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  1. Bilateral rectus femoris haematoma following a simultaneous strain of the quadriceps muscles is a very rare condition.

    Authors: Konstantinos Natsis, Christos Lyrtzis, Georgios Noussios, Efthymia Papathanasiou, Nikolaos Anastasopoulos and Trifon Totlis
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:56
  2. Renal oncocytomas are benign neoplasms derived from cells of the distal renal tubule, and comprise 5% to 7% of primary renal neoplasms. Oncocytomas are mostly asymptomatic, and the majority of tumors are disco...

    Authors: Sami Akbulut, Ayhan Senol, Bahri Cakabay and Arsenal Sezgin
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:52
  3. The occurrence of intussusception in adults is rare. The condition is found in 1 in 1300 abdominal operations and 1 in 100 patients operated for intestinal obstruction. The child to adult ratio is 20:1.

    Authors: Noormuhammad O Abbasakoor, Dara O Kavanagh, Diarmaid C Moran, Barbara Ryan and Paul C Neary
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:51
  4. Henoch-Schönlein purpura is a systemic disease with frequent renal involvement, characterized by IgA mesangial deposits. Streptococcal infection can induce an abnormal IgA immune response like Henoch-Schönlein...

    Authors: Francisco Rivera, Sara Anaya, Javier Pérez-Álvarez, Maria D Sánchez de la Nieta, María C Vozmediano and Julia Blanco
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:50
  5. Purple Glove Syndrome is a devastating complication of intravenous phenytoin administration. Adequate analgesia and preservation of limb movement for physiotherapy are the two essential components of management.

    Authors: Georgene Singh, Verghese T Cherian and Binu P Thomas
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:48
  6. Patellar tendon ossification is a rare pathology that may be seen as a complication after sleeve fractures of the tibial tuberosity, total patellectomy during arthroplasty, intramedullary nailing of tibial fra...

    Authors: Husamettin Cakici, Onur Hapa, Kutay Ozturan, Melih Guven and Istemi Yucel
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:47
  7. Eosinophilic fasciitis is an uncommon disorder with unknown etiology and a poorly understood pathogenesis. We present the cases of two patients with eosinophilic fasciitis with unusual presentation, and descri...

    Authors: Ramazan Danis, Sami Akbulut, Abdullah Altintas, Sehmus Ozmen and Cihan Akgul Ozmen
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:46
  8. Actinomyces are slow growing, non-spore forming, gram-positive, branching bacilli that thrive in anaerobic and microareophilic conditions. Actinomyces are more commonly associated with oral and cervicofacial i...

    Authors: Thomas Lall, Thomas M Shehab and Paul Valenstein
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:45
  9. Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS) is a rare familial disorder characterised by mucocutaneous pigmentation, gastrointestinal and extragastrointestinal hamartomatous polyps and an increased risk of malignancy. Peutz-...

    Authors: Sayantan Bhattacharya, Sunondo R Mahapatra, Ramlal Nangalia, Amitabh Palit, John R Morrissey, Ernie Ruban, Vijay Jadhav and George Mathew
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:44
  10. Merkel cell carcinoma is an uncommon skin malignancy that has a high propensity for metastatic spread. A systematic literature search identified 17 cases describing metastasis to the gastrointestinal tract, wi...

    Authors: Michelle Cheung, Henry Lee, Sanjay Purkayastha, Robert Goldin and Paul Ziprin
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:43
  11. The increasing incidence of new diseases as well as changing features of known diseases has partly been attributed to the impact of environmental changes. As a result, there have been calls from health experts...

    Authors: Okechukwu A Okezie, Koloi K Kgomotso and Mavis M Letswiti
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:42
  12. Measles is on the rise in the United Kingdom and must be considered in the differential diagnosis of any patient presenting with fever and rash. As a highly infectious disease, identified patients must be isol...

    Authors: Mahua T Chatterjee, Margaret Coleman, Gary Brook and Daniel McCrea
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:41
  13. Eosinophilic myocarditis is a rare form of myocarditis. It is characterized pathologically by diffuse or focal myocardial inflammation with eosinophilic infiltration, often in association with peripheral blood...

    Authors: Reza Amini and Craig Nielsen
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:40
  14. Heterotopic pancreatic cancer in the duodenum is a very rare disease. Only twelve cases have been reported worldwide to date. We report a rare case of malignant transformation of heterotopic pancreas (Heinrich...

    Authors: Yoshihiro Inoue, Michihiro Hayashi, Yoshifumi Arisaka, Kazuhide Higuchi, Yutaro Egashira and Nobuhiko Tanigawa
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:39
  15. Thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms usually present in elderly patients with serious renal, pulmonary, cerebral, or cardiac comorbidities that pose a great challenge to the attending surgeon. Endovascular techni...

    Authors: Arash Mohammadi Tofigh, Massoud Ghasemi, Babak Heidari Aghdam, Mersedeh Karvandi and Afsoon Kaboli
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:37
  16. Oxaliplatin is a cytotoxic platinum compound that is in widespread use in the treatment of gastrointestinal cancers. It has been occasionally associated with acute motor neuropathy, but the precise mechanism i...

    Authors: Min-Han Tan, Wen Yee Chay, Jia Hui Ng, Bin Tean Teh and Lita Chew
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:36
  17. Bucket handle tear of the menisci is a common type of lesion resulting from injury to the knee joint. Bucket handle injury of both menisci in almost all cases is associated with a lesion to either the anterior...

    Authors: Marios G Lykissas, George I Mataliotakis, Nikolaos Paschos, Christos Panovrakos, Alexandros E Beris and Christos D Papageorgiou
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:34
  18. Multicentric Castleman's Disease (MCD), a lymphoproliferative disorder associated with Human Herpes Virus-8 (HHV-8) infection, is increasing in incidence amongst HIV patients. This condition is associated with...

    Authors: Robin H Johns, Tomas Doyle, Marc C Lipman, Kate Cwynarski, Joanne R Cleverley, Peter G Isaacson, Steve Shaw and Banwari Agarwal
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:32
  19. Lymphocytic colitis is an uncommon intestinal disorder that presents with chronic diarrhoea. It is treatable, but in the developing world, its diagnosis may often prove difficult. Data and reports of this cond...

    Authors: Udeme E Ekrikpo, Jesse A Otegbayo and Abideen O Oluwasola
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:31
  20. Splenic tumors are rare and present a diagnostic dilemma. Metastatic carcinoma to the spleen is unusual. Visceral metastases in patients with ovarian cancer represent hematogenous spread of the disease; capsul...

    Authors: Abdul A Ghani, Zubair A Hashmi, Daniel M Chase, Shonak B Patel and Daniel F Jones
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:30
  21. Echinococcosis, or hydatid disease, is endemic in some regions of the world, and has been a common pathology of surgical wards in Kosovo. Primary hydatid cyst of the gallbladder is an unusual and very rare loc...

    Authors: Avdyl Krasniqi, Dalip Limani, Lumturije Gashi-Luci, Gazmend Spahija and Ismail A Dreshaj
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:29
  22. Hypercalcaemic hyperparathyroid crisis is a rare but life-threatening complication of primary hyperparathyroidism. Parathyroid carcinoma is a rare malignancy with an incidence of 0.5% to 4% of all reported cas...

    Authors: Kathy Rock, Nariman Fattah, Diarmuid O'Malley and Enda McDermott
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:28
  23. Idiopathic myelofibrosis is a chronic myeloproliferative disorder characterized by leukoerythroblastosis, massive splenomegaly, and increases in the reticular and collagen fibers in the bone marrow. Portal hyp...

    Authors: Kumiko Tamaki, Michiro Otaka, Naoto Sakamoto, Kenshi Matsumoto, Shunhei Yamashina and Sumio Watanabe
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:25
  24. Semi-solid nutrition with high viscosity has the advantage of reducing gastroesophageal reflux and diarrhea and shortens the duration of administration compared with liquid nutrition. This is the first report ...

    Authors: Tamaki Nakayama, Seiji Hayashi, Kyoichi Okishio, Tomoko Tomishiro, Kaori Hosogai, Yuki Ootsu, Yasushi Morioka, Kazuyoshi Hatsuda, Eriko Naito and Mitsunori Sakatani
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:24
  25. Neurofibromatosis type 1 is an autosomal dominant disorder that occurs across all ethnic groups and affects approximately one in 4000 individuals. One of the most noticeable characteristics of the disease is t...

    Authors: Maria Rita Bongiorno, Spyridoula Doukaki and Mario Aricò
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:22
  26. Stasilon® is a novel hemostatic woven textile composed of allergen-free fibers of continuous filament fiberglass and bamboo yarn. The development of this product resulted from controlled in vitro thrombogenic ana...

    Authors: Preston B Rich, Christelle Douillet, Valorie Buchholz, David W Overby, Samuel W Jones and Bruce A Cairns
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:20
  27. Unilateral optic neuropathy is commonly due to a prechiasmatic affliction of the anterior visual pathway, while losses in visual hemifields result from the damage to brain hemispheres. Here we report the unusu...

    Authors: Alexandra Kretz, Christoph Preul, Hans-Joerg Fricke, Otto W Witte and Christoph Terborg
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:19
  28. Riedel's thyroiditis is a rare thyroid disease characterized by dense fibrous tissues that replace the thyroid gland and invade the adjacent structures that can mimic thyroid malignancy. We discuss the present...

    Authors: Navneel Shahi, Mohammed F Abdelhamid, Mudit Jindall and Reda W Awad
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:15
  29. Cardiac involvement in malignant lymphoma is one of the least investigated subjects in oncology. This article reports a case of cardiac involvement in Hodgkin's lymphoma which presented as heart failure.

    Authors: Zeinab Amirimoghaddam, Malihe Khoddami, Nahid Dehghan Nayeri and Somayeh Molaee
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:14
  30. We describe the case of a 79-year-old Caucasian Italian woman with a transient basilar occlusion monitored by transcranial Doppler, with subsequent recanalization and clinical shrinking deficit. This is the fi...

    Authors: Giuseppe Nicoletti, Gerardina Albano, Sandro Sanguigni, Salvatore Tardi, Giovanni Malferrari, Massimo Del Sette, Filomena Bruno and Aldo Nicolai
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:13
  31. The treatment with antitumor necrosis factor agents has often been associated with the induction of autoantibodies (antinuclear antibodies, anti-double stranded DNA antibodies and antiphospholipid antibodies)....

    Authors: Ashima Makol, Madhusudan Grover, Carla Guggenheim and Houria Hassouna
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:12
  32. Total knee arthroplasty is a well-established procedure with gratifying results. There is no consensus in the literature whether to routinely resurface the patella while performing total knee arthroplasty or n...

    Authors: Vinay Kumar Singh, Pankaj Kumar Singh, Yashwant Singh, Alka Singh, Sadaf Javed and Murad Abdunabi
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:11
  33. We report a rare case of gastrointestinal perforation following dacarbazine infusion for metastatic melanoma. The condition is attributed to a responding malignant melanoma in the gastrointestinal tract.

    Authors: Sjoukje F Oosting, Frans TM Peters, Geke AP Hospers and Nanno H Mulder
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:10
  34. A hemangiopericytoma is a rare, soft-tissue tumor of vascular origin derived from a pericyte of Zimmerman, which is a modified smooth muscle cell that surrounds the small blood vessels. Hemangiopericytomas can...

    Authors: Yuji Kitahata, Shozo Yokoyama, Katsunari Takifuji, Tsukasa Hotta, Kenji Matsuda, Toshiji Tominaga, Yoshimasa Oku, Takashi Watanabe, Junji Ieda and Hiroki Yamaue
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:8
  35. Vitreomacular traction syndrome has recently been recognized as a distinct clinical condition. It may lead to many complications, such as cystoid macular edema, macular pucker formation, tractional macular det...

    Authors: Niranjan Kumar, Jamal Al Kandari, Khalid Al Sabti and Vivek B Wani
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:7
  36. This case report describes the effects of psychotropic treatment, quetiapine in particular, on systemic inflammation, pain, general functioning and major depression in the treatment of a woman with arthritis.

    Authors: Bernhard T Baune and Harris Eyre
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:6
  37. Both neurosarcoidosis and central nervous system lymphoma can be very difficult to diagnose. We describe the case of a patient in whom neurosarcoidosis was strongly suspected, but who was eventually found to h...

    Authors: Ernestina Santos and Neil J Scolding
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:5

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