4 articles in this issue
Narjust Duma, Ivana Croghan, Sarah Jenkins, Celine Vachon, Loni Neal, Karthik Ghosh, Sandhya Pruthi
Vitamin D deficiency and high breast density may be associated with increased breast cancer risk. We examined a possible association between vitamin D levels and mammographic breast density in a population of Alaskan women. Patients seen in the Mayo Clini... see more
Takeshi Kusunoki, Hirotomo Homma, Yoshinobu Kidokoro, Akihisa Yoshikawa, Kumiko Tanaka, Satoko Kubo, Ryo Wada, Katsuhisa Ikeda
We experienced a case of huge chronic thyroiditis with malignant lymphoma that caused dyspnea with tracheal stenosis, dysphagia with esophagus stenosis and recurrent nerve paralysis. In this case, thyroidectomy was performed and, after the surgery, there ... see more
Savas P. Deftereos, Soultana Foutzitzi , Georgios Karagiannakis , Maria Aggelidou, Dimitrios C. Cassimos, Katerina Kambouri
A case of a 2-month-old boy with constipation and a localized abdominal distension in the right abdomen and hypogastrium is presented. Plain radiograph, ultrasound exam as well as a barium enema were suggestive of Hirschsprung’s disease (HD) (ultrashort s... see more
Amol N. Wagh, Balamurugan Ganesan, Hemant M. Jawale, Rahul A. Mishra, Rajeshwari Bhatt
Adult intussusception represents 5% of all intussusceptions. Primary gastro-intestinal lymphoma comprises 1%-4% of all gastro-intestinal malignancies 90% of them are B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). Most common NHL is diffuse large B-cell lymphoma acc... see more