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{ "authors": [ "Jeyaseelan Nadarajah", "Kumble Seetharama Madhusudhan", "Ajay Kumar Yadav", "Arun Kumar Gupta", "Naval Kumar Vikram" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.4103/0971-3026.150145", "journal": "Indian J Radiol Imaging", "journal_detail": "2015 Jan-Mar;25(1):52-5.", "keywords": [...
PMC4329688
Dengue is a common viral infection worldwide with presentation varying from clinically silent infection to dengue fever, dengue hemorrhagic fever, and severe fulminant dengue shock syndrome. Neurological manifestation usually results from multisystem dysfunction secondary to vascular leak. Presentation as hemorrhagic e...
{ "authors": [ "S Dujardin", "R Schots", "S De Raedt" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2011/834308", "journal": "Case Rep Neurol Med", "journal_detail": "2011;2011:834308.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22937347/", "major_mesh_terms":...
PMC3420568
We describe a case of suspected "T-cell-mediated" hypereosinophilic syndrome presenting with cerebral watershed infarcts. An extensive search for potential embolic sources was negative, supporting the hypothesis that cerebrovascular endothelial dysfunction could have caused the infarcts.
{ "authors": [ "Seyedeh Fatemeh Sadatmadani", "Zahra Malakoutikhah", "Fatemeh Mohaghegh", "Mohammadsaleh Peikar", "Mahdi Saboktakin" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.curtheres.2022.100676", "journal": "Curr Ther Res Clin Exp", "journal_detail": "2022 Jun 3;96:100676.", "keywords"...
PMC9249592
Tyrosine kinase inhibitors are anticancer drugs that disrupt signal transduction pathways in protein kinases by different mechanisms. This group of pharmacologic agents has significantly improved the outcome of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia. However, their effect is not limited to cancer cells, and various com...
{ "authors": [ "G L Simmons", "H M Chung", "J M McCarty", "A A Toor", "D Farkas", "K Miller", "W B Clark" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1038/bmt.2016.197", "journal": "Bone Marrow Transplant", "journal_detail": "2017 Jan;52(1):141-143.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY-...
PMC5220135
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{ "authors": [ "Anastasia Mikuscheva", "Elliot McKenzie", "Adel Mekhail" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2017/6431531", "journal": "Case Rep Obstet Gynecol", "journal_detail": "2017;2017:6431531.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29163993...
PMC5661072
The term "Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young" (MODY) was first described in 1976 and is currently referred to as monogenic diabetes. There are 14 known entities accounting for 1-2% of diabetes and they are frequently misdiagnosed as either type 1 or type 2 diabetes. MODY-5 is an entity of monogenic diabetes that is a...
{ "authors": [ "Yogesh Kumar Sarin", "Nita Khurana" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": null, "journal": "APSP J Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2011 Jan;2(1):2.", "keywords": [ "aggressive fibromatosis", "desmoid tumor", "fibrosarcoma", "musculoaponeurotic fibromatosis", "recurrence" ...
PMC3418014
Extra-abdominal desmoid tumors are circumscribed but non-capsulated neoplasms of differentiated fibrous tissue arising from musculoaponeurotic tissues. They tend to be locally infiltrative, resulting in a high rate of local recurrence without metastasis, following surgical resection. We report a 9-year-old boy who had ...
{ "authors": [ "Carolline Fontes Alves Mariano", "Glauce Lunardelli Trevisan", "Antonio Augusto Velasco E Cruz", "Fernando Chahud" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2017/7693149", "journal": "Case Rep Pathol", "journal_detail": "2017;2017:7693149.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY...
PMC5591893
Plasmablastic lymphoma (PBL) is a rare B-cell lymphoma occurring mainly in HIV patients. The tumor frequently involves extranodal sites such as the oral cavity, nasal cavity, gastrointestinal tract, skin, and lungs. The neoplastic cells are characterized by a plasmablastic appearance and typical immunophenotype that in...
{ "authors": [ "Amin Dalili", "Mohsen Aliakbarian", "Mehdi Karimi-Shahri", "Alireza Samadi", "Sara Raji" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2020/6694904", "journal": "Case Rep Surg", "journal_detail": "2020 Nov 23;2020:6694904.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "htt...
PMC7704190
Introduction. Solid pseudopapillary neoplasm (SPN) is a rare and indolent pancreatic tumor with low malignant potential which frequently occurs in reproductive-age females. Complete resection is almost always the curative option. Case Presentation. We present a 20-year-old woman with acute epigastric pain and vomiting ...
{ "authors": [ "Abdulbaril Olagunju", "Nawfal Mihyawi", "Carmel Moazez", "Ranjini Raina Roy", "Azar Mehdizadeh", "Mehrdad Saririan" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1177/23247096211045255", "journal": "J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2021 Jan-Dec;9:23247096211...
PMC8447089
Secundum atrial septal defect (ASD) is the most common type of ASD. Symptoms including dyspnea on exertion usually manifest in the third and fourth decade of life. The transcatheter closure is the treatment of choice for secundum ASD. The transfemoral venous approach has been the mainstay. However, this approach can be...
{ "authors": [ "T Ichida", "Y Kajita" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3904/kjim.1997.12.1.96", "journal": "Korean J Intern Med", "journal_detail": "1997 Jan;12(1):96-9.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY-NC", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9159047/", "major_mesh_terms": [ "A...
PMC4531965
The first case of idiopathic thyrotropin (TSH) deficiency in an old woman with thyroid functioning adenoma was reported. She got subtotal thyroidectomy before about four years of her admission to our hospital because of fatigability, puffy face and leg edema. At time, she had low TSH and free T4 levels despite replacem...
{ "authors": [ "K-M Park", "D-I Kim" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.ejvssr.2016.11.002", "journal": "EJVES Short Rep", "journal_detail": "2016 Dec 28;36:13-15.", "keywords": [ "extracranial carotid artery aneurysm" ], "license": "CC BY-NC-ND", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih...
PMC5634818
Introduction: Bilateral extracranial carotid artery aneurysms (ECAAs) are very rare. The case of a patient with bilateral ECAA who underwent staged surgical repair is reported. Report: A 35 year old man was referred with a slow growing pulsatile neck mass causing mild discomfort. Computed tomography and duplex ultrasou...
{ "authors": [ "Lei Chen", "Ping Zhang", "Xuan Zhu", "Minmin Zhang", "Benqiang Deng" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3389/fneur.2022.872279", "journal": "Front Neurol", "journal_detail": "2022 Jul 25;13:872279.", "keywords": [ "antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (aps)", "crypto...
PMC9358978
Introduction: Accurate definition of stroke etiology is crucial, as this will guide effective targets for treatment. Both antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS) and infective endocarditis (IE) can be independent risk factors for ischemic stroke in young adults. When an embolic stroke occurs with IE and APS simultaneo...
{ "authors": [ "Abhishek Bhurwal", "Muhammad Masoodul Haq", "Sunil Sapru", "Matthew Tortora", "Dhanasekaran Ramasamy" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2018/7871503", "journal": "Case Rep Gastrointest Med", "journal_detail": "2018 Apr 12;2018:7871503.", "keywords": null, "license"...
PMC5925152
Isolated pancreatic tuberculosis is an exceedingly rare condition, even in areas of the world where the disease is highly prevalent. Abdominal tuberculosis is a common form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis but involvement of the pancreas is very rare. We report a case of isolated pancreatic tuberculosis presenting as a p...
{ "authors": [ "Girish D Bakhshi", "Kishor R Wankhede", "Mukund B Tayade", "Ajay H Bhandarwar", "Sandeep T Gore", "Dayanand D Choure" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.4081/cp.2013.e3", "journal": "Clin Pract", "journal_detail": "2013 Jan 25;3(1):e3.", "keywords": [ "multicystic ...
PMC3981227
Benign multicystic peritoneal mesothelioma (BMPM) is an uncommon lesion. It presents as a lump in abdomen or a finding seen on imaging modalities. Surgery is the primary modality of treatment. However, it has a high recurrence rate; this results in adhesions and subsequent surgeries difficult. We present a case of recu...
{ "authors": [ "Mengjin Hao", "Libo Wang", "Dashi Ma", "Weiying Guo" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3389/fonc.2023.1158385", "journal": "Front Oncol", "journal_detail": "2023 May 1;13:1158385.", "keywords": [ "carney complex", "graves’ disease", "adolescent female", "atria...
PMC10183597
The most common primary cardiac tumors in adults are atrial myxomas, with adolescent-onset being uncommon. In this case report, a 15-year-old female was hospitalized with cerebrovascular embolism and later diagnosed with a left atrial myxoma. She had previously shown signs of distal vascular micro thrombosis, including...
{ "authors": [ "Zeeshanuddin Ahmad", "Apoorv Sharma", "Minhajuddin Ahmed", "Vikram Vatti" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": null, "journal": "Iran J Med Sci", "journal_detail": "2016 Jan;41(1):67-70.", "keywords": [ "bezoars", "gastric perforation", "trichophagia", "trichotilloma...
PMC4691274
Trichobezoars are impactions of swallowed hairs in the stomach and occasionally in the intestine. They occur in emotionally disturbed, depressed, or mentally retarded patients who have trichotillomania and trichophagia. Trichobezoars are usually diagnosed on CT scan or upper GI endoscopy. They can give rise to complica...
{ "authors": [ "Vera Hergesell", "Erwin Mathew", "Peter Kornprat", "Igor Knez", "Hans-Joerg Mischinger", "Otto Dapunt", "Sotirios Spiliopoulos" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1177/2050313X18789217", "journal": "SAGE Open Med Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2018 Jul 30;6:2050313X18...
PMC6066803
Management of end-stage heart failure patients requiring major general surgery is not well defined. Due to poor cardiorespiratory reserve, perioperative morbidity and mortality are excessively high. We report a case of temporary implementation of veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for haemodynamic suppor...
{ "authors": [ "Jagdish P Goyal", "Sanjeev S Rao", "Sangita Trivedi" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2011/329738", "journal": "Case Rep Neurol Med", "journal_detail": "2011;2011:329738.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22937335/", "maj...
PMC3420633
We report a case of 8-year-old female child who was admitted at our hospital with complaints of transient ischemic attacks and left-sided hemiparesis. On MR angiography, the child was diagnosed to have Moya Moya disease. Moya Moya disease is a rare cause of cerebral stroke in children. The patient was treated conservat...
{ "authors": [ "Jiafei Cao", "Jian Zhu", "Yining Xiang", "Pailan Peng", "Qi Liu", "Hua Fu", "Yan Huang" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.2147/IDR.S414976", "journal": "Infect Drug Resist", "journal_detail": "2023 Jul 11;16:4539-4544.", "keywords": [ "treponema pallidum", ...
PMC10349567
Gastric syphilis is a rare manifestation of syphilis that occurs in about 1% of cases and is often overlooked due to its non-specific signs and symptoms. We report a case of a 28-year-old Chinese woman who presented with epigastric pain, nausea, vomiting, hematemesis, alopecia, and weight loss. She tested positive for ...
{ "authors": [ "Nithendra Manickchund", "Camille du Plessis", "Melanie-Anne A John", "Thandekile C Manzini", "Bernadett I Gosnell", "Richard J Lessells", "Yunus S Moosa" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.4102/sajhivmed.v20i1.983", "journal": "South Afr J HIV Med", "journal_detail":...
PMC6779991
Introduction: Anemia is common in HIV. Parvo B19 infection is a well-recognised cause of red cell aplasia. Other causes of persistent pure red cell aplasia (PRCA) include anti-retroviral drugs such as zidovudine and lamivudine. We describe a case of PRCA that strongly implicates emtricitabine as the probable cause. Pat...
{ "authors": [ "Gustavo Barreto da Cunha", "Tatiane Costa Camurugy", "Thiago Cavalcante Ribeiro", "Nara Nunes Barbosa Costa", "Amanda Canário Andrade Azevedo", "Eriko Soares de Azevedo Vinhaes", "Nilvano Alves de Andrade" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2017/7057989", "journal...
PMC5259606
Introduction. The myoepithelioma is a rare benign tumor, most frequently found in the salivary glands. The extrasalivary gland involvement is even rarer and few cases involving the nasal cavity have been reported in the literature. Case Report. MES, a 54-year-old woman, complaining of progressive nasal obstruction and ...
{ "authors": [ "Ilma Vahora", "Ezhil Panneerselvam", "Abhizith Deoker" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.7759/cureus.33626", "journal": "Cureus", "journal_detail": "2023 Jan 10;15(1):e33626.", "keywords": [ "altered mental status", "ammonia", "cyclophosphamide", "hyperammonemic e...
PMC9911933
Multiple myeloma (MM) typically presents as lytic bony lesions, hypercalcemia, anemia, and renal failure. Only a few cases of hyperammonemic encephalopathy (HE) attributed to multiple myeloma have been reported. We report a case of a 68-year-old Hispanic female diagnosed with multiple myeloma and presented with altered...
{ "authors": [ "Mahesh Mathur", "Prakash Acharya", "Alina Karki", "Nisha Kc", "Jyoti Shah", "Ayush Jha" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1002/ccr3.1933", "journal": "Clin Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2018 Nov 22;7(1):146-148.", "keywords": [ "dermoscopy", "lichen planus", ...
PMC6333123
Lichen planus (LP) of lip has chances of malignant transformation as it may be exposed to external trauma, smoking, and ultraviolet light. This case highlights the use of dermoscope as a quick noninvasive tool for the diagnosis of LP of lip and monitoring the response to treatment.
{ "authors": [ "Massini Merzkani", "Nupur N Uppal", "Daniel W Ross", "Pranisha Gautam-Goyal", "Prashant Malhotra", "Hitesh H Shah", "Kenar D Jhaveri", "Vivette D D'Agati" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.ekir.2017.08.001", "journal": "Kidney Int Rep", "journal_detail": ...
PMC5762945
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{ "authors": [ "Abdullah Ozkaya", "Gurkan Erdogan", "Gokhan Demir" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1186/s40942-018-0145-8", "journal": "Int J Retina Vitreous", "journal_detail": "2018 Nov 7;4:40.", "keywords": [ "epiretinal membrane", "foveal herniation", "vitrectomy" ], "licen...
PMC6220454
Background: To evaluate the surgical outcomes of vitrectomy in patients with foveal herniation associated with epiretinal membrane (ERM). Methods: This was a retrospective case series. The patients who had a foveal herniation associated with ERM, underwent vitrectomy, and had a minimum follow-up period of 12 months wer...
{ "authors": [ "Kerclin Danielle de Klerk", "Steffen Bau", "Gunar Günther" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.11604/pamj.2018.30.121.12691", "journal": "Pan Afr Med J", "journal_detail": "2018 Jun 13;30:121.", "keywords": [ "pulmonary tuberculosis", "idiopathic pulmonary haemo-siderosis",...
PMC6195231
Tuberculosis is still one of the most common respiratory diseases in Africa and worldwide and miliary tuberculosis is a regular manifestation of it. Idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis is a rare disease entity, presenting in children as well as adults. It is characterized by the triad of recurrent episodes of alveolar h...
{ "authors": [ "Maria Siddiqi", "Sundus Sardar", "Muhammad Ibrahim Alhatou" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.5339/qmj.2023.16", "journal": "Qatar Med J", "journal_detail": "2023 Aug 8;2023(3):16.", "keywords": [ "guillain–barré syndrome", "myelopathy", "os odontoideum" ], "licen...
PMC10411357
We describe the case of a 44-year-old gentleman with hypertension and asthma presenting to the emergency department after noticing right upper-extremity weakness upon awakening. Brain imaging did not reveal a stroke. Initial neurological examination pointed to cervical myelopathy with radiculopathy as well as possible ...
{ "authors": [ "Xiaojing He", "Qingya Ma", "Qiaoli Zhang", "Xutao Hong", "Ming Qi", "Yongkai Li", "Xiaodong Li" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3389/fgene.2022.1038997", "journal": "Front Genet", "journal_detail": "2022 Nov 25;13:1038997.", "keywords": [ "androgen receptor"...
PMC9732716
Background: Androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) is an X-linked recessive hereditary disease caused due to a reduced or absent function of the androgen receptor (AR) protein encoded by the AR gene (OMIM-Gene# 313,700). Genetic testing is important in the diagnosis, clinical management, and prevention of AIS (MIM# 300,...
{ "authors": [ "Yawen Wu", "Xiaoyan Zhang", "Lian Li", "Wen Yang", "Zhifeng Yan", "Chenglei Gu", "Zhe Zhang", "Jiahuan Zhou", "Lulu Liu", "Mingxia Ye", "Yuanguang Meng" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.2147/OTT.S375643", "journal": "Onco Targets Ther", "journal_det...
PMC9480580
Background: The mortality rate of ovarian cancer (OC) ranks first among female genital tract malignant tumors, which seriously threatens women's life and health. Because of its insidious onset and poor prognosis, it has become a thorny problem in the clinic, especially for patients with platinum-resistant recurrent ova...
{ "authors": [ "Federica Porcaro", "Girolamo Mattioli", "Claudio Romano" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1159/000348758", "journal": "Case Rep Gastroenterol", "journal_detail": "2013 Mar 1;7(1):63-8.", "keywords": [ "anterior", "chronic gastric volvulus", "postprandial vomiting", ...
PMC3617890
Gastric volvulus is a significant, rare cause of non-bilious vomiting and consists of a pathological rotation of the stomach of more than 180° around the axis without obstruction of the gastrointestinal tract. A definitive diagnosis is made with upper radiological gastrointestinal studies. Treatment may be conservative...
{ "authors": [ "Apiradee Theamboonlers", "Ornwalan Maiklang", "Thanunrat Thongmee", "Thaweesak Chieochansin", "Viboonsuk Vuthitanachot", "Yong Poovorawan" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.1186/2193-1801-2-569", "journal": "Springerplus", "journal_detail": "2013 Oct 26;2:569.", "keyw...
PMC3824699
Background: We performed phylogenetic and sequence analysis by Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) of a complete Human Rotavirus (HRV) genome isolated from a hospitalized child with acute gastroenteritis in Thailand. Findings: The results indicated an uncommon strain characterized by multiple re-assortments in th...
{ "authors": [ "Emam M Kheder", "Hussain H Sharahili", "Salma Y Albahrani", "Abdullah M Alfarhan", "Abdulrahman M Alquraynis", "Mahmoud B Maitigue", "Ahmed M Al Wehaibi" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1177/2050313X211052442", "journal": "SAGE Open Med Case Rep", "journal_detail"...
PMC8516381
Lumbo-pelvic pain is a common and non-specific problem during pregnancy and postpartum. Although perinatal pyogenic sacroiliitis is uncommon during this time, it might be difficult to distinguish from reactive sacroiliitis in women who are experiencing significant lower back and pelvic girdle pain, as the symptoms and ...
{ "authors": [ "Debarshi Sanyal", "Vidya Bhairi", "Jayarama S Kadandale" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": null, "journal": "Int J Mol Cell Med", "journal_detail": "2016 Winter;5(1):57-63.", "keywords": [ "consanguinity", "conventional cytogenetics", "endogamy", "familial translocati...
PMC4916784
We present 2 cases of likely rare event. In case 1, 3(rd) degree consanguineous marriage revealed inv(6) with same break points in parents who were found to be phenotypically normal. The same inv(6) being inherited in progeny but presented with low AMH (anti Mullerian hormone) and high level of FSH (follicular stimulat...
{ "authors": [ "Abdul-Rahim Raihan", "Embong Zunaina", "Wan-Hitam Wan-Hazabbah", "Hussein Adil", "Thavaratnam Lakana-Kumar" ], "case_amount": 4, "doi": "10.2147/OPTH.S63667", "journal": "Clin Ophthalmol", "journal_detail": "2014 Aug 5;8:1459-66.", "keywords": [ "cat scratch disease...
PMC4128839
We report a case series of neuroretinitis in ocular bartonellosis and describe the serologic verification for Bartonella henselae. This is a retrospective interventional case series of four patients who presented in the ophthalmology clinic of Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia from June 2012 to March 2013. All four pa...
{ "authors": [ "Annalisa Traverso", "Caterina Ancora", "Silvia Zanato", "Alessia Raffagnato", "Michela Gatta" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3389/fpsyt.2021.644727", "journal": "Front Psychiatry", "journal_detail": "2021 Jun 2;12:644727.", "keywords": [ "ect", "adolescent psyc...
PMC8211461
Catatonia is a psychomotor syndrome with specific clusters of speech, behavioral and motor features. Although potentially life-threatening, especially in its malignant form accompanied with autonomic dysregulation and medical complications, it is a treatable condition, when promptly identified. For a long time catatoni...
{ "authors": [ "Carlos A Carmona Jr", "Alberto Marante", "Fatma Levent", "Sarah Marsicek" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2020/8852847", "journal": "Case Rep Pediatr", "journal_detail": "2020 Oct 5;2020:8852847.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi....
PMC7556054
Burkholderia cepacia causes sepsis in neonates who are immunocompromised or exposed via nosocomial transmission. We report a case of B. cepacia sepsis in a previously healthy 5-week-old male originally treated for bacterial pneumonia per chest X-ray findings and 3 days of fevers. Regardless of appropriate antibiotics a...
{ "authors": [ "Sankaran Sudhakar", "Raga Geethika Velugubantla", "Swathi Erva", "Sai Kiran Chennoju" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.4103/2156-7514.145898", "journal": "J Clin Imaging Sci", "journal_detail": "2014 Nov 29;4(Suppl 2):5.", "keywords": [ "carcinoma", "chemotherapy", ...
PMC4278096
Salivary gland carcinomas are a clinically diverse group of neoplasms with histological patterns overlapping other tumors, thus complicating their diagnosis. Mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC), first described by Masson and Berger in 1924, is a well-recognized salivary gland neoplasm, accounting for 5-10% of all salivary g...
{ "authors": [ "Michael A Hunt", "Jeanie R Zabukovec", "Sue Peters", "Courtney L Pollock", "Meghan A Linsdell", "Lara A Boyd" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2011/537420", "journal": "Case Rep Rheumatol", "journal_detail": "2011;2011:537420.", "keywords": null, "license": "C...
PMC3420629
One male with unilateral osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee underwent testing of corticospinal (CS) excitability (as quantified from motor-evoked potentials (MEPs) in the rectus femoris (RF) using transcranial magnetic stimulation) and quadriceps muscle strength. Baseline data indicated reduced MEP amplitudes in the RF of...
{ "authors": [ "Masis Isikbay", "Travis S Henry", "James A Frank", "Michael D Hope" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.rmcr.2020.101192", "journal": "Respir Med Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2020;31:101192.", "keywords": [ "covid-19 infection", "covid-19, coronavirus disease 20...
PMC7434325
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, clinicians have been plagued with dilemmas related to the uncertainty about diagnostic testing for the virus. It has become commonplace for a patient under investigation (PUI) to repeatedly test negative but have imaging findings that are consistent with COVID-19. This raises the question ...
{ "authors": [ "Deborah Swinglehurst", "Trisha Greenhalgh", "Celia Roberts" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1136/bmjopen-2012-001754", "journal": "BMJ Open", "journal_detail": "2012 Nov 28;2(6):e001754.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY-NC", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/231...
PMC3533031
Objective: To investigate how electronic templates shape, enable and constrain consultations about chronic diseases. Design: Ethnographic case study, combining field notes, video-recording, screen capture with a microanalysis of talk, body language and data entry-an approach called linguistic ethnography. Setting: Two ...
{ "authors": [ "Tetsuo Kon", "Hideo Suzuki", "Tatsuya Kawaguchi", "Kazuyuki Gyoten", "Hideki Machishi", "Takashi Kurumiya", "Yoshikatsu Okada" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.2185/jrm.2909", "journal": "J Rural Med", "journal_detail": "2016;11(2):63-68.", "keywords": [ "ana...
PMC5141378
Liver metastases from colorectal carcinoma commonly form nodular lesions in the liver parenchyma. We report a case of liver metastasis from rectal adenocarcinoma that extended predominantly into the bile duct. A 62-year-old Japanese man underwent low anterior resection for rectal adenocarcinoma 9 years ago. Approximate...
{ "authors": [ "Krystyna Serkies", "Małgorzata Łazar-Poniatowska", "Joanna Seredyńska", "Wojciech Biernat", "Jacek Jassem" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.5114/wo.2016.64608", "journal": "Contemp Oncol (Pozn)", "journal_detail": "2016;20(5):421-424.", "keywords": [ "castleman’s dis...
PMC5371711
Laryngeal cancer occurs rarely in adolescents and young people. Castleman's disease is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder of uncertain etiopathogenesis and heterogeneous clinicopathological forms. Involved lymph nodes and extranodal lesions in the course of Castleman's disease may mimic malignant involvement. We repor...
{ "authors": [ "Colin Barber", "Chrystyna Kalicinsky" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1186/s13223-016-0151-z", "journal": "Allergy Asthma Clin Immunol", "journal_detail": "2016 Sep 17;12:46.", "keywords": [ "adult onset food allergy", "anaphylaxis", "mast cell activation syndrome" ],...
PMC5027085
Background: Adult onset food allergy is a rare, but increasingly recognized phenomenon. Mast cell activation syndromes present an ongoing diagnostic and classification challenge. The combination of the two has been rarely described in the literature. Case presentation: We present a case of a new onset, IgE mediated foo...
{ "authors": [ "Thomas Marsland", "Eric R Schuur" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1159/000360983", "journal": "Case Rep Oncol", "journal_detail": "2014 Mar 21;7(1):175-81.", "keywords": [ "breast cancer", "circulating tumor cells", "decision making" ], "license": "CC BY-NC", "lin...
PMC4000298
Management of metastatic breast cancer is critical to maximizing survival with good quality of life. Circulating tumor cell (CTC) levels in the peripheral blood hold promise for enabling improved patient care. We describe a case of a 47-year-old female with infiltrating ductal carcinoma who developed metastatic disease...
{ "authors": [ "Alina M Bischin", "Russell Dorer", "David M Aboulafia" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1177/1179545X17692544", "journal": "Clin Med Insights Blood Disord", "journal_detail": "2017 Feb 28;10:1179545X17692544.", "keywords": [ "bcl2", "follicular lymphoma", "myc gene t...
PMC5428247
Most commonly, histologic transformation (HT) from follicular lymphoma (FL) manifests as a diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, not otherwise specified (DLBCL, NOS). Less frequently, HT may result in a high-grade B-cell lymphoma (HGBL) with MYC and B-cell lymphoma protein 2 (BCL2) and/or BCL6 gene rearrangements, also known ...
{ "authors": [ "Nicollas Rabelo", "Vinicius Trindade Gomes da Silva", "Marcelo Prudente do Espírito Santo", "Davi Solla", "Dan Zimelewicz Oberman", "Bruno Sisnando da Costa", "Fernando Pereira Frassetto", "Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira", "Eberval Gadelha Figueiredo" ], "case_amount"...
PMC7110299
Background: Ossifying fibroma (OF) is benign bone lesions, most frequent in young children, more common in the maxillary sinus and mandible (75-89%), the pathogenesis of the tumor is not clear, there are many subtypes of OF. This paper aims to report an OF a case and literature review. Case description: Male, 19 years ...
{ "authors": [ "Abdullah Icli", "Hakan Akilli", "Mehmet Kayrak", "Alpay Aribas", "Kurtulus Ozdemir" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.5830/CVJA-2016-011", "journal": "Cardiovasc J Afr", "journal_detail": "2016;27(3):e12-e14.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pu...
PMC5101515
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TCMP) is characterised by a temporary aneurysm of the left ventricular apex in individuals without significant stenosis of the coronary arteries. It is extremely rare to see it combined with a thrombus. In this case report, we present a 57-year-old female patient with TCMP in whom apical throm...
{ "authors": [ "Youngho Kim" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2015/359101", "journal": "Case Rep Nephrol", "journal_detail": "2015;2015:359101.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26346463/", "major_mesh_terms": [], "mesh_terms": [], "pmcid": ...
PMC4543587
Introduction. As blood concentration measurement of commonly abused alcohol is readily available, the equation was proposed in previous publication to predict the change of their concentration. The change of ethylene glycol (EG) concentrations was studied in a case of intoxication to estimate required time for hemodial...
{ "authors": [ "Bita Geramizadeh", "Maedeh Mottavvas", "Bijan Zeyaian", "Armin Amirian" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1177/2036361318823926", "journal": "Rare Tumors", "journal_detail": "2019 Jan 10;11:2036361318823926.", "keywords": [ "giant hamartoma", "hemoptysis", "lung" ...
PMC6348499
Hamartoma of lung is a common tumor, majority of which are small and incidentally discovered during plain chest radiography. Our case is a 30-year-old gentleman with an extremely uncommon presentation of a common tumor, that is, a giant hamartoma of lung presenting as massive hemoptysis and intractable cough. To the be...
{ "authors": [ "Francois G Kamar", "Victor F Kairouz", "Selim M Nasser", "Sami G Faddoul", "Ibrahim C Saikali" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.4081/rt.2014.4687", "journal": "Rare Tumors", "journal_detail": "2014 Mar 18;6(1):4687.", "keywords": [ "antiangiogenic", "bevacizumab"...
PMC3977164
Choroid plexus papillomas (CPPs) are usually not malignant and occur in less than 1% of brain tumors in patients of all ages. They represent 3% of childhood intracranial neoplasms with a predilection in younger ages. Papillomas have an indolent course and carry a good long-term outcome if gross total surgical resection...
{ "authors": [ "Tatsuya Osuga", "Ryota Nakano", "Yoshihiro Ikura" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.14309/crj.2018.91", "journal": "ACG Case Rep J", "journal_detail": "2018 Dec 5;5:e91.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY-NC-ND", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30775394/", "majo...
PMC6358572
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{ "authors": [ "Mara Giordano", "Valentina Muratore", "Deepak Babu", "Cristina Meazza", "Mauro Bozzola" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1186/s13039-016-0298-9", "journal": "Mol Cytogenet", "journal_detail": "2016 Dec 3;9:89.", "keywords": [ "18p1131-p1123 microduplication", "ch...
PMC5135744
Background: Rearrangements involving the short arm of chromosome 18 have been extensively described. Here we report a microduplication of 320.5-431.5 Kb at 18p11.31-p11.23 in a 10 year-old boy. Case presentation: In a 10 year-old boy with moderate psychomotor delay, hypoplasia of the cerebellar vermis, chorioretinal co...
{ "authors": [ "Oana Cristina Petrea", "Carol Stanciu", "Cristina Maria Muzica", "Catalin Victor Sfarti", "Camelia Cojocariu", "Irina Girleanu", "Laura Huiban", "Anca Trifan" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.2147/IJGM.S278999", "journal": "Int J Gen Med", "journal_detail": "20...
PMC7679475
An esophageal web is a thin and smooth extension of normal esophageal tissue consisting of mucosa and submucosa that can occur anywhere along the length of the esophagus but is typically located in the cervical segment. The webs can be congenital or acquired, commonly associated with Plummer-Vinson syndrome and rarely ...
{ "authors": [ "Arnold J Sansevere", "Lauren A Henderson", "Coral M Stredny", "Sanjay P Prabhu", "Ankoor Shah", "Robert Sundel", "Joseph Madsen", "Chantal Dufreney", "Annapurna Poduri", "Mark P Gorman" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.ebr.2020.100360", "journal": ...
PMC7184158
Rasmussen encephalitis (RE) is a disorder characterized by drug-resistant seizures and progressive unihemispheric atrophy, hemiparesis, and varying degrees of cognitive decline. The pathophysiology of RE remains elusive, with hypotheses suggesting underlying autoimmune- and T cell-mediated processes. In this case repor...
{ "authors": [ "Aline Houessinon", "Mathieu Boone", "Jean-Marc Constans", "Patrick Toussaint", "Bruno Chauffert" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1159/000371843", "journal": "Case Rep Oncol", "journal_detail": "2015 Jan 22;8(1):25-9.", "keywords": [ "chordoma", "erlotinib", ...
PMC4342859
Chordoma is a rare malignant axial tumour that develops from embryonic remnants of the notochord. Surgery and irradiation are the standard initial treatment. However, local recurrence is frequent and cytotoxic chemotherapy is inefficient. Transient activity of imatinib, a platelet-derived growth factor receptor inhibit...
{ "authors": [ "S K Kousar Jahan", "Mangala Gowri Mayanna", "B L Kavitha", "Akkamahadevi Patil", "Prasanna Kumari" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.4103/0971-5851.133730", "journal": "Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol", "journal_detail": "2014 Jan;35(1):89-92.", "keywords": [ "cytogenetic...
PMC4080672
Cytogenetic or immunohistochemical studies are often required to differentiate Ewing's sarcoma (ES) from other small round cell tumors. Herein we report a case of 13-year-old boy who presented with a large presacral lesion. Hemogram and biochemical parameters were normal except lactate dehydrogenase showing value of 96...
{ "authors": [ "Iselin Saltvig", "Steen H Matzen" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.ijscr.2017.11.059", "journal": "Int J Surg Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2018;42:102-103.", "keywords": [ "case report", "marjolin’s ulcer", "split thickness skin graft", "squamous cell carcino...
PMC5730427
Objective: Marjolin's Ulcer (MU) is a rare cutaneous neoplasm arising in cikatrical tissue. Due to its typical clinical presentation as a non-healing lesion in scar tissue, the diagnosis can be delayed and even overlooked. Methods and results: We present the case of an elderly woman who developed an ulcerated, exophyti...
{ "authors": [ "Kaiqiang Ma", "Guoming Luan", "Xiongfei Wang", "Shen Luo", "Lang Qin", "Pengfei Teng", "Yuguang Guan", "Meng Zhao", "Jing Wang", "Mengyang Wang", "Jia-Hong Gao" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3389/fneur.2021.683299", "journal": "Front Neurol", "jo...
PMC8548742
Epilepsy is one of the most challenging neurologic diseases confronted by human society. Approximately 30-40% of the worldwide epilepsy patients are diagnosed with drug-resistant epilepsy and require pre-surgery evaluation. Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a unique technology that provides optimal spatial-temporal resol...
{ "authors": [ "Arjun Shetty", "Rajesh Nair", "Pradeep Tripathi", "Vinod Kumar", "Sunil Upadhyaya" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.ijscr.2014.11.039", "journal": "Int J Surg Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2014;5(12):1135-8.", "keywords": [ "endoscopic excision", "lateral ...
PMC4275816
Introduction: Epidermoids of the lateral ventricle are relatively rare tumours. As these tumours are soft and relatively avascular, they appear to be ideally suited for endoscopic surgical excision. At present the instruments available are specifically designed for endoscopic intra ventricular surgeries, limitations be...
{ "authors": [ "Ardalon Farhat-Sabet", "Robert Hull", "Dustin Thomas" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2018/4739830", "journal": "Case Rep Cardiol", "journal_detail": "2018 Nov 18;2018:4739830.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30581629/",...
PMC6276432
Purulent pericarditis is a potentially fatal disease with high mortality rates if untreated. Cutibacterium acnes (formerly Propionibacterium acnes) is an anaerobic bacteria that is ubiquitous in skin flora and is commonly thought of as a culture contaminant; however, it does have pathogenic potential. We present a case...
{ "authors": [ "Georgia Lazaraki", "Dimitrios Tzilves", "Ioanna Parisi", "Anestis Tarpagos" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": null, "journal": "Ann Gastroenterol", "journal_detail": "2011;24(3):219-220.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY-NC-SA", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24...
PMC3959306
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{ "authors": [ "Alireza Ashraf", "Mohammad Yasin Karami", "Aida Amanat" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2012/589108", "journal": "Case Rep Med", "journal_detail": "2012;2012:589108.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22489246/", "major_m...
PMC3318909
Simple renal cysts are benign, common, and often asymptomatic disease in old age, sometimes treated with ethanol sclerotherapy. We report a case of iatrogenic femoral nerve injury following percutaneous injection of ethanol into a renal cyst under sedation. The percutaneous injection was guided by sonography. At the en...
{ "authors": [ "Seyed Hossein Ahmadi", "Mahmood Shirzad", "Sam Zeraatian", "Abbas Salehiomran", "Seyed Hesameddin Abbasi", "Atefeh Ghiasi" ], "case_amount": 6, "doi": null, "journal": "J Tehran Heart Cent", "journal_detail": "2014;9(4):186-90.", "keywords": [ "central venous ca...
PMC4394059
Central venous catheter (CVC) insertion is a practical way to assess patients hemodynamic specially in cardiovascular surgery but this relatively simple junior level procedure is not risk free and its common reported complications include; pneumothorax, hydrothorax, hemothorax, local hematoma, cardiac tamponade, vascul...
{ "authors": [ "Shin Eun", "Youn Kyung Jeon", "Ja June Jang" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3346/jkms.2010.25.2.309", "journal": "J Korean Med Sci", "journal_detail": "2010 Feb;25(2):309-12.", "keywords": [ "carcinoma, hepatocellular", "immunohistochemistry", "lymphocytes, tumor-i...
PMC2811303
Indolent T-lymphoblastic proliferation has been rarely reported in the upper aerodigestive tract. The lymphoid cells associated with this condition have the morphological and phenotypical features of immature thymocytes. However, their pathogenesis and biology are unknown. We present an unusual type of tumor infiltrati...
{ "authors": [ "Waseem Ahmad", "Joshua Rubin", "Wilson Kwong" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.20524/aog.2017.0132", "journal": "Ann Gastroenterol", "journal_detail": "2017;30(3):367-369.", "keywords": [ "gastric adenocarcinoma", "roux-en-y gastric bypass", "excluded stomach", "...
PMC5411391
Gastric cancer in the excluded stomach after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass is a rare finding and most reported diagnoses are made via surgery. Endoscopic access to the excluded stomach is difficult, even with balloon-assisted enteroscopy. We present the case of a 74-year-old woman with malignant gastric outlet obstruction o...
{ "authors": [ "Theodoros Spinos", "Ioannis Leotsakos", "Ioannis Katafigiotis", "Filippos Nikitakis", "Markos Karavitakis" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.7759/cureus.33764", "journal": "Cureus", "journal_detail": "2023 Jan 14;15(1):e33764.", "keywords": [ "laparoscopic", "pros...
PMC9924158
Zinner's syndrome is a rare congenital disorder presenting with unilateral renal agenesis or dysgenesis, ipsilateral seminal vesicle cysts, and ejaculatory duct obstruction. Treatment of this syndrome can be conservative or surgical. In this case report, we describe the case of a 72-year-old patient who was diagnosed w...
{ "authors": [ "Rishi Raj", "Jon Hendrie", "Aasems Jacob", "Derick Adams" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3389/fendo.2019.00020", "journal": "Front Endocrinol (Lausanne)", "journal_detail": "2019 Jan 30;10:20.", "keywords": [ "canagliflozin", "candidemia", "candiduria", "di...
PMC6363659
A 38-year-old female patient with well-controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus treated with canagliflozin underwent ureteral stent placement for obstructive renal calculi. Ten days following ureteroscopy and ureteral stenting, she developed fevers and blood cultures grew Candida glabrata (C. glabrata). The patient was succ...
{ "authors": [ "Hind M Alkatan", "Mohammad Al Otaibi", "Azza M Y Maktabi", "Hamad Aljaedi", "Sahar M Elkhamary", "Yasser Al-Faky", "Adel H Alsuhaibani" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.sjopt.2018.04.002", "journal": "Saudi J Ophthalmol", "journal_detail": "2018 Jan-Mar;32(1...
PMC5943833
Background: Hematic cyst is a rare orbital condition that has a wide range of clinical presentation and is characterized pathologically by lack of endothelial lining. Purpose: To correlate clinical and radiological features of hematic cysts, to tissue diagnosis, and investigate the possible etiology behind this conditi...
{ "authors": [ "Yanhua Shen", "Bo Wang", "Xia Zheng", "Wenwen Zhang", "Hailan Wu", "Mingyan Hei" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.3389/fped.2020.00166", "journal": "Front Pediatr", "journal_detail": "2020 Apr 16;8:166.", "keywords": [ "chinese", "musk gene", "congenital ...
PMC7176811
This was a Chinese neonatal congenital myasthenic syndromes case caused by muscle skeletal receptor tyrosine kinase gene mutations, which have not been recorded in the Human Gene Mutation Database. The newborn girl had refractory respiratory failure from birth to death, and failed extubation seven times. She had two he...
{ "authors": [ "Daulath Singh", "Mohammed K Atieh", "Mark A Russell", "Muaiad Kittaneh" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2020/8880202", "journal": "Case Rep Oncol Med", "journal_detail": "2020 Jun 30;2020:8880202.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi...
PMC7349616
Malignant gastrointestinal neuroectodermal tumor (GNET) is a rare disease with a handful of cases described in literature. GNET has only become a well-known/widely accepted entity in the recent years, but it is still not listed in the database of rare diseases. Due to the rarity of disease, there are no guidelines on s...
{ "authors": [ "Zine el Abidine Benali", "Hatim Abdedaim", "Driss Omari" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.11604/pamj.2014.17.176.3461", "journal": "Pan Afr Med J", "journal_detail": "2014 Mar 7;17:176.", "keywords": [ "ecg", "liver contusion", "tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy", "chest...
PMC4225153
Tako-tsubo syndrome is very rare in male patients, often overlooked by practitioners in its atypical form painless, and who did not always a good prognostic, often revealed in a context of acute stress at any time in the hospital or outside, its pathophysiology remains to discuss, the diagnosis is greatly facilitated b...
{ "authors": [ "Daniela Kuhnt", "Miriam H A Bauer", "Jan Egger", "Mirco Richter", "Tina Kapur", "Jens Sommer", "Dorit Merhof", "Christopher Nimsky" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1227/NEU.0b013e318270d9fb", "journal": "Neurosurgery", "journal_detail": "2013 Jan;72 Suppl 1(0 ...
PMC3784319
Background: The most frequently used method for fiber tractography based on diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is associated with restrictions in the resolution of crossing or kissing fibers and in the vicinity of tumor or edema. Tractography based on high-angular-resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) is capable of overcomi...
{ "authors": [ "Arthur Dubernet", "Maud Toulmonde", "Magali Colombat", "Cécile Hartog", "Etienne Riviere" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3389/fmed.2023.1064832", "journal": "Front Med (Lausanne)", "journal_detail": "2023 Apr 6;10:1064832.", "keywords": [ "amyloidosis", "case r...
PMC10115977
Insulin amyloidosis is a rare form of localized amyloidosis due to insulin aggregation into subcutaneous amyloid fibrils. We describe the case of a 55 years old male with insulin-requiring type 1 diabetes presenting with two non-inflammatory intra-dermal nodules associated with local lymph node enlargement. Diagnosis w...
{ "authors": [ "Abhishek Bhardwaj", "Bhagirath S Rathore", "Charu Sharma", "Garima Singh" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.4103/0253-7184.156734", "journal": "Indian J Sex Transm Dis AIDS", "journal_detail": "2015 Jan-Jun;36(1):74-6.", "keywords": [ "human immunodeficiency virus", "...
PMC4555905
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is known to cause altered disease presentations. We present here, the case of a 14-year-old boy who came to us with a chronic, painful, nonhealing ulcer of 4 months duration over the dorsum of right hand. Before our observation, he was variably diagnosed and treated as atypical my...
{ "authors": [ "Steven B Chinn", "Ryan M Collar", "John B McHugh", "Norman D Hogikyan", "Marc C Thorne" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.ijporl.2013.10.047", "journal": "Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol", "journal_detail": "2014 Jan;78(1):142-7.", "keywords": [ "laryngeal neuro...
PMC4157055
Presentation of a case of pediatric laryngeal neurofibroma (LNF) and review of the world literature. Comprehensive review of the world literature using Pubmed and Google scholar. Pediatric LNF was identified in 62 cases reported in the world literature. The most common presenting symptom is stridor and the most common ...
{ "authors": [ "Jialing He", "Yingjun Xie", "Shu Kong", "Wenjun Qiu", "Xiaoman Wang", "Ding Wang", "Xiaofang Sun", "Deming Sun" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.1186/s41065-016-0022-0", "journal": "Hereditas", "journal_detail": "2017 Mar 6;154:6.", "keywords": [ "1q42 de...
PMC5340030
A 1q42 deletion is a rare structure variation that commonly harbours various deletion breakpoints along with diversified phenotypes. In our study, we found a de novo 1q42 deletion in a boy who did not have a cleft palate or a congenital diaphragmatic hernia but presented with psychomotor retardation. A 1.9 Mb deletion ...
{ "authors": [ "Piotr Z Sobanski", "David C Currow" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3389/fmed.2022.925787", "journal": "Front Med (Lausanne)", "journal_detail": "2022 Dec 5;9:925787.", "keywords": [ "breathlessness", "heart failure", "methadone", "morphine", "opioids", "pal...
PMC9760708
Breathlessness is a common symptom suffered by people living with advanced malignant and non-malignant diseases, one which significantly limits their quality of life. If it emerges at minimal exertion, despite the maximal, guidelines-directed, disease-specific therapies, it should be considered persistent and obliges c...
{ "authors": [ "Hiroaki Matsumoto", "Yasuhisa Yoshida" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1186/s41016-018-0129-4", "journal": "Chin Neurosurg J", "journal_detail": "2018 Jul 16;4:20.", "keywords": [ "indocyanine green video angiography", "recipient artery", "superficial temporal artery-mi...
PMC7398410
Background: In superficial temporal artery-to-middle cerebral artery (STA-MCA) bypass surgery, indocyanine green video angiography (ICG-VA) is usually used to verify bypass patency. Less-commonly reported is the ability to use this technique to evaluate candidate recipient vessels based on either collateral flow or ide...
{ "authors": [ "Takatora Akizawa", "Tomotaka Nishizawa", "Sho Yamada", "Hiroki Ota", "Gen Kida", "Yuta Tsukahara", "Tomohiko Nakamura", "Tomohiro Oba", "Hideaki Yamakawa", "Rie Kawabe", "Shintaro Sato", "Keiichi Akasaka", "Masako Amano", "Mitsuru Maki", "Aki...
PMC9685348
Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE) affects many organs, particularly lung and liver, and typically presents as multiple lesions. Treatment for EHE is not yet standardized, but surgery is appropriate when lesions are resectable. In our patient, radiography revealed multiple bilateral pulmonary nodules, and CT showed...
{ "authors": [ "Hiroto Moriwaki", "Nana Hayama", "Shouko Morozumi", "Mika Nakano", "Akari Nakayama", "Yoshiomi Takahata", "Yuusuke Sakaguchi", "Natsuki Inoue", "Toshiki Kubota", "Akiko Takenoya", "Yoshiko Ishii", "Haruka Okubo", "Souta Yamaguchi", "Tsuyoshi Ono"...
PMC5282413
Central venous catheter insertion and cancer represent some of the important predisposing factors for deep venous thrombosis (DVT). DVT usually develops in the lower extremities, and venous thrombosis of the upper extremities is uncommon. Early diagnosis and treatment of deep venous thrombosis are of importance, becaus...
{ "authors": [ "Margherita Bellucci", "Francesco Germano", "Stefano Grisanti", "Chiara Castellano", "Francesco Tazza", "Emanuela Maria Mobilia", "Davide Visigalli", "Giovanni Novi", "Federico Massa", "Silvia Rossi", "Paolo Durando", "Corrado Cabona", "Angelo Schenon...
PMC9339669
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an autoimmune neurological disorder often preceded by viral illnesses or, more rarely, vaccinations. We report on a unique combination of postcoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine GBS that occurred months after a parainfectious COVID-19-related GBS. Shortly after manifesting COVID...
{ "authors": [ "Riva Das", "Joshua P Cantor", "Thai Q Vu" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.ijscr.2017.09.007", "journal": "Int J Surg Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2017;40:124-126.", "keywords": [ "appendicitis", "carcinoid", "casereport", "lamn", "mucinous", "syn...
PMC5635238
Introduction: Acute appendicitis, one of the commonest surgical diagnoses, is rare and more complex presentation in the elderly. Physicians must consider atypical causes appendicitis in this population, which could affect the management of the patient. Presentation of case: An elderly female presented with a two-day hi...
{ "authors": [ "Ping-Feng Tsai", "Ying-Jen Chen" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3389/fmed.2022.894755", "journal": "Front Med (Lausanne)", "journal_detail": "2022 Nov 4;9:894755.", "keywords": [ "astrazeneca", "bell's palsy", "chadox1 ncov-19", "facial synkinesis", "vaccine" ...
PMC9672320
While vaccination against COVID-19 is still ongoing, some rare adverse events temporally related to vaccinations have been reported, particularly with ChAdOx1 nCoV-19. Here, a 77-year-old male presented to our outpatient department with persistent ptosis of his left eye for 1 month. He initially received vaccination wi...
{ "authors": [ "Yasmin Mohamed Yousry", "Amr Ezzat Abd El-Latif", "Randa Youssef Abd El-Gawad" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.12688/f1000research.16042.1", "journal": "F1000Res", "journal_detail": "2018 Sep 6;7:1420.", "keywords": [ "palmoplantar keratosis", "papillon – lefèvre syndro...
PMC6178905
Background: Papillon-Lefèvre syndrome (PLS) is considered a rare syndrome, which is characterized by the presence of palmar-plantar hyperkeratosis and aggressively progressing periodontitis that finally leads to premature loss of both deciduous and permanent teeth. Case report: A four-year-old Egyptian boy presented wi...
{ "authors": [ "Maximilian Krüger", "Torsten Hansen", "Adrian Kasaj", "Maximilian Moergel" ], "case_amount": 4, "doi": "10.1155/2013/262410", "journal": "Case Rep Dent", "journal_detail": "2013;2013:262410.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.go...
PMC3725788
Infections are increasingly considered as potential trigger for carcinogenesis apart from risk factors like alcohol and tobacco. The discussion about human papilloma virus (HPV) in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) points at a general role of infection for the development of oral carcinomas. Furthermore, first studie...
{ "authors": [ "Jihad El Anzaoui", "Driss Touiti" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.11604/pamj.2014.17.299.2555", "journal": "Pan Afr Med J", "journal_detail": "2014 Apr 20;17:299.", "keywords": [ "staghorn", "calculi", "urinary infection" ], "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pu...
PMC4198260
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{ "authors": [ "Yao Xiong", "Jing Yan", "Gaowu Yan", "Lei Feng", "Yong Li", "Suyu He", "Ruyi Li", "Gangcheng Tan", "Bo Feng" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3389/fmed.2023.1182746", "journal": "Front Med (Lausanne)", "journal_detail": "2023 Jun 8;10:1182746.", "keywords...
PMC10285080
Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is a common clinical condition that can be caused by a variety of reasons. Bleeding can occur anywhere in the GI tract, and it usually presents as vomiting of blood, melena or black stools. We herein present a case of a 48-year-old man who was ultimately diagnosed with perforation of the ...
{ "authors": [ "Dhruba Kadel", "Shashinda Bhuju", "Bikash Raj Thapa", "Sandeep Kumar Sah" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.1016/j.ijscr.2020.08.048", "journal": "Int J Surg Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2020;75:4-7.", "keywords": [ "choerospondias axillaris", "foreign body", "je...
PMC7481749
Introduction: Foreign body ingestion is less common in healthy adult population. Obstructive symptom caused by foreign body at unusual site of gastrointestinal (GI) tract is even rarer. Presentation of case: A 60-year-old female presented to the surgery outpatient department (SOPD) with 40-years of non-specific abdomin...
{ "authors": [ "Azin Tabari", "Fatemeh Farrokh", "Mehdi Zeinalizadeh", "Sevil Nasirmohtaram", "Amir Tabari", "Mohammadreza Salehi", "Farzad Pakdel", "Faeze Salahshour", "Hana Saffar", "Fatemeh Mirashrafi", "Seyed Mousa Sadrehosseini" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.10...
PMC10336253
Garcin syndrome is characterized by progressive unilateral multiple cranial nerve palsy without the presence of intracranial hypertension. In this case, we present a patient who experienced lower cranial nerve (CN 9-12) involvement attributed to post-mucormycosis osteomyelitis of the skull base. The osteomyelitis resul...
{ "authors": [ "Marieke Broersen", "Nynke Frieswijk", "Rob Coolen", "Daan H M Creemers", "Hans Kroon" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.3389/fpsyt.2022.903523", "journal": "Front Psychiatry", "journal_detail": "2022 May 12;13:903523.", "keywords": [ "flexible assertive community trea...
PMC9133493
Youth Flexible Assertive Community Treatment (Youth Flexible ACT) is a client- and family-centered service delivery model for young people up to 24 years of age who have interrelated psychiatric- and social problems across multiple life domains and do not readily engage with office-based mental health services. Youth F...
{ "authors": [ "Abdulmohsen Al Ghamdi" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.4103/sja.SJA_630_17", "journal": "Saudi J Anaesth", "journal_detail": "2018 Jan-Mar;12(1):134-138.", "keywords": [ "anesthesia", "kearns–sayre syndrome", "implantable defibrillator", "pacemaker", "parturient", ...
PMC5789475
Kearns-Sayre syndrome (KSS), a rare form of mitochondrial myopathy, is a triad of chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia, bilateral pigmentary retinopathy, and cardiac conduction abnormalities. In this report, we show how a combined spinal epidural anesthesia can be useful for cesarean delivery, as we illustrate ...
{ "authors": [ "Ze Zhang", "Wenwen Zhang", "Hongguang Wang", "Bingyang Hu", "Zhanbo Wang", "Shichun Lu" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3389/fimmu.2021.744571", "journal": "Front Immunol", "journal_detail": "2021 Sep 17;12:744571.", "keywords": [ "pd-l1", "tmb", "conver...
PMC8484748
Advanced intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA) is not suitable for surgical treatment. Guided by the concept of precision medicine, preoperative systematic treatment may reshape the clinical outcomes of advanced intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma patients. We describe the case of a 38-year-old female who has been diagnos...
{ "authors": [ "Uqba Khan", "Lauren Kleess", "Justin Yeh", "Charles Berko", "Sapna Kuehl" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3402/jchimp.v4.25418", "journal": "J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect", "journal_detail": "2014 Nov 25;4(5):25418.", "keywords": [ "ct urography", "sickle...
PMC4246147
We describe a case of renal papillary necrosis in a middle-aged female with sickle cell trait who presented with gross hematuria. We wish to highlight this case for several reasons. Sickle cell trait is often viewed as a benign condition despite the fact that it is associated with significant morbidity such as renal pa...
{ "authors": [ "Shokouh Taghipour Zahir", "Fateme Salemi" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2021/3226319", "journal": "Case Rep Med", "journal_detail": "2021 Sep 1;2021:3226319.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34512764/", "major_mesh_terms"...
PMC8429021
Background: Neuroblastoma is a solid tumor that occurs more frequently in pediatric populations. It may originate from any part of the sympathetic nervous system, but it most commonly arises from the paraspinal sympathetic ganglia in the abdomen or mediastinum. Local lymphadenopathy and distant metastasis to the centra...
{ "authors": [ "Kemal Tekin", "Yasemin Ozdamar Erol", "Olcay Kurtulan", "Dilek Ertoy Baydar" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.4103/tjo.tjo_33_18", "journal": "Taiwan J Ophthalmol", "journal_detail": "2020 Mar 4;10(1):66-70.", "keywords": [ "granulomatous iridocyclitis", "tubulointer...
PMC7158930
The tubulointerstitial nephritis and uveitis (TINU) syndrome is a rare disorder that is probably underdiagnosed in clinical practice. Ocular involvement in TINU syndrome not only presents with the nongranulomatous anterior uveitis in 80% of patients but also manifests as intermediate, posterior, or panuveitis. This cas...
{ "authors": [ "Vinod Priyadarshi", "Jitendra Pratap Singh", "Nipun Kumar Awasthi", "Shankar Prasad Hazra", "Mukesh Kumar Vijay", "Dilip Kumar Pal" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": null, "journal": "APSP J Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2013 Jul 15;4(2):31.", "keywords": null, "license...
PMC3754416
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{ "authors": [ "Piergiorgio Bolasco", "Alessandra Serra", "Maurizio Loi", "Andrea Galfré", "Mario Piga" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2010/206801", "journal": "Int J Endocrinol", "journal_detail": "2010;2010:206801.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pu...
PMC2905699
The aims of your case report is to show the predictivity of (99m)Tc-sestamibi (MIBI) scintigraphy and doppler ultrasound imaging on secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) in a patient responsive to calcimimetic treatment. Moreover, it has been reported that calcimimetic has great potential in reducing the volume of the p...
{ "authors": [ "Panteleimon Vassiliu", "Filippos Patoulis", "Leon Naar", "Georgios Dendias", "Nikolaos Arkadopoulos" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3389/fresc.2021.655400", "journal": "Front Rehabil Sci", "journal_detail": "2021 Jul 27;2:655400.", "keywords": [ "snm", "bladder...
PMC9397735
Introduction: Sacral-Nerve-Neuromodulation (SNM) is an effective treatment increasingly used in patients with urinary (UI) and fecal incontinence (FI). The way it acts in the body at its full potential have not yet been elucidated. The authors review the literature on SNM and the way it possibly works, relating it to a...
{ "authors": [ "Omar Jiménez-Zarazúa", "Lourdes Noemí Vélez-Ramírez", "María Andrea Martínez-Rivera", "Abraham Hernández-Ramírez", "Pascual Palomares-Anda", "María Alcocer-León", "Angélica Monserrat Becerra-Baeza", "Jaime D Mondragón" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.ijscr....
PMC6675948
Introduction: Takayasu's arteritis (TA) is a rare disease that mainly affects large arteries. Approximately 20% of TA patients will require surgical intervention secondary to arterial complications such as intermittent claudication, persistent hypertension refractory to treatment, and heart failure. Presentation of cas...
{ "authors": [ "Go Makimoto", "Keiichi Fujiwara", "Hiromi Watanabe", "Nobuhisa Kameyama", "Mizuho Matsushita", "Kammei Rai", "Ken Sato", "Toshiro Yonei", "Toshio Sato", "Takuo Shibayama" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1159/000357938", "journal": "Case Rep Oncol", "jo...
PMC3934614
We present the case of a 40-year-old man with previously treated thymic carcinoma, complaining of gradually worsening back pain. Computed tomography scans of the chest showed multiple pleural disseminated nodules with a pleural effusion in the right thorax. The patient was treated with carboplatin on day 1 plus nab-pac...