The authors present a case of a 39-year-old caucasian patient referred to our Department with a right facial mass. The patient's main complaint was aesthetics. He had no pain but reported that the mass had been slowly growing for three years...
The dark, reddish, “mad honey,” known as “deli bal” in Turkey, contains an ingredient from rhododendron nectar called grayanotoxin - A natural neurotoxin that, even in small quantities, brings about light-headedness and sometimes, hallucinations...
A 62 year male known case of hypertension, presented in the medical emergency with the complaints of fever, generalized body weakness, constipation and shortness of breath for the past one week. Fever was continuous and high grade with no history of nausea, vomiting or bony tenderness...
Up to 40% of trauma-related deaths are noted to be due to significant hemorrhage and remains the focus of preventable trauma related mortality [3]. Blunt force torso trauma is associated with known sources of hemorrhage from intra-abdominal, retroperitoneal and pelvic injury...
Originally described by Sharp et al in 1972, Mixed Connective Tissue Disease (MCTD) is characterized by high titer anti-U1-RNP antibodies, and clinical and serological overlap of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), rheumatoid arthritis, Systemic Sclerosis (SSc), and polymyositis...
Sideroblastic anemia is characterized by accumulation of iron in mitochondria of erythroblasts, which is visible as Prussian blue positive granules. These erythroblasts are termed as ringed sideroblasts when the granules form a ring around the nucleus, covering more than one third of the circumference...
A 24-year-old girl, well known to Accident and Emergency department, presented again overnight in handcuffs accompanied by four psychiatric staff members. She had been a psychiatric inpatient since the age of 17, sectioned in a forensic ward due to behavioural explosions of self-harm,...
Kissing nevus is an unusual lesion that was first described on the eyelids and has been rarely described on the penis. They are located on adjacent sites of the body at which division occurs during embryogenesis. Kissing nevus of the penis is exceedingly rare...
Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia (WM) is a monoclonal proliferation of B-cells, located in the bone marrow and in the lymphoid organs. This proliferation of lymphocytes has the capacity to generate a large amount of monoclonal immunoglobulin M...
Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis is an autoimmune inflammatory condition characterized by seizures, encephalopathy, memory loss and personality changes. In this condition, tumors express antigens that are shared by native, non-neoplastic neuronal tissues causing antibody formation to these...
The diagnosis of an asymptomatic adnexal lesion during pregnancy has become more common after the widespread use of routine ultrasonography (USS) [1]. It is estimated that approximately 1-4% of pregnant women are diagnosed with an adnexal mass, while about 90% of such lesions revealed during...
Dopamine is a ubiquitous neurotransmitter that plays a significant role in survival and feelings of pleasure, motivation, learning, memory and most important, well-being. In addition to ensuring survival, most activities (eating, work, sex, and play) produce positive feelings, or relieve negative ones;...
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...