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Ms. X, a 45-year-old elementary school music teacher, reported that she had a traumatic neck and dorsal spine injury 2 years ago. It was diagnosed as cervicalgia and dorsalgia. She got up from a squatting position and hit her head under a steel box fixed on a wall 3 feet from the ground. She felt immediate bilateral ne...
A 34-year-old gravida 2 para 1 at 25 weeks gestation was transferred to our institution from an outside hospital. She complained of a two-week history of progressively worsening orthopnea and shortness of breath that left her unable to perform daily activities. An initial transthoracic echocardiogram obtained at the re...
A 56-year-old man weighing 102 kg and 188 cm tall (Figure ) was referred to our hospital because of an evident thickening around the neck. He had had the enlargement for the last 10 years and lately, the condition worsened. He was also a heavy alcohol drinker for the last 30 years and had 50 pack-years of smoking upon ...
A 64-year-old Caucasian woman was admitted to our Internal Medicine Unit for worsening fatigue, slurred speech, nausea and vomiting. In our Emergency Room she had been treated with saline solution infusion for hyponatremia (121mEq/L). Her clinical history showed nothing relevant until the age of 34, when she underwent ...
A 69-year-old female was referred to our clinic for an incidental finding of a large Morgagni hernia found on a recent CT chest scan for lung cancer screening. Patient reported occasional shortness of breath after prolonged ambulation but denied chest pain. She did have remote history of acid reflux symptoms but nothin...
A 50-year-old female presented on referral with complaints of blurring of vision on the left eye, dizziness, headache, and generalized heaviness of the body of six months' duration. She was managed conservatively at another hospital, and with consults sent to the neurologist and physiotherapist, her symptoms were large...
A 59-year-old man, with extensive cardiac history and an AICD located within the radiotherapeutic field, was successfully treated for stage IIIB NSCLC with definitive dose of thoracic chemoradiation. With a history of type II diabetes mellitus and transient ischemic attacks, the patient was initially evaluated at our i...
A 44-year-old Caucasian male presented to the Emergency department with a 3-day history of increasing abdominal pain, melaena, coffee ground vomit and left hip pain with difficulty in walking. The patient was a known IVDU, with a history of hepatitis C. He previously underwent multiple incision and drainage procedures ...
A 50-year-old Mexican American man was referred to surgical oncology at our stateside hospital for evaluation of gallbladder adenocarcinoma. He was diagnosed after he developed an acute attack of biliary colic while traveling in Tijuana, Mexico. At that time, a laparoscopic cholecystectomy turned partial cholecystectom...
A 49-year-old premenopausal woman in good health with no chronic disease initially established care at our clinic in February 2013 due to an abnormal mammogram. The screening mammogram revealed abnormal calcifications in the superior lateral and superior medial quadrants of the left breast. Review of systems was notabl...
The patient is a 47-year-old woman with a history of Type II diabetes mellitus, diagnosed 1 year prior. At the initial assessment, she was using oral hypoglycemic medication and achieving good control of her blood glucose level. Her condition began with back pain radiating to her lower limbs, more severely on the right...
A 62-year-old woman came to the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery clinic at Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital (Granada, Spain) with an intraoral lesion of several months’ evolution. As a medical antecedent, it was noted that the patient had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993 and treated with surgery, chemoth...
A 69-year-old Italian Caucasian woman arrived at the emergency department presenting with sudden onset of lower left limb pain. The patient reported no dyspnea, chest pain, weight loss, nausea, abdominal pain, hematuria, myalgias, or arthralgias. Her medical history was notable for type 2 diabetes mellitus and chronic ...
A 6-year-old girl (6 years and 8 months) with Down syndrome participated in this study. She was a first-year student in a school for special needs education. She had not been taught kana reading at school during the intervention and follow-up period of the study. She did not have any major visual or hearing impairment....
An 8-year-old female presented to the emergency department with a 4 day history of right hip pain and limping. The pain was of spontaneous onset without any history of trauma. She achieved normal milestones till the age of 6 years. Her past medical history was significant for psoriasis, controlled by topical medication...
A 46-year-old male deliveryman was admitted to the hospital in March 2018 with a 4-month history of progressive memory impairment. Four months before admission, he developed changes characterized by memory impairment; he could not remember where to deliver. He lost his quick intellect and responded slowly to certain si...
A 21-year-old Chinese woman was admitted with a seven-month history of unilateral severe hematuria. In March 2008, urine analysis revealed that the patient had asymptomatic microscopic hematuria. She was given oral antibiotics but, after one week of treatment, the patient's symptoms persisted. In a follow-up after four...
The 62-year-old male patient in this case report had a smoking history of more than 30 pack-years and a medical history of hypertension and diabetes. He had had a percutaneous coronary intervention 6 years previously due to angina and had noticed a cold and numbing sensation in the extremities of both hands for the pre...
A 10-years-old boy, resident of city Panjgur, the state of Balochistan, presented in an outpatient clinic with complaints of pain in the left thigh for 15 days along with fever and difficulty in walking for seven days. His past history was unremarkable, except that the child had a history of recurrent episodes of lower...
A 44-year-old female with past medical history significant for anxiety, seizure disorder, hypothyroidism, and multiple provoked and unprovoked DVTs and PE for which she took 75 mg oral dabigatran twice daily presented to the ED with fatigue and shortness of breath. According to the patient, she was unable to walk from ...
Mr C is a 39-year-old white man with a past psychiatric history of depressive disorder (not otherwise specified), opioid dependence, and benzodiazepine dependence who was admitted to an inpatient psychiatric facility after a suicide attempt. Psychiatric diagnoses were assigned by the treating psychiatrist according to ...
A fifty-nine year old male presented with a 4 × 2 cm lump in the right neck at level II. He had noticed the swelling for less than one week but reported a three year history of sore throat, fatigue, reduced exercise tolerance and shortness of breath. He had never smoked and consumed 18 international units of alcohol pe...
A 62-year-old man, affected dysphagia, was endoscopically diagnosed with lower esophageal cancer confirmed squamous cell carcinoma on biopsy, and was reffered to our hospital (Fig. ). He had no medical history. His lifestyle has included 1500 ml beer consumption per day and 40 cigarettes per day for the past 40 years. ...
An 8-year-old male Ugandan child presented with a 1-year history of a progressive abdominal swelling and flank pains. His mother reported they have been in and out of hospitals with the child due to frequent complains of abdominal discomfort. He was treated with antipyretics and unspecified antibiotics for 6 months pri...
A 39-year-old man was transferred due to intractable pain and paresthesia in the left ankle and foot. He had a history of multiple ankle sprains and underwent an arthroscopic synovectomy and open repair of the anterior talofibular ligament at the ankle at another hospital. Pain developed after this surgery. He visited ...
A Japanese man, who had been followed since 53 years of age by the respiratory department of our Medical Center due to bronchial asthma, was hospitalized for progression of asthma at 63 years old. A suspected diagnosis of HCC in his right liver lobe was confirmed by abdominal computed tomography (CT). An extended right...
A 38-year-old woman complaining of bloody diarrhea and general fatigue was admitted to the emergency department and was then hospitalized. She stated that she was being treated for Ulcerative colitis for the past 9 months and her symptoms had started a year ago with generalized fatigue and weight loss. After 3 months s...
A 72-year-old female presented to the emergency room with the complaint of left thigh pain and the inability to walk after tumbling. She had been suffering from osteoarthritis of the left hip but was able to walk with a cane and sit on a couch. She had also received the diagnosis of osteoporosis and had been taking ale...
A 61-year-old female with past medical history significant for type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and dyslipidemia and family history of breast cancer in her brother and maternal aunt presented to the emergency room for recurrent chest pain. She also reported fatigue for the past few months and was being evaluated...
A 47-year-old female patient attended our endodontic specialist clinic complaining of generalized pain from her teeth. The pain started a few months ago (sometime from April 2017). It was triggered upon taking cold, hot, and sweet food and drink. At the initial stage, she reported that even taking in a large breath thr...
An 85-year-old Caucasian woman presented to our hospital with right flank pain 10 years ago. She had a past medical history of type 2 diabetes mellitus and essential hypertension. She denied any history of thyroid disease and neck irradiation. She had no family history of any cancer. She was a housewife and had no hist...
The patient is a 27-year-old White male with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), and chromosome 13q12 deletion who initially presented to the emergency department with his parents for worsening functional status. He is an only child with no family history of autism, born at full term wi...
A 63-year-old male patient was admitted to the Gastrointestinal Department that the authors are affiliated to- with a complaint of nausea, vomiting, constipation, and abdominal pain lasting for 4 months which was intensified since 2 weeks ago. Besides, 10 days before admission, the patient had been referred to an emerg...
A healthy 34-year-old white primigravid woman presented at 28 + 4 weeks of gestation with mild pre-eclampsia. She had no significant past medical history and her antenatal care had been uneventful. The pre-eclampsia was treated with intravenously administered magnesium sulfate (at admission) and methyldopa 750 mg 3 tim...
A 54 year old woman presented to our Outpatient Department after breast augmentation she claimed to have had 25 years before, via bilateral liquid silicone injections. The patient had the procedure overseas by a medical professional (not specialized in plastic surgery) as an outpatient, having the injections with local...
A 26-year-old female presented to the Breast & Endocrine Clinic after being referred from a district hospital with an increasing anterior neck swelling over a period of 6 months with symptoms of superior vena cava syndrome. She was previously well with no known medical, surgical or genetic problem. On physical examinat...
A forty-year-old male welder with no past history of knee injury presented to another institution with left knee pain in September 2000. He underwent an arthroscopic partial menisectomy of the medial meniscus. In December 2004, 4 years after the primary surgery, he had a second arthroscopic partial menisectomy of the m...
A 43 year old man with one month history of generalized seizure, and upward gaze and recent mild headache, and a past medical history of grade II glioma of 7 years ago, has come to the hospital with an evidences of a left temporal tumoral lesion, with mild enhancement and the size of 44 × 64 × 42 mm () in his routine s...
A 25-year-old primigravida was admitted in the hospital as pregnancy with chronic hypertension (not on any antihypertensives), at 36 completed weeks in active labor. She was a known case of active TA on treatment (taking prednisolone 2 mg, aspirin 150 mg, and clopidogrel 75 mg OD.) She was booked and supervised through...
A 26-year-old gravida 4 para 2103 with a dichorionic, diamniotic pregnancy developed intrahepatic cholestasis in the setting of acute HCV infection. Her obstetrical history was notable for her three previous pregnancies complicated by preeclampsia. Her past medical history included opioid abuse for 7 years including da...
A 21-year-old male patient with Class II subdivision presented with the chief complaint of missing teeth in his lower back tooth region. On clinical examination, impaction of 47 was noted with the distal cusps exposed among the alveolar mucosa in relation to 47. Patient presents a past dental history significant to the...
A 58-year-old man (fair skinned with a history of sun exposure) presented in 2016 for evaluation of newly appearing scaly red plaques on his left shoulder and left clavicle. His past medical history was significant for not only multiple primary cutaneous basal cell carcinomas, but also metastatic basal cell carcinoma w...
A 33-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital (Ali Ebne Abitaleb Hospital, Zahedan, Iran) due to prolonged fever, neck masses and the swelling of her left lower limb. She complained that fever had been prolonged for 3 months, being persistent during the whole 24 hour, without special pattern during days or nights. S...
We present the case of a 24-year-old woman who presented to the family medicine clinic complaining of left shoulder pain for three months duration. The pain was stabbing in nature and was non-radiating. She reported that her shoulder pain was aggravated by raising her arms above her head. The pain was not associated wi...
Seventy-one years old male patient was admitted to the hospital with the complaints of a swelling and discharge on the anterior neck wall. These complaints were present for 10 days. In the medical history of the patient, similar complaints were present 15 to 20 days after FNAB of thyroid gland performed four years ago,...
A 25-year-old male reported with the complaint of swelling in gum since 1 month. There was history of weakness, weight loss, and fever for 4–5 days. History of epilepsy, hypertension or any long-term medication was negative. Physical examination revealed extreme pallor and submandibular lymph nodes were enlarged and no...
A 13-year-old female Motswana student, who is the first born in a family of two children and being raised by a single unemployed mother, was referred to a psychiatric hospital by her local facility. She presented with a 1 week history of calling out for people who were not there as if she were conversing with them and ...
A 71-year-old male was presented as a referral from a local dental clinic for unknown total maxillary osteonecrosis. The patient had a medical history of controlled hypertension and diabetes mellitus. After radiographic and clinical evaluation, he was shown with extensive osteonecrosis of the entire maxilla (Fig. ) and...
A 64-year-old ex-smoker with type 2 diabetes (70 pack-years) man was transferred to the Otorhinolaryngology after being seen in the Pulmonology Department with a progressive gradual increase in hoarseness of voice for a duration of 6 months, shortness of breath exacerbated by exertion and when lying flat had choking at...
A 59-year-old woman presented with dark urine and generalized pruritus in April 2012. Diagnostic work up revealed a stage IIIB or IV Klatskin tumor. Previous to this, she had undergone total abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingoophorectomy for uterine cervical cancer in February 1993 and had undergone a modifie...
A 17 year old male student was referred to the Federal Medical Centre Yola by his school teacher and stepfather because of breast enlargement and periodic perineum bleeding associated with school absence. The Teacher confirmed the story and noticed that the student had been walking with a stoop in an effort to hide the...
A 26-year-old young female presented with a history of partial seizures with secondary generalization since childhood. She was born to a non-consanguineous Saudi couple. The patient's seizures started at age of one month associated with decreased serum calcium levels. All history and lab were negative for other causes ...
A 35-year old female patient reported to the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery with the chief complaint of pain in the lower right back tooth region of the lower jaw. The clinical and radiographic examination showed the lower right third molar to be impacted and surgical removal of the same was planned. Case...
A 68 year old male patient was presented to the outpatient department with a painful swelling on the dorsum of the right hand without any history of trauma. It was primarily considered to be cellulitis and treated with antibiotics for 10 days by the general practitioner. He had bronchogenic lung carcinoma which was dia...
A 67-year-old woman with a past medical history of controlled hypertension and diabetes mellitus presented to the emergency department (ED) with a painful rash for approximately one week. She complained of a red rash on the left side of her lower abdomen that wrapped around to her lower left flank. The rash was also pr...
A 72-year-old right-handed male presented with 17 years of running difficulty. Before the onset of symptoms, he was running 70–80 miles per week and competed in 55 marathons over 25 years. His initial symptom was an inability to slow down when running downhill, leading to falls. His symptoms were soon apparent when run...
A 45-year-old male from the Netherlands presented with a painless right parotid swelling that was progressively increasing in size for the past 8 months. Though occasionally he suffered from jaw lock, other symptoms associated with neurologic deficit such as drooling, facial weakness, paresthesia, or auditory defects w...
A 48 year-old female never-smoker initially noticed some shortness of breath and increased work of breathing in the autumn of 2013. She was evaluated at her nearby Emergency Department in early November of 2013 and treated for an upper respiratory infection and asthma exacerbation with azithromycin and a short course o...
A 32-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with appetite loss. He had a history of traumatic transverse cervical spinal cord injury at the C5 level due to suicide attempt at the age of 18. As a result of cervical spinal cord injury, he was paralyzed in the lower body. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) reve...
A 28-year-old man presented with a relapsing–remitting course of distal-predominant limb weakness and numbness for 10 years. Ten years earlier, he had gradually progressive weakness and numbness in the distal limbs. He was unable to write, button his clothes, or open jars, but had no difficulty in climbing stairs or ri...
An 11-year-old African-American male presented to our care in January 2011 because of excessive daytime sleepiness and episodes of losing muscle tone upon experiencing strong emotional stimuli. Before seen by us, the patient was evaluated by a psychiatrist in March 2010 at a request of his mother. Clinician records sug...
A 41-year-old Indian man presented with sudden onscet of chest pain in February 2011 and was diagnosed with an anterolateral myocardial infarction (MI); prior to the event, he was completely asymptomatic. The coronary angiogram revealed an occluded ostial and proximal left anterior descending (LAD) artery. After a fail...
A previously healthy 7-year-old girl was admitted to the hospital after waking up with acute onset expressive aphasia. The patient had no family history of cardiac or neurological disease and was not taking any medication. During a vacation, 3 years ago, the patient experienced an episode where she suddenly became conf...
A 24-year-old man was working on a farm loading bails of manure into the manure spreader when a coworker started the machine for “just a second” to test the motor. The patient became entangled in the spreader mechanism, which created the injury. Local emergency medical services were immediately dispatched. Our patient ...
A 16-year-old female presented with a painful swelling on the left side of the neck for 2 months, and gradually increasing weakness and numbness of left upper limb with drooping of the left an upper eye lid for 1 month. She had sharp, shooting pain in the neck and left shoulder, radiating along the inner aspect of the ...
Emergency medical services (EMS) were called to the home of a four-year-old female with a history of intermittent asthma and recent outpatient diagnosis of pneumonia after found to be cyanotic, surrounded by emesis, and without apparent respirations. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation was initiated by EMS upon arrival for p...
An 8-year-old girl was referred to the Paediatric Dentistry Clinic, Araraquara Dental School (UNESP), for evaluation and treatment. Detailed medical and dental history was obtained from parent's speech. At intraoral examination, mixed dentition, congenitally missing of right upper lateral incisor (number 12), posterior...
A 23-year-old Caucasian man initially presented with new-onset generalized tonic-clonic seizures. He was found to have a non-enhancing lesion in the left frontal lobe and underwent resection which demonstrated a low-grade astrocytoma. Evaluation of IDH1/2, ATRX, TP53, and BRAF status was not performed, and this specime...
A 15-year-old female patient was admitted to the department of oral & maxillofacial surgery, complaining of gradually increasing swelling on her left side of mandible, started one year ago with severe and unusual pain at the related region. The patient declined to history of any previous toothache and trauma to the aff...
A 63-year-old female patient, 168 cm height and 53 kg weight on referral, suffered the following (chronical) diseases. She was diagnosed with a papillary thyroid carcinoma in 1989, which was treated by resection and radiotherapy. In the following years, she developed a stenosis of the esophagus. Because of this disease...
A 66-year-old male underwent a right total knee arthroplasty for end-stage tricompartmental osteoarthritis in July 2018. His immediate post-operative recovery was uneventful. He was progressing well at 2 and 6 weeks follow-up with minimal pain and minimal swelling in the knee. He was able to perform activities of daily...
A 64-year-old male came to our observation complaining of pain localized in the posterior side of his right inferior limb since at least 2 years. Over the last 6 months, he progressively developed numbness in the same dermatome. There was neither obvious relief nor precipitating factors.\nAt the admission, the neurolog...
A medically free 14-year-old male who was obese sustained an injury to his left knee after jumping from 3 stairs. The patient mentioned that he predominantly landed on his left lower limb with his left knee in full extension and in external rotation. The patient started complaining of left knee pain limiting his range ...
An 18-year-old nulligravida was referred to our clinic for gradually worsening pelvic pain and pelvic imaging result suggestive of a Müllerian anomaly. She started menarche at the age of 14 years. Her periods were always regular at an interval of 28 days and associated with severe dysmenorrhea, with pain starting befor...
A male patient, 67 years old, was admitted to the hospital via the emergency room, complaining of perianal pain he had been experiencing for the last month. The patient had also been suffering from constipation associated with hemorrhoids for a long time, and his symptoms, based on the criteria of chronic constipation,...
A 37-year-old Japanese man was admitted to our hospital due to multiple brain metastases. He was aware of coughing 6 months previously and had a headache 3 weeks ago, so he visited our hospital. Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed multiple brain tumors in the bilateral cerebellum and cerebrum (Fig. ). Chest...
A 22-year-old female from a distant Southern Philippines city was presented with a large, painful mass in her right leg. A biopsy 6 years earlier had revealed an intraosseous haemangioma, but the patient had refused amputation and did not seek further consultation.\nThe physical examination showed a large, tender, bony...
A 12-year-old boy reported to the dental clinic with the chief complaint of irregular upper left front teeth. The permanent tooth which erupted was asymptomatic and had altered color and shape. History revealed that the child had an injury at the age of 3 years. As the primary tooth was intruded, it was extracted. Medi...
A 57-year-old woman with known hypothyroidism presented to her general practitioner with a few months’ history of orthopnoea and intermittent hoarseness. An ultrasound showed right-sided thyroid enlargement with an isthmus nodule extending to the left lobe. She developed progressive tightness in the neck and was seen i...
The patient was a 3-year 7-month-old female referred by her speech-language pathologist, presenting with oromyofascial dysfunction characterized by speech sound production errors, difficulty swallowing, open mouth breathing, and noisy breathing during sleep. With respect to sleep, there were reports of difficulties goi...
The patient is a 58-year-old male residing in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He lives by himself in an apartment. He is currently disabled but was working at an appliance repair store up until a few years ago. He carries a history of hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertriglyceridemia and lumbar ...
A 14-month-old white female toddler was referred to a service of pediatric dermatology for a wide IH on the interscapular back area. The lesion appeared after birth and grew rapidly in the first few months. She was first followed in another center where laser therapy was attempted unsuccessfully. On examination the hem...
A 39-year-old man was involved in a high-velocity motor vehicle accident. He sustained an open fracture of the right elbow, with significant loss of the external humeral condyle and partial loss of the olecranon. This fracture was classified as a Gustillo type IIIA injury. There was no neurovascular compromise. The pat...
A 66-year-old woman with dysuria was referred to the urology department after visiting the emergency room and undergoing several urinary catheterization procedures. She was hospitalized for a cerebral infarction 7 months prior and had a history of cholecystectomy owing to acute cholecystitis 6 months before. A urethral...
We present here the case of a five year-old boy, born to nonconsanguinous parents. The first child of the parents is seven years old, is normal and was born after nine months of intrauterine life. The second conception resulted in intrauterine death at seven months. Our patient is the third conception and presented wit...
A 74-year-old Caucasian woman was referred due to gradual worsening of dyspnea with aggravation during a recent skiing trip. Her previous medical history included mild asthma and osteoporosis, surgical treatment for rectal cancer 30 years prior to presentation, and an evaluation for dizziness 4 years previously when a ...
In 2010, a 45-year-old male with an unremarkable medical history, noticed a progressive weakness of the right lower limb with gait disturbance. Over the following months, motor deficits worsened, spreading also to the right upper limb and impairing hand dexterous movements. In December 2010, he was admitted to the Neur...
A 52-year-old male patient, who was moderately built and moderately nourished, was complaining of swelling in the right side of the face, involving middle third for the past 2 months. He gave a history of tooth pain in relation to upper right third molar before 3 months, for which he had previously visited a dentist. T...
A 22-year-old man, weighing 65 kg, was admitted to our hospital to evaluate a murmur in the routine examination. He had complained of mild shortness of breath on physical exertion for one month. Physical examination on admission revealed a systolic murmur in the left para-sternum, trans-thoracic echocardiography showed...
A 34-year-old female who has no previous clinical illness presented in 2000 with a large irregular mass, estimated clinically to be around 5 × 6 cm by physical examination, involving the right breast while she was lactating. There were no other signs or symptoms. FNA was done to rule out breast cancer, and the specimen...
Our proband is a 39-year-old male who was first seen in our clinic at age 35. In his early medical history, he reports that he was hypermobile (Beighton score of 7/9), small in stature, and had a high-arched palate. He has had several joint dislocations involving the digits and patellae, the first of which occurred aro...
A 61-year-old African American male with past medical history of hypertension and schizophrenia presented to the emergency room following 2 episodes of syncope.\nHe reported 3 month history of progressive neck mass. Physical examination revealed a temperature of 37.7 degrees, blood pressure of 130/87 mmHg, pulse of 92 ...
A 22-year-old female patient reported with the chief complaint of replacing missing teeth in the lower jaw []. The patient was very young and was a mixed diet consumer, which demanded a restoration which improves the appearance and masticatory efficiency. Medical history was not significant. Dental history recorded a l...
In January 2018, a 70-year-old man residing in South Korea was admitted to Chosun University Hospital with reported consistent low back pain. At first, he had been admitted to a local hospital on 24 November 2017, a month before visiting Chosun University Hospital with a history of 5 days of chills and fever. In the lo...
A 40-year-old man sought evaluation of a 4-year-history of perianal and perineal pain, including the testes and penis. In this patient, there was no notable history of trauma or disease. On MRI and CT scans, which included the abdomen and pelvis, there were normal findings. At the time of admission, the patient had a v...
A previously healthy 10-year-old Asian girl presented to the emergency department with headache, vomiting, and one week of mild nonproductive cough. Her headache started the evening prior to presentation, was gradual in onset and frontotemporal in location, and improved with acetaminophen but subsequently woke her from...
We report a case of a 37-year-old male who was diagnosed with left-sided colon cancer in 2015 and underwent resection of the primary cancer with a protective loop ileostomy in another hospital followed by a stoma reversion in January 2016. Primary tumor pathology showed a 5 cm moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma (...
A 27-year-old man presented himself to us with the chief complaints of pain in the mid-back from 6 months prior with no radicular symptoms or weakness. Neurological examination was normal.\nThe patient had been under anti-tuberculous treatment by the previous treating surgeon for thoracic tuberculosis from 5 months pri...
A 55-year-old woman who presented with gross hematuria was admitted to our department for a slow-growing right renal mass monitored over time by computed tomography (CT). Chondrosarcoma of the left scapula was diagnosed 15 years earlier. She presented with left shoulder pain, and a left scapula X-ray revealed a 7 cm ma...
This patient is a 14-year-old male, who felt a popping sensation and significant right knee pain while jumping and colliding with another player during a basketball game the previous day. Following the injury, he was evaluated in an outside emergency department, where anterior, posterior, and lateral radiographs obtain...