Clinics and Practice  

Mehmet Mesut Çelebi, Emin Ergen, Evren Üstu?ner

Soft tissue injuries constitute 30-50% of all sports related injuries; however, injury to the latissimus dorsi muscle is quite rare with only a few cases reported in the literature. Herein, we describe an acute traumatic tear of the latissimus dorsi muscl... see more

Regina Eziuka Oladokun, Chikodili N Olomukoro, Adewale B. Owa

Varicella results from a primary infection with the varicella virus while herpes zoster is caused by a reactivation of a latent infection. Dissemination of herpes zoster is uncommon in immunocompetent individuals. Reports of disseminated herpes zoster in ... see more

Georgios Kranidiotis, Angeliki Angelidi, Emmanouel Sevdalis, Thomas-Nikolaos Telios, Alexandra Gougoutsi, Andreas Melidonis

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a slowly progressive chronic disease, with a high prevalence among obese, dyslipidemic or diabetic people, commonly presented as an asymptomatic mild elevation of serum aminotransferases. We report a patient wh... see more

Poras Chaudhary, Gyan Ranjan, Anil Chaudhary, Alok Kumar Tiwari, Mohinder P. Arora

Acinar cell carcinoma of the pancreas is a rare pancreatic malignancy, constituting only 1-2% of all the pancreatic tumors. A young adult male presented with chronic diarrhea and upper abdominal pain, on investigations was found to have a large pancreatic... see more

Banavar Ravi Spoorthi, Roopa S. Rao, Premalatha Bidadi Rajashekaraiah, Shankargouda Patil, Sowmya Samudrala Venktesaiah, Preethi Purushothama

Primary intraosseous mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the jawbones is an extremely rare malignant salivary gland tumour constituting 2- 4.3% of all the reported mucoepidermoid carcinomas. We report a case of intraosseous mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the mandibl... see more

Durgesh Kumar Saini, Poras Chaudhary, Chikkala Kanak Durga, Kiran Saini

The aims and objectives of this study were: i) to evaluate the efficacy of computed tomography (CT) imaging in diagnosing the presence, level, degree, and cause of intestinal obstruction, and the role of CT in detecting presence of complications; ii) to a... see more

Alok Kumar Tiwari, Vijay Gupta, Priya Hazrah, Romesh Lal

Diverticulosis is rare in jejunum and its unusual presentation of mechanical obstruction is difficult to diagnose pre-operatively. We report a case of a 54-year old male patient who had symptoms of general abdominal pain and vomiting off and on for three ... see more

Sara Freitas Oliveira, Liliana Pinho, Hugo Rocha, Célia Nogueira, Laura Vilarinho, Maria José Dinis, Conceição Silva

Very long-chain acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase (VLCAD) deficiency (MIM 201475) is a rare inherited disorder with three forms of clinical presentation: a severe early-onset form; an intermediate form with childhood onset; and an adult-onset form, of mild se... see more

Ann Schmid, Yves Jacquemyn, Jeannette De Loor

We present a 37-week female baby, known with intrauterine growth restriction since 25 weeks of pregnancy, born with a placenta with an excessive long umbilical cord (ELUC), without any other abnormalities. ELUC is mostly an incidental finding after delive... see more

Rania Hefaiedh, Mariem Cheikh, Rym Ennaifer, Lassad Gharbi, Najet Bel Hadj

Toxic megacolon is a rare and serious complication of Crohn’s disease. Because of the associated high morbidity and mortality, early recognition and management of toxic megacolon is important. Through two cases of toxic megacolon complicating Crohn’s dise... see more

Ai Kawamoto, Yukio Katori, Yohei Honkura, Masaki Ogura, Takeshi Oshima, Toshimitsu Kobayashi

A fairly quite rare case of osseous tumor arising from the Eustachian tube (ET) is described. A 56-year-old man presented with a smooth bulky mass in the nasopharynx and secretory otitis media in the right ear. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance i... see more

Ryan Schenning, Petra Vajtai, Megan Troxell, Jeffrey Pollock, Katharine Hopkins

Alveolar soft part sarcoma (ASPS) is a rare malignancy that usually arises in an extremity. Mediastinal involvement is uncommon, with only two reports of primary mediastinal disease and two reports of metastatic mediastinal disease in the literature, all ... see more

Girish D. Bakhshi, Sachin S. Shenoy, Kavita V. Jadhav, Mukund B. Tayade, Sunil R. Patil, Chintan B. Patel

The number of ileostomies created for benign diseases such as familial adenomatous polyposis and ulcerative colitis is increasing. Long-term ileostomies are prone to develop various complications over time. Ileostomy site carcinoma is a well-established c... see more

Anroop Anirudhan, Sherin A. Khalam, Rakesh Koshy Zachariah

Condylar fractures account for 25-35% of mandibular fractures and deserve a special consideration apart from rest of the mandible due to their anatomical differences and healing potential. Previous clinical and biomechanical studies have recommended using... see more

Giuseppe Cocco, Paul Jerie

Multicenter trials have demonstrated that in patients with sinus rhythm ivabradine is effective in the therapy of ischemic heart disease and of impaired left ventricular systolic function. Ivabradine is ineffective in atrial fibrillation. Many patients wi... see more

Shigeo Tanabe, Eiichi Saitoh, Kei Ohtsuka, Toshio Teranishi, Yutaka Tomita, Yoshihiro Muraoka

Recently, three-dimensional (3D) closed curve trajectories of markers placed at strategic body locations, called cyclograms or Lissajous-like graphs, are used for treadmill gait analysis. A simple method is presented to reduce the effect of patient positi... see more

Katharine Hopkins, Jeanne Mowry, Donald Houghton

We report a case of congenital oligomeganephronia unexpectedly imaged with computed tomography (CT). Oligomeganephronia is a form of renal hypoplasia that leads to renal failure in childhood or adolescence. If encountered, its CT features should suggest t... see more

Aftab S. Shaikh, Girish D. Bakhshi, Arshad S. Khan, Nilofar M. Jamadar, Aravind Kotresh Nirmala, Arif Ahmed Raza

Leiomyomas though common benign tumors of smooth muscle cells are extremely rare in the male genitourinary tract. We present a case of an elderly male who presented with complaints suggestive of urinary bladder outlet obstruction since 1 year. His evaluat... see more