9 articles in this issue
Adriana Handra-Luca
Gallbladder granulomas are exceedingly rare, reported in association with tuberculosis or sarcoidosis. Here we report a case of gallbladder granulomatous cholecystitis occurring in the context of sarcoidosis. A 70-years old man presented with abdominal pa... see more
Takeshi Kusunoki, Hirotomo Homma, Yoshinobu Kidokoro, Aya Yanai, Mitsuhisa Fujimaki, Katsuhisa Ikeda
We experienced a case of an elongated styloid process that was 8 cm in length. The patient was a 68-year-old Japanese man with frequent episodes of left-sided throat pain for 10 years. The elongated styloid process could be diagnosed by 3D-computed tomogr... see more
Takeshi Kusunoki, Ryo Wada, Hirotomo Homma, Yoshinobu Kidokoro, Aya Yanai, Katsuhisa Ikeda
We experienced two rare cases with laryngeal cystic lesions (laryngocele and laryngeal cyst). In the first case, the laryngocele case was removed by laryngomicrosurgery using an oral approach under general anesthesia. In the second case, the magnetic reso... see more
Anna Siatouni, Stylianos Gatzonis, Andreas Alexopoulos, Nikos Georgakoulias, Mathildi Papathanassiou, Stefanos Korfias, Vaso Zisimopoulou, Damianos Sakas
A 30-year-old woman with intractable seizures evaluated as surgical candidate. During presurgical evaluation an invasive electroencephalogram was recommended to define the location and extent of epileptogenic zone and relationship to epileptogenic lesion.... see more
Alessandro Morotti, Maria Consiglio Barozzino, Angelo Guerrasio
Bone marrow biopsy is a mandatory procedure to diagnose several hematological disorders. This invasive analysis is generally safe and the procedure-related risks are rare and include bleeding at the site of puncture and, very occasionally, local infection... see more
Ameer Alyeldien, Sarah Teuber-Hanselmann, Azad Cheko, Tanja Höll, Martin Scholz, Athanasios K. Petridis
Pilocytic astrocytomas correspond to lowgrade gliomas and therefore metastasize exceedingly rare. However, pilocytic astrocytomas are able to and leptomeningeal dissemination may be seen. What are the treatment options of these cases? We present a case re... see more
Duy Vu, Srini Reddy, Lynn Day, Nail Aydin, Subhasis Misra
Xiaowei Li, Leilei Liu, Dianbo Cao, Yutian Sun
Spontaneous mediastinal hematoma is exceedingly rare. We described such a case of a 61-year-old male with a posterior mediastinal hematoma from ruptured small aneurysm, which was ascertained via contrast-enhanced computed tomography examination. Subsequen... see more
Richard Bostelmann, Samis Zella, Hans Jakob Steiger, Athanasios K. Petridis
Causality between spinal cord compression and polyneuropathy is difficult to define, especially under the circumstances that polyneuropathy can have many causes. Seven patients with spinal cord compression and electrophysiological signs of polyneuropathy ... see more