9 articles in this issue
Aftab S. Shaikh, Girish D. Bakhshi, Arshad S. Khan, Nilofar M. Jamadar, Aravind Kotresh Nirmala, Arif Ahmed Raza
Adrenal sarcomatoid carcinomas are extremely rare tumors presenting with extensive locoregional spread at the time of diagnosis. Patients succumb to metastases within a couple of months. As a result, very few cases are reported in the literature until now... see more
Sivakumar Brooklyin, Rashmoni Jana, Singaravelu Aravinthan, Bethou Adhisivam, Parkash Chand
Studies have identified the risk factors like folic acid deficiency during gestational period, family history for orofacial clefts, drugs like antiepileptic, vitamin A. But, the data regarding the folic acid status in children with cleft lip/palate is har... see more
Angela E. Rankine-Mullings, Jennifer M. Knight-Madden, Marvin Reid, Trevor S. Ferguson
Thrombosis may play an important role in the pathophysiology of certain complications of sickle cell disease (SCD). While the association between SCD and ulcerative colitis (UC) is still debatable, inflammatory bowel disease is known to be associated with... see more
Homajoun Maslehaty, Athanasios K. Petridis
We present a case of a patient with a tumor close to the right inferior frontal gyrus. The only symptom this patient had was a disturbing dry cough. After removal of the tumor the cough disappeared immediately. Review of the literature showed that there i... see more
Toshihiko Kinoshita, Naoki Takeshita, Akiko Takashima, Yutaka Yasuda, Hiroaki Ishida, Megumi Manrai
A 40-year old woman, gravida 4, para 4, presented with sudden lower abdominal pain and severe vaginal bleeding at 17 weeks of gestation. Clinical symptoms and ultrasonographic finding revealed placental abruption. The volume of bleeding was heavy and led ... see more
Dukagjin Morina, Georgios Ntoulias, Homajoun Maslehaty, Martin Scholz, Athanasios K. Petridis
The posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a well described entity of white matter pathology. PRES is triggered by numerous different factors such as acute elevated arterial hypertension, immunosupressive therapy, chemotherapy, etc. The ca... see more
Bindu J. Nair, Velayudhannair Vivek, Trivandrum T. Sivakumar, Anna P. Joseph, Babyamma Raghavanpillai Varun, Vinod Mony
Myoepitheliomas account for less than 1% of all salivary gland tumors and mostly occur in the parotid gland and palate. A 58-year old male patient reported to the Outpatient Department of PMS College of Dental Science and Research (Kerala, India) with a s... see more
Savvoula Savvidou
We report a case of a 50-year old homeless male who presented with pellagra and pellagrous encephalopathy. The characteristic - if not pathognomonic - skin lesions of pellagra support its diagnosis on solely clinical grounds. Clinicians should keep a high... see more
Leonardo Gomes da Fonseca, Romualdo Barroso-Sousa, Jorge Sabbaga, Paulo Marcelo Hoff
A 55-year old man was treated with sunitinib 50 mg/day for 4 weeks on and 2 weeks off, as a first-line therapy for metastatic renal cell carcinoma. During the fourth week of the first cycle, he was admitted to the Emergency Department with abdominal pain ... see more