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A 78-year-old Japanese woman (gravida 10, para 2, abortion 8) had a 10-year history of uterine prolapse but she had no gynecological examination. She had no smoking history and her body mass index was 19.7. She visited our hospital because of a 1-month history of bleeding from an ulcerated lesion on the surface of the ...
Our patient was a 59-year-old Taiwanese, well-nourished man with a history of hypertension for 4 years and hyperthyroidism for one more year that were well controlled. He was a heavy smoker (1–2 packs per day) for 30 years, and had only quit for a few months. He had received a lumbar laminectomy to treat spinal stenosi...
A 45-year-old Arab male presented with a 4-years history of chronic pelvic pain accompanied by straining to defecate and dysuria, but without perineal discharge, rectal bleeding, headaches or weight loss. The patient reported to be operated for anal fistula 10 years ago with satisfactory clinical evolution. His family ...
A 26-year-old male presented to a community hospital in rural Newfoundland with an upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleed. His past medical history was significant for Cohen syndrome, an autosomal recessive disorder involving the mutation of the vacuolar protein sorting 13 homolog B (VPS13B) gene. VPS13B is a transmembrane ...
The 45-year-old male patient referred to the periodontology clinic due to severe pain in the fixed prosthesis region including the teeth 23, 24, and 26, and difficulty in chewing. Intraoral examination indicated severe inflammation along with mobility, deep periodontal pockets reaching to the apex (10 mm on average), a...
A 55-year-old woman presented with severe right hypochondrium pain, with weight loss and alteration of her general condition, lasting for 6 months. She showed no urological signs, especially no hematuria, no pain, and no flank mass. She had no past history in particular. Neither physical examination nor laboratory exam...
A 74-year-old female presented to a local hospital with severe left lower extremity pain and oral thrush. In the emergency department, laboratory data revealed anemia, thrombocytopenia of 10,000 platelets/microliter, and elevated white blood count of 235,500 leukocytes/microliter with 97% blasts concerning for leukemia...
The patient was a 7-year-old boy, born in Belgium from two parents of Burundi origin, who suffered from sickle-cell disease that was diagnosed during the neonatal period. He was undergoing manual recurrent partial exchange transfusion (roughly once a month since the age of four) in combination with medical treatment (h...
A 45-year-old woman with a long history of tracheal stenosis and upper airway obstruction presented for elective tracheostomy placement in the setting of supra- and infraglottic stenosis after failed awake tracheostomy by an otorhinolaryngologist (ORL) (Figures and ). It was felt by the attending ORL surgeon that the a...
A 48-year-old woman visited our emergency department complaining of voiding difficulty, weakness and sensory disturbances in both lower extremities, which had started 7 days ago prior to her visit. An initial neurological examination revealed grade III motor power for the right and grade IV motor power for left lower e...
We present a case of a 51 year-old white female with a 5-year history of ulcerative colitis. She has been taking mesalamine 1.2 gram (2 tablets two times a day) for 1 year with no complications that were reported. No history of allergies and no history of smoking or alcohol abuse were present. Past medical history was ...
A 21-year-old male sustained a single gunshot wound with entry over the left scapula. At the scene, the emergency medical response personnel found him on the ground alert, unable to move his legs, and noting pain all over his body. He was hemodynamically stable in the field. Ground ambulance immobilized the neck with a...
A 15-year-old boy was referred to our hospital with presenting symptoms of nausea, vomiting, severe headache, delirium, and a complaint of mood and behavior change. He was the first child of consanguineous parents born at term with a birth weight of 3.1 kg. He had no history of intellectual disability, but a mild motor...
A 45-year-old woman was first diagnosed in 2006 with ACC showing typical signs of Cushing’s syndrome with consecutive increase of weight and body hair, acne, therapy-refractory arterial hypertension and decrease of physical working capacity. Hormonal work-up revealed elevated cortisol levels basal and after dexamethaso...
Our patient, a 72-year-old male with a past medical history of polycystic kidney disease, received a liver and kidney transplant from a single donor in January 2006; however, this first kidney immediately failed. He subsequently received a second living-related (i.e. from a living family member) donor kidney in January...
A 63-year-old man, a nursing home resident for ten years, had been admitted six months after an episode of anoxic encephalopathy. The sequelae included severe memory and executive impairment with anosognosia and irritability, as well as visual impairment consistent with apperceptive agnosia. Past medical history was si...
The present 7-year-old boy was the third offspring of healthy non-consanguineous parents. He was born at 38 weeks of gestational age, weighing 3376 g. No asphyxia or other perinatal events were noted. He was able to control his head at 5 months, sat independently at 8 months, and walked at 14 months of age. When he was...
A 32-year-old male patient reported to the Department of Prosthodontics with a complaint of discolored teeth, generalized sensitivity, chipping off of teeth, and difficulty in chewing ().\nNo abnormality was detected in temporomandibular joint movements. Intraoral examination revealed unaesthetic appearance, generalize...
A 24-year-old pregnant woman (G2P1) was referred to us due to suspected bilateral ovarian cysts at 8 weeks of gestation. She had undergone ovarian cystectomy twice under open surgery: left and right ovarian cystectomy for mature cystic teratoma and mucinous cystadenoma, respectively. She had no additional medical histo...
An 83-year-old man presented to our institution for the assessment of 3 months of intense and piercing pain, which was of an intermittent and paroxysmal nature, with a duration varying from a few seconds to a maximum of about 1 min, of a daily frequency, localised in the deep laterocervical site behind the right jaw an...
An 89-year-old gentleman with no significant past medical history presented to the emergency department (ED) of a district general hospital with atraumatic right hip pain and inability to weight-bear. The patient had a long history of right hip osteoarthritis causing pain and functional limitation, for which he had bee...
A 19-year-old male presented with gross total painless hematuria of a 5 days duration. There was no past family history of cancer. General physical examination and systemic examination were normal. Blood workup showed anemia. Renal function and liver functions were within normal limits. An ultrasound showed a polypoida...
The patient was a 42-year-old woman. She had suffered from migraine and tension-type headaches since her twenties. The migraine headache was described as pulsatile, bilateral, and on the forehead, persisting from a few hours to half a day. It occurred seven to eight times a month irrespective of menstruation and was ac...
A forty-year old Caucasian male was referred by his general practitioner for urological assessment because of persisting, painless hemospermia, which had initially been treated with several courses of oral antibiotics for almost seven months. The patient denied prior trauma or genitourinary tract infection. The patient...
The patient is a 46-year-old female with blood type B and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) secondary to lupus nephritis. She was diagnosed with lupus at age 24, treated with prednisone and mycophenolate mofetil. At 39, a kidney biopsy indicated lupus nephritis class III/IV with crescents, and she progressed hemodialysis ...
A 39-year-old Thai male patient presented with progressive pain and swelling of seven-month duration over the antecubital fossa of the right elbow. Initially, there was only slight swelling. Three months later, he complained of dull pain. The patient went to a private clinic where the diagnosis was distal biceps tendin...
A 13-year-old girl of African ancestry was referred to our breast clinic for evaluation of a left breast mass. She had been complaining of the left breast lump for 2 years. The lump was gradually increasing in size and it was tender. There was no history of skin changes, nipple discharge, fever, or trauma. Furthermore,...
A 25 year old G2P1001 sub-Saharan African married seamstress at 8 weeks amenorrhea, presented to a primary level hospital in Cameroon with 4 days history of lower abdominal pains and vaginal bleeding. She had no known chronic illness and denied having any past history of pelvic inflammatory disease or assisted reproduc...
The patient was a 58-year-old male who complained of difficulty in urination and intermittent gross hematuria for 3 months. He was admitted to our hospital on June 1, 2010. There was no family history of cancer or chronic illness. Rectal examination disclosed a mildly enlarged mass just like benign prostate. Abdominal ...
A 68-year-old male was admitted to hospital with a history of dyspnea at rest for 2 d, a cough producing mucus, loss of appetite and diarrhoea. Pneumonia was suspected, and the patient received intravenous antibiotic treatment. During the patient's second night in hospital, he was found groggy and walking near his room...
A 60-year-old man was scheduled to undergo his third aortic root replacement using a homograft because of infectious endocarditis in the aortic valve. At the age of 58, he underwent Bentall operation, mitral valve replacement, and Maze operation because of aortic regurgitation, mitral regurgitation, and atrial fibrilla...
A 92-year-old woman presented to the emergency room with acute onset of right upper quadrant pain, nausea, and vomiting. She was previously in her usual state of health with minimal medical or surgical comorbidities with the exception of a minor weight loss. Her past medical history is significant for gastroesophageal ...
An 81-year-old lady presented to the ENT department with increasing dysphagia, shortness of breath, and stridor. Her past medical history included radiotherapy to the mediastinum for Hodgkin's lymphoma 14 years prior to presentation and radiation induced interstitial pulmonary fibrosis. She was on long-term Azathioprin...
A 52-year-old Korean male underwent distal gastrectomy for stomach cancer in 1999. Pathology report revealed early gastric cancer. Adjuvant treatment was not offered to the patient. The patient had multiple serious comorbidities including end-stage renal disease, for which patient was on hemodialysis and liver cirrhosi...
28-year-old G5P3105 at 10 weeks, 2 days with a dichorionic diamniotic gestation presented to the Emergency Department with sharp and constant abdominal pain, localized to her left lower quadrant. Review of systems was otherwise negative. The patient's medical history was noncontributory, though her obstetrical history ...
A 57 years old female was referred for private Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery consultation for evaluation and management of a two centimeters unilocular lesion between teeth 42 and 43. The lesion was asymptomatic and therefore the duration of its presence was unknown. There was no alveolar swelling, no periodontal prob...
The second patient was an 84-year-old male who developed an erythematous nodule on the proximal phalanx of the left ring finger, which had suddenly increased in size. A biopsy confirmed MCC, which was positive for MCPyV (). Given that the surgical margins were not clear after local excision, the decision was made to am...
A 52-year-old woman (gravida 1, para 1, and abortion 1) was referred due to the pelvic mass which was found by the transvaginal ultrasound in private clinic. Transvaginal ultrasound demonstrated a large irregularly marginated solid mass in the pelvic cavity. She denied the abdominal bloating and the pain except for the...
A 32 year old female Cameroonian gravida 4 para 3 at 34 weeks of gestation presented to the labour and delivery unit of Mbalmayo district hospital with 8 h history of severe generalized headache, expressive aphasia and right sided paralysis in an afebrile context. This was associated with blurred vision but no convulsi...
The patient was a 32-year-old Caucasian male who was diagnosed in 2004 with mycosis fungoides after developing a pruritic rash. There was no family history of cancer. He was initially treated with topical nitrogen mustard and later received UVB narrow band therapy. In October 2012, the patient presented with a cough, d...
A 44-year-old woman with no remarkable family history was admitted to our hospital with the following medical history: after undergoing modified radical mastectomy for cancer of the right breast (papillotubular carcinoma, T3N1M0) in March 2009 at another hospital, the patient received postoperative chemotherapy (4 cour...
A 27-year-old male was admitted to hospital emergency due to 4 h of chest pain in 13 January 2016. In fact, he had suffered from fatigue after activity for more than 10 days and felt chest tightness and chest pain for 4 days before admission. The patient, a taekwondo trainee, had a healthy body, and his family history ...
A 52-year-old male patient reported to the outpatient department with a chief complaint of swelling on the right side of the palate for the past 5 years. The patient had undergone surgical treatment for a bony swelling at lower border of the mandible about 30 years back. After that, he was apparently normal until 5 yea...
An 82-year-old Australian female was referred by her general practitioner to a general surgeon for biopsy +/- excision of a clinically up to 15 mm lesion of the mid-nose, which had been rapidly enlarging in size over the previous two to three weeks. The lesion was subsequently managed surgically by wide local excision ...
An 87-year-old woman with an intractable pain radiating over the left chest, suggestive of intercostal neuralgia, was referred to our spine center for further evaluation and management. Five weeks earlier, she experienced a ground-level fall, causing severe back pain. According to the initial evaluation conducted elsew...
A 48-year old woman was being treated for a malignant neoplasm of her left breast. The tumor was a moderately differentiated invasive ductal carcinoma (clinically T1 N0) that was discovered on physical examination and identified on subsequent mammogram. The various surgical options were discussed in depth with the pati...
A 49-year old Caucasian male with no significant medical history and no prior complaints of chest pain (smoking was his only known cardiovascular risk factor) was referred to our cardiac emergency department with acute chest pain during exertion. The ambulance ECG showed extreme ST-segment elevation anterolateral (‘tom...
A 7 year old female was admitted due to two month history of epigastric pain with anorexia, who was found to have an epigastric mass. Past medical history was unremarkable. Abdominal exam revealed a distended abdomen with a palpable mass at the right upper quadrant. The mass was estimated to be around 15 cm, moderate h...
A 24-year-old Asian Indian male presented to our uvea clinic with a complaint of difficulty in vision since 1 month. Systemic history was unremarkable. His best corrected visual acuity in right eye was 6/24 for distance and N8 for near and in the left eye was counting fingers at 1 m with near vision less than N36. Ante...
A 3-year-old male patient was assessed in the pediatric emergency department on 3 June 2020 for a 3-day history of fever and shortness of breath and a 2-day history of productive cough. His mother denied having any history of chills or hemoptysis. Review of systems was unremarkable. There was no history of travel outsi...
In October 2014, a 22-year-old male survivor of suicidal hanging was brought to our psychiatric outpatient unit with severe cognitive and behavioral problems. At the age of 20 years, he was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis for which he received oral/local steroids, aminosalicylic acid, and antibiotics off and on with ...
A 14.5-year-old male patient of white Caucasian ethnicity (EP) presented to the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery team, complaining of limited mouth opening and dental crowding. He reported functional and social difficulties associated with his limited mouth opening, and he was unable to have orthodontic treatment due to ...
A 12-year-old girl presented to the Outpatient Clinic of Children's Hospital, Ain Shams University, Egypt, complaining of severe headache and tenderness over the scalp and right temporal area extending to the occipital region, of gradual onset, progressive course, and a 3-month duration. The headache was bursting, havi...
A 33-year-old male athlete with no significant past medical history presented with gradually worsening right arm and right handgrip weakness which started three days prior to presentation. The patient reported a painless swelling on the right side of the chest wall slowly growing over the last three months, and it was ...
A 16-year-old boy was admitted at age 8 years. He had mild hemiparesis on the right side that started at age 8 years (). His parents noticed this complaint when he was walking independently at age 18 months. He had a history of partial epilepsy with reduced consciousness that started at age 1 year and incompletely cont...
Patient is a 33-year-old female with a past medical history of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and lower extremity deep venous thrombosis (DVT). She has been treated with oral anticoagulants for her lower extremity DVT with complete resolution of thrombus in 6 months venous duplex ultrasound follow up. Her past surg...
A 31-year-old gravida 4 para 0 African American woman at 22-weeks gestation presented with vaginal bleeding to an outside hospital. Her obstetric history was significant for 2 therapeutic abortions and 1 spontaneous abortion. During prenatal care, the fetus was noted to have a unilateral dysplastic kidney. The patient’...
Our patient was a 65-year-old woman who was enrolled in the orthopaedics department of this hospital because of lumbar and back pain after seven times of percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP).\nThe patient had been healthy until September 2019, when she got a fall carelessly and suffered from severe low back pain. She was ...
We describe the case of a 42-year-old white man who was transferred to our facility due to worsening headache of 6 months evolution and new onset left facial and tongue numbness with dizziness. A head computed tomography indicated two areas suspicious for acute hemorrhage: one within the fourth ventricle and the other ...
A 59 year-old female patient, who has been employed as rehabilitation worker, has observed gradually enlarging formations under both her right and left scapula for approximately eight months. In anteflexion, elevation of the upper extremities and when stretching the arms forward, swellings reaching up to the rear axill...
Twenty-four-year-old morbidly obese African American gravida 1, whose pregnancy was complicated by poorly controlled asthma, was subsequently admitted fourteen times over the duration of her pregnancy for medical stabilization, seven of those admissions being in the first trimester alone. At 30 weeks gestation the pati...
A 64-year-old woman was referred to the hospital with continuous proteinuria and microscopic haematuria in the past 3 years. She had noted foaming urine several times and slight peripheral oedema during urinary tract infections. Apart from this, she has had no prior significant illness and her well-being was unaffected...
The patient is a 7-month-old twin boy who presented to our institution's emergency department with increased work of breathing and desaturations (70 s). He was born at 33 weeks gestational age with Down syndrome, developed chronic lung disease (CLD) of prematurity, and was also found to have a moderate size secundum at...
A 12-year-old medically fit female patient presented to the College’s clinics on April 19, 2015, with swelling on the left side of the lower jaw. The patient had a history of facial swelling which started three months ago; however, the swelling had become painful and increased in size rapidly within the last two weeks....
A 28-year-old female patient reported to the department with a chief complaint of difficulty in eating food because of swelling in the left upper gums and cheek for the last 2 years. The patient first noticed it around 8 years back when it was of a size that was barely noticeable and didn't hamper her mastication and t...
A 46 year old woman presented with generalized abdominal pain. Initial evaluation with abdomen/pelvis CT demonstrated wedge shaped areas of low attenuation in her spleen and right kidney consistent with infarction. She also had a dynamic ileus secondary to bowel infarction along with findings suggestive of an embolus i...
A 44-year old male was referred following investigation for chest pain and dyspnoea. He had no pre-existing co-morbidities. Physical examination revealed feeble femoral pulses and he was found to be hypertensive with marked differences between the upper and lower limbs (systolic blood pressure upper limb 190mmmHg, lowe...
A 7-year-old boy presented to our outpatient department with a history of pain and swelling in multiple joints for 6 months and refusal to walk and sit for 1 month. The child was apparently normal 6 months before, when he had fever for few days documented at 101°F to 102°F, which responded to antipyretics. Subsequently...
Case 2. A 53-year-old African American male with PMH of hypertension and drug use had been receiving hemodialysis for 6 years as a consequence of end-stage renal disease secondary to hypertension. After failed attempts at a left lower nondominate arm AVF, a left BCF was placed in 2011. Over the years the BCF developed ...
Our patient was a 63-year-old Caucasian woman. She does not smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol. She measures 162.5 cm in height and weighs 66 kilograms. She had no significant family history. She was initially diagnosed with stage IIIA endometrial carcinoma for which she underwent a hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo o...
We herein present a case that was recently managed at our institution, the Department of Surgery of the San Camillo Forlanini Hospital of Rome, Italy.\nA 53-year-old man with previous history of alcohol-related liver cirrhosis presents to our department for routine follow-up. His comorbidities include hypertension mana...
A 26-year old male individual came to visit the Department of Periodontology, Rishi Raj College of Dental Sciences, Bhopal with the chief complaint of loosening of a tooth in the front region of the upper arch, associated with swelling and bleeding from the gums since 1 year. He reported difficulty in chewing from the ...
A 3-year-old boy was referred to neurosurgical department because of severe back and leg pain and motor regression. He was a known case of lumbar MMC and was operated at 8 months of age. He was shunted for progressive hydrocephalus 3 weeks later. He could sit at 11 months of age and stand at age of 2 years on his knees...
A 13-year-old girl developed fever and was diagnosed with influenza A virus infection based on a positive result with a rapid detection kit in 2018. She took oral oseltamivir for 5 days and stopped taking the medication because her flu-like symptoms improved. Three days after discontinuing oseltamivir, she was given Ga...
The patient was a healthy 25-year-old man with a one-year history of right ankle pain following trauma.\nHe had met a car accident while walking. One year earlier, he had undergone open reduction and internal fixation on his right ankle for fracture at another hospital. A tibia diaphysis spiral fracture was fixed by th...
A 31-year-old woman with no significant past medical history presented to our emergency department complaining of a constant headache for the previous 4 days. The headache had begun approximately 6 h after receiving epidural anesthesia for labor. The documentation from the anesthesia service that day reported the use o...
A 21-year-old previously healthy woman, a college student, was on a waterslide at an amusement park, when her left arm became caught between the side of the waterslide and adjacent rocks. She sustained a forceful twisting and loading injury to her left upper extremity which resulted in a severe pain and deformity to he...
Mr. C was a 55-year-old African-American male born in a neighboring state. He and his brothers were raised by their uncle and aunt. According to the records, his father and mother did have limited education and possibly were mentally retarded but, according to the family report, his parents never had any psychiatric ad...
A 59-year-old European male patient suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy with severely reduced left ventricular function and presenting with NYHA III underwent cardiac transplantation in 2004. Myocarditis turned out to be the main reason for subsequent dilated cardiomyopathy, which was a result of a tick bite and borr...
A 51-year-old black woman with an 18-pack-year smoking history presented to our institution with a 3-month history of a progressively productive cough unresponsive to antibiotics. In addition, she had dyspnea on exertion and a 25-pound weight loss. Her past medical history included a duodenal ulcer resulting in a perfo...
A 53-year-old female presented with an asymptomatic gastric tumor found incidentally during screening upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. The lesion appeared as a flat protrusion in the lesser curvature of the lower third of the stomach (Fig. ). Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) showed a 23 × 12-mm, hypovascular, heterogeneous...
A 22-year-old unmarried female, with an uneventful birth and developmental history, without past and family history of any psychiatric or neurological illness, presented with an episodic illness of excessive sleep for past the six and a half years. The first episode started after a viral fever at 15 years of age. After...
A previously healthy 20-year-old man was admitted to our emergency department after being stabbed by a young female during a violent fight between the two. The patient presented with massive bleeding from a wound in the epigastrium. Abdominal ultrasonography revealed an abundance of free fluid in Morrison’s pouch and t...
We report the case of a 24-year-old female patient who reported that her family noticed swelling of the right leg and the presence of port wine stains at birth. At four months, her parents consulted with a specialist who arrived at a diagnosis of Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome and told the parents that the prognosis was ba...
A 51-year-old woman presented with chief complaints of bleeding gums and chewing disability. Her medical history revealed that she had received renal transplantation surgery in 1999 and had remained in a stable condition without graft-versus-host disease ever since. She suffered from hypertension and gout, both of whic...
A 67-year-old Caucasian male with a 10-year history of tophaceous gout in his knees bilaterally, treated with allopurinol, was admitted with a 3-week history of swelling, pain, and drainage from his left knee. His symptoms began after an acute traumatic injury to the left lateral knee, in which he suffered a small cut ...
We present a 43-year-old woman with Raynaud’s syndrome secondary to lupus who was treated with bilateral popliteal nerve block catheters for ischemic pain and necrosis of her feet. This led to almost immediate relief of pain and return of color to her lower extremities. Prior to the procedure, the patient reported seve...
We present the case of a 53-year-old Caucasian male who was admitted to the hospital owing to fatigue and black stools. His vital signs on the admission were: temperature 36.8 °C, heart rate 70 beats per minute, respiratory rate 17 breaths per minute, and blood pressure 120/80 mmHg.\nThe patient was pale but with good ...
A cachectic 77 year-old white male with history of Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia transforming to large B-cell lymphoma presented with right eye pain for 4 months without any visual symptoms. He is an ex-smoker with 0.5 packs per day over 30 years of tobacco smoking (quit in 2003). He currently is retired and lives wi...
This 41-week-gestation male was born to a 30-yr-old mother with good health by normal spontaneous vaginal delivery in November 2009. His birth weight was 3,140 gm. There was no maternal complication during pregnancy. There was neither family history of congenital anomalies nor maternal exposure to drugs during pregnanc...
A 67-year-old man from India, who was recently diagnosed with latent tuberculosis, presented to an outside hospital and was admitted for six days with generalized fatigue and hypotension. On presentation, he reported a 2-week history of generalized fatigue with systolic blood pressures in the 60s, as recorded at home. ...
A 20-year-old African American man was admitted to a psychiatric facility for psychosis. On initial presentation, the patient had an antalgic gait, which he attributed to his history of dopa-responsive dystonia. His mood was depressed and his affect was restricted. He had disorganized thought process and was slow to re...
We present the case of a 21-year-old female patient who presented in our Radiology and Imaging Department with the appearance of two subcutaneous swellings in her right arm at the extremities of a scar from previous surgical interventions. The history and clinical data has shown that the patient was diagnosed in childh...
A 59- year-old right-handed man was referred to our clinic for sudden and brief movements of his trunk. The movements started almost 10 months prior to his presentation. The movements most frequently started from the right side of his back, either lower back or middle back area and moved to the other areas in his back ...
An active 67-year-old male presented with recent onset of impaired effort tolerance, dyspnoea, orthopnea and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea. His previous medical history included an oesophagectomy and left upper lobectomy via left thoracotomy for oesophageal cancer 6 years prior to this presentation. Post oesophagectomy...
A 39-year-old female was admitted into our clinic with a complaint of a 3-month history of a slowly growing mass along the neck midline. The physical examination revealed a 3 × 1.5 cm immobile mass along the neck midline over the thyrohyoid membrane, accompanied by a 3 × 2 cm palpable nodule in the left thyroid gland. ...
A 54-year-old male with a history of progressive ankylosing spondylitis presented to our hospital with complaints of worsening bilateral leg weakness and difficulty ambulating. He also described a shooting, electric sensation that began in his lower back and radiated laterally to his hips and down his legs whenever he ...
A 35-year-old female patient reported to the department with a chief complaint of painless swelling on the left upper side of face since one and a half years. Initially, swelling was smaller in size, approximately 1 cm, and it grew slowly and has reached to its present size in last one and a half years. Patient was als...
A 62-year-old female presented with a left RNP. At first presentation in our hospital, the patient reported progressive palsy starting with painless weakness only of her left wrist and long fingers extension 2 years ago. There was no history of any trauma or surgical procedure at her left upper extremity. Within these ...
A 22-year-old right-handed paratrooper was presented to the orthopedic emergency department because he fell on his outstretched right hand after having attempted a wrong landing technique. The accident took place in the island of Rodos where he received first aids and was then transported to our hospital for further tr...