Clinics and Practice  

Raymond Chuk, John Arvier, Barbara Laing, David Coman

Infantile temporomandibular joint septic arthritis is an uncommon paediatric infection, but one which carries the potential for severe morbidity and mortality. Early diagnosis and aggressive medical and possibly surgical management is indicated for the be... see more

Moawia E. Hummeida, Kamal Hamad, Abdel Fatah Abdel Gadir, AbdelAziem A. Ali

Ovarian cancer during pregnancy is a rare event. Little is known about the treatment of this condition due to lack of prospective randomized trials and cohort studies. In this paper the authors reported a rare case of small cells ovarian cancer, diagnosed... see more

Nesrine Farhat, Brigitte Desprechins, Bernard Otto, Vincent Ramaekers, Marie-Christine Seghaye

We report on the case of two toddlers who presented in the last 2 years with heart and vascular murmur, respectively, and in whom the diagnosis of paraspinal arterio-venous fistula was made. Paraspinal arterio-venous fistulae in children are extremely rar... see more

Claudio Pusceddu, Luca Melis, Barbara Sotgia, Alessandro Fancellu, Giovanni Battista Meloni

The optimal management of local recurrences after primary resection of pancreatic cancer still remains to be clarified. A 58-yearold woman developed an isolated recurrence of pancreatic cancer six year after distal pancreatectomy. Re-resection was attempt... see more

Mustafa Zafer Temiz, Emrah Yuruk, Kutlu Teberik, Engin Kandirali

The variety of intraurethral foreign bodies has been reported in literature. Most of them tend to be self-inserted because of sexual or erotic reasons. We report a 23-year old male patient who had tapestry needle into his urethra, which was not self-inser... see more

Neslin Sahin, Mine Genc, Esin Kasap, Aynur Solak, Berrin Korkut, Erkan Yilmaz

Anterior sacral meningocele is a very rare clinical entity characterized by herniation of a meningeal sac through a sacrococcygeal defect. We report a case of a 20-year old female with Marfan syndrome who presented with abdominal distention that was misdi... see more

Shadi Yaghi, Aya Haggiagi, Ayesha Sherzai, Randolph S. Marshall, Sachin Agarwal

Symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage (sICH) occurs in up to 7% of stroke patients treated with thrombolytic therapy. There are limited data on the effectiveness of the reversal agents used for intravenous tissue plasminogen activator related intracranial ... see more

Marcus D. Mazur, Michael L. Mumert, Meic H. Schmidt

In laminectomies for costal osteochondroma causing spinal cord compression, visualization of the extraforaminal part of the tumor is limited. The authors describe using a costotransversectomy to resolve spinal cord compression by a costal osteochondroma i... see more

Pawan Kumar, Priya Hazrah, Anil Taneja, Arvind Ahuja, Deborshi Sharma

The gall bladder is least common intraabdominal organ to be involved by tuberculosis. It is either part of systemic miliary tuberculosis or abdominal tuberculosis. Isolated gall bladder tuberculosis is even rarer, can presents either as calculus or acalcu... see more

Jun Yang, Qin-qing Li, Ying-ying Ding, Cheng-de Liao

Thymoma is an epithelial neoplasm of the thymus, which commonly lies in the anterior mediastinum and recurrences of thymoma generally are locally, and retroperitoneal recurrence is considered to be rare. A 46-year old Asian woman with invasive thymoma had... see more

Vaso Zisimopoulou, Aikaterini Ntouniadaki, Panagiotis Aggelidakis, Anna Siatouni, Stylianos Gatzonis, Antonios Tavernarakis

Vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia is a clinical entity associated rarely with obstructive hydrocephalus. We present a 48-year old male with a profound dilatation of the ventricular system due to a dolichoectatic basilar artery, as appeared in imaging studies... see more