11 articles in this issue
Pranit N. Chotai, Nabil A. Ebraheim, Ryan Hart, Andrew Wassef
Constellation of ipsilateral posterior hip dislocation, intertrochanteric- and proximal tibial fracture with popliteal artery injury is rare. Management of this presentation is challenging. A motor vehicle accident victim presented with these injuries, bu... see more
Gautam Bir Singh, Deepak Kumar, Rubeena Arora, Sunil Garg, Shruti Ranjan
A rare case of intratonsillar abscess is presented in a 25-year old healthy adult male, where the clinical presentation was found to be unique hitherto unreported in the medical literature. The clinical record also highlights the importance of incision an... see more
Alexandros Doukas, Annamarie Tallo, Richard Parvin, Volkmar Hans, Pooya Daemi, Azad Cheko, Martin Scholz, Athanasios K. Petridis
Chondromas usually affect the small bones of hand and feet and account for only 0.5% of all intracranial tumors. We present a case of a giant, supratentorial meningeal chondroma in a 19-year old male patient and discuss the preoperative diagnostic finding... see more
Narjust Duma, Daniel C. Ramirez, Gloria Young, George Nikias, Martin Karpeh, Zubin M. Bamboat
A 72-year-old female presented with dyspepsia for 2 years and an incidental mass in the head of the pancreas on abdominal computed tomography (CT) scan. Patient had multiple negative endoscopic ultrasound guided biopsies. She was followed up for 3 years w... see more
Takeshi Kusunoki, Hirotomo Homma, Yoshinobu Kidokoro, Aya Yanai, Katsuhisa Ikeda, Ryo Wada
We experienced a very rare case of maxillary bone metastasis from lung cancer. The patient was a 77-year-old Japanese man with 1-month history of right alar swelling with hard pain as his chief complaint. Computed tomography scan showed a 1 cm length roun... see more
We experienced a rare case of laryngeal cancer associated with dermatomyositis. The patient was a 63-year-old male and Japanese. He was admitted to our department of Otorhinolaryngology with dysphagia for a day as a chief complaint. He became aware of hoa... see more
Vera Silva, Paulo Correia, Nuno Oliveira, Luís Sá
A 52-year-old woman was referred to the gynecology outpatient clinic with a 2 months history of vaginal bleeding with intercourse, and no other symptoms. Vaginal examination revealed a firm, non-tender, mass in the posterior vaginal wall. The initial clin... see more
Ajay H. Bhandarwar, Pravin N. Tungenwar, Yogesh M. Sawakare, Amol Nanasaheb Wagh, Chintan Babubhai Patel, Saurabh S. Gandhi
A 70-year old female was admitted to hospital with heartburn and chronic halitosis since 5 years. She was on proton pump inhibitors for the same. Her complaints worsened during the last one-year. Workup comprising of esophagogastro- duodenoscopy, esophage... see more
Maurizio Lopresti, Primo Andrea Daolio, Jacopo M. Rancati, Nicoletta Ligabue, Arnaldo Andreolli, Lorenzo Panella
Tumor-induced osteomalacia is an osteomalacic syndrome caused by a mesenchymal origin’s tumor. The diagnostic procedure takes time and extensive investigations because of the characteristics of these tumors usually small dimensioned, slowly growing, non-i... see more
Sunil Pawar, Vinay Zanwar, Ashok Mohite, Ravindra Surude, Pravin Rathi, Meenakshi Balasubramani
Congenital hepatic fibrosis is a rare cause of portal hypertension and esophageal varices in children. We report cases of siblings with biopsy proven congenital hepatic fibrosis and with atypical retinitis pigmentosa. They presented with repeated episodes... see more
Aditi Bector, Pawandeep Sandhu Virk, Gururaj Arakeri
This paper reports the accidental injection of formalin into oral tissue space, in an 8-year old child resulting in chemical facial necrotizing cellulitis and its management. The common practice of keeping formalin in local anesthesia vials should be avoi... see more