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pmc-6115556-1
We report a case of 38 year old lady, diagnosed case of Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) for two years. Apart from the symptoms of joint pains, there was history of Raynaud’s phenomenon as well. There were no systemic complaints and she remained well on treatment for RA, i.e. Hydroxychloroquin, Leflonamide and NSAID as per ne...
pmc-6115580-1
A 32 years old male presented with painless and gradually enlarging right testicular swelling of 3 months duration. Right inguinal orchiectomy was performed and 3 weeks post Op B-hCG was 2900IU, AFP was 890 ng/ml while LDH was 560mg/ml. Histopathology showed yolk sac tumor (65%), immature teratoma (20%) and seminoma (1...
pmc-6116288-1
A 28-year-old Thai male with past medical history of E-beta-thalassemia and splenectomy presented to emergency department with a 3-month progressive tightness in bilateral flank region, weakness, and difficulty walking requiring crutches. Review of system was also significant for unintentional 10-pound weight loss due ...
pmc-6116300-1
Fifty-seven-year-old Caucasian female with a past medical history significant for hypertension and recently diagnosed stage IV moderately differentiated distal rectal adenocarcinoma with liver and lung metastasis status post second cycle of FOLFOX palliative chemotherapy 1 week ago was admitted with the primary complai...
pmc-6116378-1
A 13-year-old girl of African ancestry was referred to our breast clinic for evaluation of a left breast mass. She had been complaining of the left breast lump for 2 years. The lump was gradually increasing in size and it was tender. There was no history of skin changes, nipple discharge, fever, or trauma. Furthermore,...
pmc-6116383-1
A 30-year-old female presented with complaints of epigastric burning and indigestion for 1 year, which was occasionally associated with pain and vomiting. On a previous oesophago-gastroduodenoscopy, multiple oesophageal ulcers were noted, located from 30 to 35 cm and the mucosa was seen to be circumferentially hyperaem...
pmc-6116405-1
An 18-year-old female with an allergy to penicillin and a past medical history of migraines presented to the emergency department with pleuritic chest pain and dyspnea on exertion. Three months prior she had an upper respiratory infection. Her initial workup was unrevealing, including negative troponin and normal compl...
pmc-6116406-1
A 17-year-old girl with a recurrent cardiac tumor presented for the heart transplant evaluation. Initially, at the age of 10, she first presented with dyspnea and holosystolic murmur at apex. She did not have any significant medical history, other than a first-degree relative family history of CM. Echocardiography reve...
pmc-6116445-1
A 71-year old female, gravida 2, para 2 presented with abdominal distention which had worsened over the previous year. Her past medical history was appendicitis, and an appendectomy was performed in her thirties. Her past family history was unremarkable. A pelvic examination identified a very large mass in both hypocho...
pmc-6116566-1
A 65-year-old man from the Indian subcontinent presented to our hospital with complaints of a mild, dull, aching left-sided abdominal pain for the past year, loss of weight and appetite for 6 months. There was a history of per rectum bleeding and recent history of altered bowel habits. He had no history of malignancy i...
pmc-6117226-1
A 14-year-old male was admitted to our hospital with right lower abdominal pain and vomiting. He had no history of abdominal surgery or trauma. Physical examination revealed deep tenderness at McBurney’s point without abdominal distension. A blood test on admission revealed slight leukocytosis (9840/μl) without elevati...
pmc-6117228-1
An 81-year-old man presented with abdominal discomfort. Computed tomography imaging revealed a large tumor with intermediate signal intensity, showing heterogeneous contrast enhancement in the subphrenic area (Fig. a) and the feeding artery originated from the diaphragm (Fig. b). Within several days, he suddenly experi...
pmc-6117531-1
The third patient (P3), an 18 year old female, presented with frequent simple and complex motor as well as vocal tics (age at onset: 14 years). She was also suffering from OCD symptoms. Motor tics included hitting own thorax and pelvis with her fists, flipping, grimacing, jerking of the head, shoulders and hands, gestu...
pmc-6117874-1
Our patient was a 45-year-old white man. He was a farmer, former alcoholic, and former smoker. He had had high blood pressure for the past 3 years, which was treated with losartan. He had been followed at Barretos Cancer Hospital (BCH) since November 2015 because he had a diagnosis of Binet stage B CLL. Three months af...
pmc-6117877-1
A 77-year-old woman was referred to our division for a mixed ground-glass opacity lesion in the right upper lung. The patient was symptom-free and in good performance status. There were no remarkable findings on physical examination. Chest computed tomography revealed a 34 mm × 20 mm partial solid nodule with spicule f...
pmc-6117928-1
A 67-year-old man had the first episode of left leg weakness at the age of 65 years and subsequently experienced numbness of the bilateral fourth and fifth fingers (Additional file ). At the age of 66, he developed right leg weakness and difficulty in walking and was admitted to our hospital. Neurological examination r...
pmc-6117941-1
A 19-year-old Chinese woman was admitted to our institution for the treatment of monostotic FD of her femoral neck. She presented in June 2015 with non-traumatic, nonspecific left hip pain that occurred during university basketball training. She first noticed the pain a month before and visited an out-patient clinic in...
pmc-6117974-1
A 66-year-old Caucasian man presented with recurrent, metastatic MCC that involved several sites in liver, bones and disseminated lymphadenopathy. Primary MCC diagnosed 3 years before was located on the forearm without lymph node involvement and was treated with surgery and adjuvant radiation therapy. Serologic testing...
pmc-6117978-1
A 39-year-old Caucasian female was diagnosed with nodular melanoma of the right upper back following a biopsy. Wide local excision (WLE) and right axillary sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy were performed; although WLE was negative, SLN was positive for multiple foci of residual melanoma in two LN. Completion lymph node...
pmc-6117978-2
A 55 year-old male was diagnosed with stage IIIB (T4bN1aMx) superficial spreading melanoma of the right distal thigh after initial surgery, right inguinal SLN biopsy and right inguinal CLND. He was treated with ipilimumab 10 mg/kg IV every 3 weeks and received 2 doses. Following second dose, he developed parasthesias i...
pmc-6118036-1
A 34-year-old gentleman was first referred to orthopaedic services with a history of persistent knee pain, located over the right femoral condyle near the origin of the lateral collateral ligament. Eleven years prior to presentation, the patient was involved in a road traffic accident where he sustained a fracture of t...
pmc-6118291-1
A 68-year-old man presented to our outpatient clinic for good health maintenance. He had a past medical history of vitamin B12 deficiency for which he was getting monthly parenteral therapy. A detailed history is taken and he reported that he had no fever, chills, diarrhea, cough, anorexia, weight loss, or rash. On phy...
pmc-6118292-1
A 63-year-old woman, nursing home resident, with uncontrolled type-2 diabetes and chronic schizophrenia presented to the hospital with complaints of altered mentation, fever, and profound diarrhea for two days. At the time of admission, she was febrile (temperature 101.5° F) but hemodynamically stable. Pertinent physic...
pmc-6118296-1
A 56-year-old female presented to our department with chest discomfort. Contrast-enhanced chest computed tomography (CT) revealed a 35-mm well-circumscribed cyst and an adjacent 10-mm nodule in the anterior mediastinum (Fig. A). Positron emission tomography–CT demonstrated an increased uptake only in the small nodule (...
pmc-6118646-1
In October 2016, A 54-year-old male presented with bilateral crippling hip pain in the groin on both sides radiating to the front of the thigh with reduced mobility for almost 3 years and progressive worsening of symptoms. He had developed a significant limp preventing him from walking and performing routine activities...
pmc-6118646-2
In October 2017, a 59-year-old female presented with severe pain in both her hips over the preceding 3 years. Most of her pain was localized to her groin, right worse than the left. Over the preceding few months her pain increased to a level where she couldn't perform her normal daily activities with disturbed sleep at...
pmc-6119177-1
This case report describes an adult male patient with class II subdivision malocclusion, dental crossbite, and crowding treated successfully with aligners. An 18-year-old hyperdivergent male patient presented for treatment. Extraoral photos (Fig. ) and frontal examination revealed good incisor exposure; however, buccal...
pmc-6119261-1
On July 2017, a 52 year old Caucasian woman was admitted to our Emergency Department with acute respiratory failure. She had complained in the previous days of drowsiness, apathy and headache. Arterial blood gas determination showed the following values: pH 7.48, pCO2 92.0 mmHg, pO2 58.5 mmHg, B.E. (B) 16 mmol /L, HCO3...
pmc-6119272-1
A 21-year-old female patient without any known adverse medical background presented with a 1 month history of headache, nausea, fatigue and blurred vision. Physical examination and computer tomographic (CT) scan showed pericardial inflammation and splenomegaly (2 cm). Ophthalmoscopy of the right eye revealed papillary ...
pmc-6119281-1
A Norwegian 19-year old male with healthy, non-consanguineous parents attended a reference center for rare connective tissue disorders with a diagnosis of Larsen syndrome. The diagnosis was based on clinical findings in the neonatal period. He was born with dislocated, hyperextended knees up to 90 degrees, which was tr...
pmc-6119284-1
An 11-year-old girl noticed a small subcutaneous nodule in her iliac region. As the nodule was asymptomatic, she did not consult a doctor for 1 year. After the nodule began to gradually increase in size, she visited a nearby hospital where T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a 4.3- × 4.1-cm tumor in t...
pmc-6119299-1
A 70-year-old Asian man with ventricular fibrillation, who collapsed suddenly at a public bath, was brought to our hospital via ambulance. He had been prescribed allopurinol to treat gout for 15 years. No other relevant past history was found, including no history of diabetes or heart disease. He was an ex-tobacco smok...
pmc-6119301-1
A 76-year-old male was referred to the hospital because of acute heart failure, AECOPD and ulcers on the right leg. The ulcers were scattered as multifocal lesions with the size of 2–4 cm, with purulent discharge (Fig. ). The ulcers developed in two months and the patient denied histories of trauma and plant cultivatio...
pmc-6119327-1
A 59-year-old Sri Lankan woman, recipient of an ABO matched, living donor kidney transplant performed in 1997, presented with a 3-day history of fever, a fall, mild headache, arthralgia, myalgia, abdominal pain, and progressive drowsiness. She was on tenofovir, azathioprine 75 mg daily, and prednisolone 5 mg daily. She...
pmc-6119557-1
A 32-yr-old man with a 10-yr history of scalp seborrhea referred to Skin and Stem Cell Research Center, Tehran, Iran, in 2015. He voluntarily participated in this study. He first was examined by a physician, who took a complete medical history and administered a dermatological examination. The patient had not used any ...
pmc-6119586-1
A Japanese 11-month-old baby boy presented at our institution with symptoms including fever, weight loss, and gallop rhythm. His fever persisted for 3 days before presentation but no treatment was provided. He was born by vaginal delivery at 37 weeks of gestation with a weight of 2612 g (36th percentile) and a head cir...
pmc-6119591-1
A 10-year-old white girl presented to our emergency room in January 2015 with a 1-month history of headache and morning vomiting. On examination, she appeared slightly pale, with body temperature of 36.5 °C, heart rate of 90 beats per minute, blood pressure of 106/62 mmHg, respiratory rate of 18 breaths per minute, and...
pmc-6119709-1
A 51-year-old woman was found comatose and hypotonic in her home. The patient was resuscitated and intubated on site and admitted to an external hospital. An opiate antagonization, because of suspected opiate intoxication (she was on a treatment of for chronic pain syndrome with fentanyl patches), did not show any effe...
pmc-6119735-1
A 62 years old male presented with recurrent SCC of the left nasal bulbar conjunctiva. The patient's previous medical history detailed multiple interventions at this site. Initially, the diagnosis of a left nasal pterygium (a wing-shaped growth that starts on the conjunctiva and can spread across the limbus to the corn...
pmc-6120049-1
A 37-year-old man with a VNS presented for further evaluation. The patient had focal seizures with dyscognitive symptoms and occasionally evolution to bilateral convulsive seizures since he was 18 years old. Several events were captured during an epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU) admission, all of which localized to the r...
pmc-6120049-2
A 24-year-old man whose focal seizures began at age 7 presented for further evaluation. During his episodes, the patient was reported as having a surprised look on his face, covering his mouth with his hands, and laughing. These episodes happened several times per day and were followed by marching movements of the legs...
pmc-6120049-3
A 21-year-old man with an onset of seizures in 2004 presented for further evaluation. He had one febrile seizure in infancy and has a history of headaches. His events consisted of staring off for a few minutes, being unaware of surroundings, and exhibiting abnormal behavior and incomprehensible speech. He felt tired af...
pmc-6120049-4
A 31-year-old woman with a VNS implantation three years prior to her MEG recording presented for further evaluation. Since age 5, the patient had focal seizures that began with a “funny feeling,” flushing, and head turning to the right. Some seizures terminated at this point, while at other times her seizures progresse...
pmc-6120049-5
A 31-year-old woman with spells preceded by visual symptoms of macropsia and micropsia and olfactory auras presented for further evaluation. Following the auras, the patient often exhibited right eye deviation and tonic flexion of the right upper extremities followed by a loss of awareness and generalized tonic-clonic ...
pmc-6120064-1
A 67-year-old female patient came to our observation with a history of adverse contrast reaction: 10 years previous, after administration of unspecified CM for abdominal CT, the patient had presented skin rash and swelling of the limb, the injection site of the CM, with maintenance of vital parameters. A month previous...
pmc-6120066-1
A 41-year-old Asian man was transferred to the Center of Trauma Surgery in our hospital 6 hours after injury for the closure of an open infected wound with a large skin defect in his right lower limb caused by an accidental explosion of 100 pieces of a blasting cap. Hemostasis of the wound was achieved by applying pres...
pmc-6120074-1
A 53-years-old Japanese woman with ascites and a pelvic tumor was transferred to the Maruyama Memorial General Hospital on the suspicion of ovarian malignancy. A trans-vaginal ultrasound examination confirmed a large ascites volume and approximately 10-cm single ovarian cystic tumor with a mural nodule. The serum level...
pmc-6120083-1
A 56-year-old man of Asian origin was in his usual state of health until 4 days prior to presentation in our emergency room (ER); he had complaints of a rapidly progressing weakness of bilateral upper and lower limbs immediately prior to which he had a gastrointestinal upset. The weakness started from his lower limbs a...
pmc-6120096-1
A 60-year-old Thai woman presented with a 4-month history of episodic, painful, horizontal binocular diplopia. She denied any oscillopsia. She was previously treated for nasopharyngeal carcinoma with several courses of chemotherapy and external beam radiotherapy (total dose of 7000 cGy). The tumor was well controlled; ...
pmc-6120170-1
A 24-year-old Hispanic male who previously worked as a nurse in Mexico presented to our facility 4 months prior as a self-referral. He had been suffering from recurrent bilateral pleural effusion and thickening for the past 2 years without any diagnosis (). During our initial workup, he was found to have a positive Qua...
pmc-6120172-1
An overweight 9-year-old Hispanic male with no significant past medical history presented to the emergency room with 2 days of mild, persistent RLQ abdominal pain and tactile fevers for 1 day. The pain was initially intermittent, nonradiating, and mild on the pain scale, and was relieved by Pepto-Bismol. On the day of ...
pmc-6120174-1
A 48-year-old male presented to the psychiatric emergency room with dysmorphic mood. He was subsequently referred to medical service for the management of hyponatremia. His past medical history was notable for lumbar spondylosis managed with intermittent nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use. The patient reported occ...
pmc-6120274-1
We present a case of a 28-year-old African American female without any comorbid conditions who presented to the emergency department with right-sided pleuritic chest pain, dyspnea, and menorrhagia. She had been having intermittent pleuritic pain since 5 years and had been to the hospital many times in the past but with...
pmc-6120276-1
A 45-year-old male, smoker, who presented a 10-day history of painful, cyanosis, and progressive digital necrosis in both hands. In the four previous months, he noticed painless mass in the right axillary gap, drenching night sweats, and 5 kg weight loss. No clinical features of connective tissue disease were acknowled...
pmc-6120283-1
A 6-year-old male child was admitted to our hospital with his parents for adenotonsillectomy with the history of recurrent tonsillitis and obstructive sleep apnea. Examination revealed grade five enlarged tonsils that were almost meeting at the midline. His adenoids were found to be blocking 90% of his airway in a late...
pmc-6120288-1
A 49-year-old male with history of alcohol-induced pancreatitis presented with 1 month of worsening left pleuritic chest pain and shortness of breath. Initial physical exam was unremarkable, and laboratory tests were only remarkable for increased lactate dehydrogenase and borderline-low albumin. Initial chest radiograp...
pmc-6120290-1
A 47-year-old male with a past history of nephrolithiasis, irritable bowel syndrome, and mild depression presented to the emergency center with two weeks of flank pain and four days of cola-colored urine. He described a throbbing, stabbing pain in his left flank that persisted and progressively worsened, which was asso...
pmc-6120294-1
A four-year-old Japanese girl with no remarkable medical history was referred to our orthopedic clinic for treatment of 2 cm of LLD. She had a two-year history of progressive LM in a wide range of the posteromedial aspect of the right thigh and the medial aspect of the right lower leg. At the first presentation, skin l...
pmc-6120333-1
We present the case of a 73-year-old woman with a history of asymptomatic sinus bradycardia that presented to our facility with a chief complaint of acute chest pain. She was found to have elevated troponin I of 0.3 ng/ml (normal < 0.057). Chest X-ray was normal. Laboratory workup revealed normal complete blood count, ...
pmc-6120334-1
A 31-year-old man with a history of epilepsy presented twice to the Emergency Room (ER) in the span of 10 days after experiencing GTC seizures. On initial presentation, the patient had a witnessed seizure while at work and was postictal on arrival. While in the ER he again had a witnessed GTC seizure which broke 1 minu...
pmc-6120336-1
A woman with TOF underwent left classic BTS operation by the late cardiac surgeon Professor Shigeru Sakakibara at the Tokyo Women's Medical College, Tokyo, Japan, in the 1950s when she was 10 years old. She stopped visiting the hospital a few years postoperatively because she did not have difficulty performing daily ac...
pmc-6120337-1
A two-year-old boy was brought to the emergency department with respiratory distress without fever. He did not have a pathological perinatal history, nor a personal or family atopy. There was no history of choking episodes or ingestion of a foreign body witnessed by the parents, and he had never experienced dysphagia. ...
pmc-6120339-1
A 6-year-old girl presented to the Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry with the history of trauma in her right upper front region of the jaw. She had a fall on the school ground while playing 1 hr before the presentation, had no symptoms of nausea, and did not have any discharge or bleeding from her nose. ...
pmc-6120858-1
A 73-year-old woman presented with shortness of breath; however, the symptom was not serious. A computed tomography scan was performed at an outpatient clinic in her neighborhood, which revealed a giant mediastinal tumor (Fig. ) and enlarged left supraclavicular lymph node (Fig. ). At first, not an esophageal tumor but...
pmc-6121109-1
A 57-year-old male was initially diagnosed with locally advanced rectal cancer (T3N1M0) and treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiation followed by surgical resection (Figure ). He subsequently received adjuvant modified (m) FOLFOX6 followed by colostomy reversal. Two years later, CT imaging demonstrated new retroperitonea...
pmc-6121195-1
A 29-year-old man, without a past medical history, was admitted in September 2015 at Réunion University Hospital for sepsis with eosinophilic pneumonia (Figures and ). His blood cell count revealed severe thrombocytopenia (31 × 109/L) with hypereosinophilia (8 × 109/L). Amoxicillin/clavulanic acid had been prescribed 1...
pmc-6121195-2
A 14-year-old female teenager, with a previous medical history of chronic ITP (diagnosed in 2012), was admitted to Mayotte’s Hospital (French overseas department) in October 2015 for gingival bleeding, intense headaches, and drowsiness (Figures and ). A blood cell count revealed severe thrombocytopenia at 13 × 109/L an...
pmc-6121308-1
A 4-year-old boy presented with bilateral periorbital oedema dating back a month and was admitted to our hospital. He had a good general condition and normal pressure values. The results of laboratory tests revealed normal creatinine, hypoprotidaemia (3.8 g/day), hypoalbuminaemia (1.8 g/dL), hypercholesterolaemia (283 ...
pmc-6121308-2
A 2-year-old boy was admitted to our hospital for bilateral periorbital oedema, scrotal oedema and weight gain. He had a good general condition and normal pressure values. Investigations showed normal creatinine, hypoprotidaemia (3.9 g/day), hypoalbuminemia (2 g/dL), hypercholesterolaemia (417 mg/dL), hypertriglyceride...
pmc-6121338-1
A 68-year-old man was referred to our oncology clinic with the pathologic diagnosis of duodenal malignant melanoma. This patient had a history of controlled diabetes mellitus, controlled hypertension and myocardial infraction before admission. He had suffered from fatigue, weakness, lethargy and weight lost (more than ...
pmc-6121350-1
A 66-year old male patient was admitted to the emergency service with a six-week history of complaints of hiccup and fever. Hiccups mostly correlated with lead stimulation. The patient had a diagnosis of dilated cardiomyopathy and underwent dual chamber pacemaker and implantable cardioverter defibrillator implantation ...
pmc-6121486-1
A 33-year-old Italian man of Indo-European descent, in military service since 2001, was admitted to the Policlinico of an Italian city because of sudden hearing loss NDD, within 24 h of receiving two vaccines: intramuscular tetanus and diphtheria vaccines (Ditanrix 0.5 mL) and subcutaneous meningococcal polysaccharide ...
pmc-6122461-1
We report a 75-year old man with stage IV BRAF V600E mutated malignant melanoma. On his initial 18fluoro-deoxy-glucose (FDG) positron emission tomography computed tomography (PET-CT) scan, he presented with multiple bilateral pulmonary nodules, bone and cutaneous lesions, peritoneal metastases and a lesion at the head ...
pmc-6122623-1
Patient 1 was a healthy 25-year-old primigravida woman without any familial medical history. She experienced an uneventful pregnancy until 23 + 5 weeks gestation (WG), when the anatomical scan demonstrated a potential cleft lip associated with dilatation of the left cerebral ventricle and a short corpus callosum. The p...
pmc-6122623-2
Patient 2 was a 25-year-old healthy, gravida 4 para 2, woman with a past history of stillbirth at 7 months gestation of unknown etiology. Screening test for aneuploidy was at low risk (1/10,000). At 19 + 5 WG, the patient experienced a maculo-papular pruritic rash associated with mild fever, arthralgia and headaches, c...
pmc-6122635-1
A 52-year-old male without a history of hypertension and diabetes, from Huizhou, Guangdong, was referred to Huizhou Central People’s Hospital in June 2016 with symptoms of fever for 1 week. He worked on a farm with poor hygiene management and was responsible for breeding. Before admission, he was treated with flu in th...
pmc-6122642-1
A 28-year-old-man presented to our outpatient department with lower back pain lasting two years and getting progressively worse. The patient stated the pain started when he tried to pick up heavy luggage. He began taking over-the-counter pain medication supplemented with applying a hot water bottle to the painful regio...
pmc-6122645-1
A 42-year-old nonpregnant, housewife with no known comorbidities, presented to the emergency room (ER) with chest pain for 15 minutes where electrocardiography (ECG) was done and it showed acute onset anterior wall ST-segment elevation MI. She was kept in coronary care unit (CCU) under observation for two days; no thro...
pmc-6122655-1
A 31-year-old man with no known medical history presented after being found down outside his home. On arrival at the emergency department (ED), he was lethargic but following commands without extremity weakness. Mild dysarthria was noted. His blood pressure in the ED was 121/57 mmHg. He was not taking any medications a...
pmc-6122656-1
A 34-year-old primigravida was referred to our tertiary care hospital with a suspicion of either a chorioangioma of the placenta or a placental teratoma on the second-trimester anomaly scan performed from a secondary care hospital. The patient had no known comorbidities apart from being diagnosed with pregnancy-induced...
pmc-6122666-1
A 49-year-old morbidly obese African-American female patient presented to the hospital with an initial complaint of fever, pain, redness, swelling and discharge in her left lower extremity. The pain was progressive and worsened to 10 out of 10 on the pain scale. It aggravated with movement and on weight bearing. There ...
pmc-6122669-1
History & examination A 31-year-old African-American female with no significant medical history presented with a sudden onset of severe headaches that were highly suggestive of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). The patient was initially evaluated in the emergency department where a neurological examination revealed no def...
pmc-6122671-1
A previously healthy 34-year-old man from La Espiga, Chorrera district, Province of West Panama, presented to our institution with ipsilateral, painless, erythematous, nodular ascending lesions in his left hand, forearm, arm, and axillary region. The lesions followed a lymphangitic path. The patient reported that one m...
pmc-6122673-1
This case describes a 38-year-old G6P3114 at 23 weeks and five days GA with chronic abruptia and low-lying placenta who presented to the ED with vaginal bleeding. Her past medical history was significant for preterm pregnancy, preeclampsia, and three previous c-sections. Initial workup revealed placenta accreta and pos...
pmc-6122675-1
A 31-year-old Caucasian female presented with progressive dyspnea and palpitations for three months. The patient reported gradual onset, intermittent dyspnea aggravated with walking, relieved with rest, and associated with palpitations. Her past medical, surgical, and family history were non-contributory. The patient d...
pmc-6122676-1
A 77-year-old Caucasian man with metastatic chromophobe renal cell carcinoma under treatment with an anti-PD1 mAb was admitted to our hospital with a severe persistent occipital headache of sudden onset 12 hours before. The patient’s past medical history included hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and obstructive ...
pmc-6122714-1
A 58-year-old male presented with decreased vision in his left eye, without redness or floaters, which had persisted for three days. His medical history detailed a diagnosis of nephrotic syndrome (membranous nephropathy), which had been treated with prednisone for a period of four months. Drug-induced diabetes was subs...
pmc-6122718-1
A 57-year-old Japanese woman presented with a 1.5-year history of right hip pain when she walked long distances. She had a history of bilateral developmental dysplasia of the hip and had undergone bilateral acetabular osteotomies in childhood. There was no history of trauma, anticoagulant use, or a collagen vascular di...
pmc-6122747-1
A 68-year-old female underwent phacoemulsification + intraocular lens implantation + pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) + ILM peeling + 18% sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) tamponade in January 2016 due to an epiretinal membrane and a lamellar MH. Unfortunately, macular hole retinal detachment (MHRD) occurred one month after surgery...
pmc-6122751-1
A nine-year-old male child, with a prior history of heart murmur at birth, was admitted to our hospital on July 2, 2017. He presented with minor symptoms, comprising low activity, frequent cold compared to normal children, minor cyanosis and tachypnea after exercise. At the time of presentation, the heart rate was 105 ...
pmc-6122771-1
In July of 2009, a 56-year-old man with a 40 pack-year smoking history presented with a low-grade papillary urothelial (transitional cell) carcinoma at the right ureteral orifice (primary bladder tumor). He also had a high-grade urothelial carcinoma of the renal pelvis with focal squamous differentiation and extensive ...
pmc-6122775-1
A 1-day-old white female newborn was admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit of our hospital because of persistent severe obstructive respiration with cyanosis of unknown etiology. She had been born in a peripheral hospital with a gestational age (GA) of 39 weeks, 1 day, with a birthweight of 2790 g and Apgar sco...
pmc-6122888-1
A male Caucasian patient, 12 years old, was referred by his orthodontist for evaluation of his TMJ, since the panoramic radiography showed bilateral flat condyles. Clinically, the patient showed micrognathia, retrognathia and anterior open bite (Figures 1A and D). Functionally, mouth opening, speaking and chewing were ...
pmc-6122909-1
A 23-year-old man was admitted in the emergency department after a frontal car collision. He had suffered severe blunt trauma, which included cervical subcutaneous emphysema, bilateral pulmonary contusion, left hemothorax, pneumomediastinum and complex fractures of both femurs. He was in hemorrhagic shock and was immed...
pmc-6123144-1
The patient detailed in this report is a 27-year-old pregnant female. She was simulated for treatment to her grade 3 astrocytoma resection cavity during gestational week 17. The patient was prescribed 50.4 Gy in 28 fractions to a primary target volume to be followed sequentially by a 9 Gy boost in five fractions to a s...
pmc-6123333-1
We explained the case report and publication process to the patient and obtained his permission to publish this report. A 61-year-old man was examined by a local physician for a chief complaint of constipation with abdominal pain. Computed tomography (CT) showed that the rectosigmoid colon wall was thickened, regional ...
pmc-6123337-1
A 13-year-old girl presented with abdominal pain and bloody stool. For 3 months, she had repeated appearance of the abdominal pain and spontaneous disappearance of the symptom. At the beginning, the symptom was not strong and she had not seen a doctor. Her abdominal pain gradually got worse, and she determined to come ...
pmc-6123917-1
A nine-year-old Caucasian male with no significant past medical history, family history, medications, or allergies presented for an adenoidectomy due to hypertrophy. Two days later (day one of illness), he had a low-grade fever for 2 days, followed by 2 days of headache. Transient abdominal pain was noted on day five. ...
pmc-6123928-1
We present a case of a healthy 26-year-old female of Philippine origin who presented to our outpatient clinic with a progressive eruption of cutaneous papules and nodules. Her medical history reported nodules/papules on the hands 7 years before, for which she successfully received prednisone in the Philippines with onl...
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A 52-year-old male from southwest China presented with obstructive jaundice for 3 years, melena for 5 months and hematemesis for 10 days. The patient had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus for 4 years, which was treated with metformin. The patient was a chronic tobacco (10 cigarettes per day) and alcohol cons...