As I move through “midlife”, I am increasingly a fan of the popularized notion that, “Today’s Sixty is Yesterday’s Forty”.
Published on 29 Dec, 2016
For a few years and since the release of the expression on Medline in 1992 by Gordon Guyatt et al., interest in the Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) had skyrocketed and had induced a kind of globalization of its teaching.
Published on 28 Dec, 2016
A 29-year-old woman visited to our department with presenting recurrent pruritic erythematous crusted patches for 4 years.
Published on 27 Dec, 2016
Malignant tumors in the nasal cavity and the paranasal sinus account for 1% of all cancers in the body.
Published on 26 Dec, 2016
An 85-year old male with diabetes and dementia presented with a two-week history of rapidly growing erosions spanning multiple dermatomes on the left side of the face.
Published on 26 Dec, 2016
A 75-year-old male with recurring adhesive ileus presented with abdominal pain. On clinical examination diminished bowel sounds were noted and the following abdominal x-ray confirmed our suspicion of intestinal obstruction.
Published on 23 Dec, 2016
Quadriceps tendon injuries are quite common but seldom ruptures can be seen bilaterally in both tendons.
Published on 22 Dec, 2016
Inverted papilloma is an uncommon primary nasal. Despite its benign nature, this tumor represents three typical characteristics: a high propensity of recurrence, local aggressiveness and association with malignancy.
Published on 21 Dec, 2016
We describe a pedigree in which a couple had one healthy boy and two pregnancies of male fetuses with fetal demise at 18 weeks, respectively 22 weeks of gestation. Both fetuses presented dysmorphic features at expulsion and were found to have an Xp22 deletion, encompassing 9 genes among which the SHOX gene.
Published on 21 Dec, 2016
Diffuse involvement of the liver with neoplastic processes can present a diagnostic dilemma. We present the case of a diffusely infiltrative neuroendocrine tumor (NET) that mimicked Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS), not previously described in the literature.
Published on 20 Dec, 2016
Syphilis in pregnancy can cause considerable fetal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. It is endemic in the developing world but it is now resurgent in the developed world.
Published on 20 Dec, 2016
Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous disease of unknown cause that primarily involves the lungs.
Published on 19 Dec, 2016
Introduction: We describe a patient with a long history of fatigue and exercise intolerance who became know to the Rheumatology service because of acute onset muscle pain and weight loss.
Published on 19 Dec, 2016
We report three cases of Total Elbow Arthroplasty (TEA) for complete bony ankylosis in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA).
Published on 16 Dec, 2016
Scorpion sting can cause simple symptoms of local reddening and pain to severe complications. However, cases of toxic hepatitis and coagulopathy have been rarely reported so far.
Published on 12 Dec, 2016
Stauffer syndrome is characterized by abnormal liver function tests, hepato-splenomegaly, histologic changes consistent with non-specific hepatitis, and recovery of these abnormalities after nephrectomy, in patients with RCC.
Published on 09 Dec, 2016
Adverse interactions between warfarin and cytotoxic agents are well documented; however, interactions between warfarin and erlotinib are not well characterized.
Published on 09 Dec, 2016
A sinus of Valsalva aneurysm is a rare cardiac anomaly that may be congenital or acquired. It involves aneurysmal dilation of the coronary or non coronary cusps at the region of aortic root.
Published on 09 Dec, 2016
Prion diseases are a rare type of neurodegenerative disease, and the sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob subtype is the most common.
Published on 09 Dec, 2016
The following case presents an atypical manifestation of pancreatic cancer, the latter being diagnosed only after biopsy results.
Published on 08 Dec, 2016
Rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis is a rare life-threatening opportunistic fungal infection caused by fungi from the order Mucorales [1].
Published on 08 Dec, 2016
Goltz-Gorlin syndrome or Nevoid Basal Cell Carcinoma syndrome (NBCCS) is an infrequent multisystemic disease that is inherited in a dominant autosomal pattern, which shows a high level of penetrance and variable expressiveness.
Published on 07 Dec, 2016
Basal cell carcinoma is the most common type of skin cancer but its pigmented variety is only about 6% of all Basal cell carcinomas.
Published on 06 Dec, 2016
Myelosuppression is known to occur in kidney transplant recipients because of widely used immunosuppressant chemotherapeutic agents. Myelosuppression usually results with leukopenia and less often with neutropenia representing with percentages of 10 to 55% and 4.9 to 37.5% respectively [1,2].
Published on 06 Dec, 2016
Dilated cardiomyopathy is a disorder characterized by chamber dilatation and cardiac dysfunction, which is not the result of an ischemic or valvular heart disease.
Published on 05 Dec, 2016
Metastatic oral malignancy accounts for 1% of all oral cancers. Primary tumor sites are lung, kidney, liver, breast, female genital organs and colo-rectum.
Published on 05 Dec, 2016
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