Cutis laxa (CL) is a heterogeneous group of diseases, which can be characterized by sagging and inelastic skin due to the damage of dermal elastic fibers. It can be either inherited or acquired. According to the clinical characteristics, acquired CL is divided into two groups...
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has spread worldwide since March 2020, becoming one of the most serious causes of mortalities, especially among the elderly and patients with underlying diseases...
First-line chemotherapy for advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is imatinib mesylate (Gleevec®, Novartis, Basel, Switzerland), a BRC-ABL, c-kit, PDGF-R tyrosine kinase inhibitor [1]. Imatinib was first approved in 2001 for the treatment of chronic myelogenous leukemia and has since been approved...
A 53-year-old female without a medical history other than chronic alcoholism, consulted in the summer of 2020 for epigastric pain. No biological or abdominal imaging was performed. Symptoms improved concomitantly with the prescription of proton pump inhibitors...
Giant left atrium (LA) is a very rare entity and rarely reported in the literature due to decreased frequency of rheumatic mitral valve (MV) disease in the last four decades. Earlier diagnosis and treatment of rheumatic MV disease contributed to the considerable decline in the rheumatic heart disease incidence...
Right-sided colonic diverticulosis is less common than left-sided disease in Western population, while it is more frequent in Asia, especially among young people, with a prevalence ranging from 0.7% to 1.5% of the people affected by diverticulosis...
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...