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PMC3605086_01
Female
68
A 68-year-old nurse presented with new onset of floaters in both eyes in August 2009. She noted her symptoms to be painless without eye redness or discharge. She stated that her symptoms progressively worsened with decreasing visual acuity. She was initially seen by an ophthalmologist 2 months after her symptoms starte...
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PMC3229087_01
Male
55
A 55-year-old previously healthy man was admitted with 12 days history of fever and fatigue. He was white, native of Argentina, and denied recent foreign travel, alcohol or drug abuse. He had no significant medical history. He had neither vomiting, nor abdominal spontaneous pain. Clinical examination showed temperature...
liver abscess hipermucoviscous klebsiella pneumoniae, maga, rmpa
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PMC3926763_01
Female
10
A ten year old female has been allowed in hospitalization for intense frontal headaches. Theses headaches were associated to a progressive loss of the vision and to tonic seizure of the lowers members. These clinical signs had evolved for four (4) months. The neurological examination was normal. The examination of the ...
intraventricular tuberculoma, third ventricle, tuberculoma
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PMC9553510_01
Male
49
A 49-year-old male underwent open cholecystectomy for acute calculous cholecystitis 8 years back. Intraoperatively, there were dense adhesions in Calot's triangle. Bile duct injury was detected and managed with T-tube placement. He was then referred to our center where he was continued on T-tube drainage and managed co...
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PMC3972028_01
Female
58
A 58-year-old woman presented to the Coburg Clinic in February 2013 with dyspnea, loss of energy, slight edema of the lower extremities, and a 4 kg weight loss in the 4 weeks before presentation. A 3/6 systolic murmur with a left apical maximum point was noted on physical examination. Except for an appendectomy more th...
denervation, pulmonary hypertension, radiation
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PMC5833191_01
Female
46
A 46-year-old woman presented with a 2-year history of recurrent fevers up to 38.9 C, fatigue, and frequent urination. Her symptoms were intermittent with episodes of muscle weakness, joint stiffness, and extreme headache lasting approximately 30 hours. She had no chest pain, no abdominal pain, no change in bowel habit...
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PMC3032255_01
Male
8
An eight-year old boy, first born to third degree consanguineous parents, presented with right leg swelling for three months, with gradual onset, which progressed up to knee. There was no history of fever, injury, abdominal pain or contact with tuberculosis. He was treated with anti-filarial drugs elsewhere. At two yea...
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PMC4512590_01
Male
54
A 54-year-old male was referred to the Rheumatology Division of Fornaroli Hospital from the Infective Department. In February 2014, he was admitted to hospital because of interstitial lung disease of uncertain origin accompanied by fever with shiver, dry cough, and chest pain. Chest X-ray showed a right subclavicle int...
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PMC5266196_01
Male
15
A 15-year-old male patient was admitted to a hospital due to a 4-week history of fever and intermittent, diffuse abdominal pain. The patient had first presented with diffuse, intermittent abdominal pain and diarrhea after eating barbecue many times over the course of 2 weeks. Two days after the first presentation of th...
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PMC8022819_01
Male
46
A 46-year-old male presented to the emergency room with subjective fevers, severe global headache, right-sided upper and lower extremity weakness, blurred vision, difficulty swallowing and unsteady gait. Fever and headache began 1-week prior. He initially went to an urgent care clinic, was diagnosed with sinusitis and ...
brain stem abscess, listeria monocytogenes, rhombencephalitis
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PMC5308532_01
Male
30
Patient is a 30-year-old single, heterosexual male who presented to the Family Medicine clinic with a 5-day history of sore throat and a painful right-sided neck mass; he denied cough, sneezing, rhinorrhea, fever and exposure to tuberculosis. Further investigation revealed participation in unprotected oral sex with his...
trichomoniasis, male, oral sex, sore throat
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PMC6437814_01
Female
2
A 11/2-year-old female child reported for swelling in thoracolumbar region and inability to walk and stand without support. She was a firstborn child of nonconsanguineous parents of low socioeconomic status. The clinical examination of the child revealed coarse facies, broad mouth, and short neck with no organomegaly. ...
alder-reilly anomaly, morquio syndrome, automated blood counters, mucopolysaccharidosis
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PMC5428180_01
Male
30
A 30-year old Nepalese man presented to emergency department with 2 weeks' history of fever, abdominal pain, and fatigue. Physical examination revealed fever, pallor, jaundice, and hepatosplenomegaly. Peripheral blood analysis revealed moderate normochromic normocytic anemia (hemoglobin, 9 g/dL; normal, 13-17 g/dL), se...
kit mutation, systemic mastocytosis, acute myeloid leukemia with inv(16)(p13q22)
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PMC4939201_01
Female
26
A 26-year-old female of Hellenic ethnicity was admitted to our outpatient clinic, reporting a 10-day history of low grade fever, chills, nausea, headache, urge to vomiting, and a dull pain over the right kidney area. Her past medical history was free of any chronic or acute infection or systemic disease, except for a p...
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PMC9846320_01
Female
79
The 79-year-old female patient was admitted to the hospital due to a black mass on the bigger toe of the right foot for more than 4 years, the radical excision of the skin lesion after completing a relevant investigation was done and diagnosed postoperatively pathologically as a freckled malignant melanoma. Amputation ...
kras germline mutations, ngs, literature review, multiple primary tumors, systemic therapy
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PMC9353035_01
Male
40
A 40-year-old male farmer without any underlying condition was admitted to the hospital because of fever, night sweats, and pain in the lower back. The patient had reportedly been well until 3 weeks earlier, when back pain developed. He reported no associated trauma or injury, and no treatment was administered. On the ...
iris, case report, human brucellosis, immune reconstitution, infection
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PMC4237689_01
Male
54
In this case report we present a case of 54 years old male patient of Chinese descent who presented to the clinic with a complaint of mobility restriction on right lower extremity for 40 years. Upon investigation, the patient was found to have a history of right sided hip joint TB at the age of 14. The patient had incr...
anti-tuberculosis chemotherapy, arthritic tuberculosis, total hip arthroplasty
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PMC3037994_01
Male
74
A 74-year-old man was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis via an abnormal chest X-ray and acid fast bacilli sputum smear (fig. 1). Antitubercular agents, including isoniazid (400 mg/day), rifampicin (600 mg/day), pyrazinamide (1,500 mg/day), and ethambutol (800 mg/day) were administered. Four months after initiation ...
pseudomembranous colitis, rifampicin, tuberculosis
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PMC8375276_01
Female
74
A 74 year old woman was diagnosed with generalized MG 44 months prior to initial SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. Serologic testing showed elevated antibodies to acetylcholine receptors. For 18 months prior to and including the vaccine time course, treatment with 1440 mg mycophenolate sodium and prednisone 11 mg daily resulted ...
corticosteroid, eculizumab, myasthenia gravis, mycophenolate sodium, sars-cov-2, vaccine
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PMC8096542_01
Male
17
A 17-year-old male sustained right midshaft tibia and fibula fractures in a high school football game. The patient had previously been healthy without significant past medical history. The patient was transported to a local hospital where radiographs demonstrated a short oblique fracture of the tibial diaphysis with mi...
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PMC6875186_01
Male
46
A 46-year-old man was attended in the dental clinic complaining of symptomatic oral lesions with two months in duration. The intraoral physical examination revealed diffuse, friable, vegetative areas on the right upper alveolar ridge, hard palate, and left inferior alveolar ridge (Figures 1(a) and 1(b)). His medical hi...
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PMC3299074_01
Female
2
A forty-two-year-old female PLHIV (people living with HIV) not on antiretroviral treatment (ART) was admitted with the history of sudden onset left hemiplegia and altered sensorium for 4 days. There was no history of fever, headache, vomiting or convulsion. She received antituberculosis treatment for pulmonary tubercul...
brain abscess, mycobacterium avium intracellulare, non tuberculous mycobacterium
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PMC8650847_01
Female
28
A 28 year old female, known to have type I DM presented to the emergency room (ER) with history of backache and lower limb weakness. Contrast MRI of the lumbosacral region demonstrated loss of disc space with paraspinal collection at L3-4 extending into bilateral iliopsoas muscle suggesting tuberculosis. After work up,...
peptoniphilus asaccharolyticus, multidrug resistant tuberculosis, paraspinal abscess
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PMC3914253_01
Male
26
Mr DJ is a 26-year-old student, a male, who was diagnosed with SCA in childhood. He was adherent to his routine medications and regular to follow up. He presented with 2 weeks history of oliguria and passage of frothy urine. This was preceded by swelling of the leg and face a week prior to presentation. This was associ...
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PMC5139797_01
Male
32
A 32-year-old South Asian man initially presented to a gastroenterologist after abnormal liver function tests and mild anemia were detected on a routine physical examination. A colonoscopy and sonogram of the liver were performed. The colonoscopy was normal and the sonogram showed fatty liver. The patient remained asym...
alendronate, celiac disease, osteoporosis
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PMC8080464_01
Male
45
A 45-year-old male patient, truck driver by occupation, was admitted to our hospital with intense right-sided upper abdominal pain and right-sided chest pain of 10-days duration. He also complained of accompanying fever of the same duration. Prior to his admission, he had consulted another hospital and had received som...
hepatic abscess, liver abscess, pyogenic liver abscess, stenotrophomonas maltophilia
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PMC9382239_01
Female
60
A 60-year-old woman presented with fatigue and weight loss, along with pain in the proximal interphalangeal joints of both hands, wrists, elbows, shoulders, knees, and metatarsophalangeal joints. She was diagnosed with RA at a local clinic six months ago. Her symptoms were not relieved with six months of continuous tre...
aids, tnf, adalimumab, human immunodeficiency virus, rheumatoid arthritis
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PMC8259459_01
Female
5
A 5-year-old female was admitted to the department of pediatrics with a fever of 39.0 C, fatigue and chest pain. The symptoms appeared 3 days prior and were not preceded by an infection. The patient otherwise appeared healthy and did not require any specialist medical care. A SARS-CoV-2 infection was excluded by PCR te...
case report, chest pain, pericarditis, prednisone, thoracic injuries
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PMC3422279_01
Male
46
A 46-year-old man originating from Morocco, with a medical history of end-stage renal disease secondary to type 2 diabetes mellitus presented with chills during haemodialysis (HD) sessions on January 2011. The patient was on HD since 2007, and in 2009, he was included in a prospective study to evaluate the utility of H...
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PMC4672623_01
Female
46
A 46-year-old Caucasian female was referred to our institution in December 2012 following a CT-pulmonary angiogram performed to investigate left sided pleuritic chest pain, which revealed a large apical cavity with surrounding consolidation (Fig. 1). The patient reported daily cough productive of brown sputum. There wa...
m kyorinense, mycobacterium kyorinense, non-tuberculous mycobacterium, pulmonary cavitation, pulmonary infection
CT chest at presentation showing a left upper lobe cavity with areas of consolidation and background changes of centrilobular emphysema.
PMC9622764_01
Male
16
A 16-year-old male was hospitalized due to jaundice for 8 days and right lower abdominal pain for 2 days. He had thrombocytopenia, hypoalbuminemia and abnormal clotting. His liver was palpable 3 cm under costal margin, while the spleen edge was palpable 2.5 cm below the left costal margin. He had abnormal results in la...
abcb4, c1429c>a, multidrug-resistant protein 3, novel mutation, progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis type 3
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PMC8261161_01
Male
25
A 25-year-old physiotherapist, who had previous trouble with anterior ankle impingement that was treated with arthroscopic surgery, presented with PAIS. He was a recreational football (soccer) player but did not report any single significant sporting injuries. He described chronic pain and had noted a bony swelling in ...
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PMC8261161_02
Male
32
A 32-year-old male architect was referred to the orthopaedic service with right PAIS. He described an injury to his right ankle several years ago as he went to kick the ball when playing football. He did not seek immediate medical attention, and the initial symptoms settled. He then went on to develop pain and medial-s...
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PMC8261161_03
Male
39
A 39-year-old male construction worker presented to the foot and ankle orthopaedic clinic with posteromedial left ankle pain following a minor football injury 6 months ago. He described a football tackle to his left ankle; subsequently, the ankle became swollen and painful. He did not seek immediate medical attention a...
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PMC8261161_04
Male
31
A 31-year-old male who works as a sports physiotherapist sustained a right ankle pronation injury whilst playing football. He did not seek immediate medical attention. He then presented 5 weeks later to the orthopaedic clinic complaining of deteriorating pain associated with ankle swelling and anterolateral ankle pain....
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PMC8486406_01
Male
22
The subject of this case is a 22-year-old NCAA Division I football defensive back who experienced extreme left hip pain following contact with another player with his hip flexed during an early season game. The subject was informed that data collected regarding the case would be submitted for publication. The on-field ...
football, hip dislocation, return to sport, trauma
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PMC5598496_01
Male
32
A 32 year old Hispanic male with no significant past medical history presented to the emergency department with five days history of nausea and vomiting associated with abdominal pain. Patient stated that he has been having 8-10 episodes of non-bloody, non-projectile and non-bilious vomiting which is associated with di...
cannabis, hot showers, hyperemesis, marijuana, vomiting
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PMC7276430_01
Female
30
A 30 year-old female patient was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in November 2013. Multiple cures of chemotherapy (idarubicine, cytarabine, fludarabine and amsacrine) led to a remission. In March 2014 (T0) (Fig. 1), because of a high risk of relapse, she received an allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transpl...
aml, acute myeloid leukemia, bal, bronchoalveolar lavage, blt, bilateral lung transplant, gvhd, graft-versus-host disease, hrct, high resolution computed tomography, hsct, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, invasive pulmonary aspergillosis, lung transplantation, ob, obliterative bronchiolitis, olb, open-lung biop...
Lung CT-scan: "Crazy Paving" pattern with excavated subpleural lesion (circled).
PMC3682695_01
Female
41
A 41-year-old Caucasian woman complaining of persistent diarrhea, diffuse neck myalgia, swollen fingers and fatigue was clinically evaluated. Early morning fatigue and continuous neck pain started 6 months earlier and were initially attributed to stress by the patient's regular physician, who recommended psychotherapy....
hemochromatosis, hormone releasing iud/contraindications, iron overload
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PMC4899985_01
Male
64
A 64-year-old male presented to his gastroenterologist with a history of portal hypertension and esophageal varices. His past medical history was remarkable for an episode of deep venous thrombosis. He also had a history of ulcerative colitis for which a colectomy and ileostomy had been performed. The patient had no hi...
ct, computed tomography, mri, magnetic resonance imaging
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PMC5852964_01
Female
63
The proband was a 63-year-old woman who suffered of a severe depressive episode at 46 years of age, then she slowly developed gait ataxia with falls and dysfunction of fine finger movements. She is the second child of unrelated Italian parents. The father died at 82 years of age with cognitive deterioration starting at...
incomplete penetrance, sca17, spinocerebellar ataxia, tbp gene
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PMC5760869_01
Male
89
An 89-year-old nonsmoker male with the past medical history of hypertension, dementia, and benign prostatic hyperplasia presented with progressive worsening of shortness of breath for 5 months and mild cough with clear white color sputum. He denied any fevers, chills, weight loss, night sweats, or loss of appetite. On ...
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Computed tomography of the chest postpigtail catheter drainage confirming right-sided unexpandable lung (red arrow) with possible endobronchial lesion in the right middle lobe bronchus (blue arrow).
PMC10202396_01
Male
13
A 13-year-old boy was referred to our hospital with complaints of high-grade fever, non-bilious, non-bloody projectile vomiting, light headedness, generalized weakness, reduced appetite and passing black-coloured urine. Prior to his admission, the child was febrile (40 C) with blood pressure of 110/40 mmHg (considered...
pcr assay, hypovolaemia, microgametocytes, morphological variations, vivax malaria
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PMC9758553_02
Female
65
A 65-year-old Malay female with underlying hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease stage 3A, history of ischaemic stroke 4 years ago and was semi-dependent for activities of daily living. She presented with complaints of dyspnoea of 1 year duration. Otherwise, she had no chest pain, no palpitatio...
hypothyroid, levothyroxine, liothyronine, pericardial effusion
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PMC3896808_01
Male
15
Our patient is a 15-year old Caucasian basketball player with a well-established diagnosis of SJMS. In the age of five years he had a serious pulmonary infection with Mycoplasma Pneumoniae for which he had to hospitalize. After his exit from the hospital and up to the age of ten years he had repeated episodes of pulmon...
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CT scan angiography in our patient with SJMS, showing remaining pneumothorax with presence of apical emphysematous bulla in the left lung (arrow). Note hyperlucency of the upper pulmonary lobe in comparison to the lower.
PMC3896808_01
Male
15
Our patient is a 15-year old Caucasian basketball player with a well-established diagnosis of SJMS. In the age of five years he had a serious pulmonary infection with Mycoplasma Pneumoniae for which he had to hospitalize. After his exit from the hospital and up to the age of ten years he had repeated episodes of pulmon...
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CT scan angiography of the same patient. Note the decreased vascularity of the left lung with hyperlucent upper lobe and presence of apical bulla. The left lung is smaller in comparison to the right.
PMC4837135_01
Female
55
A 55-year-old woman presented with prominence of the nasal bones and difficulty in wearing eyeglasses for 3 months. Eighteen months earlier, she had presented to the dermatology clinic with skin lesions on extremities in a different hospital. Two punch biopsies from skin lesions were performed, and results of the histo...
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PMC6911250_01
Male
62
A 62-year-old patient was referred to a rheumatologist with complaints such as increasing body temperature up to 37.1-37.3 C, gnawing pains in the epigastric region, worsening at night, weight loss of 15 kg for the last 4 months, lack of appetite, fatigue and general weakness. From the anamnesis it is known that during...
computed tomography, mesenteric panniculitis, rheumatic diseases
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PMC4677577_01
Female
57
A 57-year-old woman presented to our primary care clinic with tender, subcutaneous nodules on her right ankle and right thigh of 2 months duration. The lesions had begun as 1-2 mm reddish papules that progressed into 2-3 cm nodules. She denied insect bites, local trauma, or the use of new cosmetic products. The previou...
cutaneous tuberculosis, erythema induratum of bazin, mycobacterial skin disease, primary care of vulnerable populations, tuberculids
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PMC2892707_01
Male
34
A 34-year-old man without symptoms was referred to our hospital to clarify an abnormal chest radiograph showing a nodular pulmonary lesion. He was currently without symptoms, but had been treated two years prior for tuberculosis after presenting with mild fever, nonproductive cough, and a five-pound weight loss. There ...
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PMC3513844_01
Male
19
A 19-year-old male collegiate football player presented to the emergency department (ED) with persistent neck pain following an injury at practice. The contact occurred during a blocking drill and reportedly forced his neck into hyperextension. Upon impact, he immediately experienced high cervical neck pain localized t...
bipartite atlas, cervical spine, neurological sports medicine, return-to-play, spine anomaly
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PMC3975196_01
Female
58
A 58-year-old African-American female presented to a hospital emergency room with a superotemporal marginal corneal ulcer of the left eye two clock hours in length, with mild corneal thinning. Uncorrected visual acuity on the initial exam was 20/30 in the right eye and 20/50 in the left. Both eyes showed diffuse puncta...
kocuria palustris, peripheral ulcerative keratitis, rothia mucilaginosa, vitamin a deficiency
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PMC6010620_01
Male
62
A 62-year-old African-American male smoker initially presented to the emergency department with acute sharp retrosternal pain that worsened with deep inspiration. He denied shortness of breath, fever, chills, chest trauma, sick contacts or recent travel. He worked as a custodian at a dairy factory and had no pets. His ...
epithelioid angiosarcoma, pericarditis, pleural effusion
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PMC4763575_01
Male
38
A 38-year-old male patient, diagnosed with retroviral infection and disseminated tuberculosis presented with weakness and numbness of the right hand of 2 weeks duration. He also noticed an edematous reddish raised lesion on the inner aspect of right hand, which he attributed to the topical agent he used for relieving t...
borderline tuberculoid hansen's disease, hiv infection, immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome, type 1 lepra reaction
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PMC7119359_02
Unknown
7
The common cold is the most common reason that patients visit physicians. More lost school days occur because of the common cold than all other causes combined. The common cold is the most frequent upper respiratory tract infection (URI). Wald et al studied the usual duration of community-acquired viral URI and the inc...
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PMC7119359_03
Unknown
5
Once it has been established that the cough is indeed persistent for more than 3 weeks, characteristics of the cough may be noted. A cough productive of purulent sputum usually indicates an infectious cause from a bacterial or viral source. A productive cough usually occurs in children only after the age of 4 or 5 year...
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PMC8702971_01
Female
65
Male and female patients from 15 to 65 years old, with complaints of ankle giving away for the last 6 months, and clinical findings of lateral and medial instability were included. Individuals needed to undergo a minimum of 6 months of nonoperative treatment to qualify for surgery. Existence of previous surgery, autoim...
ankle injuries, collateral ligaments, joint instability, lateral ligament
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PMC4153186_01
Male
6
A sixty-six year-old, non hypertensive, non diabetic, heavy alcoholic male who was a known smoker for 20 years, presented with a rapid enlargement in the anterior lower part of the neck along with gradual swelling of upper chest (sternal area) which developed within 3 weeks (Figure 1). At presentation, he reported easy...
esophageal carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, sternal deposit, thyroid metastasis
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PMC6556260_01
Female
47
A 47-year-old previously healthy female presented with generalised body swelling, disproportionate ascites, loss of appetite, and loss of weight for four months' duration. She denied any fever, night sweats, yellowish discolouration of the eyes, hematemesis, melena, chronic cough, and haemoptysis. She reported no histo...
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PMC7227742_01
Male
32
A 32-year-old male who had been working in a cement-manufacturing facility for 6 years (and had stopped a year ago due to illness) presented with complaints of dry cough for the past 1 year with progressively worsening shortness of breath over a period of 6 months. The shortness of breath was exertional and had progres...
accelerated silicosis, chylothorax, silicoproteinosis
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PMC4900102_01
Female
42
A 42-year-old asymptomatic Turkish woman, para 2, presented with areas of focal fibroglandular asymmetry in the right breast on screening mammography. There was no personal or family history of breast carcinoma. She delivered her last child 4 years before presentation and had breastfed continuously for 2 years. Sonogra...
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PMC4823493_01
Female
38
The female neonate was born after gestational age of 38 weeks and 2 days with an elective caesarian section due to an antenatal diagnosis of congenital omphalocele in the second trimester, with an Apgar score 8 at the 1st minute and 9 at the 5th. This firstborn neonate weighted 2.800 gr at birth and presented a giant o...
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PMC3700488_01
Male
64
The patient described here is a 64-year-old Japanese male with a past history of low anterior resection for rectal cancer at age 55, and a polypectomy for a colonic polyp at age 58. Family history was unremarkable. The patient has smoked 10 cigarettes per day and consumed 4 go (0.72 L) of shochu (a Japanese distilled s...
cronkhite-canada syndrome, colon adenoma, gastric cancer
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PMC6304509_01
Female
19
A 19-year-old Omani female not known to have any significant medical history was referred to our hospital with a history of upper abdominal discomfort more localized to the epigastric region and associated with jaundice and dark urine. There was no history of fever or night sweat nor history of travel. On physical exam...
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PMC4198776_01
Male
15
A 15-year-old high school football player initially presented to his primary care physician complaining of episodic headaches, total body stiffness, and severe nausea and vomiting for several days following participation in a football game. Viral meningitis was suspected, so the patient was started on oral prednisone. ...
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PMC5109579_01
Male
68
A 68-year-old man was admitted to our hospital for the following symptoms: a non-productive cough, malaise, gait difficulty, visual impairment, multiple skin rashes, and a nodule on his middle anterior chest. Until then, he had not visited any medical facilities for many years due to his economic status. According to t...
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A chest computed tomography scan and bronchoscopic findings. a: Atelectasis of the right lower lobe.
PMC5109579_01
Male
68
A 68-year-old man was admitted to our hospital for the following symptoms: a non-productive cough, malaise, gait difficulty, visual impairment, multiple skin rashes, and a nodule on his middle anterior chest. Until then, he had not visited any medical facilities for many years due to his economic status. According to t...
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A chest computed tomography scan and bronchoscopic findings. b: A tumor-like legion occluded the right lower bronchus.
PMC6579837_01
Female
4
A 15 kg, 4-year-old female Arabian Tahr from the Omani Mammals Breeding Center had its left hind leg at the distal tibia amputated 5 months before the prosthesis operation. The initial injury was a left distal tibia extra-articular multi-fragmented open fracture with severe contamination and soft tissue loss. It was tr...
arabian tahr, arabitragus jayakari, itap, intraosseous transcutaneous amputation prosthesis, amputation, prosthesis, rehabilitation, wildlife
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PMC7462578_01
Female
88
An 88-year-old woman diagnosed with COVID-19 at a hospital in Sao Paulo - the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in Brazil - was put under mechanical ventilation for 20 days due to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) caused by the SARS-CoV-2. The patient had no history of smoking. Laboratory examination revealed...
covid-19, chest drainage, pneumothorax
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PMC6434163_01
Female
18
A previously healthy 18-year-old female presented to the Emergency Room after one day of fever, nonproductive cough, difficulty breathing, and pleuritic chest pain. Two months prior to presentation she started vaping using a "Baby Smok Beast Mod" device with 6% nicotine fluid 5 times per day for 30 minutes. She denied ...
acute eosinophilic pneumonia, electronic cigarette use, vaping
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PMC7683612_01
Female
32
A 32-year-old woman presented to another hospital with a sudden onset of right-sided hearing loss and severe true rotational vertigo, which occurred immediately after nose-blowing. She was treated with corticosteroids and bedrest for 1 week, and her vestibular symptom initially resolved. However, on the 7th day, her se...
ctp, plf, cochlin-tomoprotein, perilymph fistula, pneumolabyrinth, stapes, superior canal dehiscence, third window syndrome
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PMC10077138_01
Male
65
A 65-year-old Caucasian male was referred to a provincial ophthalmology service with a 2-week history of bilateral eye redness, photophobia, and ocular discomfort. He also described intermittent spontaneous epistaxis, fatigue, lethargy, and unintentional weight-loss. He had a background of ischaemic heart disease, hype...
granulomatosis with polyangiitis, peripheral ulcerative keratitis, scleritis, wegener’s granulomatosis
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PMC6548921_01
Male
68
A 68-year-old man with a 50-pack-year history of smoking had been followed since 1992 at our hospital. The patient's first cancer occurred in the ascending colon and was surgically resected in 1992. His second and third cancers occurred in the sigmoid colon and rectum, respectively, and were resected in 2012. The patho...
lynch syndrome, msi-h, nivolumab
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PMC4753744_01
Female
29
A 29-year-old woman, a known case of chronic kidney disease (CKD) presented with history of fever from last 4 months. Her basic renal disease was unknown as she had presented with bilateral small kidneys. Fever was high grade, intermittent and was associated with poor appetite. She had no dysuria, cough or abdominal co...
ataxia, cerebellum, chronic kidney disease, dentate nuclei, isoniazid toxicity
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PMC6812314_01
Female
47
We present a case of a 47-year-old woman with a past medical history of actinic keratosis, seborrheic dermatosis, anxiety, deep vein thrombosis, and depression, who presented with a 4-day history of progressively worsening shortness of breath, nasal congestion, fevers, chills, cough, lower extremity swelling, and gener...
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PMC8555453_01
Male
50
A 50-year-old male farmer complained of fatigue and chest tightness with no obvious cause since March 20, 2019. After resting, his condition improved slightly, but then gradually worsened. The patient visited a local hospital for diagnosis on April 2, 2019. Peripheral blood film (PBF) showed white blood cells (WBC) of ...
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PMC5952557_01
Female
35
A 35-year-old Hispanic female was admitted for worsening upper abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. She had a past medical history of heartburn which was being treated with PPI. She was initially seen in the emergency department for worsening epigastric abdominal pain and was discharged home on daily omeprazole. She r...
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PMC5715873_01
Female
29
A 29 year old nulliparous woman with a history of ovulation disorder was diagnosed as having primary infertility at her first visit. She failed to conceive despite receiving multiple courses of clomiphene citrate. Thus, the ovulation stimulation agent was switched from clomiphene to daily human menopausal gonadotropin ...
abdominal compartment syndrome, disease management, intravesical pressure, intra‐abdominal pressure, ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome
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PMC4323387_01
Female
24
A 24-year-old Japanese woman with one year history of active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who complained in March 2007 with pain and swelling of bilateral wrists, elevation of the inflammatory markers such as C-reactive protein (CRP), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and matrix metalloproteinase-3 (MMP3). The blood ex...
complete remission, lymphoproliferative disorder, rheumatoid arthritis, tumor necrosis factor alpha inhibitor
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PMC8479966_01
Male
53
A 53-year-old male from Kerala, South India presented with loose stools, which were watery in nature and without blood, three-four episodes per day for 3 weeks. He complained of vague abdominal pain on and off, decreased appetite and weight loss of 3-4 kg over 1 month. He gave no history of associated fever, vomiting, ...
aeromonas sobria, strongyloides stercoralis, disseminated strongyloidiasis, hyperinfection syndrome
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PMC5709055_01
Male
46
A 46-year-old male was admitted to hospital for treatment of recurrent pericarditis. The patient was hospitalized for treatment of acute pericarditis in 2006 complaining of chest and right shoulder pain. Other complaints at that time included a mild cold and fever lasting for several days prior to admission. The blood ...
acute pericarditis, fever, leukocytosis, recurrent pericarditis, transthoracic echocardioscopy
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PMC9196303_01
Male
17
A 17-year-old boy with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) received an allo-HSCT from a human leukocyte antigen-matched sibling donor in May 2020. The conditioning regimen consisted of cytarabine, busulfan, cyclophosphamide, and porcine antilymphocyte globulin (p-ALG), with graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis of cyc...
hsct, benefits, cunninghamellamycosis, intracranial basal ganglia, surgical treatment
Computed tomography (CT) scan of the chest. (B) On day + 123, the patient developed a fever and anorexia, and chest CT revealed a new right upper lobe defined nodule (17 x 15 mm) surrounded by a ring of consolidation.
PMC9196303_01
Male
17
A 17-year-old boy with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) received an allo-HSCT from a human leukocyte antigen-matched sibling donor in May 2020. The conditioning regimen consisted of cytarabine, busulfan, cyclophosphamide, and porcine antilymphocyte globulin (p-ALG), with graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis of cyc...
hsct, benefits, cunninghamellamycosis, intracranial basal ganglia, surgical treatment
Computed tomography (CT) scan of the chest. (F) On day + 540, the chest CT revealed that the original right upper lobe nodule disappeared completely.
PMC9062947_01
Male
58
A 58-year-old male with medical history of autoimmune deficiency syndrome, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, polysubstance abuse disorder, psychogenic movement disorder, and antiphospholipid antibody syndrome presented to emergency department (ED) with altered mental status. Initial computed tomography (CT) head without...
cerebral vasospasm, lumbar puncture, spinal hematoma
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PMC7569431_01
Male
24
Our patient is a 24-year-old black male, who presented to us for the evaluation of persistent abdominal pain, diarrhea, and weight loss. He describes a six-month history of episodic, diffuse, and crampy abdominal pain. Each episode would last about five to ten minutes and was mild to moderate in intensity. The pain wou...
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PMC10069403_01
Male
26
A 26-year-old male professional soccer player with no previous history of injuries sustained a traumatic right knee injury. The player had a history of having played 300 professional matches as a midfielder / forward. He was a predominately right footed player and had an average playing mass of 78kg and height of 176cm...
anterior cruciate ligament, rehabilitation, return to performance, soccer
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PMC3336246_01
Male
50
A 50-year-old male, smoker (50 p/y), with a history of alcoholism, severe COPD, bilateral pneumothorax, and tuberculosis due to mycobacterium avium infection, was admitted in our department eight months after antituberculosis treatment initialization due to one-month period of high fever, up to 39.6 C, loss of weight, ...
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PMC7677704_01
Male
6
A forty-six-year-old man suffered from a fever and nonproductive cough for 2 weeks. He noticed that his symptoms started two months after he started running an ultrasonic humidifier 24 hours a day in his home. He went to his local doctor and was prescribed medicine for bronchitis containing clarithromycin and amoxicill...
endotoxin, humidifier, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, kl-6, mycobacterium gordonae
Chest high-resolution computed tomography (CT). . The chest CT showed diffuse subpleural nonsegmental ground-glass opacities.
PMC4901174_02
Male
46
A 46-year-old man with no history of smoking was referred to our hospital in 2008 because of abnormal opacities on chest radiographs that were obtained at a local clinic where he had been treated for bronchial asthma. He had worked in an aluminum-processing factory for the past 6 years, from 1996 through 2001, where he...
ace, angiotensin converting enzyme, aluminum dust, bal, bronchoalveolar lavage, dlco, carbon monoxide diffusing capacity, epma, electron probe microanalyzer, elemental analysis, granulomatosis, hrct, high-resolution ct, occupational lung disease, ppd, purified protein derivative, sp-d, surfactant protein d, sarcoidosis...
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PMC4639654_01
Female
35
Mrs. X, 35 years old, married for 6 years, case of primary infertility with hypothyroidism on levothyroxine 25 mcg, attended the infertility outpatient department of a tertiary care centre in May 2012. She had already undergone 2-3 cycles of ovulation induction. There was nothing significant in husband's history. The p...
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PMC2852770_01
Male
68
A 68-year-old male who had owned a bicycle shop for several decades visited our institute in March 2004 with a one-month history of swelling and pain of the right distal forearm. His dominant hand was right. On physical examination, an elastic soft mass, measuring 6 cmx4 cm, was observed on the palmar side of the right...
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PMC6759875_03
Male
18
BK is a Caucasian male with no previous psychiatric problems, aged 18 years at presentation. His only medical problem was alopecia areata treated since age 12 years. Despite moderate-range intellectual disability (ID) based on school testing prior to development of catatonia, he demonstrated higher-than-expected adapti...
bush-francis catatonia rating scale, trisomy 21, benzodiazepines, dextromethorphan/quinidine, electroconvulsive therapy, lorazepam
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PMC7081466_01
Male
39
This is a case of a 39-year-old male, a known patient with type 2 diabetes mellitus on metformin and gliclazide for 2 years, with optimal glycemic control, presented with a history of fever for 3 days and an abrupt onset of pain and swelling involving both the dorsum of the hands and wrist joints symmetrically. He also...
rheumatology/clinical immunology, pitting edema, remitting seronegative symmetrical synovitis with pitting edema, seronegative, symmetrical, young age
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PMC4531775_01
Female
56
A 56-year-old woman was referred to our hospital with complaints of chronic diarrhea, weight loss, indigestion and abdominal pain lasting for 11 months. Before admission, the patient visited a private clinic and underwent gastroscopic and colonoscopic examinations. Gastroscopic examination showed small gastric ulcerati...
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PMC6952472_02
Female
0
A 4-month-old infant girl in good health was examined for hypopigmented macules on the face that had been noted at the age of 2 months. On physical examination, numerous confluent hypopigmented macules with fine scales located on the frontal area of the face were noted (Figure 1c). In both cases, examinations using a W...
hypopigmented, infantile, pityriasis versicolor, tinea versicolor
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PMC3544093_01
Male
70
A 70-year old man with history of chronic smoking was brought to the emergency department with acute painful swelling involving his right hand and the right knee. There was history of mild fever especially at night. There was no past history of injury, gout, rheumatoid arthritis or tuberculosis. Clubbing of the finger ...
acrometastasis, abdominal sonography, peripheral skeletal metastases, renal cell carcinoma
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PMC9167125_01
Male
64
A 64-year-old male with a 10-year history of asymptomatic JAK-2-positive PMF under observation presented with progressive pruritus and jaundice for 3 days. Labs revealed ALT 49 IU/L, AST 35 IU/L, ALP 378 IU/L, total bilirubin (TB) 17 mg/dL, and direct bilirubin 10 mg/dL. LDH was 173 U/L, and the haptoglobin level was n...
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PMC3199829_01
Female
14
Rhinosurgery: Rhinosurgery in RP is based on a limited number of case reports only. Rapini refused reconstruction of saddle nose deformities in RP because of the relapsing character of the disease. By contrast, Haug and coworkers successfully reconstructed a saddle nose using iliac crest. A bony implant was chosen beca...
nasal septal perforation, rhinoplasty, saddle nose, sinusitis, systemic disorder
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PMC3675438_05
Female
17
Patient 5 was a 17-year-old girl, born as the second of three children to non-consanguineous Norwegian parents. The mother had Sjogren syndrome. The pregnancy was complicated by episodes of maternal bleeding. Delivery was normal, with the following birth measures: weight 3800 g, length 52 cm (both at the 75th centile) ...
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PMC6329029_01
Female
18
An 18-year-old girl with type 1 diabetes mellitus presented with focal convulsions in September 2012. She was detected to have multiple tuberculomas. Biopsy of one of the lesion grew MTB. She was on second-line ATT since September 2012 as drug-sensitivity testing (DST) of the tuberculous lesion showed resistance to iso...
anti-tuberculous therapy, children, tubercular meningitis, tuberculoma
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