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PMC4926288_01
Male
60
Herein, we describe the case of a man, 60 years old, never smoker, peddler, born in Morocco but resident in Italy for almost 30 years with sporadic return to his country, with worsening dyspnea since 2008, diffuse arthralgias and nodules tending to ulceration at distal phalangeal joints of his hands and feet. Due to pa...
bronchoalveolar lavage, corticosteroid therapy, high resolution chest tomography, mediastinal lymph nodes, metacarpophalangeal joints, sarcoidosis-systemic granulomatous disease
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PMC6827600_01
Male
59
Here, we report the case of a 59-year-old man with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) arising in August 2017 from a 5q- myelodysplastic syndrome treated with lenalidomide. A Mito-FLAG induction scheme (G-CSF from day -1, fludarabine 60 mg/die days 1-5, cytarabine 2 g over 3 h every 12 h days 1-5, mitoxantrone 12 mg/die day 1...
deferasirox, isavuconazole, liposomal amphotericin b, rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis, therapeutic drug monitoring
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PMC10192905_01
Female
60
HIV photodermatitis with widespread vitiligo-like depigmentation is rarely reported. We reported a photodistributed lichenoid drug eruption with depigmentation in an HIV-infected man on treatment for a second episode of tuberculosis. The rash initially developed during the first course of tuberculosis treatment and res...
hiv, actinic dermatitis, photodermatitis, photodermatoses, photosensitivity, pigmented skin
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PMC10033739_01
Male
26
A 26-year-old male with HIV was referred from a local secondary level hospital with a presumptive diagnosis of infective endocarditis. Four days prior, he had presented complaining of a one-week history of fever, cough and dyspnoea. He reported a history of regular injection drug use, injecting a substance known locall...
endocarditis, hiv, hepatitis c, non-typhoidal salmonella, salmonella, salmonella enteritidis
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PMC8348908_01
Female
41
A 41-year-old female presented with extreme shortness of breath and fatigue for the past half year. The patient reports that a lump was discovered in her chest about 7 years ago, but she did not seek care at the time. Initially, it was the size of a coin but increased to the size of a grapefruit. She reports that the s...
anterior arc, bone tumors, giant cell tumors, osteoclastoma, rib
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PMC7516064_01
Female
35
A 35-year-old woman was admitted to the emergency department with progressive dysphagia for 6 years. Her symptoms worsened in the last 14 days followed by vomiting undigested and retained food eaten. The patient also complained about coughing since 6 years ago and was previously diagnosed with a variant respiratory pro...
achalasia, autoimmune disease, case report, heller laparoscopy, vitiligo
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PMC6147817_01
Male
9
A 9-year-old male child with sickle cell disease presented with abdominal pain of four days and bilious vomiting for one day. The urine was dark and the stool was pale. Upon admission, the patient was sick and deeply jaundiced. The vital signs were stable but for a low-grade fever. The abdomen showed generalized tender...
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PMC7415102_01
Female
35
A 35-year-old woman presented with anosmia after recovery from COVID-19. About two weeks before the anosmia, she had experienced low-grade fever, dry coughing, and headache. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, physicians evaluated her for SARS-CoV-2 paraclinical examinations. Her lab test revealed positive CRP (3+) and ly...
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PMC5458692_01
Female
16
A 16-year-old female presented with a history of several months of left lateral knee pain. She also complained of a movable mass at the lateral joint area during ambulation. An MRI scan of left knee was performed. The MRI showed a thickened ITB and oval abnormal altered signal intensity lesion appearing heterogeneously...
fibroma of tendon sheath, itbfs in teenage girl, iliotibial band friction syndrome, intra-articular fibroma of the tendon sheath, rare presentation of itbfs
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PMC9894331_01
Female
74
In February 2022, a 74-year-old woman was presented with a mass shadow in the lower lobe of her left lung during a periodic review after a breast cancer operation. (Figure 1A). This patient underwent a left mastectomy in September 2012 due to a malignant tumor in the left breast in another hospital. Postoperative patho...
cancer of unknown primary, case report, gene expression profile, lung metastasis of breast cancer, traceability of tumor tissue
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PMC6327904_01
Male
66
Our patient is a 66-year-old Japanese man diagnosed with right upper lobe adenocarcinoma of p-stage IIIA (pT2bN2M0; version 8) post right upper lobectomy. After a year of surgical resection, recurrent mediastinal lymph node metastases were confirmed by endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (E...
lung cancer, pembrolizumab, irae
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PMC4290071_01
Male
15
A 15-year-old boy, presented with a right leg swelling, which increased in size over 2 months. There was no history of fever or weight loss. Radiograph of right lower limb showed a lytic sclerotic mass in proximal meta-diaphysis of right fibula, which on biopsy was suggestive of Ewing's sarcoma. Whole body 18F-fluoro-d...
18f-fluoro-deoxyglucose, focal uptake, liver, metastases, tuberculosis
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PMC4719501_01
Female
53
A 53-year-old woman with on and off complaints of dysuria, urgency, urge incontinence, and increased frequency of urination presented to the urology department of our institute. There was long-standing history of recurrent cystitis, but no history of hematuria or loin pain. On examination, there was no organomegaly or ...
bladder, bladder cancer, lymphoma, mucosa associated lymphoid tissue type, tuberculosis
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PMC6393917_01
Female
21
A 21-year-old black woman, with no prior psychiatric history, presented at the Emergency Department of our hospital with an acute onset of psychotic symptoms. These symptoms included paranoid delusion (she was convinced that her sister had made witchcraft against her and her boyfriend was cheating on her), psychomotor ...
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PMC6540495_01
Female
42
Evidence regarding golimumab, a monoclonal anti-TNF-alpha antibody, is scarce; only two case reports exist in the literature. The first described use of golimumab in a patient with severe HS and psoriatic arthritis who failed adalimumab and anakinra previously. With golimumab, her HS worsened despite improvement in her...
tnf-α inhibitors, adalimumab, biologics, certolizumab-pegol, etanercept, golimumab, hidradenitis suppurativa, infliximab
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PMC4318105_01
Male
74
A 74-year-old man was found dead inside a closet of clothes in his residence. He was living alone in a single storied town house at suburban area. The police received a report from the neighbors about house breaking. When the police reached in that house, no one was inside. The entrance gate lock was broken. The police...
elder homicide, ligature strangulation, smothering, traumatic asphyxia
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PMC3598395_01
Male
2
A twenty two year old Sri Lankan male presented to the outpatients department of the National Hospital of Sri Lanka complaining of shortness of breath. Noting that the patient was severely emaciated, he was requested to get admitted to a medical ward for further investigations. While in ward his main complaint was recu...
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PMC3266186_01
Female
67
A 67-year-old Caucasian woman was seen at our clinic for possible prosthetic infection following a total left hip replacement. Her medical history was negative until three years before, when she began to complain of left hip pain during walking, movement limitation, and pain at rest. After one year of unsuccessful prio...
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PMC5413209_01
Male
4
An eighty-four-year-old man presented with progressive exertional dyspnea, productive cough and weight loss for two months. He denied fever and hemoptysis. Past medical history was significant for hypertension, atrial fibrillation and diabetes mellitus. His medications included warfarin, metoprolol, glipizide, lisinopr...
asbestos-related pleural disease (arpd), tuberculosis (tb), tuberculous pleural effusion (tbpe)
Chest CT scan showing a loculated right-sided pleural effusion with calcified pleural plaques.
PMC9893068_01
Male
38
In July 2022, a 38-year-old male presented to a clinic at the King Fahd Medical Research Centre, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia with a subcutaneous fibrous cord extending from the axilla to his left arm. He complained of painful abduction of his left shoulder and pain in the left shoulder extending from the axilla to the medial ...
limited range of motion, lymphatic cording, painful shoulder movement, physical exertion
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PMC6329015_01
Female
11
An 11-year-old girl was bitten by an unidentified snake on the volar aspect of her left forearm while playing at the farm. A tourniquet was tied on her arm for an unknown duration and traditional medicine applied to the wound. Initially, the forearm pain was sharp but gradually evolved to a severe throbbing pain spread...
africa, critical care/emergency medicine, zambia, compartment syndrome, infectious diseases, mediastinitis, necrotizing fasciitis, snakebite, surgery
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PMC8421570_01
Male
78
Table 2 describes the demographic characteristics, clinical symptoms, comorbidities, imaging features, laboratory indicators, treatment strategies, and type of TB among the overall group and the COVID-TB non-survivors and survivors. A total of 89 COVID-TB patients were included in the overview of case reports, of which...
covid-19, clinical features, co-infection, risk factors, tuberculosis
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PMC10293939_01
Female
28
This is the case of a 28-year-old Filipino female diagnosed initially with a right frontal pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma (WHO grade II, IDH-wildtype), who underwent excision and then stereotactic radiosurgery of the residual tumor. She had a recurrence at 9 months from initial diagnosis, for which she was treated with ...
astrocytoma, case report, cerebral toxoplasmosis, thallium-201 single-photon emission computerized tomography, toxoplasma encephalitis
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PMC9622786_01
Female
55
A 55-year-old woman with no past medical history presented with three weeks of hemorrhage of the oral mucosa at the Department of Hematology in August 2019. There were no complaints of fever, cough, fatigue, or ostalgia. Vital signs revealed a temperature of 36.5 C, heart rate of 80 beats/min, respiratory rate of 20 br...
antibiotic therapy, biopsy, chronic myeloid leukemia, opportunistic infections, pathology, primary pulmonary lymphoma
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PMC9425891_01
Female
42
The case is about a 42-year-old woman, who complained of a painful mass of her right breast. The mammography demonstrated a high-density mass lesion of size 2.7 x 2.2 x 1.7 cm, which was presented not well-circumscribed, irregular borders (Figure 1). The mass showed heterogeneous calcification. For making pathological ...
breast, case reports, diagnosis, immunohistochemistry
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PMC7350519_01
Male
15
A 15-year-old boy was referred to University Children's Hospital of Krakow, Department of Oncology and Hematology, in December 2016, because of progressive pallor, bone pain, and upper respiratory tract infection. Physical examination revealed general lymphadenopathy and no hepatosplenomegaly. At admission, severe anem...
acute lymphoblastic leukemia, case report, hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, juvenile xanthogranuloma, non-langerhans cell histiocytosis
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PMC3735335_01
Female
68
A 68-year-old woman was admitted with gradual onset of bilateral weakness of the upper and lower limbs. She had been experiencing involuntary trunk movement, dizziness, and ataxia for six weeks, but was still able to perform her daily activities independently. Her symptoms progressed to include frequent headaches, brad...
intrathecal morphine pump, neuropathic pain, rehabilitation, transverse myelitis
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PMC6224049_01
Unknown
6
Data was collected from a 6-year-old ALGS patient undergoing a hybrid X-ray catheter/DSMRI study as described previously. Combined acquisition of functional (flow and volumes) at rest and peak dobutamine stress (20 mug/kg/minute) and three-dimensional (3D) morphologic MRI data (dual-phase), with concomitant central pre...
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PMC9124143_01
Female
5
A thirty-five-year-old female presented with complaints of per rectal bleeding mixed with stools. She had recurrent episodes associated with crampy lower abdominal pain over a period of five days. Upon further enquiry, she also reported a history of productive cough for three months, night sweats, and weight loss of te...
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PMC5458707_01
Male
30
A 30-year-old male presented with a 1-year history of right ankle pain and swelling. He denied any history of recent infection but had had recurrent ankle pain that had been treated accordingly. When he visited our outpatient clinic, he was afebrile but had fullness of the right ankle when compared to the unaffected si...
ankle joint, ankle arthroscopy, arthritis, tuberculosis
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PMC3420739_01
Unknown
51
In the case of the 51-year old proposita, the diagnosis of an AML M4eo was confirmed morphologically and cytogenetically by the characteristic inversion (16) (p13q22) in 12/2003. Because of a punctio sicca, no blood from the bone marrow could be aspirated for FACS analysis. A complete remission, also on cytogenetic lev...
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PMC3964671_01
Male
37
A 37-year-old Caucasian man working as a mechanic presented to the emergency department with a solitary swelling on the right side of his chest wall. He had previously had an incision and drainage of the abscess on the same site while working in the Middle East. He was not diabetic and was immunocompetent. He had injec...
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PMC8249845_01
Female
66
Here, we present a case of advanced bladder urothelial carcinoma. A 66-year-old female patient was diagnosed with bladder occupying mass, left hydronephrosis, and left ureter dilatation in a local hospital due to painless hematuria for 2 months. The patient was then hospitalized in Henan Cancer Hospital. The results of...
pd-1, advanced, case report, complete response, urothelial carcinoma
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PMC9263211_01
Male
26
The now 26-year-old patient [case #17; Table 2 in our previous publication ] is the son of consanguineous Pakistani parents, who were healthy and had normal blood counts. One sister was healthy, a second sister suffered from hepatitis C, but had normal blood counts. He had been prone to infections, primarily recurrent ...
nhej1, nhej1-deficiency, del(20q), monosomy 7, myelodysplastic syndrome, refractory cytopenia
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PMC4590319_01
Female
27
A 27-year-old woman with mild myopia presented with blurred vision and photopsia of the right eye for 2 weeks. She had no particular medical or ocular histories. The patient's best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) was 1.0 OD (oculus dexter) and 1.5 OS (oculus sinister). Relative afferent pupillary defect was negative. Th...
choroidal thickness, enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography, inner retinal layer, retinal vascular sheathing
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PMC8634345_01
Male
53
The patient was a 53-year-old man. Thirty years ago, the patient had a mung bean-sized red papule on the inner side of his left nipple without obvious inducement. The papule gradually increased in size, but there were no conscious symptoms. In the past year, the patient experienced erosion and a scab appeared in the ce...
contrast-enhanced ultrasound, dermoscopy, diagnosis, high-frequency ultrasound, sweat gland neoplasms, treatment
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PMC8632055_01
Male
0
In December 2019, a 6-month-old boy was admitted to our hospital due to edema for 1 week and fever for 1 day. The child was the first child of a non-consanguineous marriage and with full term of 39W+2, was delivered by cesarean section, had a birth weight of 3,900 g, and had no remarkable details regarding medical or p...
tbc1d8b, nephrotic syndrome, podocyte slit diaphragm protein, steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome, steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome
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PMC6157136_01
Female
36
A 36-year-old female patient presented with a 4-year history of right ankle pain. She had significate loss of weight and started physical activity just before the symptoms appeared four years ago. No history of trauma was reported. First diagnosis was synovitis, for which the patient underwent physical therapy with tor...
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PMC4411002_01
Female
10
Cardiac and abdominal ultrasound scans were repeatedly normal. Brain MRI scans detected increased peritrigonal signal of white matter at the age of 10 months and focal hemimegalencephaly with perisylvian polymicrogyria at the age of 7 years. From the age of 7 years, the girl had episodes of generalized tonic-clonic sei...
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PMC8948481_01
Female
2
A 2-year-old girl presented with a history of recurrent chest infections and persistent wheezing that were not responding to treatment. She was HIV-negative, there was no history of contact with tuberculosis and all tuberculosis testing including Gene Xpert MTB/RIF was negative. Plain frontal chest radiograph demon...
bronchoscopy, congenital venolobar syndrome, horseshoe lung, hypoplastic lung, scimitar syndrome
Axial multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) on lung window demonstrates an isthmus of basal lung in continuity with the right lung, extending across the midline between the heart anteriorly and the aorta and vertebral body posteriorly. There is a distinct pleural interface between the isthmus and the left lung.
PMC2654867_01
Female
36
A 36-year-old Swedish woman with a history of recurrent breast cancer and severe CRF presented at Vidarkliniken in Sweden. Vidarkliniken provides integrated AM health care in an inpatient and outpatient setting, primarily for patients with cancer, stress-related diseases and chronic pain. The woman had been treated for...
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PMC9982323_01
Female
36
We examined the case of a 36-yr-old primigravid woman with STs. She had a mosaic karyotype with 3 clones: 45X (69), 46XX (23), 47XXX (8), and 1000 interphase nuclei. Karyotype corresponds to STs. The morphotype is characteristic of the syndrome: short stature, obesity, low-hair growth, epicanthus, lymphedema, inverted ...
hypogonadism, infertility, progesterone, pregnancy, turner syndrome
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PMC4491481_01
Female
26
A 26 year-old woman with no medical history of personal or family tuberculosis was admitted for a left sub-mandibular swelling which had appeared 12 months earlier. It began small then gradually increased in volume without alteration of the general condition. Many broad-spectrum antibiotics were attempted without any i...
tuberculosis, endemic countries, parotid gland
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PMC6505037_01
Male
78
A 78-year-old diabetic and hypertensive male patient, presented with pain, swelling and discharging sinuses in both knees, 5 weeks after sequential bilateral TKR at a peripheral hospital, with no response to cloxacillin and ofloxacin. Discharge revealed acid-fast bacilli (AFB), but was negative for cartridge-based-nucl...
mycobacterium abscessus, periprosthetic joint infection, total knee replacement
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PMC6978278_01
Female
5
Rosa was referred by her general practitioner to a psychologist for burnout complaints and psychosomatic symptoms. She is a fifty-five year old woman originating from Azerbaijan and living in the Netherlands since 1994. Her complaints started three years before the referral, when she dropped out of work as a quality of...
diagnosis, long term, posttraumatic stress disorder, resilience, stress, trauma, violence, war
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PMC6978278_04
Male
4
Peter is a sixty-four year old man who was referred for treatment of mood complaints. He was a field professional at different non-governmental organisations (NGO's), and led many missions, such as to war-torn Bosnia and Cambodia, and in the aftermath of the Tsunami in Thailand in 2004. In his professional career he ex...
diagnosis, long term, posttraumatic stress disorder, resilience, stress, trauma, violence, war
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PMC6978278_05
Male
7
Behrooz is a twenty-seven year old man originating from Iran and residing as a refugee in the Netherlands. He was referred by a general practitioner with complaints of impulsivity and aggression outbursts. He was suffering from these problems for many years, but has not sought help earlier. The practitioner suspected B...
diagnosis, long term, posttraumatic stress disorder, resilience, stress, trauma, violence, war
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PMC6230408_01
Female
38
A 38-year-old Liberian female with a 12-week gestation presented to the emergency department with a 3-week history of low-grade subjective fever, night sweats, unintentional weight loss, gradually worsening abdominal pain, and intermittent spotting. Vital signs were stable on presentation, physical exam noticeable for ...
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PMC6689839_01
Female
4
A 4 years old girl, was brought by the parents to the emergency unit of the "Hopital Saint Jean de Dieu" in Tanguieta, north of Benin at lunchtime. The parents referred abdominal pain and tenderness, fever, vomiting and anorexia since 48 hours, treated with local herbs infuse. The patient was agitated but confused, Gla...
typhoid fever, abdominal tuberculosis, tuberculosis, typhoid intestinal perforation
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PMC7303758_01
Male
30
A 30-year-old previously well man presented with a four-week history of progressive right-sided hearing loss, wide-based gait, and cognitive disturbance characterized by short-term memory loss, impaired attention span, and verbal fluency. The patient had neither a personal nor family history of pertinent medical proble...
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PMC5574474_01
Female
14
A 14-year-old healthy female presented with pain to the medial aspect of her left sole for 1 year in duration. Pain occurred with first step in the morning, as well as after running, and disappeared within 15 min. She was diagnosed with a flat foot at another clinic, but the use of an orthotic device aggravated the pai...
abductor hallucis muscle, entrapment syndrome, medial plantar nerve, muscle hypertrophy, tarsal tunnel syndrome
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PMC5621112_01
Male
56
A 56-year-old caucasian male patient, with history of active cigarette smoking (35 pack/years), hypertension and coronary heart disease (for which he underwent a double coronary artery stenting), presented with recurrent hemoptysis of mild abundance which first occurred no less than 4 months before. He also reported fa...
b cell lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, lung cancer, lymphadenopathy, richter syndrome, second lung malignancy
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PMC5357739_01
Female
24
A 24-year-old Sri Lankan woman with drug resistant focal dyscognitive seizures experienced daily seizures despite treatment with carbamazepine 800 mg twice daily and clonazepam 2 mg twice daily. She was on no other medication and otherwise well. Lamotrigine was started with the aim of improving seizure control and slow...
anticonvulsants, drug hypersensitivity syndrome, eosinophilia, pseudolymphoma
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PMC6545345_01
Male
55
A 55-year-old Caucasian man, with a smoking history of about 40 pack years, being diagnosed with UC four months ago, presented to the emergency department with a week-long history of low-grade fever, dry cough, and gradually worsening shortness of breath resulted in severe hypoxemic respiratory failure. The patient was...
bal, bronchoalveolar lavage, drug reaction, fev1, forced expiratory volume-one second, hp, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, hrct, high-resolution computed tomography, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, lung injury, mesalazine, paco2, partial pressure of carbon dioxide, pao2, partial pressure of oxygen, rt-pcr, reverse transcri...
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PMC8573811_01
Female
61
Mrs TN is a 61-year-old woman from Gauteng Province in South Africa (SA). Informed consent was obtained from the patient. She is a patient with RA and at the time of presentation had been managed with disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) including methotrexate and oral corticosteroids. In addition, she was e...
janus kinase inhibitors, opportunistic infections
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PMC6199181_01
Female
8
An 8-year-old girl presented to the emergency department 72 hours after sustaining blunt trauma to the chest during a bumper car rear-end collision when she was thrown forward into her seatbelt. She complained of chest pain and worsening shortness of breath. She had a history of asthma for which she had never been admi...
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Admission CT-scan showing complete obstructive atelectasis of the right middle and lower lobes and ground-glass opacity in the right upper lobe consistent with a pulmonary contusion in an 8-years old girl after bumper car collision.
PMC3658225_01
Male
32
A 32-year-old otherwise healthy Hispanic man from Chile was brought in by Emergency Medical Services for multiple and brief episodes of spontaneous loss of consciousness, lasting 20-40 seconds each over the previous 2 days prior to admission. He denied shortness of breath, impaired exercise tolerance, diaphoresis, orth...
lyme carditis, transient heart block
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PMC8054742_01
Female
38
A 38-year-old woman with a medical history of type I diabetes mellitus and SPS initially presented to inpatient rehabilitation with intractable and painful muscle spasms due to SPS. The diagnosis of SPS was confirmed by elevated anti-glutamic acid decarboxylase antibody levels (>250 IU/mL). Her symptoms were episodic i...
intrathecal baclofen, intrathecal therapy, stiff-person syndrome
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PMC9852524_01
Male
58
A 58-year-old male with no significant personal or familial medical history was admitted with abdominal pain and distension. A submaxillary lymph-node biopsy led to the diagnosis of follicular NHL (grade I-II, phase IV). He reported having dark (tea color) urine and yellowish discoloration of the facial skin and sclera...
biliary stent, endoscopic ultrasound, lymphoma, obstructive jaundice, treatment
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PMC9329833_02
Male
47
Case #2 (SqP mimicking SialP at the mouth floor) A 47-year-old Asian male visited the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Yonsei Dental Hospital complaining of a papillary mass under the tongue that had occurred a month before without a specific event. There was no pain or other remarkable symptoms. He ...
oral cavity, oral pathology, oromaxillofacial, papillary lesion, salivary gland, sialadenoma papilliferum, tumor
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PMC6997440_01
Female
4
A 4-year-old (estimated) Pit Bull cross intact female (25 kg) was presented for routine evaluation after it was adopted from the streets. The results showed that she had asymptomatic D. immitis infection as indicated by the presence of microfilariae in Knott's modified test and a positive D. immitis antigen test, altho...
doxycycline, heartworm, macrocyclic lactone, microfilariae, vector-borne disease
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PMC7305842_01
Male
4
Four-year- and eight-month-old, previously well, male child presented with abdominal pain, loss of appetite, low-grade intermittent fever, nausea, vomiting, and progressive abdominal distension of ten days duration. He has also cough of five days duration. There was no history of yellowish discoloration of eye or skin,...
ascites, hepatitis a, pleural effusion, unusual manifestation
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PMC5279079_01
Male
57
A 57-year-old male had a 3-year history of heartburn and a 1-year history of cough. The patient began to suffer heartburn, regurgitation, nausea, bloating, and vomiting 3 years ago. Acid could reflux to his mouth sometimes. He had to pad the head in order to reduce the incidence of reflux while sleeping. The patient be...
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PMC4901177_01
Male
48
The patient was a 48-year-old male, smoker (30 pack-years), but not yet seriously ill. The patient was vaccinated against TB as a child. He is married and resides in an apartment with his family. The patient arrived at the hospital complaining of sudden hemoptysis. He reported that he had been coughing more than usual ...
contact investigation, latent tuberculosis infection, preventive chemotherapy, tuberculosis
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PMC4901177_02
Female
47
The patient was a 47-year-old female, smoker (31 pack-years), employed as a maid, presenting as not seriously ill. The patient resides in the same household as her husband and was vaccinated against TB as a child. She visited the hospital for the purpose of undergoing a TB contact investigation. No reported pulmonary c...
contact investigation, latent tuberculosis infection, preventive chemotherapy, tuberculosis
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PMC4901177_03
Female
23
The third report involves the daughter of the aforementioned married couple: a 23-year-old female, vaccinated against TB as a child, mother of a 4-year-old child, smoker since youth (6 pack-years), presenting as not yet seriously ill. The patient occasionally works as a waitress in a bar and resides with her son and pa...
contact investigation, latent tuberculosis infection, preventive chemotherapy, tuberculosis
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PMC4901177_04
Male
4
The patient was the 4-year-old male, son of the abovementioned 23-year-old patient. The child had never been vaccinated against TB due to the lack of TB risk within the family. He resides in the same household as his mother and grandparents. The family reported no health problems for the child. A posterior-anterior che...
contact investigation, latent tuberculosis infection, preventive chemotherapy, tuberculosis
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PMC4703342_03
Male
37
A 37-year-old male from Georgia came to France in October 2012. He had HIV infection since 2006 inconstantly treated with HAART. Other medical conditions were adrenal insufficiency, cirrhosis due to chronic HCV, and treatment-controlled tuberculosis. VL was diagnosed in 2010 and treated in Georgia with meglumine antimo...
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PMC9251566_01
Female
89
This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Northwell Health. Table 1 summarized the clinical and laboratory findings of the three patients. Patient 1 was an 89-year-old woman who presented with persistent leukocytosis and weight loss. She was diagnosed with MDS/MPN-U on bone marrow biopsy and treated ...
csf3r mutation, chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, colony-stimulating factor 3 receptor (csf3r), myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasm, next generation sequencing
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PMC3361897_01
Male
0
A 7-month-old boy presented with left axillary lymphadenopathy persisting for two to three weeks. His past medical history was unremarkable with the exception of recurrent oral candidiasis. His parents were first-degree relatives. Family history was negative for genetic disorders or tuberculosis. He was vaccinated with...
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PMC3994693_01
Male
65
A 65-year-old male patient, with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus, presented to us with painless, progressive diminished vision in both eyes over 4 months (asymmetrical involvement; right eye defect more than left eye). On examination, right eye had only perception of light and left eye had vision of counting finger...
aspergillus, co-infection, fungal, granuloma, orbital, skull base, tuberculosis
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PMC5553646_01
Unknown
65
This increasing trend of elderly road users is not only specific to Korea itself but also to other developed and developing countries as well, and several studies have investigated the risk of collisions by the elderly by distinguishing subgroups among the elderly with a cut-off age of 75. Li et al. investigated elderl...
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PMC5516737_01
Female
52
Our patient is a 52-year-old Malay woman who presented with a three-week history of intermittent pyrexia. This was associated with an unintentional weight loss of 10 kg over three months. She has a past medical history of asthma, hypertension, and hyperlipidaemia. There were no specific localizing symptoms including co...
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PMC4414437_01
Female
11
Unconditional logistic regression models were used to assess the characteristics of different groups of the NADC patients at ORCI. Compared to HIV negative patients, HIV positive patients were more likely to be older (Odds ratio (OR) = 1.02, 95% CI: 1.01-1.04); female (OR = 1.78, 95% CI: 1.12-2.82); have advanced cance...
hiv, non-aids-defining cancer, ocean road cancer institute, squamous cell carcinoma of the eye, tanzania
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PMC10076841_01
Female
7
A 7-year-old child was referred with the main symptom of shortness of breath one year prior to admission. She started experiencing repeated respiratory tract infections, feeding issues, and failure to thrive at the age of six months, although she was not bluish. She received a pulmonary TB diagnosis and had 9 months of...
echocardiography-guided, muscular vsd, pulmonary hypertension, single device, transjugular
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PMC9871031_01
Male
68
A 68-year-old male with a history of dilated cardiomyopathy and pacemaker implantation 2 years prior was hospitalized with repeated chills, fever and weakness for 20 days. After examination in the local hospital, the WBC count (10.38x109/L) and CRP level (75 mg/L) were both increased. Moxifloxacin, meropenem and vancom...
ae, aspergillus endocarditis, aspergillus fumigatus, culture, fever, vegetation
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PMC518976_02
Female
9
At the time of diagnosis this patient was a 9 year-old female with a one year history of pain and swelling about her left knee. She had experienced a fall and related all symptoms to the fall. She was seen in her local emergency room by her family physician; there was no diagnosis or treatment. Approximately one month ...
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PMC9733668_01
Female
67
The case is a 67-year-old female with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and left breast cancer for which she underwent a mastectomy and adjuvant chemotherapy from 2016 to 2017. In July 2020, she was diagnosed with a second malignancy:locally advanced pancreatic head adenocarcinoma, received neoadjuvant chemotherapy from Au...
ureaplasma urealyticum, altered mental status (ams), cancer, chemotherapy, hyperammonemia, immunocompromised
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PMC4746402_01
Male
53
A 53-year-old man had been experiencing obstructive jaundice and significant weight loss for 1 month. He had been healthy until the jaundice occurred and was not taking a medication on a regular basis. No history of parasitic infestation was noted. Physical examination revealed no obvious finding except for slightly ic...
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PMC10133556_01
Male
48
A 48-year-old male presented with a four-day history of acute onset progressive weakness of the lower limbs. The weakness started in the right lower limb and then progressed to involve the left lower limb leading to an inability to get out of the bed without support within 4 days of onset of symptoms. He also complaine...
letm, cryptococcal antigen, cryptococcus, immunocompetent adult, longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis
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PMC4284005_01
Female
19
Table 1 shows the age distribution of the sports injuries. The proportion of sports injuries in the 10-19-year-old age group was the greatest, followed by the 20-29-year-old and the 30-39-year-old age groups. The proportion of cases in the 10-19-year-old age group was significantly higher among females than among males...
osgood–schlatter disease, anterior cruciate ligament injury, basketball, sex, sports injury
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PMC9215351_01
Male
65
A 65-year-old immunocompetent man presented to our hospital with an 11-year history of a huge erythematous erosive plaque on his neck. The lesions developed from a pigeon's egg-sized nodule 11 years ago. Physical examination showed a reddish nodular plaque with superficial erosions, tough textures, well-defined borders...
t-spottb, cutaneous tuberculosis, diagnosis, lupus vulgaris
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PMC7701897_01
Male
10
A 10-year-old male with no past medical nor family history presented with a one-year history of progressive pain, swelling, and reduced range of motion of the left shoulder. Initially, patient started complaining of intermittent shoulder pain with an 8/10 intensity, more prominently at night without preceding trauma no...
epiphysial plate, giant cell tumor of bone, growth plate, proximal humerus, skeletally immature
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PMC10436479_01
Male
34
We aim to follow the CARE guidelines for cases reports. A 34-year-old man was admitted to the hospital with chest tightness and a cough that had been present for 6 days. He described having dyspnea that was gradually worsening. His other complaints included bloating, acid reflux, and heartburn. His blood pressure was 1...
cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, echocardiogram, multimodal imaging, pericardial synovial sarcoma
(B) Enhanced CT image of the coronal reconstruction showing the tumor circumscribing the ascending aorta, the superior vena cava, and the pulmonary artery.
PMC6029463_01
Male
23
This case describes a 23-year-old male who was struck by a motor vehicle. Upon arrival at our hospital, the patient had a GCS of 8. FAST exam, chest radiograph, and computed topography (CT) of the head and cervical spine were obtained and were negative. Exam of the lower extremities revealed abrasions over the left kne...
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PMC7493040_01
Female
38
A 38 years old lady, smoker, with no significant medical or surgical history presented to our emergency department for epigastric pain associated with postprandial nausea and vomiting occurring for ten days. The patient declares that she had started losing weight forty-five days prior to presentation (around 10 Kgs). T...
acute gastric stenosis, case report, corrosive agents, gastritis, linitis plastica, suicide attempt
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PMC6739741_01
Female
0
An intact female 8-week-old domestic shorthair cat was taken into a foster/rescue home and cohabited a house with approximately nine other cats. The facility had a periodic history of FIP cases, including two deaths in the previous 4 months. The cat was co-housed in a large open sunroom containing seven litterboxes, wh...
feline infectious peritonitis, feline coronavirus, meningoencephalomyelitis, neurologic, spike protein
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PMC9379344_01
Male
70
A 70-year-old man presented to our emergency hospital with dry cough and shortness of breath. He experienced gradual worsening of his symptoms for 10 days since their initiation. On physical examination, the patient's oxygen saturation was 95%. Computed tomography (CT) of the chest revealed bilateral and peripheral gro...
covid-19, sars-cov-2, long-covid, post-covid syndrome, type-i interferons
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PMC9972090_01
Female
48
A 48-year-old woman presented with intermittent cough and expectoration, which she had been experiencing since May 2018. In early October 2018, the aforementioned symptoms significantly progressed with dyspnea on exertion. A chest radiograph recorded at a local clinic showed increased and disordered lung markings and s...
aluminum dust, case report, granulomatosis, lung disease, sarcoidosis
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PMC9972090_02
Female
19
The patient worked as an accountant in a restaurant when she was 19 years old for 8 years, as a bottler in a mineral water company for 4 years, and as a housewife for the next 4 years. Then she was engaged in attaching labels to fishing rods in a factory from 2007 to 2016. She had no occupational dust or fume exposure ...
aluminum dust, case report, granulomatosis, lung disease, sarcoidosis
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PMC9553287_01
Male
57
A 57-year-old man who suffered from upper abdominal pain for over 1 year and worsening for 2 months was admitted to a local hospital initially. He had progressive xanthoderma and lost 4 kg of weight in 2 months. This patient had a previous history of recurrent duodenal ulcer and alcohol abuse for over 30 years. Physica...
ercp, eus, cholangiocarcinoma, groove pancreatitis, obstructive jaundice
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PMC5838497_01
Male
66
A 66-year-old man with a 50-pack-year smoking history and severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) presented to our clinic with a new right upper lobe (RUL) pulmonary nodule and a chronic left lower lobe (LLL) consolidation on screening computed tomography (CT). His pulmonary function tests (PFTs) showed air...
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PMC6660454_01
Female
29
A 29-year-old female presented with new onset generalized tonic-clonic seizure. She described a three year history of intermittent bilateral temporal headaches. Past medical history was remarkable only for prior injection drug use, from which she had been abstinent for three years. Her only medication was daily bupreno...
cystic brain lesion, cysticercosis, neurocysticercosis
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PMC8060098_01
Male
26
A 26-year-old male was admitted to the hospital with a 2-week history of cough with expectoration and high-grade fever. He had a history of loss of appetite for ten days. On admission, his blood pressure was 116/76 mm Hg and his body temperature was 37.8 C. Rest of the physical examination was unremarkable, and urine a...
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PMC4296266_01
Male
45
A 45-year-old male presented with a history of several months of right lateral knee pain. He also complained of a creak and a movable mass at the lateral joint area during ambulation. He was a member of an amateur soccer team. An MRI was performed using a Magnetom Vision 1.5-T MR imaging unit (Siemens Medical Systems, ...
fibroma of tendon sheath, iliotibial band friction syndrome, knee, magnetic resonance imaging
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PMC5349614_01
Male
55
A 55 year old Chinese male presented to the respiratory clinic for chronic cough for 3 weeks duration associated with haemoptysis. Prior to presentation, he was treated in the community with oral antibiotics without improvement. He had no known past medical history and but he had a significant 20 pack year smoking hist...
bronchoscopy, lung cancer, sedation
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PMC3198252_01
Female
29
A 29-year-old pregnant woman with parity 0-0-0-0 visited the hospital at 14 weeks after spontaneous pregnancy. Abdominal 2D ultrasound (Voluson E8, GE Healthcare, USA) revealed that the first twin was within the normal ranges for the gestational age but the second twin showed anencephaly. There was one placenta and no ...
3d, anencephaly, cord entanglement, monoamniotc twin
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PMC6369329_01
Female
29
A 29-year-old woman presented to the emergency department following a motor vehicle collision in which she was the seatbelt-restrained driver. Airbags deployed when her vehicle hit a roadside tree at a high speed. Emergency medical services arrived at the scene and recommended transport to a Trauma Center, but she chos...
ct cystography, catheter-associated urinary tract infections, plain film cystography, urinary bladder rupture
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PMC8022651_01
Female
13
I started very young with martial arts. At the age of seven. I approached martial arts because I was, in between brackets, a little bit bullied, at school, in the courtyard and so I was looking for self-confidence, I was trying to win my fears, my shyness. So, my grandpa suggested me martial arts, and from there, in sh...
odaka yoga, health, martial arts, subtle body, yoga
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PMC3615969_01
Female
23
A 23-year-old Hispanic female presented to the gastrointestinal clinic with multiple episodes of right-sided abdominal pain, fever, emesis, night sweats, and a 30-pound weight loss over the previous seven months. The patient denied diarrhea, melena or hematochezia. Hematologic studies revealed a leukocytosis and iron-d...
crohn’s disease, extra-pulmonary, intestinal, mimicking, tuberculosis
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