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pmc-6098899-1
We present the case of a 75-year-old male whom initially presented to our service with a mass on his right upper back. The patient's medical history included coronary artery disease and hyperlipidemia. Further history revealed he had received (2) stents in the past and undergone multiple heart catheterizations (up to s...
pmc-6098905-1
An 87-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with three days of abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and copious diarrhea. She described watery stools occurring up to eight times each day, without blood or mucus. She reported fatigue and anorexia but denied fevers and chills, as well as dysuria or other urin...
pmc-6098913-1
A 46-year-old male presented to the emergency department (ED) after three syncopal episodes. In the preceding three days, the patient experienced the onset of cough, congestion, and generalized malaise. His son had similar symptoms. On the morning of his arrival to the ED, the patient experienced lightheadedness while ...
pmc-6098914-1
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...
pmc-6098919-1
A 52-year-old female was subjected to total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (TAHBSO) for LG-ESS. Patient received radiotherapy and was doing well for 10 years. After 10 years, she presented with the right lower abdominal discomfort and a lump. USG showed an ill-defined mass with heterogenous...
pmc-6098930-1
A 37-year-old right-handed male presented to the emergency department with right wrist pain and decreased range of motion of the forearm following a friendly grappling match. On history, he was mildly intoxicated by alcohol at the time of the injury. His friend had performed an arm-bar holding the patient's right arm b...
pmc-6098999-1
A 24-year-old Caucasian man presented with a several month history of muscle pain, fatigue and insidious onset of pitting edema to his lower extremities. His symptoms progressed to include bilateral arm swelling, muscle pain to the thenar eminence of both hands, and paresthesias to his hands. He did not have a rash, jo...
pmc-6099001-1
A 65-year-old female, known case of metastatic breast cancer with brain involvement, presented to our emergency department because of dyspnea, tachypnea, tachycardia and hypotension since 2 hours ago. She had history of triple positive (ER+, PR+, HER2+) breast cancer and left radical mastectomy 15 years ago after which...
pmc-6099002-1
A 44-year-old man with a history of HTN, DM type 2, and recent diagnosis of atrial fibrillation was seen in clinic and initiated on amiodarone with planned direct current (DC) cardioversion in 4 weeks. Ten days after beginning amiodarone, he presented to the emergency room after four syncopal events while sitting on hi...
pmc-6099007-1
A 19-year-old man with no prior morbidity presented to the emergency unit with a 2-day history of chest pain, dry cough, and febrile sensation. One day before the onset of symptoms, he was using a liquid-in-glass mercury thermometer that accidentally broke and spilled mercury across the left axillary and pectoral regio...
pmc-6099008-1
A 78-year-old man suffered from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) (stage IV, class 2) for about 24 years. He had never undergone surgery on his extremities. He was administered methotrexate (4 mg/wk), oral corticosteroids (4 mg/d), and iguratimod (25 mg/d) and had a high course of disease activity (DAS 28-ESR 4.63). He had pul...
pmc-6099009-1
This 35-year-old male patient had accidentally swallowed a fishbone 2 months prior to his admittance in the emergency room. At that time, he presented pain in the upper abdomen a few days after ingestion. He presented abdominal pain and fever. Computed tomography scan showed a liver abscess with a linear calcified body...
pmc-6099015-1
The patient was a 47-year-old male presenting to our hospital with the chief complaint of sudden epigastric pain with vital signs indicating shock. One month earlier, he was hospitalized in our department and underwent omental patch repair for gastric ulcer perforation. Emergent contrast-enhanced CT revealed a retroper...
pmc-6099020-1
The patient is 84-year-old Caucasian woman, height 160 cm, weight 50 kg, who was referred for impaired consciousness. Her previous history was noteworthy for dementia, aphonia, hypothyroidism, strumectomy, hysterectomy, arterial hypertension, paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, lung emphysema, and diabetes. Clinical neurol...
pmc-6099021-1
A 9-year-old girl was referred to the Department of Endodontics of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León for the evaluation of a mandibular first molar. The medical history was noncontributory. The dental history revealed that a root canal treatment had been performed 6 months ago on tooth # 36, and a stainless steel...
pmc-6099022-1
A 29-year-old female presented to the emergency department with a 1-day history of acute right flank pain, fever, and vomiting. She had a known history of a mutation in COL3A1 gene associated with vascular Ehlers–Danlos syndrome (vEDS) and a strong family history of arterial aneurysms and rupture. On examination, her a...
pmc-6099024-1
A 68-year-old Caucasian woman with end-stage renal disease on dialysis was admitted to our facility for a stroke and a non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction. The stroke caused a right facial droop and right upper extremity flaccid paralysis, without any other sensory or cognitive disturbances. Her chronic medi...
pmc-6099025-1
A 79-year-old male with a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and polycythemia vera underwent PCI of the left anterior descending artery (LAD) 1 week prior to admission at an outside institution with overlapping 3.0 × 15 mm Integrity bare-metal stents (Medtronic) to the mid-LAD (Fig. A). He developed chest pain ap...
pmc-6099025-2
A 73-year-old male with history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and esophageal reflux presented to an outside hospital with a non-ST elevation myocardial infarction and underwent PCI of the LAD with overlapping 3.0 × 38 and 3.5 × 18 Resolute DES (Medtronic). There was a suboptimal stent expansion in the LAD, and he wa...
pmc-6099027-1
A 79-year-old Iranian man was admitted to Imam-Khomeini hospital with 6-month history of dyspnea, nonproductive cough, fatigue and weight loss. Previous clinical history and family history was unremarkable. He had no history of smoking or being passive smoker. He did not use alcohol or opium in the past, and his job is...
pmc-6099029-1
A 14-year-old male patient was referred to the Clinic of Dental and Oral Pathology at Lithuanian University of Health Science, Kaunas, Lithuania, by his general dentist for evaluation and treatment of the maxillary lateral right incisor (tooth #12). The patient complained about constant mild pain, tenderness to bitting...
pmc-6099033-1
A 34-year-old gravida 3 para 2 was referred at 20 weeks because of growth restriction in one twin of a spontaneous monochorionic diamniotic pregnancy. Twin 1 had normal amniotic fluid and appeared structurally normal (estimated fetal weight [EFW] 335 g). Umbilical artery and ductus venosus Doppler studies were unremark...
pmc-6099035-1
A 35-year-old female patient was presented to our center for TV replacement due to stenosis. At the age of 11 years, the patient suffered from endocarditis supported by a small ventricular septal defect. At that time, the ventricular septal defect was closed and a mechanical tricuspid valve (SJM, 28 mm) implantation an...
pmc-6099042-1
Twin B of a spontaneous dichorionic and diamniotic twin pregnancy of a 30-year-old multigravida was found to have symmetrical intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) at 25-week gestation (estimated fetal weight (EFW) <3rd percentile, intertwin weight discordance 28%), with abnormal Dopplers indicating increased placenta...
pmc-6099043-1
A 21-year-old male presented with fever, generalized pruritus and nonblanching petechial and papular skin rash. The rash had a centripetal distribution, initially appearing on the extremities and spreading to the trunk. Laboratory tests revealed normal white blood cell count with mild lymphopenia of 0.8 × 109/L, elevat...
pmc-6099054-1
A 34-year-old Chinese woman, gravida 1, para 0, was referred to our hospital for thickened nuchal translucency (3.4 mm) in one fetus of dichorionic diamniotic twins at 13 weeks of pregnancy. She underwent in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF-ET) because her husband was oligoasthenospermia. Two embryos were t...
pmc-6099055-1
A 62-year-old man lost consciousness and was admitted to an emergency hospital. He was comatose (Hunt and Kosnik grade) and diagnosed with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) due to rupture of a right vertebral artery dissecting aneurysm. Artery occlusion was performed, followed by ventricular drainage due to hydrocephalus. ...
pmc-6099056-1
A 38-year-old male patient, with no relevant medical history, was admitted to the hematology department of the Henri Becquerel Center in Rouen in May 1999 for diplopia with clinical signs of intracranial hypertension. A cerebral CT scan shows left frontal, left parietal, right occipital, and right lateral lesions stron...
pmc-6099059-1
A 59-year-old woman was referred to our hospital because an abnormal shadow was found in the right middle lung field in a chest X-ray taken during a routine medical checkup. Her medical history was unremarkable, including no history of cerebrovascular disease or neuromuscular disease. Chest CT showed atelectasis of the...
pmc-6099467-1
The patient was a 20-year-old woman. She visited the hospital with a primary complaint of lower abdominal pain with repeated remission and exacerbation that had lasted for 3 months. There was no abnormality in vital signs at the time of her initial visit. There was tenderness in the lower abdomen, and a neoplastic mass...
pmc-6100429-1
A 65-year old male patient who was diagnosed with gastrointestinal stromal tumor at bulbus of duodenum by gastric endoscopy was referred for a 68Ga-DOTANOC PET/CT for investigation of metastasis. PET/CT demonstrated increased tracer uptake in the right ischium, right iliac, and pubic bones (Figure ). He was asymptomati...
pmc-6100433-1
An 83-year-old man underwent surgical excision of a malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor (MPNST) at the right knee at another hospital and was then referred to our hospital for further chemotherapy. Three months after the start of chemotherapy, the patient complained of severe pelvic and low back pain. A PET CT was ...
pmc-6100443-1
A 21-year-old female patient was admitted with bilateral painless palpable breast masses for four months, which had increased in size over that period. The patient had given birth approximately one year before, but her medical and family histories were otherwise unremarkable. On physical examination, there were multipl...
pmc-6100465-1
A 22-year-old asymptomatic man presents at the cardiology department for follow-up of a congenital mixed aortic valve disease that presented first in childhood. Cardiac auscultation reveals a systolic decrescendo high-frequent ejection 2/6 murmur and diastolic 2/6 murmur. Transthoracic echocardiography shows a normotro...
pmc-6100481-1
A 38-year-old woman presented with painful, mobile swelling in the right knee. There was no trauma history, and the onset of pain was sporadic and had reduced her mobility. On physical examination, there was a mobile painful swelling on the lateral aspect of her right knee. The laboratory findings were normal. Plain or...
pmc-6100495-1
A 61-year-old Caucasian male with no significant medical history was admitted to the emergency department in 2006 with subacute, aggravating headaches. He had been vomiting for two days. Further clinical investigation and anamnesis revealed a mild fever of 38.0°C as well as alternating but progressive confusion and ano...
pmc-6100498-1
The 72 year old male patient was referred to our clinic with the complaint of bilateral axillary masses and numbness in the right hand. In his medical history, he had hypertension for 4 years but no history of trauma. A physical examination showed the presence of palpable pulsatile masses in his both axillae (12 cm in ...
pmc-6100555-1
A-50-year-old female presented with history of headache for a long time. Her neurological examination was normal. The laboratory results were within normal limits. Brain MRI demostrated a small herniation of a temporal lobe with surrounding CSF rim into the left transverse sinus (Figures , arrows). The herniation mater...
pmc-6100576-1
A 58-year-old man was referred to our medical imaging department with complaints of urinary frequency and dysuria associated with suprapubic and hypogastric pain. There was a clinical suspicion of colonic diverticulitis. An unenhanced abdominal CT was performed because the patient’s renal function was unknown. Numerous...
pmc-6100592-1
A 39-year-old man presented a one-year history of pulsatile tinnitus in the right ear without a previous history of trauma, surgery, or any other disease. His ear, nose, and throat (ENT) examination and laboratory tests were normal. The patient was referred to our department for carotid Doppler sonography to exclude va...
pmc-6100612-1
Patient A, a 43-year-old woman, presented to the neurologist with increased difficulty swallowing and speaking, stiffness in the jaw muscles, and weight loss. Previous history reveals partial thyroidectomy (unknown cause), hypothyroidism, and an episode of atrial fibrillation due to overcompensated hypothyroidism. On c...
pmc-6100616-1
A 78-year-old man presented with diffuse abdominal pain and nausea without vomiting for two days. Patient had his last bowel movement three days before. Physical examination confirmed diffuse abdominal pain and showed rebound tenderness in the periumbilical region suggestive of localized peritonitis. Laboratory analysi...
pmc-6100622-1
A 61-year-old male was admitted to our hospital for unconsciousness followed by melena. On admission, he remained hemodynamically stable with a hemoglobin level at 12 g/dl (normal values: 14–18 g/dl). The patient underwent an upper endoscopy which revealed a stomach full of fresh blood. Neither esophageal varices nor u...
pmc-6100634-1
A 19-year-old female patient with a few days history of severe headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting and syncope was admitted for cranial CT examination. Her physical and neurological examinations were normal and her medical history was unremarkable. The color Doppler sonography revealed absence of the right ICA and a ...
pmc-6100634-2
A 27-year-old male patient with an unremarkable medical history presented with acute onset of severe headache, dizziness and disequilibrium, and left sided weakness. Unenhanced CT revealed a hypodense lesion in the right thalamic and subthalamic region about 1 cm in diameter and an absent right ICA and bony carotid can...
pmc-6100642-1
A 33-year-old female, gravida 2 para 1, was referred to our university hospital from a local medical clinic with a history of a positive serum beta-Human chorionic gonadotropin (β-hCG) level but no visible intrauterine gestational sac. Her laboratory findings were all normal except for the serum β-hCG, which was 146.76...
pmc-6100651-1
A 2-year-old male patient presented with acute onset of seizures and loss of consciousness to our emergency department. His past history revealed that he was being followed for hypogammaglobulinemia over the past year without any change of consciousness nor seizures. He had no history of head injury, trauma, or infecti...
pmc-6100657-1
A 48-year-old man who had been aware of exertional breathlessness for two years was referred to our hospital because an echocardiogram (ECG) of his medical checkup was abnormal. His medical history included juvenile onset asthma and deafness. Regarding his familial medical history, his paternal grandfather had asthma, ...
pmc-6100659-1
A ten-months-old girl was referred to our clinic with swelling and warmth and red discoloration in the right lower extremity. Regarding the clinical history, she had growth retardation and protein-energy malnutrition. On the color Doppler ultrasound examination, there was generalized thrombus within the great and small...
pmc-6100660-1
A 74-year-old female was referred to the emergency department with persistent abdominal pain. Five months earlier, she had experienced acute small bowel intestinal obstruction necessitating emergency laparotomy. This occlusion was caused by anterior parietal adherences related to recurrent previous abdominal surgery. C...
pmc-6100663-1
We report on a case of fibular hypoplasia, tibial campomelia, and oligodactyly in a female neonate of one day old. The patient was born by elective Cesarean section at 39 weeks, 4 days. She was the first pregnancy of a healthy mother. The infant birth weight was 2660 g, the birth length was 48 cm, and the head circumfe...
pmc-6100671-1
A 12-year-old boy with chronic respiratory complaints, including cough, exercise intolerance, and persistent wheezing, was referred to our hospital because of persistent symptoms under extensive asthma therapy. A standard radiograph of the chest detected very slight hyperinflation of the left lung with increased lung t...
pmc-6100672-1
A 72-year-old man was admitted with persistent temporal headache. Further clinical history, physical examination, and laboratory tests were unremarkable. Nonenhanced computed tomography (CT) of the head (Figure , black arrow) revealed a lesion with nonspecific attenuation in the left fossa of Rosenmüller. For further c...
pmc-6100673-1
A 43-year-old woman was treated in the emergency room for a painful ankle sprain with marked soft tissue swelling, confirmed by plain radiograph. After resolution of the soft tissue swelling, US examination was ordered for persistent pain and targeted to the periarticular ligaments revealed a partly thrombosed pseudoan...
pmc-6100674-1
A 19-year-old boy was sent in by the general practitioner with complaints of persisting tenderness and swelling just below the knee. Conventional radiography of the knee showed fragmentation of the tibial tuberositas pointing towards Osgood Schlatter Disease (Figure ). Ultrasound examination of the knee with a high fre...
pmc-6100676-1
A 55-year-old female patient consulted the neurologist because of vertigo and tinnitus. Clinical examination revealed an obvious palatal myoclonus. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain was performed, and T2-weighted and fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) images showed focal hyperintensity and expansio...
pmc-6100676-2
A 57-year-old woman presented with vertigo. An MRI of the brain revealed a mass in the right posterior fossa (Figure ). The tumor was resected and an anatomopathological diagnosis of a medulloblastoma was made. A follow-up MRI obtained five months after surgery revealed a postoperative defect in the vermis immediately ...
pmc-6100676-3
A 43-year-old woman suffered a left pontine hypertensive hemorrhagic stroke (Figure ). On a follow-up MRI performed four months later, irregular T2-hypointensities could be seen in the left dorsal tegmentum of the pons, compatible with hemosiderin and ferritin deposits (Figure ). Furthermore, a nodular T2-hyperintense ...
pmc-6100677-1
A 51-year-old Caucasian male presented to the emergency department with a four-day history of dry cough, orthopnea and asthenia. He was a smoker (30 packs/year) but had no other known previous pathologies, in particular arterial hypertension.
pmc-6100678-1
A 62-year-old man presented to the emergency department with complaints of colicky abdominal pain and active rectorrhagy. Two days before, these symptoms had been preceded by the apparition of diffuse purpuric spots on the lower limbs and the forearms. One week before, the patient had experienced a viral episode of the...
pmc-6100686-1
A 4.5-month-old girl was admitted to the emergency room for loss of consciousness. Her past nine days were marked by cough and apathy. She was born at 41 weeks with a weight of 3.5 kg and her past history was unremarkable. Physical examination was strictly normal and the patient was looking good, with only a mild cough...
pmc-6100695-1
A 69-year-old man was referred to our Medical Imaging Department to undergo a virtual colonoscopy (VR). The patient had no specific abdominal complaint except mild chronic diarrhea worsened by metformin. He was referred to explain a positive fecal occult blood test. A conventional rectoscopy was normal, and a sigmoidos...
pmc-6100697-1
The patient is a 66-year-old Caucasian man with a history of an enlarged prostate and urinary retention with a prostate volume of 158 cc on pelvic ultrasonography. After informed consent was obtained, HoLEP was performed using a 550-μm end-firing laser fiber and a 100-W holmium laser (Lumenis, Inc., Tel Aviv, Israel). ...
pmc-6100715-1
A 76-year-old Caucasian man who underwent laryngectomy 10 years earlier, presented with fever (38.9 °C; 102.0 °F), increased sputum production, and purulent conjunctivitis. These symptoms emerged gradually over a period of 48 hours. He noted increasing difficulty in coughing out his sputum that became brownish and visc...
pmc-6100716-1
MS is a 10-year-old female patient diagnosed with multiple food allergies and anaphylaxis (Table ). MS has a family history of atopy (both parents). MS’s index allergic event was at 9 months of age when she presented with urticaria after contacting milk and cheese. By the age of 5, MS had been diagnosed with milk, pean...
pmc-6100721-1
A 73-year-old Asian woman with an underlying anxiety disorder, functional headache, and hypertension was prescribed escitalopram and lorazepam when she presented with progressively worsening headaches to her primary care doctor. Her symptoms did not improve with the medications, and she was unable to eat well and requi...
pmc-6101150-1
A 23-year-old married female patient presented to one of the hospitals of Damavand city, Tehran, Iran, due to severe itching and vaginal irritation. Vaginal examination revealed thick, curdle-like, white-colored discharge, edema, and intense pruritus of the vulva. The vagina and labia were erythematous. She was using a...
pmc-6101440-1
Case 1: An 18-year-old male sustained a single gunshot wound to the abdomen. Exploratory laparotomy demonstrated the following injuries. Liver laceration was found in segment five, it was controlled with two sutures on a blunt needle and hemostatic matrix. The colon was found to have avulsion of the mesentery with obvi...
pmc-6101440-2
Case 2: A 16-year-old male sustained multiple gunshots and presented to the trauma bay in hemorrhagic shock. He was taken immediately for emergency laparotomy and injuries identified were injury to two segments of the small bowel, injury to the inferior vena cava (IVC), grade four injury to the right kidney, and destru...
pmc-6101442-1
A 75-year-old Caucasian male presented to the emergency room with the chief complaint of left-sided facial weakness. He noticed the weakness while brushing his teeth, and also noted slurred speech. He denied eye pain, tearing or redness, hearing loss, difficulty with swallowing, and weakness or numbness in his extremit...
pmc-6101451-1
A 74-year-old Caucasian male had a past medical history of hypertension and gout. He was also diagnosed with melanoma of left ear at left medial antihelix seven years ago, and it was stage IIB and treated with wide local excision and sentinel lymph node excision. Two years later, he developed recurrent melanoma of left...
pmc-6101456-1
A 46-year-old gentleman who was well pre-morbidly was admitted to our neurosurgery department after allegedly sustaining a fall from about three meters' height while attempting to climb a tree. He landed head down on his left frontotemporal region against a rock. Immediately after the impact, he sustained loss of consc...
pmc-6101457-1
The patient was a 64-year-old male with a history of diffusely metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. The disease was initially discovered due to an elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) of 4-5 in 2005 with two negative prostate biopsies. His PSA level went up to 9.0 and eventually to 78.4. Magnetic resona...
pmc-6101459-1
An 82-year-old Caucasian male presented with dark tarry stools for two days, progressive dysphagia to solid food for several weeks and significant unintentional weight loss. His past medical history was significant for hypertension, diverticulosis and right-sided renal cell cancer for which he underwent nephrectomy 13 ...
pmc-6101460-1
A 24-year-old female presented to our surgical outpatient department with the complaint of an asymptomatic swelling in the right inguinal region for the past two years. Her clinical predicament subsequently worsened with the onset of a sharp stabbing pain in her right inguinal region, with associated nausea and vomitin...
pmc-6101461-1
A 36-year-old female presented with fever, weight loss, enlarged right axillary lymph node, and bilateral pulmonary infiltrates. The axillary lymph node biopsy (Figure ) revealed noncaseating granulomas typical for sarcoidosis. The patient was started on steroids and showed only mild improvement in symptoms. Over the n...
pmc-6101463-1
A 33-year-old female with sickle cell trait, anxiety, miscarriages (twice), late-onset Raynaud’s phenomenon, and fibromyalgia, initially presented with chest pain and elevated troponin level. Her local physician found a negative cardiac workup, and subsequently she was initiated on ranolazine for treatment of suspected...
pmc-6101464-1
A 27-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with a two-week history of hemoptysis, shortness of breath, and fever. He reported fatigue, night sweats, bilateral knee pain, and a rash on his back and chest. Two months prior to this admission, the patient developed acute onset of nonproductive cough associated with gen...
pmc-6101465-1
A 34-year-old Hispanic male, diagnosed with Graves’ Disease three years prior to presentation, non-compliant with his medications, presented to the emergency room (ER) with complaints of generalized weakness, palpitations, chest pain and multiple episodes of nausea and vomiting. The patient had been in his usual state ...
pmc-6101466-1
A 47-year-old male with no known comorbidities was started on a course of oral prednisone (60 mg once daily) following a routine diagnosis of bilateral anterior uveitis, with a consequential improvement in his visual acuity. In the ensuing two weeks, he developed generalized weakness and fatigue, which hindered his abi...
pmc-6101468-1
A 40-year-old female with RYGB surgery performed 13 years ago for morbid obesity presented with epigastric pain and weight loss. She was recently diagnosed with bilateral metastatic signet cell carcinoma to the ovaries for which she was on chemotherapy. Her family history is significant for gastric cancer in her matern...
pmc-6101468-2
A 50-year-old female with RYGB surgery performed six years previously presented with epigastric pain, nausea, and recurrent gastrointestinal bleeding of nine months duration. Multiple upper and lower GI endoscopies, as well as a video capsule endoscopy, failed to identify the source of her recurrent bleeding. A CT scan...
pmc-6101469-1
A 78-year-old non-smoker Chinese female presented with a six-month duration of progressive breathlessness. This was associated with cough, poor appetite and weight loss over the last one month. She had reduced air entry on the right chest with stony dullness on percussion. Chest radiograph showed a right moderate effus...
pmc-6101515-1
A 78-year-old male presented with symptoms of chronic anemia. His physical examination showed bleeding per rectum. Blood investigations revealed iron deficiency anemia. The cause of anemia was fully investigated including CT abdomen/pelvis, upper and lower GI endoscopy. Gastrointestinal malignancy was excluded. Colonos...
pmc-6101516-1
A 58-year-old male, a chronic alcoholic, presented to us with mild-to-moderate abdominal pain in the epigastric region, with presence of fever for the previous 10 days, for which he was admitted in our institute for further evaluation and management. Ultrasonography (USG) of the abdomen was done in the emergency settin...
pmc-6102433-1
A 12-year-old boy presented to the Department of Pedo-dontics with a complaint of broken front tooth and pus discharge. He gave a history of fall while playing 1 year back. Clinical examination revealed Ellis class III fracture of maxillary right lateral incisor (12) (). The tooth was tender to percussion and there was...
pmc-6102434-1
A 10-year-old girl reported with the chief complaint of growth of soft tissue mass on the palate that was present since 1 month. History regarding the growth revealed that it first started as painless slow growing soft tissue mass that gradually enlarged and associated with discomfort and occasional pain on eating and ...
pmc-6102438-1
A 14-year-old male child diagnosed with ADHD presented to the Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry at DA Pandu Memorial RV Dental College, with the chief complaint of broken tooth in upper front region since 2 years ( and ). Patient gave a history of root canal treatment done on the same tooth 2 years bac...
pmc-6102439-1
An 8-year-old male child reported to the Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Government Dental College and Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, with chief complaint of gingival swelling and absence of teeth, which caused damage to his speech, mastication, and esthetics and led to a significant change in hi...
pmc-6102810-1
A 44-year-old woman experienced sudden onset of difficulty using her left hand and walking during her menstrual phase. She had a history of adenomyosis and infertility treatment for 18 years, and heavy menstrual bleeding. She complained of headache, abdominal pain, nausea, and had a fever (37.7 °C) at presentation. She...
pmc-6102819-1
In September 2013, a 32-year-old female patient, who came from Myanmar, was clinically diagnosed with dengue fever in Ruli, Yunnan, China. She had dengue-like symptoms including fever, joint pain, myalgia and headache. The patient′s acute serum was positive for NS1 antigen by One Step Dengue nonstructural protein (NS) ...
pmc-6102832-1
A 66-year-old woman with reduced vision in her left eye was examined in the Tokyo Medical and Dental University Hospital on June 27, 2015. Her best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) in her left eye was 20/50, and both eyes were pseudophakic. The refractive error of the left eye was − 1.75 diopters, and the axial length wa...
pmc-6102837-1
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...
pmc-6102845-1
A 42-year-old male was referred for left wrist drop, finger drop and a tingling sensation over the lateral dorsum of the left hand. The patient reported that he was well until 4 days prior when he was intoxicated and awoke with the symptoms. For 4 days, slight improvement of weakness occurred. He had no history of ante...
pmc-6102888-1
A 59-year-old female patient was admitted into our hospital for the abnormal computed tomography (CT) image presentation of right adrenal mass revealed by occasional health examination, accompanied with the complaint of intermittent nausea and blurred vision. She had been diagnosed with SIT when she received the hyster...
pmc-6102897-1
A 47-year-old man developed severe burning pain and a vesicular eruption in the right shoulder and anterolateral arm. Two days later after the rash, he was not able to elevate his right arm to the shoulder level or bend the forearm at the elbow joint. Additionally, he also presented with numbness in the back of the thu...
pmc-6102897-2
An 87-year-old woman developed burning pain and vesicular rash over the right lateral arm and forearm. Two weeks after rash, she was not able to elevate her right arm to the shoulder level, bend the forearm at the elbow joint or grip tightly. Moderate to severe weakness of C6–8 myotomes was observed, as well as the hyp...
pmc-6102897-3
A 61-year old man developed burning pain and vesicular rash over left thumb, index finger and forearm. Fifteen days after his rash, he noted weakness in his left hand dorsal stretch and grip. There was moderate weakness of muscles in left C6–8 myotomes and hypoesthesia over the thumb. The triceps muscle stretch reflex ...
pmc-6102904-1
In 2010, a 37 year-old black woman had mastectomy and homolateral axillary dissection for invasive carcinoma in her left breast. pTNM stage was pT3 multicentric (53 mm diameter for the biggest) pN2 (seven positive lymph nodes) and no metastasis. Proliferation index was high (Ki-67 = 40%). Immunohistochemistry showed 90...
pmc-6102914-1
A 52-year-old Korean woman presented to our hospital because of edema and dry mouth. Additional complaints included fatigue, weight loss, and nail dystrophy. She had not had any of these symptoms in her medical history before. She started to complain of dry mouth and nail dystrophy 4 months before admission. During tha...