cause of morbidity and even mortality, such as in the case of multiple magnetic foreign body ingestion, which can cause injury ...
{ "authors": [ "Zhuo Wang", "Zun-Fu Ke", "Xiao-Fang Lu", "Can-Jiao Luo", "Yong-Dong Liu", "Zhong-Wei Lin", "Lian-Tang Wang" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.2147/OTT.S79102", "journal": "Onco Targets Ther", "journal_detail": "2015 Feb 5;8:395-400.", "keywords": [ "cd163", ...
PMC4332258
Spontaneous regression of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a rare event. However, only a few of the causes of cases of HCC spontaneous regression are clear. More cases are ambiguous. We report on a patient who had a spontaneous regression of HCC as detected by histological and immunohistochemical exam, and compared th...
{ "authors": [ "Henry Otgaar", "Corine de Ruiter", "Mark L Howe", "Lisanne Hoetmer", "Patricia van Reekum" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1080/13218719.2016.1230924", "journal": "Psychiatr Psychol Law", "journal_detail": "2016 Oct 3;24(3):365-378.", "keywords": [ "eyewitness memor...
PMC6818307
Expert witnesses can play a major role in legal cases concerning the reliability of statements. Abuse cases frequently contain only the memories of eyewitnesses/victims without the presence of physical evidence. Here, it is of the utmost importance that expert witnesses use scientific evidence for their expert opinion....
{ "authors": [ "Shakir Saleem Jabali", "Ayad Ahmad Mohammed" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.ijscr.2020.09.071", "journal": "Int J Surg Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2020;75:189-192.", "keywords": [ "ectopic testis", "empty scrotum", "genital ridge", "inguinal hernia", "...
PMC7509342
Background: Crossed testicular ectopia is a rare form of urogenital anomalies in which both testes are migrated and descend through a single inguinal canal, one or both testes may be ectopic in the abdomen, the inguinal region or descent to the hemi-scrotum with empty contralateral hemi-scrotum. Case presentation: A 1....
{ "authors": [ "Ashok Kumar", "Pritish Singh", "Pramod Jain", "C M Badole" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.4103/1817-1745.66675", "journal": "J Pediatr Neurosci", "journal_detail": "2010 Jan;5(1):49-51.", "keywords": [ "intramedullary epidermoid cyst", "meningitis", "spinal dys...
PMC2964782
Intramedullary spinal epidermoid cysts are rare, with only few cases having been reported in the literature. We are reporting a case of a 10-year-old female child who presented with symptoms of meningitis with progressive paraparesis. Magnetic resonance imaging of the spine revealed an intramedullary epidermoid cyst fr...
{ "authors": [ "S Rupasinghe", "S Bowattage", "L Herath", "A Rajaratnam" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.1155/2021/5555613", "journal": "Case Rep Infect Dis", "journal_detail": "2021 Apr 21;2021:5555613.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3...
PMC8084661
Hantaviruses are a large family of enveloped viruses with two medically important families Cricetidae and Muridae which are known to cause rodent-borne diseases worldwide. Some strains cause clinical syndromes with multiorgan involvement in humans such as hantavirus haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and han...
{ "authors": [ "Christopher Larrimore", "Annmarie Jaghab" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2019/1801942", "journal": "Case Rep Oncol Med", "journal_detail": "2019 Nov 27;2019:1801942.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31885969/", "major_mesh...
PMC6900937
This is a case of an elderly female who presented for follow-up ultrasound of the right breast after routine mammogram revealed a small benign mass. A subsequent ultrasound detected a small nodular mass that was described as benign in appearance. Although the patient was asymptomatic, a fine-needle biopsy was performed...
{ "authors": [ "Yu Shimizu", "Katsuhiro Tsuchiya", "Hironori Fujisawa" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.25259/SNI_187_2019", "journal": "Surg Neurol Int", "journal_detail": "2019 Sep 27;10:188.", "keywords": [ "aplasia of carotid artery", "dandy–walker syndrome", "phace syndrome", ...
PMC6778325
Background: Posterior fossa brain malformations, hemangiomas, arterial anomalies, coarctation of the aorta and cardiac defects, and eye abnormalities (PHACE) is a rare congenital anomaly with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations. Case description: We describe a 75-year-old male with PHACE anomaly, aortic anomaly...
{ "authors": [ "Etienne Garin", "Yan Rolland", "Laurence Lenoir", "Marc Pracht", "Habiba Mesbah", "Philippe Porée", "Sophie Laffont", "Bruno Clement", "Jean-Luc Raoul", "Eveline Boucher" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2011/398051", "journal": "Int J Mol Imaging", ...
PMC3147134
Objectives. The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of SPECT/CT for volume measurements and to report a case illustrating the major impact of SPECT/CT in calculating the vascularized liver volume and dosimetry prior to injecting radiolabelled yttrium-90 microspheres (Therasphere). Materials and Methods. T...
{ "authors": [ "Allison Wyman", "William Hurd", "Justin Lappen" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2012/487385", "journal": "Case Rep Med", "journal_detail": "2012;2012:487385.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22778750/", "major_mesh_term...
PMC3384962
Introduction. Dyspnea during pregnancy and in the immediate postpartum or postoperative period is a relatively common symptom that can be an early sign of a life threatening condition. The differential diagnosis is broad and can represent a wide variety of underlying etiologies. Cardiac tumors are one of the rarest cau...
{ "authors": [ "James J Gugger", "Romergryko G Geocadin", "Peter W Kaplan" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.cnp.2019.09.001", "journal": "Clin Neurophysiol Pract", "journal_detail": "2019 Oct 17;4:194-197.", "keywords": [ "coma", "encephalopathy", "hypoglycemia", "somatos...
PMC6921239
Objectives: We present a case of a patient with hypoglycemic encephalopathy with loss of median nerve N20 somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEPs) and describe our multimodal approach to prognostication in hypoglycemic encephalopathy. Case: The patient was a 67-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes and stage 5 chronic kid...
{ "authors": [ "Davide Cerasti", "Francesca Ormitti", "Stefano Pardatscher", "Laura Malchiodi", "Edoardo Picetti", "Roberto Menozzi", "Sandra Rossi" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1007/s42399-020-00388-9", "journal": "SN Compr Clin Med", "journal_detail": "2020;2(8):1213-1217.",...
PMC7334131
We describe a case of a 47-year-old Italian, immunocompromised, and obese woman infected by COVID-19 presenting with fever (39.6 °C) and respiratory symptoms. Neurological examination was normal. Chest CT findings consist of bilateral interstitial pneumonia (visual score extension: 30%). The patient was treated with an...