Spleen is a hematological organ lying below the diaphragm in left upper quadrant of the abdomen. It is protected by lower ribs from external trauma. Rupture or laceration is commonly encountered after blunt trauma to the region...
The drug history is indispensible during the evaluation of the patient. It is important to physically examine the medication pack, rather than merely enquiring about the drugs, as there can be varying levels of errors...
A 62-year-old male presented with acute onset abdominal pain. His past medical history was significant for hypertension and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, maintained in sinus rhythm on sotalol. He was on aspirin 100mg daily for systemic embolism prophylaxis (CHADSVASC = 1)...
Abiotrophia defectiva was known as a member of the nutritionally variant streptococcus (NVS). It's a commonsal organism in humans. But it can cause various and rare infections such as bacteremia, infective endocarditis, central nervous system infection, ophthalmological, orthopedic and skin infections...
The precise incidence of the Subclavian Artery (SCA) disease (stenosis, occlusion) remains unknown, but it has been reported as high as 18% [1,2]. The disease primarily affects left SCA and treatment is recommended in symptomatic cases only...
Autoimmune pancreatitis is an infrequently diagnosed disease. Type 1 AIP is the prototypic IgG4 related disorder. The affected tissues share particular pathologic, serologic, and clinical features, regardless of the organ involved...
A 68-year-old man came to our attention for weakness, cachexia, abdominal pain and diarrhea lasting for almost six months. Furthermore, he reported also a weight loss of 25 kilograms over the last year and was bedridden for three months...
A 33-year-old male presented with an extraoral draining fistula. Patient reported that 'a tree limb broke and fell on his chin, loosening all his lower incisor teeth, about a year ago'. Examination of the area revealed a draining fistula anteriorly on the chin...
Hoffbrand and Beck first described in 1965 in a case series about patients who developed “unexplained breathlessness” with progressively lowering lung volumes and restrictive ventilatory deficits...
Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis, which was previously known as Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS), is a multisystem disorder characterized by chronic sinusitis, asthma, and peripheral blood eosinophilia...
Concomitant primary glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) and meningioma lesions are extremely rare. Initial reports site the use of radiosurgery for one lesion as the cause of the development of the other. There have been several reports of concomitant lesion dating back to the 1970s...
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...