A 22-year-old male presented to radiology department with left sided pulsatile neck swelling since 15 years. The patient had no intellectual and developmental disabilities. His past medical history was unremarkable, and there was no family history of neurologic disease...
Malaria is a parasitic infection spread by the bite of the female anopheles mosquito [6]. There are four parasitic species, namely, Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium ovale and Plasmodium malariae that are known to infect humans...
A 66-year-old male was admitted with gastro-oesophageal junction cancer. As preoperative routine assessment, the patient underwent a CT thorax-abdomen-pelvis that surprisingly showed a massively distended bladder (Figure; max. dimensions of 24 x 16 x 12 cm)...
Fat soluble vitamin (FSV) deficiencies in infants with biliary atresia (BA) have frequently been reported in the literature and the pathophysiology is well understood. Diminished bile flow in BA leads to decreased intestinal bile acid secretion and thus, decreased absorption of fat and FSV...
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is symmetric, motor and sensory peripheral neuropathy with a slow, progressive course that is frequently underdiagnosed...
Drug-induced thrombocytopenia (DITP) is a well-established but underdiagnosed condition. The condition is mostly asymptomatic, but can also cause severe bleeding...
Central venous catheter insertion is a routine procedure during cardiac surgery. Malposition of CVC in to a pulmonary vein can cause a diagnostic dilemma at times especially when there is no radiological assistance to confirm the position of the catheter...
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy or 'broken heart syndrome' is a diagnosis of sudden stress induced left ventricular dilated cardiomyopathy with apical ballooning...
A 44 year old male was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS (CDC C, WHO 4) in 2004 after presenting with cryptococcal meningitis. His baseline CD 4 count was 16 cells/cmm and HIV viral load was 47,259 copies/ ml...
A 64 year-old man with diastolic heart failure, chronic kidney disease (CKD), and tophaceous gout with frequent recurrent flares was admitted for acutely decompensated heart failure. Diuresis with intravenous furosemide was commenced with improvement of his volume status but resulting in a flare of polyarticular gout...
Human parvovirus B19 infection is common worldwide and generally known as childhood erythema infectiosum. Most individuals are infected by 15 years of age. Infection continues at a lower rate throughout adult life, and by the age of 50 years, 80% of the population is seropositive...
Multiple myeloma (MM) is a disease which is characterized by the neoplastic proliferation of plasma cells which produces monoclonal immunoglobulin...
Basal cell adenocarcinoma (BCAC) is a rare malignant tumor of the salivary gland that was included in the 1991 World Health Organization (WHO) classification [1] . Due to rarity of incidence only limited information is available from case reports...
A 29 year old patient presented with spontaneous and non-traumatic onset of pain and swelling in her knee. Additional symptoms included giving way but absence of clicking, locking or catching. Past medical history included multiples spontaneous haemarthrosis of the same knee in childhood...
Distant metastatic spread is the major cause of death from breast cancer [1]. Breast cancer metastasis can occur via direct invasion, lymphangitic spread, and/or hematogenous spread. Common sites of breast cancer metastasis include bone, lungs, liver, and brain...
SLE is an inflammatory autoimmune disease involving multiple organs, with a wide range of clinical manifestations. Immune thrombocytopenia in SLE (SLE-ITP) has often been associated with other clinical features including (but not limited to) neuropsychiatric and renal involvement...
A 76 year old woman, a treated case of cancer of the right breast, who had undergone a modified radical mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation therapy in 2001; presented with skin nodules within a region of chronic limb edema of the right upper limb since 2 months...
We present a case of a 40 year old woman with severe refractory myositis and interstitial lung disease secondary to anti-synthetase syndrome who achieved a sustained response to multiple courses of rituximab after relapsing on other immunosuppressive regimes...
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...
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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...