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{ "authors": [ "A Delantoni", "E Matziari" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.4137/CMAMD.S30510", "journal": "Clin Med Insights Arthritis Musculoskelet Disord", "journal_detail": "2015 Oct 18;8:65-7.", "keywords": [ "maxillofacial findings", "scleroderma", "systemic sclerosis" ], "lic...
PMC4610725
Objectives: The aim of the current paper is to present a case of systemic sclerosis of the jaws with all the characteristics and some extensive findings. Methods: Systemic sclerosis is a connective tissue condition characterized by chronic inflammatory changes, presenting with a number of symptoms. The paper aims to pr...
{ "authors": [ "Mohammed Hasosah", "Abdullah Baothman", "Mohamed Satti", "Suzanne Kutbi", "Khaled Alghamdi", "Kevan Jacobson" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2011/945752", "journal": "Case Rep Gastrointest Med", "journal_detail": "2011;2011:945752.", "keywords": null, "licen...
PMC3350112
Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma is the third most common non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and it is strongly associated with helicobacter pylori infection of the stomach. MALT lymphoma of the lacrimal gland usually presents as a localized disease process in extranodal tissues. The treatment options of MALT lymph...
{ "authors": [ "Claudio Piersimoni", "Piergiorgio Zitti", "Gianna Mazzarelli", "Allessandro Mariottini", "Domenico Nista", "Diego Zallocco" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3201/eid1010.040217", "journal": "Emerg Infect Dis", "journal_detail": "2004 Oct;10(10):1859-62.", "keywords":...
PMC3323268
Mycobacterium triplex, a recently described, potentially pathogenic species, caused disease primarily in immunocompromised patients. We report a case of pulmonary infection due to this mycobacterium in an immunocompetent patient and review the characteristics of two other cases. In our experience, Mycobacterium triplex...
{ "authors": [ "Thomas C Hall", "Alun Williams", "Farida Hussain", "Richard O'Neill" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1177/1179547619828721", "journal": "Clin Med Insights Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2019 Feb 7;12:1179547619828721.", "keywords": [ "cutting balloon angioplasty", "h...
PMC6376492
Aims: Renovascular hypertension is a rare cause of paediatric hypertension. It is however, a potentially treatable cause particularly when caused by renal artery stenosis (RAS). Materials and methods: We present the case of an 11-month-old girl presenting with cardiac dysfunction. She was found to be hypertensive with ...
{ "authors": [ "Hinke N Halbertsma", "Koen V Haak", "Frans W Cornelissen" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2019/6067871", "journal": "Neural Plast", "journal_detail": "2019 Sep 3;2019:6067871.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31565050/", ...
PMC6745132
Damage to the visual system can result in (a partial) loss of vision, in response to which the visual system may functionally reorganize. Yet the timing, extent, and conditions under which this occurs are not well understood. Hence, studies in individuals with diverse congenital and acquired conditions and using variou...
{ "authors": [ "S B Bae", "K K Lee", "J S Kim", "J H Lee", "N S Lee", "G T Lee", "S K Park", "J H Won", "S H Baick", "D S Hong", "D W Lee", "H S Park" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3904/kjim.2001.16.1.40", "journal": "Korean J Intern Med", "journal_detail": ...
PMC4531700
We report a case of malignant proliferating trichilemmal tumor showing multiple distant metastases. The patient demonstrated a round mass in the right occipital area for 12 months and the lesion grew rapidly to assume 8 x 6.5 x 4 cm in diameter, with areas of superficial erosion and crusting within the recent 3 months....
{ "authors": [ "Peter George", "Narasimha Hegde" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.4103/0971-6580.111559", "journal": "Toxicol Int", "journal_detail": "2013 Jan;20(1):113-5.", "keywords": [ "atropine", "clitocybe", "muscarinic poisoning", "mushroom poisoning" ], "license": "CC BY...
PMC3702120
Mushrooms are commercially cultivated over the world and safe for human consumption, except in those with known allergies. Among the thousands of mushroom species identified, few are considered to be edible. Mushroom hunting has emerged as an adventure and recreational activity in recent decades. Wild forms of mushroom...
{ "authors": [ "Monjur Ahmed" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2018/3607101", "journal": "Case Rep Gastrointest Med", "journal_detail": "2018 Dec 9;2018:3607101.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30631608/", "major_mesh_terms": [], "mesh_terms...
PMC6304642
Colonic MALToma accounts for 2.5% of all MALTomas. MALToma can be associated with certain chronic infections, autoimmune disorders, Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia, and old age. Synchronous MALTomas can occur in multiple organs. Simultaneous occurrence of colonic MALToma and colon cancer has been reported. A case of co...
{ "authors": [ "Baldeep Pabla", "Douglas R Morgan" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1159/000485237", "journal": "Case Rep Gastroenterol", "journal_detail": "2019 Jan 10;13(1):12-16.", "keywords": [ "duodenal ulcer", "extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy", "helicobacter pylori", "ho...
PMC6381914
The epidemiology of peptic ulcer disease (PUD) has changed considerably in the last several decades. Previously a chronic disease characterized by frequent recurrences with a high rate of surgical interventions, it is now largely a self-limited disease that is medically managed. The role of acid suppression was widely ...
{ "authors": [ "M Roser", "F Martens", "C Storm" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.5402/2011/617912", "journal": "ISRN Cardiol", "journal_detail": "2011;2011:617912.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22347647/", "major_mesh_terms": [], "mesh...
PMC3262521
Although mild hypothermia treatment is part of the standard postresuscitation care today, no standard method for treatment of accidental severe hypothermia has been yet established. Different strategies including invasive and noninvasive methods have been described in the literature. We present the case of a 75-year-ol...
{ "authors": [ "Farnoosh Mohammadi", "Afrooz Javanmard", "Hamid Mojtahedi" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2020/6248971", "journal": "Case Rep Dent", "journal_detail": "2020 Jan 20;2020:6248971.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32351741/...
PMC7178541
Crouzon syndrome is the most common type of craniofacial dysostosis anomaly which presents a great challenge for clinicians since birth. Multiple synostoses in the sutures of the cranial base in this syndrome result in the hypoplasia of the midface, shallow orbits, a short nasal dorsum, maxillary hypoplasia, and, in se...
{ "authors": [ "Alvin Y Chan", "Robert C Knowlton", "Edward F Chang", "Vikram R Rao" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.1016/j.cnp.2018.03.007", "journal": "Clin Neurophysiol Pract", "journal_detail": "2018 Apr 21;3:174-176.", "keywords": [ "chronic electrocorticography", "epilepsy", ...
PMC6288710
Aims: To present two patients with medically-refractory focal epilepsy who, following non-diagnostic intracranial monitoring studies, had seizures localized by chronic ambulatory electrocorticography with an implanted neurostimulation device. Methods: Case reports with clinical details and electrocorticograms showing s...
{ "authors": [ "Liang Shi", "Shuhong Gao", "Li Tong", "Qiyi Meng", "Shijie Zhou", "Daping Yu", "Yujie Dong", "Zhe Liu" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.3389/fonc.2023.1120511", "journal": "Front Oncol", "journal_detail": "2023 Jun 20;13:1120511.", "keywords": [ "alk rear...
PMC10318538
Objective: Despite the promising efficacy and tolerability of alectinib in treating advanced anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the role of alectinib in neoadjuvant setting remains understudied in ALK-rearranged resectable lung cancer. Methods: Our report concerns two cases of...
{ "authors": [ "Toshiaki Suzuki", "Katsuhito Suwa", "Ken Hanyu", "Tomoyoshi Okamoto", "Tetsuji Fujita", "Katsuhiko Yanaga" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.ijscr.2014.06.012", "journal": "Int J Surg Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2014;5(9):640-2.", "keywords": [ "gastroint...
PMC4200885
Introduction: Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are the leading mesenchymal neoplasia in the gastrointestinal tract, but GIST arising from the rectum is rare. When a secondary neoplasia coexists in the vicinity of a rectal GIST, more aggressive treatment strategies may be needed to cure the diseases. Presentation...
{ "authors": [ "María Moreno-López", "Julio José González-López", "Elena Jarrín", "Josefina Bertrand" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.2147/OPTH.S29857", "journal": "Clin Ophthalmol", "journal_detail": "2012;6:433-6.", "keywords": [ "glaucoma", "macular detachment", "macular sur...
PMC3334215
We describe a case of maculopathy consisting of macular retinoschisis and serous macular detachment occurring in a patient with an acquired enlarged optic disc cup, similar to the maculopathy observed in congenital optic nerve abnormalities, mainly optic nerve pits and colobomas, without vitreomacular traction nor angi...
{ "authors": [ "Alexandra Condé-Green", "Leigh Ann Price", "Stephen M Milner" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": null, "journal": "Eplasty", "journal_detail": "2013;13:ic35.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23573341/", "major_mesh_terms": [], "m...
PMC3589876
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{ "authors": [ "Ankita Dutta", "Deepak More", "Ananya Tupaki-Sreepurna", "Bireshwar Sinha", "Nidhi Goyal", "Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00717", "journal": "IDCases", "journal_detail": "2020 Feb 10;20:e00717.", "keywords": [ "co-...
PMC7075973
We report two cases of co-infection with Salmonella Typhi and Salmonella Paratyphi A identified by blood culture and confirmed by serotyping from an ongoing fever surveillance cohort in an urban slum in New Delhi. Co-infections such as these have important implications on diagnosis, treatment options including choice o...
{ "authors": [ "Edyta Szymańska", "Sylwia Szymańska", "Joanna Pawłowska", "Ewa Orłowska", "Ewa Konopka", "Bożena Cukrowska" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.5114/pg.2015.52415", "journal": "Prz Gastroenterol", "journal_detail": "2015;10(4):250-3.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC...
PMC4697037
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{ "authors": [ "Athanasios Fountas", "Shu Teng Chai", "John Ayuk", "Neil Gittoes", "Swarupsinh Chavda", "Niki Karavitaki" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1530/EDM-18-0018", "journal": "Endocrinol Diabetes Metab Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2018 Mar 28;2018:18-0018.", "keywords": [...
PMC5881427
Co-existence of craniopharyngioma and acromegaly has been very rarely reported. A 65-year-old man presented with visual deterioration, fatigue and frontal headaches. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a suprasellar heterogeneous, mainly cystic, 1.9 × 2 × 1.9 cm mass compressing the optic chiasm and expanding to the th...
{ "authors": [ "Venu T Tadiboyina", "Dora M Liu", "Brooke A Miskie", "Jian Wang", "Robert A Hegele" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1186/1476-511X-4-26", "journal": "Lipids Health Dis", "journal_detail": "2005 Oct 28;4:26.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pu...
PMC1291391
Background: Cholesterol ester storage disease (CESD) is an autosomal recessive illness that results from mutations in the LIPA gene encoding lysosomal acid lipase. CESD patients present in childhood with hepatomegaly and dyslipidemia characterized by elevated total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), with ...
{ "authors": [ "Yiping Li", "Troy D Payner", "Aaron A Cohen-Gadol" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.4103/2152-7806.97168", "journal": "Surg Neurol Int", "journal_detail": "2012;3:66.", "keywords": [ "carotid artery", "endarterectomy", "intracranial aneurysm", "regression" ], ...
PMC3385072
Background: Recent studies have hypothesized that hemodynamic changes in parent vessels are responsible for the formation and regression of cerebral aneurysms. One author has described regression of a "flow-related" 4-mm posterior communicating artery (PCoA) aneurysm following ipsilateral carotid endarterectomy (CEA), ...
{ "authors": [ "Joaquín Valle Alonso", "John Turpie", "Islam Farhad", "Gabrielle Ruffino" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.29252/beat-0701010", "journal": "Bull Emerg Trauma", "journal_detail": "2019 Jan;7(1):67-71.", "keywords": [ "emergency department", "hydronephrosis", "poin...
PMC6360013
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{ "authors": [ "Jimmy Xu", "Prateek Biyani", "Andrew Rajkumar", "Robert Orr" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2022/3113886", "journal": "Case Rep Surg", "journal_detail": "2022 Nov 8;2022:3113886.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3639...
PMC9666028
Oral care is an often difficult and an unappreciated part of hospital life. Patients who are unable to provide their own care rely on assistance from hospital personnel. Most sequelae from suboptimal oral care often present over months if not years, in the form of dental caries and periodontal disease. We present an ex...
{ "authors": [ "Mahmoud Al-Balas", "Antonio De Leo", "Margherita Serra", "Donatella Santini", "Mario Taffurelli" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1177/2050313X19841154", "journal": "SAGE Open Med Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2019 Apr 9;7:2050313X19841154.", "keywords": [ "granular ...
PMC6457014
A 74-year-old female patient presented with a hard breast mass and dimpling with a clinical suspicion of a carcinoma. Histological evaluation revealed a granular cell tumour. Granular cell tumour is a rare neoplasm, mostly benign in origin that may arise in every body site, 5%-15% of cases occur in the breast. It is st...
{ "authors": [ "Longzihui Xiao", "Jiayi Liu", "Yingzhe Zhang", "Yuefei Liu", "Yan Tang", "Minping Zhang", "Zhuyuan Ding", "Enhua Xiao", "Taili Chen" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3389/fmed.2022.799310", "journal": "Front Med (Lausanne)", "journal_detail": "2022 Jun 1;9:...
PMC9198300
Patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), which is characterized by left ventricular hypertrophy, is usually treated with medications such as calcium channel blockers or beta-blockers and invasive treatments such as transcatheter alcohol septal ablation, percutaneous radiofrequency ablation, or heart transplanta...
{ "authors": [ "Siddharth A Wartak", "Reshma A Mehendale", "Amir Lotfi" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2012/382605", "journal": "Case Rep Med", "journal_detail": "2012;2012:382605.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22454645/", "major_m...
PMC3297481
Bradycardia has been reported during intraoperative settings of craniofacial, cerebropontine angle and trigeminal ganglion surgeries (Schaller et al. (2009, 1999); Parbhakar et al. (2009); Koerbel et al. (2005); Roberts et al. (1999)). It is also commonly seen in children undergoing orbital and maxillary fractures repa...
{ "authors": [ "Kelly M Dopke", "Nader El Seblani", "Katherine Mercer", "Sunil Naik", "Gayatra Mainali", "Dustin Paul" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1177/2329048X231171011", "journal": "Child Neurol Open", "journal_detail": "2023 Apr 18;10:2329048X231171011.", "keywords": [ "...
PMC10123878
A 17-year-old female with sickle cell disease status post a recent stem cell transplant and on tacrolimus developed an acute expressive aphasia, dysphagia, and drooling. Brain MRI revealed diffuse restricted diffusion involving the bilateral corona radiata and areas of white matter in the right cerebral hemisphere most...
{ "authors": [ "Kentaro Shimizu", "Haruhiko Hirata", "Natsuko Tokuhira", "Akiko Ueda", "Daisuke Motooka", "Shota Nakamura", "Hiroshi Ogura" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1002/ams2.793", "journal": "Acute Med Surg", "journal_detail": "2022 Oct 5;9(1):e793.", "keywords": [ ...
PMC9535351
Background: The new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) causes gastrointestinal symptoms as well as respiratory symptoms. Case presentation: A 60-year-old man was transferred with respiratory difficulty. He was diagnosed as having COVID-19 and was intubated and placed on mechanical ventilation. He suffered from diarrhea fro...
{ "authors": [ "Xudong Peng", "Yinggang Ge", "Jianwen Zhang", "Zhengqiang Wei", "Hongyu Zhang" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3389/fonc.2022.1036145", "journal": "Front Oncol", "journal_detail": "2022 Oct 18;12:1036145.", "keywords": [ "tatme", "apr", "laparoscopy", "p...
PMC9624435
Perineal hernia after abdominoperineal resection (APR) is a troublesome problem, and severe cases require surgical treatment. However, perineal hernia repair is challenging, especially when combined with intestinal adhesions. The difficulty of the operation lies in performing adhesiolysis and mesh placement under poor ...
{ "authors": [ "Kim Mayhall", "Masoumeh Ghayouri", "Katherine Henry", "Veronica Margin", "Domeinico Copolla", "Rodney Shackelford" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1159/000350464", "journal": "Case Rep Oncol", "journal_detail": "2013 Mar 21;6(1):158-62.", "keywords": [ "chernoby...
PMC3636966
The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident resulted in radiation exposures throughout much of Europe, with the highest exposures within the city of Pripyat, Ukraine, where the accident occurred. We report a woman who was exposed to the Chernobyl accident at age 13. Beginning in her early thirties, she experienced several year...
{ "authors": [ "Yacine Hadjiat", "Serge Marchand" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.3389/fpain.2022.840921", "journal": "Front Pain Res (Lausanne)", "journal_detail": "2022 May 6;3:840921.", "keywords": [ "acute pain", "analgesia", "chronic pain", "complementary pain management", ...
PMC9120608
The use of virtual reality (VR) in the mediation of acute pain in adults has shown real benefit to patients for the past 20 years. This review of the literature provides a descriptive synthesis of the types of VR technology, the mechanisms by which VR mediates pain, and a history of early research in the area. A review...
{ "authors": [ "Alessandro di Luca", "Massimo Ralli", "Sara Hemied", "Marco de Vincentiis", "Natale Mario di Luca" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1177/2050313X17723548", "journal": "SAGE Open Med Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2017 Jul 27;5:2050313X17723548.", "keywords": [ "dermat...
PMC5536371
Background: Trigeminal trophic syndrome is a rare complication of peripheral or central damage to the trigeminal nerve characterized by anesthesia, paresthesia and a secondary persistent facial ulceration. Methods: We describe the case of a 40-year-old woman with previous history of Le Fort I osteotomy for a class III ...
{ "authors": [ "Ikram Chaudhry", "Thabet Algazal", "Ahsan Cheema", "Aman Al Faraj", "Noor Al Malki", "Hadi Mutairi", "Ahmed Abbas", "Samir Amr" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.1016/j.ijscr.2019.08.020", "journal": "Int J Surg Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2019;62:115-119.", ...
PMC6734031
Introduction: In 1938, the Malignant Triton Tumor (MTT) was first explained by Mason. Case presentation: Case 1: A man aged 28 years presented with chest pain and difficulty in breathing since last five months, there was no history of cough fever or night sweats. Clinical examination was unremarkable. His routine hemat...
{ "authors": [ "Chaobiao Xue", "Shaoxian Chen", "Qi Lin", "Houshi Zhou", "Chuming Huang", "Jiyuan Lin", "Weihang Xie", "Kai Chen", "Dongming Zhou", "Wan Ma", "Feiyu Ma", "Haiyun Xu" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.2147/NDT.S92366", "journal": "Neuropsychiatr Dis...
PMC4636174
Herpes simplex encephalitis is a rare disease. In adults, most of the reported cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections are seen in immunocompromised patients. We present a case of 67-year-old Chinese male with the coinfection of CMV and herpes simplex virus type II (HSV-II). He had no history of being treated with immunosuppr...
{ "authors": [ "Danielle H Rochlin", "Justin M Broyles", "Justin M Sacks" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": null, "journal": "Eplasty", "journal_detail": "2013 Jul 19;13:ic53.", "keywords": [ "calvarium reconstruction", "head and neck reconstruction", "scalp reconstruction" ], "licen...
PMC3723065
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{ "authors": [ "Salwa Hussain", "Ruby Jhaj", "Samira Ahsan", "Muhammad Ahsan", "Robert E Bloom", "Syed-Mohammed R Jafri" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2014/964082", "journal": "Case Rep Med", "journal_detail": "2014;2014:964082.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "l...
PMC4021848
Background. It has recently been reported that hepatitis B (HBV) reactivation often occurs after the use of rituximab and stem cell transplantation in patients with lymphoma who are hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) negative. However, clinical data on HBV reactivation in multiple myeloma (MM) is limited to only a few...
{ "authors": [ "Hirohito Kobayashi", "Toshio Takagi", "Junpei Iizuka", "Kazuhiko Yoshida", "Tsunenori Kondo", "Kazunari Tanabe" ], "case_amount": 3, "doi": "10.1002/iju5.12034", "journal": "IJU Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2018 Dec 5;2(1):37-42.", "keywords": [ "imdc model", ...
PMC7292188
Introduction: Survival among patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma has been prolonged with advancements in treatment; however, its cure remains challenging. We describe three patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma who showed long-term survival and discuss their response to sequential therapy. Case presen...
{ "authors": [ "Sanaullah Khan Bashir", "Syeda Maheen Batool", "Gohar Javed" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.25259/SNI-251-2019", "journal": "Surg Neurol Int", "journal_detail": "2019 Jun 19;10:107.", "keywords": [ "cervical", "fracture", "hypertrophic", "malunion", "myelop...
PMC6744748
Background: Pseudarthrosis of Type II C2 odontoid fractures typically leads to displacement and subluxation resulting in canal compression/cervical myelopathy. Case description: Here, we present a 43-year-old male who sustained cervical trauma 28 years ago. He now presented with an acute 10-day onset of quadriparesis a...
{ "authors": [ "Kenji Yorita", "Chikane Ito", "Ai Fujioka", "Keisuke Kashiwagi", "Hiromichi Yamai", "Kimiko Nakatani", "Tatsuya Kumon" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.radcr.2022.10.045", "journal": "Radiol Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2022 Nov 7;18(1):280-284.", "keywor...
PMC9647331
Syphilitic infection is usually observed in young patients, and the first stage of the disease (primary syphilis) is characterized by painless cutaneous and lymph node lesions. Herein, we describe a 71-year-old Japanese man with primary syphilis that presented as unilateral inguinal lymphadenopathy without skin lesions...
{ "authors": [ "Guorui Hu", "Jingxia Zeng", "Chunli Wang", "Wei Zhou", "Zhanjun Jia", "Jun Yang", "Bixia Zheng" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3389/fped.2020.00118", "journal": "Front Pediatr", "journal_detail": "2020 Mar 27;8:118.", "keywords": [ "etfdh", "exon skippi...
PMC7119189
Background: Multiple acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (MADD) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by a wide range of clinical features, including muscle weakness, hypoglycemia, metabolic acidosis, and multisystem dysfunctions. Loss-of-function mutations in the electron transfer flavoprotein dehydrogenase (...
{ "authors": [ "Otto Lennartsson", "Maria Lodefalk", "Henrik Wehtje", "Eva-Lena Stattin", "Lars Sävendahl", "Ola Nilsson" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3389/fendo.2021.752756", "journal": "Front Endocrinol (Lausanne)", "journal_detail": "2021 Oct 13;12:752756.", "keywords": [ ...
PMC8550159
Objective: To present a rare clinical case of a patient with Tatton-Brown-Rahman syndrome and the outcome of tall stature management with bilateral epiphysiodesis surgery at the distal femur and proximal ends of tibia and fibula. Study design: Clinical case report. Results: This is a 20-year-old female with a history o...
{ "authors": [ "Charalampos G Markakis", "Eleftherios D Spartalis", "Emmanouil Liarmakopoulos", "Evangelia G Kavoura", "Periklis Tomos" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2013/968394", "journal": "Case Rep Surg", "journal_detail": "2013;2013:968394.", "keywords": null, "license": "...
PMC3657434
Introduction. Gastrointestinal stromal tumors of the esophagus are rare. Case Presentation. This is a case of a 50-year-old male patient who was referred to our department complaining of atypical chest pain. A chest computed tomographic scan and endoscopic ultrasound revealed a submucosal esophageal tumor measuring 5 c...
{ "authors": [ "Linda Daffini", "Ilenia Pirola", "Giovanni Saccà", "Massimo Salvetti", "Carlo Cappelli" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.22088/cjim.12.0.371", "journal": "Caspian J Intern Med", "journal_detail": "2021;12(Suppl 2):S371-S375.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "l...
PMC8559635
Background: Thyroid storm is a rare, life-threatening condition characterized by severe clinical manifestations of thyrotoxicosis and can be precipitated by several factors. We described a thyroid storm precipitated by a long-term treatment using homeopathic medicine containing iodine. Case presentation: A 55-year-old ...
{ "authors": [ "Lauren O'Connell", "Adeel R Memon", "Paul Foran", "Eamon Leen", "Patrick J Kenny" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.ijscr.2017.01.005", "journal": "Int J Surg Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2017;32:80-82.", "keywords": [ "case report", "chrondromatosis", ...
PMC5366957
Introduction: Synovial chrondomatosis is a rare disorder characterised by the development of hyaline cartilage from the synovial membrane. Large isolated lesions in the Hoffa's fat pad are an uncommon entity. Presentation of case: A 33 year old gentleman presented complaining of progressive knee pain associated with an...
{ "authors": [ "Jagdeep Kaur", "Jack Xu", "Hani J Alturkmani", "Subhi Al'Aref", "Gaurav Dhar" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.14797/mdcvj.1183", "journal": "Methodist Debakey Cardiovasc J", "journal_detail": "2023 Jan 13;19(1):7-11.", "keywords": [ "calcified pericardium", "con...
PMC9838225
Constrictive pericarditis (CP) is a type of diastolic heart failure caused by an inelastic pericardium that impairs cardiac filling. Diagnosing CP can be challenging, and a variety of imaging techniques may be necessary. We present a unique case of severely calcified pericardium leading to CP.
{ "authors": [ "Mohammed Ali", "C A Mbah", "Ahmed Alwadiya", "Mutaz Mohammed Nur", "D Sunderamoorthy" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.ijscr.2015.03.041", "journal": "Int J Surg Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2015;10:187-90.", "keywords": [ "acquired digital fibrokeratoma", ...
PMC4430176
Introduction: Acquired digital fibrokeratoma is an uncommon, benign fibrous tumour that usually occurs in adults as a solitary lesion with a typical size of less than 1cm. Case presentation: A 48-year-old Afro-Caribbean man presented to our foot and ankle clinic with a long-standing growth over the plantar aspect of th...
{ "authors": [ "Gry St-Martin", "Ann Lindstrand", "Synne Sandbu", "Thea Kølsen Fischer" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.3389/fpubh.2018.00131", "journal": "Front Public Health", "journal_detail": "2018 May 14;6:131.", "keywords": [ "nordic countries", "policy decisions", "polic...
PMC5960676
The World Health Organization recommends inclusion of rotavirus vaccines in national immunization programs (NIPs) worldwide. Nordic countries are usually considered comparable in terms of demographics and health-care services and have comparable rotavirus disease burden. Nevertheless, the countries have reached differe...
{ "authors": [ "Tsuyoshi Nojima", "Hiromichi Naito", "Yoshinori Kosaki", "Takaaki Osako", "Kimiaki Tanaka", "Atsuo Murata", "Atsunori Nakao" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": null, "journal": "Arch Acad Emerg Med", "journal_detail": "2019 Nov 16;7(1):e67.", "keywords": [ "caffein...
PMC6942917
Although fatalities due to caffeine intoxication are uncommon, a caffeine overdose may cause profound toxicity, resulting in tachycardia, arrhythmia, convulsions, vomiting, coma, and possibly death. In particular, high caffeine consumption while pregnant can cause increased fetal catecholamine levels, which could lead ...
{ "authors": [ "Vibhu Shankar Parashar", "Priyanka Aswal", "Tarun Kumar Gupta", "Gaurav Jaiswal" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.4103/jpn.JPN_170_18", "journal": "J Pediatr Neurosci", "journal_detail": "2021 Jan-Mar;16(1):61-64.", "keywords": [ "idiopathic cause", "intramedullary l...
PMC8276950
Introduction: Spontaneous spinal intramedullary hematoma is a rare cause of acute paraplegia in adults and is extremely uncommon in children. Very few cases with no apparent etiology (such as trauma, vascular lesions) have been reported in adults. We did not find any apparent cause for the hematoma in our patient and t...
{ "authors": [ "Oscar Suarez", "María Perez", "Martin Garzon", "Rodrigo Daza", "Geovanny Hernandez", "Carolina Salinas", "Jorge Ceballos", "Enrique P de Leon", "Jacqueline Mugnier", "Oscar Beltrán", "Adriana Varón" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2018/7521986", ...
PMC6304646
Fibrolamellar hepatocarcinoma is an infrequent liver tumor, currently considered to be a variant different from hepatocarcinoma. The differences lie in genomic alterations, a greater prevalence of fibrolamellar hepatocarcinoma in young patients, and its lack of association with underlying liver disease. The clinical pr...
{ "authors": [ "Yoon Young Choi", "Seung Joon Rhee" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.1016/j.ijscr.2017.10.020", "journal": "Int J Surg Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2017;41:134-145.", "keywords": [ "bone defect", "case report", "high tibial osteotomy", "tibia", "trauma" ], "...
PMC5655410
Introduction: Traumatic uncontained bone defect in the knee joint is one of the most serious knee injuries. As the knee joint is the main weight-bearing joint of the body, the problem of weight loading should be addressed while restoring the bone defect. However, no consensus exists regarding the treatment of this inju...
{ "authors": [ "Eduardo Lozano-Melendez", "Mercedes Aguilar-Soto", "Luis Eugenio Graniel-Palafox", "Laura Elena Ceceña-Martínez", "Rafael Valdez-Ortiz", "Fabio Solis-Jimenez" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2019/7640384", "journal": "Case Rep Endocrinol", "journal_detail": "2019...
PMC6393863
Context: Nesidioblastosis is a rare cause of hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia in adults. The diagnosis is further complicated in patients with kidney failure, since impaired renal function can cause hypoglycemia by itself and diagnostic criteria for this clinical scenario have not been developed yet. Case description: We ...
{ "authors": [ "Preeti Chaubey", "Rahul Tripathi", "Ajay Singh" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.4103/njms.NJMS_85_16", "journal": "Natl J Maxillofac Surg", "journal_detail": "2018 Jan-Jun;9(1):82-85.", "keywords": [ "definitive obturator", "hemi-maxillectomy", "hollow bulb closed l...
PMC5996660
Maxillary intraoral defects due to surgical resection create an open link between the oral and nasal cavities causing difficulty in deglutition, speech, and an unaesthetic appearance. Prosthetic innervention is required to restore the needs of speech, mastication as well as closing the oroantral communication. This art...
{ "authors": [ "Kyoko Nagao", "Cassidy Walter", "William J Parkes", "Michael Teixido", "Mary C Theroux", "Stacy Szymkowski", "Thierry Morlet", "Shunji Tomatsu" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1177/2050313X19873791", "journal": "SAGE Open Med Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2019...
PMC6719565
Mucopolysaccharidosis IVA (OMIM 253000; also known as Morquio A syndrome) is associated with skeletal, airway, and hearing abnormalities. Cochlear implantation is an effective intervention for patients with severe-to-profound hearing loss. Patients can gain substantial improvement in auditory performance, speech percep...
{ "authors": [ "Zehui Wu", "Tao Guo", "Qiang Li", "Liang Cheng", "Xiaosi Hu", "Aman Xu" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3389/fsurg.2021.731673", "journal": "Front Surg", "journal_detail": "2021 Oct 8;8:731673.", "keywords": [ "case report", "diagnosis", "gastric cancer"...
PMC8531091
Background: It is common for patients with gastric cancer to develop distant metastases in the liver, lung, bone, and brain. Although the thyroid also has an abundant blood supply, gastric cancer metastasis to the thyroid is uncommon. Due to the rarity of such metastasis, its clinical features are not well understood. ...
{ "authors": [ "Prateek Pulavarty", "Paresh Korde", "Sagar Rathod", "Juhi Patnaik", "Rajesh Domakunti", "Shivansh Pratap Singh" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.11604/pamj.2022.42.195.34744", "journal": "Pan Afr Med J", "journal_detail": "2022 Jul 12;42:195.", "keywords": [ "dow...
PMC9508359
Isolated involvement of brain with hydatid disease is a rare manifestation and occurs in only 1-2% of all Echinococcus granulosus infections. Here we present a young female of 16 years with primary intra cranial hydatid cyst without any extracranial involvement in the liver or lung. The patient was managed surgically a...
{ "authors": [ "G Raghavendra Prasad", "T M Rashmi" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": null, "journal": "J Neonatal Surg", "journal_detail": "2016 Jan 1;5(1):4.", "keywords": [ "lateral meningomyelocele", "neuro-enteric cyst", "spina bifida", "tethered cord" ], "license": "CC BY", "...
PMC4714616
Lateral presentation of meningocele and meningomyelocele is extremely rare. Most of the lateral meningocele described are associated with other syndromes. Isolated lateral meningomyelocele cases are rarer still. We herein report a neonate with isolated lateral gluteal meningomyelocele.
{ "authors": [ "Stephanie Lim", "Sakura Kinjo" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.4103/sja.SJA_47_17", "journal": "Saudi J Anaesth", "journal_detail": "2018 Jan-Mar;12(1):112-114.", "keywords": [ "acute pain", "lyme disease", "dental" ], "license": "CC BY-NC-SA", "link": "https://pu...
PMC5789468
A subset of patients who had Lyme disease experience postinfectious signs or symptoms called post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS). PTLDS is a chronic condition including pain in joints and muscles, neurological symptoms including demyelinating diseases, peripheral neuropathy, headaches, sleep disturbances, fati...
{ "authors": [ "Saurabh Gupta", "Jose Melendez", "Apurv Khanna" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2010/372719", "journal": "Case Rep Med", "journal_detail": "2010;2010:372719.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20671982/", "major_mesh_term...
PMC2909735
We describe a young woman with longstanding resistant hypertension. Evaluation for renal artery stenosis and primary aldosteronism was unrevealing. In this setting of a suppressed plasma aldosterone concentration (PAC) and a suppressed plasma renin activity (PRA), a differential diagnosis of a deoxycorticosterone (DOC)...
{ "authors": [ "Hiroaki Tagomori", "Nobuhiro Kaku", "Tomonori Tabata", "Hiroshi Tsumura" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2018/6596135", "journal": "Case Rep Orthop", "journal_detail": "2018 Apr 29;2018:6596135.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.n...
PMC5949174
We report a case of bilateral spontaneous greater trochanteric fracture after bilateral simultaneous total hip arthroplasty (THA) performed via the posterolateral approach during the early postoperative phase. A 75-year-old woman underwent bilateral simultaneous THA (BS-THA) for severe osteoarthritis with developmental...
{ "authors": [ "Takashi Kawasaki", "Takafumi Oyoshi", "Naoyuki Hirata" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2023/5935657", "journal": "Case Rep Anesthesiol", "journal_detail": "2023 Jan 12;2023:5935657.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/366856...
PMC9851793
Background: Intraoperative anesthetic requirements might be altered due to the modulated metabolic function in living donor liver transplant recipients. Remimazolam may provide appropriate anesthesia in patients with cirrhosis. However, the efficacy and safety of remimazolam in liver transplant recipients have not been...
{ "authors": [ "Yuichi Nishikawa", "Kohei Watanabe", "Naoya Orita", "Noriaki Maeda", "Hiroaki Kimura", "Shinobu Tanaka", "Allison Hyngstrom" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.12688/f1000research.50951.2", "journal": "F1000Res", "journal_detail": "2021 Mar 16;10:214.", "keywords":...
PMC8258705
Background: Despite the potential benefits, the effects of Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL) gait training on changes in neuromuscular activation that accompany functional gains in individuals with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) type III is not well known. In this article, we quantify the effects of HAL gait training on spati...
{ "authors": [ "Sabina Bhoil", "Yashwant Singh Verma", "Sonam Negi", "Rohit Bhoil" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.4103/0971-9784.173034", "journal": "Ann Card Anaesth", "journal_detail": "2016 Jan-Mar;19(1):146-8.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY-NC-SA", "link": "https://pubmed.n...
PMC4900401
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{ "authors": [ "Xiao-Yun Fan", "Wei-Min Wang", "Xue-Bo Yan", "Cong-Hui Wang", "Rong-Yu Liu" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.5114/ceji.2015.50844", "journal": "Cent Eur J Immunol", "journal_detail": "2015;40(1):117-21.", "keywords": [ "aspergillus", "agranulocytosis", "hyper...
PMC4472550
Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) is difficult to diagnose because it requires histopathology and tissue culture, as well as due to its rapid progression. Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis is the primary cause of pulmonary mycosis in China, which can occur in patients with neutrophil deficiency, leukaemia or lympho...
{ "authors": [ "Joana Santos", "Rosete Nogueira", "Rita Pinto", "Isabel Cerveira", "Susana Pereira" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.4081/cp.2013.e5", "journal": "Clin Pract", "journal_detail": "2013 Feb 5;3(1):e5.", "keywords": [ "vacterl association", "vater association", ...
PMC3981235
VACTERL association (OMIM 192350) is a non-random combination of multiple congenital malformations including vertebral, anal, cardiac, tracheoesophageal, renal and limb anomalies. The wide spectrum of defects suggests the occurrence of defective development during early embryogenesis. The authors report a case of a com...
{ "authors": [ "Thomas Obinchemti Egbe", "Fidelia Mbi Kobenge", "Metogo Mbengono Junette Arlette", "Jacque-Ernest Nyemb", "Robinson Enow Mbu" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1177/2050313X19830817", "journal": "SAGE Open Med Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2019 Feb 13;7:2050313X19830817.", ...
PMC6378465
The Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome is the congenital absence or underdevelopment of the uterus and vagina even though the external genitalia, ovaries and ovarian function are normal. This condition is uncommon in Cameroon. A 23-year-old woman of the Fulbé tribe, a predominantly Islamic tribe of the northern pa...
{ "authors": [ "Tutku Soyer", "Gül Özyüksel", "Özlem Boybeyi Türer", "Kübra Çakmakkaya", "Sinan Yavuz", "Bilgehan Yalçın", "Diclehan Orhan", "Ebru Yalçın", "Deniz Doğru", "Benan Bayrakçı", "Nural Kiper", "Canan Akyüz" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1055/s-0039-16...
PMC6533102
Background Pulmonary Langerhans's cell histiocytosis (PLCH) is a rare cause of interstitial lung disease in children and more than half of the cases are bilateral. Persistent respiratory distress due to spontaneous pneumothorax (SP) in bilateral PLCH may refractory to conservative treatment and posed a great challenge ...
{ "authors": [ "Martin Ellenrieder", "Maximilian Haenle", "Robert Lenz", "Rainer Bader", "Wolfram Mittelmeier" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3205/dgkh000173", "journal": "GMS Krankenhhyg Interdiszip", "journal_detail": "2011;6(1):Doc16.", "keywords": [ "infection", "spacer", ...
PMC3252665
Within the first two years after total hip arthroplasty implant-associated infection has become the second most common reason for a revision surgery. Two-stage implant exchange is frequently conducted using temporary spacers made of antibiotic-loaded cement in order to prevent a bacterial colonization on the spacer. Av...
{ "authors": [ "Hana Hakim", "Sawssan Ben Halima", "Ahmed Zouari", "Dora Trabelsi", "Mohamed Derbel", "Kais Chaabane", "Sahbi Kebaili" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.11604/pamj.2021.38.47.27737", "journal": "Pan Afr Med J", "journal_detail": "2021 Jan 18;38:47.", "keywords": [...
PMC8017358
Endometriosis is the presence of endometrial tissue in abnormal locations outside the uterine cavity. These locations are usually the ovaries, the peritoneum, and the uterine ligaments. Less frequently, the endometrial tissue can affect the perineum especially after surgical procedures or obstetric lesions. In this cas...
{ "authors": [ "Trisha Greenhalgh", "Mustafa Ozbilgin", "Damien Contandriopoulos" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16855.3", "journal": "Wellcome Open Res", "journal_detail": "2021 Oct 22;6:126.", "keywords": [ "bourdieu", "sars-cov-2", "aerosol transmission", ...
PMC8474098
Background: Scientific and policy bodies' failure to acknowledge and act on the evidence base for airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in a timely way is both a mystery and a scandal. In this study, we applied theories from Bourdieu to address the question, "How was a partial and partisan scientific account of SARS-CoV-...
{ "authors": [ "Cristen P Page", "Brian Fitzgerald", "Emily M Hawes" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1186/s40842-017-0049-9", "journal": "Clin Diabetes Endocrinol", "journal_detail": "2017 Nov 28;3:11.", "keywords": [ "diabetes, graves’ disease, autoimmune, endocrine, polyglandular autoimm...
PMC5706424
Background: Primary care clinicians will see a higher incidence of type 2 diabetes in adult patients, and the diagnosis and management of an initial presentation of type 1 diabetes can pose challenges to clinicians who see it less frequently. Symptoms of hyperglycemia and risk of ketoacidosis may be missed. Further, en...
{ "authors": [ "Janine Beatrice Borja", "Ghanshyam Patel", "Luqman Baloch", "Ammar Aqeel", "Mool Chand", "Hariprasad Korsapati", "Altaf Dawood", "Naser Khan" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2023/9437558", "journal": "Case Rep Gastrointest Med", "journal_detail": "2023 Ma...
PMC10042631
Acquired tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) is a rare complication of esophageal or lung cancer. A 57-year-old male presented with complaints of vomiting, cough, 20 lb weight loss, and progressive dysphagia. Early laryngoscopy and CT chest showed a normal pharynx with an irregular thickness of the thoracic esophagus. The ...
{ "authors": [ "Jerry J Shih", "Dean J Krusienski" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.10.012", "journal": "J Neurosci Methods", "journal_detail": "2012 Jan 30;203(2):311-4.", "keywords": null, "license": "author_manuscript", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22044847/"...
PMC3246120
A brain-computer interface (BCI) is a device that enables severely disabled people to communicate and interact with their environments using their brain waves. Most research investigating BCI in humans have used scalp-recorded electroencephalography (EEG). We have recently demonstrated that signals from intracranial el...
{ "authors": [ "Beatriz Oliveira Lopes", "Margarida Sena Brízido", "Ana Cortesão Costa", "Mário Raimundo", "Margarida Maria Miranda", "Susana Morais Pina" ], "case_amount": 4, "doi": "10.1155/2021/1812271", "journal": "Case Rep Ophthalmol Med", "journal_detail": "2021 Jun 2;2021:1812...
PMC8189795
Tubulointerstitial nephritis and uveitis syndrome (TINU) is a rare oculorenal inflammatory entity with a probable autoimmune etiology. Interstitial nephritis may be asymptomatic and usually has a benign course with spontaneous resolution. Uveitis, instead, is classically anterior, bilateral, and nongranulomatous, but i...
{ "authors": [ "Peng-Yue Zhao", "Zhao-Fu Ma", "Ya-Nan Jiao", "Yang Yan", "Song-Yan Li", "Xiao-Hui Du" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3389/fonc.2022.969628", "journal": "Front Oncol", "journal_detail": "2022 Oct 3;12:969628.", "keywords": [ "early gastric cancer", "endoscop...
PMC9574332
Early gastric cancer (EGC) has a desirable prognosis compared with advanced gastric cancer (AGC). The surgical concept of EGC has altered from simply emphasizing radical resection to both radical resection and functional preservation. As the mainstream surgical methods for EGC, both endoscopic resection and laparoscopi...
{ "authors": [ "Andres Suarez", "Christopher Parsons", "Eveline Parsons", "Ivan Gowe", "Stephen Vickery" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00644", "journal": "IDCases", "journal_detail": "2019 Sep 21;18:e00644.", "keywords": [ "campylobacter coli", "fluoroquinol...
PMC6854087
Campylobacter species are common causes of diarrheal illness following consumption of contaminated food or unpasteurized dairy products, but subsequent dissemination and joint space infections are rare. We describe a patient who consumed undercooked chicken wings, with subsequent development of a febrile gastrointestin...
{ "authors": [ "Daria Bekina-Sreenivasan", "Paul Saleeb", "Sarah A Schmalzle" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.idcr.2023.e01835", "journal": "IDCases", "journal_detail": "2023 Jul 10;33:e01835.", "keywords": [ "discitis", "immunocompromised", "mycobacteria", "mycobacteriu...
PMC10368906
Mycobacterium xenopi is a rare cause of spinal osteomyelitis and discitis. Here we report the case of a 68-year-old woman with history of splenectomy for Felty's syndrome who developed M. xenopi lumbar discitis and osteomyelitis following repeated corticosteroid spinal injections for chronic back pain. Review of the 18...
{ "authors": [ "T G Elgin", "E M Fricke", "M E Hernandez Reyes", "M E Tsimis", "N S Leslein", "B A Thomas", "T S Sato", "P J McNamara" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3233/NPM-200460", "journal": "J Neonatal Perinatal Med", "journal_detail": "2020;13(3):293-305.", "keywords...
PMC7592679
The COVID-19 pandemic represents the greatest challenge to date faced by the medical community in the 21st century. The rate of rapid dissemination, magnitude of viral contagiousness, person to person transmission at an asymptomatic phase of illness pose a unique and dangerous challenge for all patients, including neon...
{ "authors": [ "Federico Greco", "Lorenzo Sabatino", "Francesco Sabatino", "Manuele Casale", "Carlo Cosimo Quattrocchi", "Bruno Beomonte Zobel" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.15586/jkcvhl.2016.61", "journal": "J Kidney Cancer VHL", "journal_detail": "2016 Dec 23;3(3):11-15.", "key...
PMC5345509
Blepharoptosis is the drooping or inferior displacement of the upper eyelid. Blepharoptosis can be either congenital or acquired. Tumour metastasis is one of the acquired causes of blepharoptosis. The lungs, locoregional lymph nodes, bone and liver are the usual sites of metastases of renal cell carcinoma (RCC); howeve...
{ "authors": [ "Giorgio Pomara", "Francesco Cappello", "Maria G Cuttano", "Francesca Rappa", "Girolamo Morelli", "Pierantonio Mancini", "Cesare Selli" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1186/1471-2407-4-3", "journal": "BMC Cancer", "journal_detail": "2004 Jan 26;4:3.", "keywords":...
PMC331414
Background: A case of Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor (PNET) of the kidney in a 27-year-old woman is presented. Few cases are reported in the literature with a variable, nonspecific presentation and an aggressive behaviour. In our case, a radical nephrectomy with lymphadenectomy was performed and there was no residual ...
{ "authors": [ "Stephen Adams", "Alastair Gray", "Niall Herity" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": null, "journal": "Ulster Med J", "journal_detail": "2019 Jan;88(1):15-16.", "keywords": [ "arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy", "dysplasia", "tachycardia", "ventricular" ]...
PMC6342044
We report a patient who first presented during childhood in the early 1960's with several episodes of ventricular tachycardia (VT) and we describe her management which reflected the best medical knowledge at the time. She then presented more than 50 years later, again with VT, at which time a definitive diagnosis of th...
{ "authors": [ "Jialing Yu", "Na Chen", "Min Chen", "Min Shen", "Yeqing Qian", "Minyue Dong" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3389/fgene.2022.1020525", "journal": "Front Genet", "journal_detail": "2022 Oct 31;13:1020525.", "keywords": [ "cma", "nipt", "karyotyping", ...
PMC9662610
Tetrasomy 9p is a rare syndrome characterized by fetal growth restriction, Dandy-Walker malformation, cardiac anomalies, and facial abnormalities and is discovered by ultrasound during the prenatal examination. Herein, we report a fetus of tetrasomy 9p without obvious phenotypic manifestations during the first trimeste...
{ "authors": [ "Sasivimol Srisukho", "Orawee Chinthakanan" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2017/4925124", "journal": "Case Rep Obstet Gynecol", "journal_detail": "2017;2017:4925124.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29387500/", "major_mesh_...
PMC5745692
A 72-year-old woman presented with a 1-month history of an incarcerated uterine prolapse along with an infected wound at the anterior uterine wall. She had previously undergone the traditional Thai practice Yue Fai, or "lying by the fire," as performed by postpartum women. However, her uterus was burned by the extremel...
{ "authors": [ "S Melegari", "G Albo", "B Rocco", "F Verweij", "M Abbinante", "O de Cobelli" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3332/ecancer.2010.175", "journal": "Ecancermedicalscience", "journal_detail": "2010;4:175.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubme...
PMC3234030
Introduction: adrenal gland, parotid gland, pharynx, eye and bladder are rare localizations of metastases of renal cell carcinoma (RCC). We report a case of metachronous RCC metastases to the bladder in a patient with a medical history of transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the bladder. Materials and methods: a case s...
{ "authors": [ "Osama Hamdoun", "Asia Al Mulla", "Shamma Al Zaabi", "Hiba Shendi", "Sharifa Al Ghamdi", "Jozef Hertecant", "Amar Al-Shibli" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2020/3460631", "journal": "Case Rep Pediatr", "journal_detail": "2020 Jan 10;2020:3460631.", "keyword...
PMC7199573
Familial hepatic veno-occlusive disease with immunodeficiency (VODI, OMIM: 235550) is a rare form of combined immune deficiency (CID) that presents in the first few months of life with failure to thrive, recurrent infections, opportunistic infections along with liver impairment. Herein, we are describing a Pakistani pa...
{ "authors": [ "So Yeon Ki", "Seul Kee Kim", "Tae Wook Heo", "Byung Hyun Baek", "Hyung Seok Kim", "Woong Yoon" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3348/kjr.2016.17.1.142", "journal": "Korean J Radiol", "journal_detail": "2016 Jan-Feb;17(1):142-6.", "keywords": [ "chordoid glioma", ...
PMC4720801
Chordoid glioma is a rare low grade tumor typically located in the third ventricle. Although a chordoid glioma can arise from ventricle with tumor cells having features of ependymal differentiation, intraventricular dissemination has not been reported. Here we report a case of a patient with third ventricular chordoid ...
{ "authors": [ "Aleksandra Krstic", "Fatemah Rezayee", "Leonie Saft", "Anna Hammarsjö", "Petter Svenberg", "Gisela Barbany" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.3389/fped.2022.1082986", "journal": "Front Pediatr", "journal_detail": "2023 Jan 10;10:1082986.", "keywords": [ "jak2 fusi...
PMC9871838
In the present report, we applied whole genome sequencing (WGS) to genetically characterize a case of pediatric T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) refractory to standard therapy. WGS identified a novel JAK2 fusion, with CCDC88C as a partner. CCDC88C encodes a protein part of the Wnt signaling pathway and has pre...
{ "authors": [ "Jagan Mohana Reddy Velpula", "Harinder Gakhar", "Kohilavani Sigamoney", "Rajendra Bommireddy" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.2174/1874325001308010020", "journal": "Open Orthop J", "journal_detail": "2014 Jan 24;8:20-3.", "keywords": [ "discitis", "cervical epidural...
PMC3927375
Background: Stroke is a common provisional diagnosis in patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with unilateral neurological deficit. Cervical epidural abscess (CEA) may also present clinically with a unilateral neurological deficit. Objects: To highlight the inherent problems with diagnosing cervical epid...
{ "authors": [ "Shuang-Fen Tao", "Wen-Hua Gu", "Jian-Chun Gu", "Mei-Ling Zhu", "Qing Wang", "Lei-Zhen Zheng" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.2147/OTT.S220299", "journal": "Onco Targets Ther", "journal_detail": "2019 Nov 15;12:9735-9745.", "keywords": [ "gemox", "advanced pa...
PMC6863124
Purpose: This retrospective study was conducted to evaluate the safety and efficacy of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation combined with Gemcitabine and Oxaliplatin (Gemox) for the treatment of middle and advanced pancreatic cancer in elderly patients. Methods: Forty-seven patients with pancreatic cancer ...
{ "authors": [ "Ganesh Singh Dharmshaktu", "Aanshu Singhal", "Tanuja Pangtey" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.4103/2249-4863.184659", "journal": "J Family Med Prim Care", "journal_detail": "2016 Jan-Mar;5(1):175-7.", "keywords": [ "colloidal silver", "dressing", "firearm injury", ...
PMC4943132
A good dressing is mandatory to an uncomplicated wound healing, especially when foreign particles contaminate the wound. Various forms of dressing preparations are available for use and differ in chemical composition and efficacy. Silver has been a known agent with good antimicrobial and healing properties and recent t...
{ "authors": [ "Subhrajit Lahiri", "Bhaswati Ghoshal", "Debabrata Nandi" ], "case_amount": 2, "doi": "10.4103/2249-4847.92232", "journal": "J Clin Neonatol", "journal_detail": "2012 Jan;1(1):46-8.", "keywords": [ "antley-bixler syndrome", "craniosynostosis", "proptosis" ], "lic...
PMC3761981
Antley-Bixler syndrome (ABS) is rare form of craniosynostosis of both autosomal dominant and autosomal recessive inheritance. We are reporting a female term appropriate for gestational age newborn with clinical features of frontal bossing, brachycephaly, proptosis, synostosis of radioulnar joints, hemangioma over nose ...
{ "authors": [ "Dragan Subotic", "Nikola Atanasijadis", "Dejan Moskovljevic", "Dragana Asujic" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1155/2019/1296061", "journal": "Case Rep Surg", "journal_detail": "2019 Jan 23;2019:1296061.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.nc...
PMC6364118
In a mentally disabled adolescent, bronchoscopic extraction failure of a metallic foreign body from the left main bronchus was followed by mediastinal emphysema. At thoracotomy, a part of the metallic hook was found to protrude through the main bronchus, just by the descending aorta. The foreign body was removed and th...
{ "authors": [ "Lauren Azevedo", "Rofida Nofal", "Allison Jay", "Adonis Lorenzana", "Sioban Keel", "Roshini S Abraham", "Marshall Horwitz", "Michelle van Hee", "Hadi Sawaf" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1177/2333794X17744947", "journal": "Glob Pediatr Health", "journal_...
PMC5718303
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{ "authors": [ "Tetsuya Yokoyama", "Taro Setoguchi", "Kazuo Sakamoto", "Shun Mashimoto", "Daisuke Eto", "Hiroshi Wataya" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1002/rcr2.281", "journal": "Respirol Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2017 Oct 23;6(1):e00281.", "keywords": [ "computed tomogra...
PMC5653389
A saccular superior vena cava aneurysm is a rare venous aneurysm that presents as mediastinal mass lesions. An evaluation using contrast-enhanced computed tomography is indispensable for the diagnosis.
{ "authors": [ "Anirban Majumder", "Sagar Basu" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.15605/jafes.034.01.17", "journal": "J ASEAN Fed Endocr Soc", "journal_detail": "2019;34(1):103-106.", "keywords": [ "graves' disease", "guillain-barré syndrome", "pharyngo–cervico–brachial variety" ], "...
PMC7784229
Graves' disease (GD) and Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) are both autoimmune disorders and are triggered by interactions between genetic and environmental factors. GBS in patients who suffer from other autoimmune diseases is rarely reported, and the development of atypical GBS with cranial nerve involvement in a patient ...
{ "authors": [ "Subramanian Vaidyanathan", "Tracey Foster", "Bakul M Soni" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1038/s41394-018-0128-x", "journal": "Spinal Cord Ser Cases", "journal_detail": "2018 Nov 13;4:103.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/304...
PMC6234204
Introduction: Generalised muscle weakness can occur after bladder wall injection of Abobotulinum toxin and the patient may require additional caregiver support. Case presentation: A woman with C-8 AIS A tetraplegia received bladder wall injection of Abobotulinum toxin A 1000 units for detrusor over-activity. After 2.5 ...
{ "authors": [ "Sang-Yoon Ha", "Chul-Won Chung", "Young H Ko" ], "case_amount": 3, "doi": "10.3346/jkms.2004.19.3.453", "journal": "J Korean Med Sci", "journal_detail": "2004 Jun;19(3):453-7.", "keywords": null, "license": "CC BY-NC", "link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15201515/", ...
PMC2816850
Severe chronic active Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection is a rare and life-threatening illness. Although the criteria for diagnosis include chronic or recurrent infectious mononucleosis-like symptoms lasting more than 6 months and high titers of anti-EBV antibodies, clinical and laboratory findings may be heterogeneou...
{ "authors": [ "Christina M Huang", "Lauren Lam", "Robert Gniadecki" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1177/2050313X19829617", "journal": "SAGE Open Med Case Rep", "journal_detail": "2019 Feb 15;7:2050313X19829617.", "keywords": [ "photodynamic therapy", "amyloidosis", "depositional ...
PMC6378484
Primary cutaneous amyloidosis is characterized by polymerization of extracellular amyloid precursors in β-pleated sheet conformation into larger fibrillar aggregates. Observation in models of Alzheimer's disease have noted that amyloid polymerization in the brain is blocked by reactive oxygen species. Singlet oxygen is...
{ "authors": [ "Shimpei Matsui", "Nobuhiro Nitori", "Ayu Kato", "Yoshifumi Ikeda", "Yuko Kiatagwa", "Hirotoshi Hasegawa", "Koji Okabayashi", "Masashi Tsuruta", "Masaki Kitajima" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1016/j.ijscr.2016.09.053", "journal": "Int J Surg Case Rep", "...
PMC5061312
Introduction: Spigelian hernia (SH) is a rare ventral hernia occurring near the lateral border of the rectus muscle. The treatment remains controversial and depends on institutional expertise. Although laparoscopic surgery is a good adaptation for the repair of ventral hernias, only a few cases have been reported in th...
{ "authors": [ "Chunyan Jiang", "Wen Tang", "Xu Yang", "Hongwei Li" ], "case_amount": 1, "doi": "10.1515/med-2023-0713", "journal": "Open Med (Wars)", "journal_detail": "2023 Jun 2;18(1):20230713.", "keywords": [ "pd-i inhibitor", "adverse event", "immune checkpoint inhibitor",...
PMC10238808
A 47-year-old man presented with a 1 week history of progressive fatigue and decreased appetite. He had stage IV oral squamous cell carcinoma and was treated with sintilimab, a programmed cell death protein 1 inhibitor, 22 months earlier. Laboratory work-up revealed significant elevation of bilirubin, liver enzymes, gl...