Clostridium difficile colitis (CDC) or pseudomembranous colitis is an inflammatory pathology of the bowel caused by toxins produced by unopposed proliferation of the bacterium Clostridium difficile. Antibiotic use continues to precede almost all cases of CDC...
A 64-year old man with severe pain in his left flank and left back visited an emergency room where an isolated small bowel niveau was disclosed [Figure 1] leading to an ileus diagnosis...
A 66-year-old man with a permanent pacemaker, Medtronic Adapta DR ADDRL1 (Medtronic Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA), underwent regular echocardiographic examination...
Adverse reactions, although rare, still pose a major risk to the patient's welfare. Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) is only one such fatal drug reactions. “A new eruptive fever with stomatitis and opthalmia” was described as a severe variant of erythema multiforme and was termed by Steven and Johnson in 1922...
Crouzon syndrome (CS) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by premature closure of one or more cranial sutures and produces the characteristic craniofacial and other associated abnormalities...
Pediatric melanoma, often associated with congenital nevi, has a rare incidence of 300-400 cases per year. However, the rate of incidence in pediatric patients has been increasing 2.8% per year...
Odontogenic tumors represent a biologically, radiographically, and clinically diverse group of benign and malignant tumors that arise in the jaws and associated soft tissues...
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome (NMS) is an extremely rare but life threatening phenomenon associated with certain medications. Prevalence is noted to be anywhere between 0.02%-3%. NMS is more common in men than women...
Sjogren's syndrome (SS) is a systemic autoimmune disease that mainly affects the exocrine glands and usually presents as persistent dryness of the mouth and eyes due to functional impairment of the salivary and lacrimal glands...
Ciprofloxacin is a 4th generation quinolone antibiotic and a broad spectrum antimicrobial agent. It has very few side effects and this drug is relatively safe...
Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) corresponds to more than 90% of oral malignant neoplasms [1].This disease has high rates of incidence and mortality worldwide [2], and despite advances in prevention and treatment, it has been often diagnosed tardily...
Pemphigoid gestation is (PG) is a rare autoimmune bullous skin disorder occurring during pregnancy. PG previously was termed as herpes gestationis because of its blistering appearance, though there is no relation of this disease to the herpes infection...
Peer review is an essential process in any publications refereeing a mutual process that allows evaluating manuscripts submitted to a journal and commented upon by independent research experts within the similar field of research...
Open Access is the free of charge, instant, online availability of research articles, together with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital milieu. It provides unrestricted use and reuse...
Plagiarism is a part of Journalistic ethic where it is considered to be a crime. The act of taking content, writing, statement or an idea that is already published is known as plagiarism. Whenever you consider using any paraphrase, sum up, or take terms, phrases, sentences or statements...