Clinics and Practice  

Homajoun Maslehaty, Athanasios K. Petridis, Harald Barth, Alexandros Doukas, Hubertus Maximilian Mehdorn

The aim of this study was to present the data of a large cohort of patients with spontaneous supratentorial intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), who were treated in our department and give a current overview considering special clinical characteristics, perfor... see more

Rohan Paul, David Morgan, Michael Levitt, Ross Baker

Myeloid sarcoma is a rare extramedullary tumour consisting of immature myeloid cells. It can arise at any anatomical location and often develops in the bowel. This report describes a case of severe acute disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) with m... see more

Smitha Naik K., Madhusudhan Astekar, Dinesh Rao

Fibrosarcoma of the oral and maxillofacial region is a rare entity with poor prognosis. Most common sites are the extremities, with only one percent of fibrosarcoma arising in the head and neck area. Oral fibrosarcoma are locally infiltrative and destruct... see more

Charan Babu HS, Bhagawan Das Rai, Manju A. Nair, Madhusudan S. Astekar

Simple bone cysts (SBC) are pseudocysts occurring less commonly in the maxillofacial region. The uncertain and unclear etiopathogenesis led to numerous synonyms to refer this particular cyst. These cysts are devoid of an epithelial lining and are usually ... see more

Athanasios K. Petridis, Sabrina Sechting, Michael Budde, Alexandros Doukas, Homajoun Maslehaty, Hubertus Maximilian Mehdorn

Intervertebral fusion through an anterior approach with polymethylacrylate is a wellestablished neurosurgical technique in the treatment of cervical spine degeneration. However, questions still remain concerning the post-surgical outcome. Factors influenc... see more

Sumihisa Imakado, Ryo Masuda

The authors report a case of mucinous carcinoma of the male breast firstly diagnosed as a mucinous carcinoma of the skin. The immunohistochemical results of this tumor were as follows: cytokeratin7 (-), gross cystic disease fluid protein 15 (-), p63 (-), ... see more

Sunil Kumar, Amit Gupta, Sanjay K. Diwan, Arvind Bhake

Subcutaneous swelling as first clinical presentation of small cell lung carcinoma is uncommon and rarely reported in literature. This case highlights a rare presentation in which subcutaneous swelling was the first clinical manifestation of a small cell c... see more

Deirdre Mary Fanning, Hugh Flood

A 58-year-old Caucasian male presented to the urology clinic reporting an approximate one-year history of a persistent irritating, slowly progressive, glans penis redness. Biopsy revealed penile squamous cell carcinoma in situ. He underwent a partial glan... see more

Janine Hartl, Claudia Ott, Gabriele Kirchner, Bernd Salzberger, Reiner Wiest

Dual and triple infections with hepatitis virus C (HCV), B (HBV) and D (HDV) frequently lead to severe liver damage. Hereby we describe a 38-year-old Caucasian male coinfected with HCV (genotype 3a), HBV [positive hepatitis B surface antigen (HbsAg) and a... see more

Rikke Winge, Jais O. Berg, Rikke Albret, Christen Krag

A large anterior chest wall defect following tumor resection was reconstructed with a Gore- Tex® membrane and a combined musculocutaneous rectus femoris and tensor fasciae latae free flap. Subsequent paradoxical respiration impeded weaning from the ventil... see more

Athanasios K. Petridis, Alexandros Doukas, Homajoun Maslehaty, Hubertus Maximilian Mehdorn

The present study evaluates the incidence of early and late seizures after head injury in patients under 18 years old. Factors correlating with a high risk of developing posttraumatic seizures were identified. Such risk factors were the severity of the he... see more

Takeshi Kusunoki, Katsuhisa Ikeda, Mie Miyashita

Extracranial meningioma with extension into a middle ear is very uncommon. A 74-year-old female was admitted to our hospital with right ear bleeding when removing earwax. In this case, magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, her past history and ... see more

Panagiota K. Petsa, Achilleas Karamoutsios, Lefkothea Dova, Leonidas Benetatos, Asimina Petsiou, Nikolaos Kolaitis, Antonis Georgopoulos, Georgios Vartholomatos

T-cell large granular lymphocyte (T-LGL) leukemia represents a clonal proliferation of cytotoxic T-cells which etiology has not been entirely elucidated. However, CD4+, CD4–,CD8–, CD4+, CD8+ cases have been described. The disease is usually characterized ... see more

Sandra D.K. Kingma, Lukas A. Rammeloo, Vladimir Sojak, Jaroslav Hruda

Atrial septal defect (ASD) is usually asymptomatic in infancy, unless pulmonary hypertension or severe co-morbidity is present. We report a case of a 4-week-old infant with moderate- sized ASD, small patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), and a borderline sized ... see more

Prashant P. Shetty, Sandeep Metgud, Ankit Jain, Gurbani Dhillon, Madhusudan Astekar

Injury of anterior teeth is a relatively common event that mainly affects children and adolescents. Dentists are confronted with managing dental trauma and restoring fractured teeth on a regular basis. Hence the techniques that speed and simplify the trea... see more

Girish D. Bakhshi, Kishor R. Wankhede, Mukund B. Tayade, Sachin S. Shenoy, Sandeep T. Gore, Arvind G. Valand

Syringocystadenocarcinoma papilliferum is a rare form of adenocarcinoma of the skin. It is the malignant counterpart of syringocystadenoma papilliferum (SCAP). It usually develops on the scalp in a long-standing lesion identified clinically as SCAP. Twelv... see more

Thomas Dienstknecht, Klemens Horst, Hans-Christoph Pape

Maisonneuve fractures result from a disruption of the medial ankle structures and a proximal fibular fracture. Patient complaints can be misleading and there is a significant rate of delayed diagnosed injuries. We present a case of bilateral Maisonneuve f... see more

Girish D. Bakhshi, Ashok D. Borisa, Ajay H. Bhanadarwar, Mukund B. Tayade, Rajesh B. Yadav, Yogesh R. Jadhav

Choriocarcinoma is a beta human chorionic gonadotrophin secreting neoplasm pertinent to uterus and pregnancy mostly. It occurs primarily in gonads but rarely in extragonadal sites. Primary hepatic choriocarcinoma is an extremely rare tumor. Most of the re... see more

Ino Kanavaki, Laszlo Vutskits, Peter C. Rimensberger

We report a case of a premature infant presenting with recurrent pulmonary hemorrhage in which we performed a therapeutic lavage with diluted surfactant after an acute episode of bleeding with severe intractable hypoxemia. Repeated small aliquots of dilut... see more

George Wong, Simon C.H. Yu, Wai Sang Poon

After aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, most center practices treatment modality selection based on size and geometry in computed tomographic angiography. However, the validity as compared to digital subtraction angiography (DSA) is not well studied. Tw... see more

Gerardo Alvarez-Uria, Uvummala Priyadarshini, Praveen K. Naik, Manoranjan Midde, Raghuprakash Reddy

Studies performed in developed countries have shown that infections by third generation cephalosporin resistant Escherichia coli (G3CREC) are associated with increased mortality, but data from developing countries are scarce. In this observational study, ... see more

Poras Chaudhary, Sachin Khandelwal, Rana A.K. Singh, Upendra C. Biswal

Spontaneous rupture of kidney is a rare clinical entity. A 35-year-old female presented in emergency with left flank pain and features suggestive of haemorrhagic shock. Investiga - tions showed rupture of kidney with perinephric haematoma. Emergency left ... see more

Poras Chaudhary, Meenakshi Rao, Moninder P. Arora

The authors report a case of Waugh’s syndrome in an adult. Waugh’s syndrome is rare in adults as most of the cases present in paediatric age group. We have discussed treatment options and it is suggested that the possibility of Waugh’s syndrome should alw... see more

Eva Annen, Thierry Girard, Albert Urwyler

We present the case of a 7-year old boy with traumatic brain injury who received propofol during 38 h. Thirty-six hours after cessation of propofol infusion asystole occurred. After immediate mechanical and medical resuscitation, unreactive dilated pupils... see more