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Journal of Medical Case Reports

Ausgabe 1/2009

Inhalt (384 Artikel)

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A rare case of neuroleptic malignant syndrome presenting with serious hyperthermia treated with a non-invasive cooling device: a case report

Christian Storm, Rolf Gebker, Anne Krüger, Lutz Nibbe, Joerg C Schefold, Frank Martens, Dietrich Hasper

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Ogilvie's syndrome with caecal perforation after Caesarean section: a case report

Arin K Saha, Eleanor Newman, Matthew Giles, Kieran Horgan

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Prolonged extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy for severe acute respiratory distress syndrome in a child affected by rituximab-resistant autoimmune hemolytic anemia: a case report

Chiara Beretta, Veronica Leoni, Mario Renato Rossi, Momcilo Jankovic, Nicolo Patroniti, Giuseppe Foti, Ettore Biagi

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Application of different measures of skeletal maturity in initiating weaning from a brace for scoliosis: two case reports

LouAnn Rivett, Alan Rothberg, Aimee Stewart, Rowan Berkowitz

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Multi-resistant Escherichia coli and mycotic aneurysm: two case reports

John F McCann, Azhar Fareed, Sukanya Reddy, John Cheesbrough, Neil Woodford, Sally Lau

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Localisation using mini c-arm fluoroscopy of needles ingested by a woman with schizophrenia: a case report

Alper Parlakgumus, Sedat Yildirim, Naime Tokmak, Tamer Colakoglu, Kenan Caliskan, Ali Ezer, Gokhan Moray

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Beta-2-transferrin to detect cerebrospinal fluid pleural effusion: a case report

Jennifer C Smith, Eyal Cohen

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Undifferentiated giant cell type carcinoma of the gallbladder with sarcomatoid dedifferentiation: a case report and review of the literature

Andreas Manouras, Michael Genetzakis, Emmanuel E Lagoudianakis, Haridimos Markogiannakis, Artemisia Papadima, George Agrogiannis, Hariklia Gakiopoulou, Panagiotis Kekis, Konstantinos Filis, Efstratios Patsouris

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Septic shock in pregnancy due to pyogenic sacroiliitis: a case report

María Lapresta Moros, Cesar Rodrigo, Adela Villacampa, Julián Ruiz, Carlos Lapresta

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Perforated gastric corpus in a strangulated paraesophageal hernia: a case report

Alexis E Shafii, Steven C Agle, Emmanuel E Zervos

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Menstruation angina: a case report

Wai Kah Choo

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Autologous chondrocyte implantation for rheumatoid arthritis of the knee: a case report

Seok-Jung Kim, Cheong-Ho Chang, Dong-Sam Suh, Hyun-Kwon Ha, Kyung-Hwan Suhl

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Fatal bilateral pneumothoraces complicating dyskeratosis congenita: a case report

Adel Boueiz, Marwan S Abougergi, Carlos Noujeim, Edmond Bou Assaf, Ghassan Jamaleddine

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Household exposure to pesticides and bladder exstrophy in a newborn baby boy: a case report and review of the literature

Marlene Martin, Kristina Rodriguez, Miguel Sánchez-Sauco, Gerardo Zambudio-Carmona, Juan Antonio Ortega-García

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Compound and acutely ruptured false aneurysm of the brachial artery: a case report

Elias Panagiotopoulos, Efstratios Athanaselis, Charalampos Matzaroglou, Georgios Kasimatis, John Gliatis, Ioannis Tsolakis

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Lemierre's syndrome resulting from streptococcal induced otitis media and mastoiditis: a case report

Che M Harris, Micean Johnikin, Hope Rhodes, Theresa Fuller, Sohail R Rana, Hasan Nabhani, Dulara Hussain, Mohan Kurukumbi, Annapurni Jayam-Trouth, Jhansi Gajjala, Faria Farhat, Vinod Mody

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Paradoxical response during antituberculous therapy in a patient discontinuing infliximab: a case report

Young Kyung Yoon, Jeong Yeon Kim, Jang Wook Sohn, Min Ja Kim, Ja Seol Koo, Jai Hyun Choi, Dae Won Park

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Acute urinary retention in a young man secondary to colonic irrigation: a case report

Omer A Raheem, Ronan M Long, Rowan G Casey, Frank T D'Arcy, Thomas H Lynch

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Bilateral synchronous occurrence of three different histological types of renal tumor: a case report

Demetrios Radopoulos, Anastasios Tahmatzopoulos, Nikolaos Kalinderis, Georgios Dimitriadis

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A novel mutation in the ADA gene causing severe combined immunodeficiency in an Arab patient: a case report

Ali Hellani, Nidal Almassri, Khaled K Abu-Amero

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Malignant pleural mesothelioma with long-term tumor disappearance of a local relapse after surgery: a case report

Masahiko Higashiyama, Kazuyuki Oda, Jiro Okami, Jun Maeda, Ken Kodama, Fumio Imamura

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Cholesterol-crystal embolism presenting with delayed graft function and impaired long-term function in renal transplant recipients: two case reports

Rainer U Pliquett, Aida Asbe-Vollkopf, Ernst H Scheuermann, Elisabeth Gröne, Michael Probst, Helmut Geiger, Ingeborg A Hauser

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Peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor of the urinary bladder in an Arab woman with history of squamous cell carcinoma: a case report

Mohd Khaled Al Meshaan, Marwan Nayef, Talal Kwaider, Wolfgang Otto, Ken C Katchy

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Clustering of sebaceous gland carcinoma, papillary thyroid carcinoma and breast cancer in a woman as a new cancer susceptibility disorder: a case report

Brian D. Newman, Joseph F. Maher, Jose S. Subauste, Gabriel I. Uwaifo, Steven A. Bigler, Christian A. Koch

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Torsion of parietal-peritoneal fat mimicking acute appendicitis: a case report

Kamal Sanjiva Hapuarachchi, Edward Douglas Courtney, Szabolcs Gergely, Tjun Yip Tang

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Technetium-99m scan in the laparoscopic management of a misdiagnosed Meckel's diverticulum: a case report

Michael Pitiakoudis, George Vaos, Michael Kirmanidis, Stefanos Gardikis, Evanthia Tsalkidou, Constantinos Simopoulos

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Foreign body granuloma in the anterior abdominal wall mimicking an acute appendicular lump and induced by a translocated copper-T intrauterine contraceptive device: a case report

Maulana Mohammed Ansari, Syed Hasan Harris, Shahla Haleem, Rehan Fareed, Mohammed Feroz Khan

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Therapeutic effect of hyperbaric oxygen in psoriasis vulgaris: two case reports and a review of the literature

Glenn Butler, Julio Julio Chávarri Michaels, Noori Al-Waili, Michael Finkelstein, Michael Allen, Richard Petrillo, Zev Carrey, Bangaruraju Kolanuvada, Bok Y. Lee, Alfonso Gonzales Riera, Cesar Chávarri Michaels, Gary Urteaga

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Liposarcoma of the forearm in a man with type 1 neurofibromatosis: a case report

Markus Dietmar Schofer, Mohammed Yousef Abu-Safieh, Jürgen Paletta, Susanne Fuchs-Winkelmann, Bilal Farouk El-Zayat

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Massive facial edema and airway obstruction secondary to acute postoperative sialadenitis or "anesthesia mumps": a case report

Franco Cavaliere, Giorgio Conti, Maria Giuseppina Annetta, Angelo Greco, Alessandro Cina, Rodolfo Proietti

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Laparoscopic-assisted resection of a giant colonic diverticulum: a case report

Jacqueline E. Collin, Gurprit S. S. Atwal, William K. Dunn, Austin G. Acheson

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Gliomatosis cerebri type II: two case reports

Pietro Ivo D'Urso, Oscar Fernando D'Urso, Santo Marsigliante, Carlo Storelli, Alessandro Distante, Francesca Sanguedolce, Antonia Cimmino, Giuseppe Luzi, Cosimo Damiano Gianfreda, Antonio Montinaro, Pasqualino Ciappetta

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Lamellar corneal injury by bamboo splinters: a case report

Motoko Kawashima, Tetsuya Kawakita, Chika Shigeyasu, Jun Shimazaki

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Monostotic fibrous dysplasia of a lumbar vertebral body with secondary aneurysmal bone cyst formation: a case report

Marieke N Snieders, Folkert J van Kemenade, Barend J van Royen

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Reconstruction of the urethra with a Surgisis® onlay patch in urethral reconstructive surgery: two case reports

Thorsten H Ecke, Steffen Hallmann, Holger Gerullis, Jürgen Ruttloff

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Cornual heterotopic pregnancy: a case report

Olivier Poujade, Guillaume Ducarme, Dominique Luton

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Late presentation of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy: a case report

Georgios I Papaioannou, Theodoros Apostolopoulos, Sotiria Stambola, Antonios Zilidis, John Gialafos

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Mesothelioma of the testis and nephrotic syndrome: a case report

Justine Bacchetta, Dominique Ranchère, Frédérique Dijoud, Jean-Pierre Droz

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Intravascular lymphoma presenting as a specific pulmonary embolism and acute respiratory failure: a case report

Sophie Georgin-Lavialle, Michael Darmon, Lionel Galicier, Marinos Fysekidis, Elie Azoulay

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Successful pregnancy in pulmonary arterial hypertension associated with systemic lupus erythematosus: a case report

Michael Streit, Rudolf Speich, Manuel Fischler, Silvia Ulrich

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Compression of the radial nerve at the elbow by a ganglion: two case reports

I-Ming Jou, Hung-Nan Wang, Ping-Hui Wang, Ing-Sing Yong, Wei-Ren Su

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Chest wall resection and reconstruction using titanium micromesh covered with Marlex mesh for metastatic follicular thyroid carcinoma: a case report

Nobuyasu Suganuma, Nobuyuki Wada, Hiromasa Arai, Hirotaka Nakayama, Keita Fujii, Katsuhiko Masudo, Norio Yukawa, Yasushi Rino, Munetaka Masuda, Toshio Imada

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Fournier's gangrene in a patient after third-degree burns: a case report

Christos Iavazzo, Konstantinos Kalmantis, Vasiliki Anastasiadou, George Mantzaris, Vallantis Koumpis, Fotinie Ntziora

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Progressive visceral leishmaniasis misdiagnosed as cirrhosis of the liver: a case report

Lydia Giannitrapani, Maurizio Soresi, Emanuele La Spada, Claudio Tripodo, Giuseppe Montalto

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Burned-out testis tumour that metastasized to retroperitoneal lymph nodes: a case report

Mehmet Yucel, Sahin Kabay, Ugur Saracoglu, Soner Yalcinkaya, Namik Kemal Hatipoglu, Erol Aras

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Management dilemma of a recurrent huge fibrosarcoma in a 25-year-old African: a case report

Ismaila A Adigun, Kolawole O Ogundipe, Jibril O Bello

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Management options for accidental injection of epinephrine from an autoinjector: a case report

Christian Mathez, Bernard Favrat, Philippe Staeger

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Spontaneous regression of Merkel cell carcinoma in a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia: a case report

Tamara Turk, Zeljka Crncevic Orlic, Ivana Smoljan, Antica Nacinovic, Irena Seili Bekafigo, Jelena Radic, Gordana Zamolo

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Hypertensive crisis-induced electrocardiographic changes: a case series

Khalid Abou Farha, André van Vliet, Sjoerd van Marle, Patrick Vrijlandt, Daan Westenbrink

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Trigger finger presenting secondary to leiomyoma: a case report

Ziad Harb, Quamar Bismil, David M Ricketts

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A 60-year-old man with chronic renal failure and a costal mass: a case report and review of the literature

Germán Campuzano-Zuluaga, William Velasco-Pérez, Juan Ignacio Marín-Zuluaga

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Development and management of systemic lupus erythematosus in an HIV-infected man with hepatitis C and B co-infection following interferon therapy: a case report

Iain J Abbott, Christina C Chang, Matthew J Skinner, Alison Street, Greg Perry, Catriona McLean, Edwina J Wright, Paul U Cameron

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Vancomycin-induced thrombocytopenia in a 60-year-old man: a case report

Ravish A Shah, Adnan Musthaq, Nancy Khardori

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A novel approach to sonographic examination in a patient with a calf muscle tear: a case report

Carl PC Chen, Simon FT Tang, Chih-Chin Hsu, Ruo Li Chen, Rex CH Hsu, Chin-Wen Wu, Max JL Chen

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Central neuraxial anaesthesia presenting with spinal myoclonus in the perioperative period: a case series

Olumuyiwa A Bamgbade, John A Alfa, Wael M Khalaf, Andrew P Zuokumor

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Subpubic cartilaginous cystic lesion presenting as a vulvar mass: a case report

RJW Hoogendoorn, HWM Kayser, JJ Weening, AAW van Geloven

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Giant scrotal lymphedema of unclear etiology: a case report

Ganiyu A Rahman, Ismaila A Adigun, Ibrahim F Yusuf, Adebiyi B Aderibigbe, Amarachukwu C Etonyeaku

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Fetal death due to upper airway compromise complicated by thyroid storm in a mother with uncontrolled Graves' disease: a case report

Recep Yildizhan, Mertihan Kurdoglu, Ertan Adali, Ali Kolusari

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Smooth muscle tumor of the placenta - an entrapped maternal leiomyoma: a case report

Katja Murtoniemi, Elina Pirinen, Marketta Kähkönen, Nonna Heiskanen, Seppo Heinonen

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Well-differentiated gall bladder hepatoid carcinoma producing alpha-fetoprotein: a case report

Ching-Yun Kao, Chian-Ro Chang, Hung Chiang, How-Tshung Chen, Ma Shih-Ming, Che-Yu Cheng

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Sarcoidosis mimicking lymphoma on positron emission tomography-computed tomography in two patients treated for lymphoma: two case reports

Ozden Ozer, Ahmet Emre Eskazan, M Cem Ar, Hüseyin Beköz, Fehmi Tabak, Gül Ongen, Burhan Ferhanoglu

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Transient early preeclampsia in twin pregnancy with a triploid fetus: a case report

Clasien van der Houwen, Tineke Schukken, Mariëlle van Pampus

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Visor flap for total upper and lower lip reconstruction: a case report

Peter Nthumba, Louis Carter

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Recurring staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome in a very low birth weight infant: a case report

Carola EPM Duijsters, Feico JJ Halbertsma, René F Kornelisse, Niek LA Arents, Peter Andriessen

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Unusual Epstein-Barr esophageal infection in an immunocompetent patient: a case report

Magdalini Pape, Kalliopi Mandraveli, Ioannis Sidiropoulos, Dimitrios Koliouskas, Stella Alexiou-Daniel, Filanthi Frantzidou

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Incisional hernia as an unusual cause of hepatic encephalopathy in a 62-year-old man with cirrhosis: a case report

Muge Ustaoglu, Tulay Bakir, Ahmet Bektas, Osman Cure, Bulent Gungor

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Anaesthesiological implications of Kimura's disease: a case report

Massimiliano Sorbello, Alessandro Laudini, Gianluigi Morello, Mirco Tindaro Sidoti, Jessica Giuseppina Maugeri, Alessia Giaquinta, Tiziano Tallarita, Daniela Corona, Domenico Zerbo, Alessandro Cappellani, Pierfrancesco Veroux, Laura Parrinello, Massimiliano Veroux

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Management of deep neck infection by a transnasal approach: a case report

Yuh Baba, Yasumasa Kato, Hideyuki Saito, Kaoru Ogawa

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Non-surgical management of recurrent perforation of a jejunal diverticulum following previous segmental bowel resection: a case report

Hugh Shunsuke Colvin, Chin Kuenfoo, Taufiek Konrad Rajab, Thomas Sayadatas

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Kawasaki disease following Rocky Mountain spotted fever: a case report

Aswine K Bal, Steven W Kairys

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Pancreatic and psoas abscesses as a late complication of intravesical administration of bacillus Calmette-Guerin for bladder cancer: a case report and review of the literature

Miguel Álvarez-Múgica, Jesús M Fernández Gómez, Verónica Bulnes Vázquez, Antonio Jalón Monzón, José M Fernández Rodríguez, Laura Rodríguez Robles

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Traumatic abdominal wall hernia in two adults: a case series

Nitin Agarwal, Sunil Kumar, Mohit Kumar Joshi, Mriganka Sekhar Sharma

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Fatal myocarditis-associated Bartonella quintana endocarditis: a case report

Ambroise Montcriol, Fréderic Benard, Florence Fenollar, Alberto Ribeiri, Marc Bonnet, Fréderic Collart, Catherine Guidon

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Rituximab therapy for pure red cell aplasia due to anti-epoetin antibodies in a woman treated with epoetin-alfa: a case report

Caroline M Behler, Norah A Terrault, Joan E Etzell, Lloyd E Damon

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Schizophrenia-like psychosis following left putamen infarct: a case report

Faisal Farid, Prem Mahadun

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Isolated long thoracic nerve paralysis - a rare complication of anterior spinal surgery: a case report

Ebrahim Ameri, Hamid Behtash, Farzad Omidi-Kashani

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Fixed drug eruption resulting from fluconazole use: a case report

Mahkam Tavallaee, Mahnaz Mahmoudi Rad

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Primary biliary cirrhosis presenting with ascites and a hepatic hydrothorax: a case report

Thomas George Wojcikiewicz, Sachin Gupta

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Secondary abdominal pregnancy and its associated diagnostic and operative dilemma: three case reports

Pratiksha Gupta, Alka Sehgal, Anju Huria, Reeti Mehra

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Fulminant listerial infection of the central nervous system in an otherwise healthy patient: a case report

Dimitrios Karakitsos, George Samonis, Vasilios Georgountzos, Andreas Karabinis

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Successful treatment of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia meningitis in a preterm baby boy: a case report

Pilar Rojas, Elisa Garcia, Gema M Calderón, Fernando Ferreira, Marisa Rosso

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Iatrogenic tension pneumothorax in children: two case reports

Juan Mayordomo-Colunga, Corsino Rey, Alberto Medina, Andrés Concha

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Bilateral thalamic stroke due to occlusion of the artery of Percheron in a patient with patent foramen ovale: a case report

Raúl López-Serna, Patricia González-Carmona, Manuel López-Martínez

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Neck emergency due to parathyroid adenoma bleeding: a case report

Isabella Merante-Boschin, Matteo Fassan, Maria Rosa Pelizzo, Eric Casal Ide, Massimo Rugge

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Serous labyrinthitis as a manifestation of cat scratch disease: a case report

Ilias Kantas, Michael Katotomichelakis, Marinos Vafiadis, Zografia V Kaloutsa, Chariton E Papadakis

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Demyelinating disease masquerading as a surgical problem: a case series

Saufi M Awang, Nayan M Saiful, Mohan Madhavan, Jafri Abdullah, John K Tharakan

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Retrograde ejaculation following open ureteric reimplantation: a case report

Eleanor Au, Ranan Dasgupta, Prokar Dasgupta

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Cystic tuberculosis of the scapula in a young boy: a case report and review of the literature

Deepali Jain, Vijay K Jain, Yashwant Singh, Satish Kumar, Deepak Mittal

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Community-acquired bacteremia and acute cholecystitis due to Enterobacter cloacae: a case report

Guillermo Isasti, Laura Mora, Victoria García, Jesus Santos, Rosario Palacios

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A needle in the breast: a case report

Sami Karapolat

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Lichen planus-like eruption resulting from a jellyfish sting: a case report

Sudip Kumar Ghosh, Debabrata Bandyopadhyay, Susmit Haldar

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A gastrointestinal stromal tumour presenting incidentally with haemorrhage and perforation associated with a Meckel's diverticulum: a case report

Richard Woolf, Natalie Blencowe, Karim Muhammad, David Paterson, Geoff Pye

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Idiopathic pulmonary artery dissection: a case report

Khalid Mohammad, Mohammad Sahlol, Osbert Egiebor, Ruxana T Sadikot

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Osseous metaplasia of the endometrium associated with infertility: a case report and review of the literature

Julio César Rosa-e-Silva, Ionara Diniz Barcelos, Paula Andrea Navarro, Ana Carolina Japur de Sá Rosa-e-Silva, Antonio Alberto Nogueira, Rui Alberto Ferriani

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A woman with diabetes presenting with pyomyoma and treated with subtotal hysterectomy: a case report

Horace Fletcher, Racquel Gibson, Nadia Williams, Gilian Wharfe, Allison Nicholson, Deanne Soares

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Pulmonary embolism presenting as syncope: a case report

Ahmet Demircan, Gulbin Aygencel, Ayfer Keles, Ozgur Ozsoylar, Fikret Bildik

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Lactobacillus as a rare cause of an infected total knee replacement: a case report

Navraj Atwal, Akintunde George, Ben Squires, Clayton H Marsh

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Combined left hepatectomy with fenestration and using a harmonic scalpel, fibrin glue and closed suction drainage to prevent bile leakage and ascites in the management of symptomatic polycystic liver disease: a case report

Christopher Kosmidis, Christopher Efthimiadis, George Anthimidis, Sofia Levva, John Prousalidis, Konstantinos Papapolychroniadis, Epaminondas Fachantidis

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Isolated cecal necrosis mimicking acute appendicitis: a case series

Abuzer Dirican, Bulent Unal, Nuray Bassulu, Faik Tatlı, Cemalettin Aydin, Cuneyt Kayaalp

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Merkel cell carcinoma metastasis and dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans presenting as a collision tumour: a case report and review of the literature

Daniel-Johannes Tilkorn, Marcus Lehnhardt, Jörg Hauser, Adrien Daigler, Heinz Homann, Hans Steinau, Cornelius Kuhnen

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Acute Haemophilus parainfluenzae endocarditis: a case report

Leonidas Christou, Georgios Economou, Anastasia K Zikou, Kaiti Saplaoura, Maria I Argyropoulou, Epameinondas V Tsianos

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Brown tumor of the maxillary sinus in a patient with primary hyperparathyroidism: a case report

Efklidis Proimos, Theognosia S Chimona, Dimetrio Tamiolakis, Michalis G Tzanakakis, Chariton E Papadakis

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Visual hallucinations associated with varenicline: a case report

B Mahendri Raidoo, Eric C Kutscher

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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors with pseudocystic change mimicking a pancreatic tumor: two case reports

Ursula Pauser, Sebastian Hinz, Hartmut Merz, Alfred C Feller

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Prosthetic valve endocarditis caused by Candida lusitaniae, an uncommon pathogen: a case report

Ross G Michel, Gary T Kinasewitz, Douglas A Drevets, Jeremy H Levin, Douglas W Warden

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Manifestations of Ollier's disease in a 21-year-old man: a case report

Babak Fallahi, Morteza Bostani, Kianoush Ansari Gilani, Davood Beiki, Ali Gholamrezanezhad

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Whole body bone scintigraphy in tenofovir-related osteomalacia: a case report

Antonio Di Biagio, Raffaella Rosso, Patrizia Monteforte, Rodolfo Russo, Guido Rovetta, Claudio Viscoli

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Spontaneous heterotopic pregnancy with tubal rupture: a case report and review of the literature

Rimpy Tandon, Poonam Goel, Pradip Kumar Saha, Lajya Devi

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Verapamil-associated cardiogenic shock in a 71-year-old man with myasthenia gravis: a case report

Benoit Drolet, Geneviève Gabra, Chantale Simard, Bernard Noël, Paul Poirier

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Frontal bone tuberculosis presenting with blindness in a 14-year-old girl: a case report

Mohammad Shameem, Talha Saad, Rakesh Bhargava, Zuber Ahmad, Nazish Fatima, Haris Khan, Fakhrul Huda

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Morgellons disease, illuminating an undefined illness: a case series

William T Harvey, Robert C Bransfield, Dana E Mercer, Andrew J Wright, Rebecca M Ricchi, Mary M Leitao

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Magnetic resonance imaging and mammographic appearance of dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans in a male breast: a case report and literature review

Xin Chen, Yung Hsin Chen, Yi-li Zhang, You-min Guo, Zhi-lan Bai, Xian Zhao

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Multifocal hepatoblastoma in a 6-month-old girl with trisomy 18: a case report

Lidija Kitanovski, Zdenka Ovcak, Janez Jazbec

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Duodenal metastasis from male breast cancer: a case report and review of the literature

Alberto Bruno Ferrari, Giuseppe Pulcini, Federico Gheza, Alessandro Vinco, Stefania Manenti, Edoardo Cervi, Vincenzo Villanacci, Giancarlo Cervi

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Distal migration of a floating carotid thrombus in a patient using oral contraceptives: a case report

Masaki Watanabe, Takahisa Mori, Keisuke Imai, Hajime Izumoto, Teruyuki Hirano, Makoto Uchino

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Aneurysmal bone cyst of the rib: a case report

Murat Yasaroglu, Bulend Ketenci, Hatice Demirbag, Mehmet Yildirim, Ilgaz Dogusoy

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Low-grade myofibroblastic sarcoma of the mandible: a case report

Iwona Niedzielska, Tomasz Janic, Bartlomiej Mrowiec

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Myocardial damage after prolonged accidental hypothermia: a case report

Eftychios Siniorakis, Spyridon Arvanitakis, Georgia Roulia, Petros Voutas, Constantinos Karidis

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Clozapine-induced interstitial nephritis - a rare but important complication: a case report

Robert Hunter, Tracey Gaughan, Filippo Queirazza, Dina McMillan, Susan Shankie

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Primary pulmonary mucinous cystadenocarcinoma presenting as a complex bronchocele: a case report

Syed Arsalan Raza, Christopher Alexakis, Michael Creagh, David R Lawrence, Michael Wood

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A woman with cystic fibrosis, severe hypoxaemia, an atrial thrombus and a patent foramen ovale: a case report

Nicholas J Simmonds, Hilary Wyatt, Raj Patel, Margaret E Hodson, Khin M Gyi

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Leser-Trélat sign presenting in a patient with ovarian cancer: a case report

Edwin Bölke, Peter Arne Gerber, Matthias Peiper, Wolfram Trudo Knoefel, Mathias Cohnen, Christiane Matuschek, Wilfried Budach, Rainer Engers, Stephan Gripp

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Dystrophinopathy presenting with arrhythmia in an asymptomatic 34-year-old man: a case report

Seth E Wakefield, Elliot L Dimberg, Steven A Moore, Brian S Tseng

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Osteolytic bone destruction resulting from relapse of a testicular tumour 23 years after inguinal orchiectomy and adjuvant chemotherapy: a case report

Christos Kalaitzis, Athanasios Bantis, Georgios Tsakaldimis, Stylianos Giannakopoulos, Efthimios Sivridis, Stavros Touloupidis

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Prolonged lymphatic leak after retroperitoneal lymph node dissection: a case report

Katherine M Browne, Rowan G Casey, John A Thornhill

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Burned-out testicular tumor with retroperitoneal lymph node metastasis: a case report

Stylianos Kontos, Grigorios Doumanis, Maria Karagianni, Vasilios Politis, Vasileios Simaioforidis, Stefanos Kachrilas, Sotirios Koritsiadis

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Fatal pulmonary embolism following shoulder arthroplasty: a case report

Thayur R Madhusudhan, Sanath K Shetty, Savitha Madhusudhan, Amit Sinha

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High dose nitroglycerin treatment in a patient with cardiac arrest: a case report

Maya Guglin, Gilbert Postler

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Extramedullary plasmacytoma of the pancreas as an uncommon cause of obstructive jaundice: a case report

Pierre-Anthony Leake, Kathleen C Coard, Joseph M Plummer

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Premature myocardial infarction presenting with acute pulmonary embolism: a case report

Seerapani Gopaluni, Aadil Shaukat, Martin Gray, Roshni Gokhale, M Al-Bustami

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Recurrent acute myocardial infarction with coronary artery aneurysm in a patient with Behçet's disease: a case report

Sepideh Sokhanvar, Marjaneh Karimi, Abdolreza Esmaeil-zadeh

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Coxiella burnetii as a possible cause of autoimmune liver disease: a case report

Chloe Kaech, Isabelle Pache, Didier Raoult, Gilbert Greub

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Chronic asymptomatic dislocation of a total hip replacement: a case report

Surjit Lidder, Vijai S Ranawat, Nitran S Ranawat, Tudor L Thomas

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Penetration of the sigmoid colon to the posterior uterine wall secondary to diverticulitis: a case report

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Occlusion of the common femoral artery by cement after total hip arthroplasty: a case report

Mikel L Reilingh, Koen J Hartemink, Arjan WJ Hoksbergen, Rachid Saouti

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Giant thoracic schwannoma presenting with abrupt onset of abdominal pain: a case report

Isaac Yang, Elena Paik, Nancy G Huh, Andrew T Parsa, Christopher P Ames

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Jejuno-jejunal invagination caused by epithelioid sarcoma: a case report

Ana Bento, Hamilton Baptista, Carlos Pinheiro, Fernando Martinho

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A colonic splenic flexure tumour presenting as an empyema thoracis: a case report

K Murphy, M Chaudry, HP Redmond

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Polycythemia vera as a presentation of renal angiomyolipoma: a case report

Ming-Shyan Lin, Yu-Shin Hung, Hsueh-Hua Wu, Ming-Chung Kuo, Tzu-Fang Shiu, Cheng-Keng Chuang, Lee-Yung Shih, Pao-Hsien Chu

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Pseudoleukocytosis secondary to hepatitis C-associated cryoglobulinemia: a case report

Abdallah Geara, Badiaa El-Imad, Walid Baz, Marcel Odaimi, Suzanne El-Sayegh

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Osseous hemangioma of the seventh cervical vertebra with osteoid formation mimicking metastasis: a case report

Stefan Lakemeier, Christina Carolin Westhoff, Susanne Fuchs-Winkelmann, Markus Dietmar Schofer

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Laryngeal tuberculosis presenting as a supraglottic carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature

Yvette E Smulders, Bert-Jan De Bondt, Martin Lacko, Janice AL Hodge, Kenneth W Kross

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Encephalitis, acute renal failure, and acute hepatitis triggered by a viral infection in an immunocompetent young adult: a case report

Mahmoud Aboelneen Khattab, Mohammed Eslam, Mohammed Emad Abd-elfattah

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Diagnosis of invasive aspergillus tracheobronchitis facilitated by endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration: a case report

Roberto F Casal, Roberto Adachi, Carlos A Jimenez, Mona Sarkiss, Rodolfo C Morice, Georgie A Eapen

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Right-sided Bochdalek hernia in an adult: a case report

Elina Laaksonen, Seppo Silvasti, Tapio Hakala

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Complete abdominal aortic aneurysm thrombosis and obstruction of both common iliac arteries with intrathrombotic pressures demonstrating a continuing risk of rupture: a case report and review of the literature

Konstantinos A Filis, Emmanuel E Lagoudianakis, Haridimos Markogiannakis, Aikaterini Kotzadimitriou, Nikolaos Koronakis, Konstantinos Bramis, Konstantinos Xiromeritis, Dimitrios Theodorou, Andreas Manouras

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Pituitary infiltration by non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: a case report

Gonca Tamer, Ilkay Kartal, Ferihan Aral

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An unusual case of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction following a late bare-metal stent fracture in a native coronary artery: a case report

Giovanni Minardi, Paolo G Pino, Marco Stefano Nazzaro, Herribert Pavaci, Martina Sordi, Cesare Greco, Carlo Gaudio

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Calciphylaxis following kidney transplantation: a case report

Rajesh Hanvesakul, Michael A Silva, Rahul Hejmadi, Steve Mellor, Andrew R Ready, Paul Cockwell, Nicholas Inston

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Lung metastasis 21 years after initial diagnosis of osteosarcoma: a case report

Ari Halldorsson, Steven Brooks, Sam Montgomery, Suzanne Graham

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Brain abscesses in a patient with a patent foramen ovale: a case report

Fuad Jan, Abdul Moiz Hafiz, Saurabh Gupta, John Meidl, Suhail Allaqaband

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Radiation recall dermatitis with soft tissue necrosis following pemetrexed therapy: a case report

Christian Spirig, Aurelius Omlin, Giannicola D'Addario, Klaus-Dieter Loske, Philipp Esenwein, Jan Henning Geismar, Thomas Ruhstaller

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A levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system embedded in the omentum in a woman with abdominal pain: a case report

Asimakis Pappas, Siddesh Shambhu, Kevin Phillips, Kate Guthrie

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Ochronosis as an unusual cause of valvular defect: a case report

Andreas Wilke, Dietmar Steverding

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Unusual presentation of thyrotoxicosis as complete heart block and renal failure: a case report

Suresh Krishnamoorthy, Rajay Narain, John Creamer

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Wear debris pseudotumor following total knee arthroplasty: a case report

Andreas F Mavrogenis, George N Nomikos, Vasileios I Sakellariou, George I Karaliotas, Panayiotis Kontovazenitis, Panayiotis J Papagelopoulos

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Diabetic myonecrosis in a patient with hepatic cirrhosis: a case report and review of the literature

Leonardo G Mancillas-Adame, Jose G González-González, Joel O Jáquez-Quintana, Myrna A Cardoza-Torres, Alberto de la Fuente García

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Primary mucinous adenocarcinoma in a defunctionalized urinary bladder: a case report

Mary Taneous, Preetha Ramalingam, Donald G Mode, Jared G Heiner, Martha K Terris, Jeffrey R Lee

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Correlations between atazanavir Ctrough and hyperbilirubinemia: a case report

Alessia Uglietti, Stefano Novati, Roberto Gulminetti, Renato Maserati

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Invasive thyroglossal duct cyst papillary carcinoma: a case report

Leila Aghaghazvini, Habib Mazaher, Hashem Sharifian, Shirin Aghaghazvini, Majid Assadi

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Urachal endometrioma: a case report

Katherine M Browne, Stephen S Connolly, Niamh Daly, Tom Crotty, Robert J Flynn

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Lipoprotein glomerulopathy treated with LDL-apheresis (Heparin-induced Extracorporeal Lipoprotein Precipitation system): a case report

Gianpaolo Russi, Luciana Furci, Marco Leonelli, Riccardo Magistroni, Nicola Romano, Paolo Rivasi, Alberto Albertazzi

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Small intestinal obstruction due to phytobezoar: a case report

Rajan Fuad Ezzat, Shahzad Ali Rashid, Abbas Tahir Rashid, Khaled Musttafa Abdullah, Shyaw Mahmood Ahmed

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Polymorphous low-grade adenocarcinoma of the tongue: a case report

Ruchi Gupta, Kirti Gupta, Rijuneeta Gupta

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Abdominal angina due to recurrence of cancer of the papilla of Vater: a case report

Marco Biolato, Maria Letizia Gabrieli, Antonello Parente, Simona Racco, Melania Costantini, Lorenzo Bonomo, Gian Ludovico Rapaccini, Giovanni Gasbarrini, Antonio Grieco

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Simultaneous sleep study and nasoendoscopic investigation in a patient with obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome refractory to continuous positive airway pressure: a case report

Claudia Chaves Loureiro, Marta Drummond, Adriana Magalhães, Elisabete SantaClara, Miguel Gonçalves, João Carlos Winck

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Tuberculous disseminated lymphadenopathy in an immunocompetent non-HIV patient: a case report

Irini Gerogianni, Maria Papala, Konstantinos Kostikas, Maria Ioannou, Argiroula-Vasiliki Karadonta, Konstantinos Gourgoulianis

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Altemeier operation associated with dynamic graciloplasty: a case report

Massimo Mongardini, Roberto Paolo Iachetta, Alessandra Cola, Eleonora Degli Effetti, Filippo Custureri

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Malignant melanoma of the rectum: a case report

Sarah Liptrot, David Semeraro, Adam Ferguson, Nicholas Hurst

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Platypnea and orthodeoxia associated with Pneumocystis jiroveci and Cytomegalovirus pneumonia: a case report

Konstantinos Katsoulis, Ilias Minasidis, Andreas Vainas, Christoforos Bikas, Theodoros Kontakiotis, Pantelis Vakianis

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A rare case of arterial avulsion presenting with occult blood loss following total hip arthroplasty: a case report

Claire Hall, Wasim S Khan, Sohail I Ahmed, David H Sochart

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Lanthanum associated abnormal liver function tests in two patients on dialysis: a case report

Girish Namagondlu, Norman Main, Lucy Yates, Joanne Mooney, Sangita Sathyamurthy, Indiver Daryanani, Alex Crowe, Tom Ledson, Anindya Banerjee

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Lumbar hernia misdiagnosed as a subcutaneous lipoma: a case report

Giuseppe Pietro Mingolla, Gianfranco Amelio

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Ceftriaxone-induced toxic epidermal necrolysis mimicking burn injury: a case report

Sarit Cohen, Allan Billig, Dean Ad-El

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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Multifocal multi-organ ischaemia and infarction in a preterm baby due to maternal intravenous cocaine use: a case report

Ben C Reynolds, Dawn MK Penman, Allan G Howatson, Lesley A Jackson, Charles H Skeoch

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Investigation of the cerebral blood flow of an Omani man with supposed ‘spirit possession’ associated with an altered mental state : a case report

Amr A Guenedi, Ala'Alddin Al Hussaini, Yousif A Obeid, Samir Hussain, Faisal Al-Azri, Samir Al-Adawi

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Imprint cytology of osteosarcoma of the jaw: a case report

Luiz Antonio Guimarães Cabral, Cristina Werkman, Adriana Aigotti Haberbeck Brandão, Janete Dias Almeida

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Atrial myxoma presenting with orthostatic hypotension in an 84-year-old Hispanic man: a case report

Ralph M Vicari, Enrique Polanco, Norberto Schechtmann, José O Santiago, Kautilya Shaurya, Michael Halstead, Danielle Marszal, Tamsin Grosskreutz, Shalini Thareja

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Psammocarcinoma of ovary with serous cystadenofibroma of contralateral ovary: a case report

Deepali Jain, L Akhila, Vibha Kawatra, Pallavi Aggarwal, Nita Khurana

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Tenosynovial giant cell tumors as accidental findings after episodes of distortion of the ankle: two case reports

Christian Illian, Horst-Rainer Kortmann, Hans Otto Künstler, Ludger W Poll, Markus Schofer

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Concurrent femoral neck fractures following pelvic irradiation: a case report

Raphael Omotayo Ayorinde, Clement Abu Okolo

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Internal supravesical hernia as a rare cauase of intestinal obstruction: a case report

Mamadou Cissé, Ibrahima Konaté, Ousmane Ka, Madieng Dieng, Abdarahmane Dia, Cheikh T Touré

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Neonatal retroauricular cellulitis as an indicator of group B streptococcal bacteremia: a case report

David Pérez Solís, Juan José Díaz Martín, Etelvina Suárez Menéndez

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Electroconvulsive therapy-induced mania: a case report

Omer Saatcioglu, Mehmet Guduk

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Paraneoplastic necrotizing myopathy in a woman with breast cancer: a case report

Joana Silvestre, Luis Santos, Vitor Batalha, Ana del Rio, Carlos Lima, Antonio Carvalho, Ana Martins, Helena Miranda, Fatima Cabral, Adelia Felix, Ana Aleixo

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A new method in thoracoscopic inferior mediastinal lymph node biopsy: a case report

Maruf Sanlı, Ahmet F Isik, Bulent Tuncozgur, Levent Elbeyli

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Rectus sheath haematoma or leaking aortic aneurysm - a diagnostic challenge: a case report

Aidan G Shaw, Simon Fleming, Polly Drew, Jonathan N Lund, Manjeet Riyat

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Ulceration of the oral mucosa induced by antidepressant medication: a case report

Fernanda Bertini, Nívea Cristina Sena Costa, Adriana Aigotti Haberbeck Brandão, Ana Sueli Rodrigues Cavalcante, Janete Dias Almeida