In children, COVID-19 is characterized by generally less severe symptoms and a lower case fatality than in adults. 'Silent hypoxia' is characterized by significant hypoxia with- out important signs of respiratory distress and has been described in adults but not in pediatric patients...
This case is of a young female with a large uterine leiomyoma causing phlegmasia cerulean dolens with thrombosis of the left common and left external iliac veins. She underwent mechanical thrombectomy to temporize the condition...
Brian metastases are common complication in a wide range of cancers, but they are particularly common among patients with lung cancer. Approximately 10 percent of newly diagnosed ...
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), a rare but life-threatening condition characterized by uncontrolled inflammation, is increasingly recognized in adults. The management of adult onset HLH is challenging, ...
Cardiac myxoma is the most common benign heart tumor. Its complete resection is usually curative; however, sometimes recurs with metastases, exhibiting a malignant potential through mechanisms which remain unclear. ..
Malaria is a deadly but preventable and treatable infectious disease transmitted by infected female anopheles mosquitoes. Each year, it kills >1 million people, most of them in Sub-Saharan Africa, where malaria is the highest cause...
Changes in blood flow of the liver have been shown to be associated with the presence of distant metastases from colorectal cancers. We assessed the potential of Perfusion computed...
Lumbo-Pelvic (LPP) pain is common and non specific problem during pregnancy and post partum. Despite the fact that Perinatal Pyogenic Sacroiliitis (PSI) during this period is rare...
Urinary Hippuric Acid (HA) is one of the biomarkers for toluene abuse. However, HA can be an endogenous compound excreted in normal urine. Background urinary HA concentrations were available for Thai living people but there is still no data...
Autosomal Recessive Cutis Laxa (ARCL) is a condition characterized by genetic heterogeneity and variable expressivity. In particular, compound heterozygous or homozygous mutations in the PYCR1 gene are the cause of both...
Stroke is the second most common cause of death worldwide. Its reliable assessment and effective subsequent treatment are therefore essential. Non-Enhanced Cranial Computed Tomography (NECT) and Perfusion...
Benign tumoral calcinosis is a rare disorder, often secondary to end-stage disease, hypercalcemia, hyperparathyroidism of hyperphosphatemia. Our case report presents...
Rhabdomyomas are benign tumors of the striated muscles. Localized mainly in the heart, extracardiac forms in adults are often seen in the neck and head. Rhabdomyomas of the abdominal wall are rare often posing the problem...
Leprosy or Hansen's disease is a chronic granulomatous infection caused by M. Leprae and M. Lepromatosis transmitted primarily through respiratory droplets. Although it has been classified under two distinct groups, Multibacillary...
Primary colonic squamous cell carcinoma is an exceptionally rare clinical pathology with an overall estimated incidence of 0.06%. This is a case of a 62 year old female with a three-month history of left lower quadrant pain associated with weight loss....
Bacterial endocarditisis a complex disease that is associated with cardiac-localized infection and multiorgan complications resulting from septic emboli. The diagnosis is defined radiologically and laboratory usually with positive blood culture.....
Whenever an adequate diagnostic material is available, Rapid On-Site Evaluation (ROSE) has proven to be an important, easy and cost-effective adjunct in the diagnosis of thoracic lesions, so that for example cytology may even outperform histology....
Here we present you a Type II of Crawford classification aortic aneurysm. Our patient 89-year-old woman with history of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, smoking habits and polyposis of descending/sigmoid colon came to our attention...
The author analyzes the problem of "what is medicine and what is the essence of medicine", From China's six medical academicians' understanding of medicine and finally thinks that the essence of medicine should be: To keep the sick person healthy...
Parental Alienation is a serious mental condition that professionals who work with children, adolescents and adults should know. Parental Alienation is to be found mainly in situations of high conflict separation and divorce, however...
Memory deficits, both short-term and long-term, as well as post-traumatic amnesia, are very common in patients who have undergone TBI, but rarely reflect a classic amnesia syndrome. Memory difficulties can be the result of many...
Carbamazepine (CBZ),often used as a first-line agent for epilepsy, is considered one of the most common causes DRESS, especially in white people carrying the HLA-A*31:01 allele....
Congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries CCTGA is an uncommon congenital heart defect, often coupled to numerous cardiac morphological abnormalities and conduction defects....
Nevus of Ota is an extensive, blue-tinged patch arising due to melanocytic dissemination amidst dermal collagen fibres engendering dermal pigmentation. Eyelids, bulbar and palpebral conjunctiva, sclera, forehead, alae nasi,...
Meningiomas are benign tumors originating from the arachnoid villi of the meninges. Meningiomas extending to the internal auditory canal are very rare and can imitate serous otitis media with a highrisk of misdiagnosis. The diagnosisis based ...
Facial paralysis is defined as a partial or total deficit of the motor function of the facial nerve responsible for asymmetry of the face; Hypoglosso-facial anastomosis is a classic method of rehabilitating the paralyzed ...
Graves' Disease (GD) is the most common cause of clinically significant hyperthyroidism during pregnancy. Neonatal hyperthyroidism results from transplacental passage of thyrotropin receptor antibodies from mother to fetus. ...
Epidermal cysts are common skin lesions. There are only few case reports of epidermal cyst in submandibular gland that have been reported in the literature. Histopathological examination is required for confirmation of diagnosis. ...
Tuberculosis is one of the world's leading causes of death. Laryngeal tuberculosis is one of the extrapulmonary tuberculosis affecting different parts of the larynx with or without pulmonary involvement. Laryngeal carcinoma, which shares ...
The concha bullosa is the most common anatomic variation of the middle turbinate of the paranasal sinuses. As a result, the middle meatus get narrowed by the pneumatization of a turbinate, blocking the sinus draining, and its mucosal ...
Traumatic diaphragmatic hernia is a rare sequela following blunt abdominal trauma, which can also be a life-threatening condition. Subtle presentation may cause delay in diagnosis. However, respiratory distress itself can be a nonspecific presenting ...
A sacral agenesia with insufficient bone stalk can pose a surgical problem of implant positioning when performing a spinal stabilization procedure. Additive Manufacturing Technology (AMT) has been increasingly used in the recent decade ...
In a peripheral hospital without primary angioplasty or invasive mechanical circulatory support, therapeutic options in patients with myocardial infarction complicated with cardiogenic shock or refractory cardiopulmonary resuscitation are very limited. ...
Here in we present you a clinical image of a metastatic liver. Our patient was a 58 year old male, with past smoking habits, that went to our ER complaining about vomiting and asthenia within the last week. While oh the Internal Medicine ...
Schizophrenia is a prevalent psychiatric disease classically considered one of the top 15 leading causes of disabilities worldwide. The prevalence of this disease, societal burden, and economic burden is not to be taken lightly. In the emergency ...
A 19-year-old female with Crohn's disease (diagnosed at 11 years of ages) presented with history of lower abdominal pain, night sweats, urinary urgency, and urethral burning sensation. A month ago, she complained of alternating right ...
A 48 years old, presented with menorrhagia due to intramural fibroid, with History of uterine artery embolization bilaterally done using Embozene of same site uterine fibroid (Figure 1) 6 years prior to presentation. The uterine fibroid ...
Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (GPA) is an anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic auto anti body (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) that can have different systemic presentations, with a limited form that can isolate to upper respiratory tract ...
Most cavernous hemangiomas occur in the supratentorial compartment, the incidence of cavernous hemangiomas in the Internal Auditory Meatus (IAM) is very low in adults. Herein we present a 53-year-old male suffering from left ...
The fungus of the kind Aspergillus fumigatus is environmentally ubiquitous and can lead to various pulmonary diseases, often depending on the patient's immune status. Patients with sensitization to the fungus's antigens can develop ...
In this paper we present a fully automatic method to detect, segment and track interventional tools in sequences of coronary angiography images. Our work is motivated by several possible applications that would enhance the job of cardiologists ...
Stafne's bone defects are asymptomatic lingual bone depressions of the lower jaw. There are two variant of Stafne's bone defects, the common variant exists at the third molar region posterior of the mandible and the other anterior variant is relatively uncommon and is located in the premolar region ...
Cryptococcus meningitis needs high index of suspicion given its subtle presentation. Though the gold standard for diagnosis is culture of cerebrospinal fluid, given the delay in culture results, treatment is usually initiated with positive ...
Ultrasound scan is an image instrument that allows the assessment of diaphragmatic function and it does not have any side effects for patients. We have not found any literature about the use of M-mode ultrasonography to assess ...