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  1. Adult-onset leukoencephalopathies are a group of heterogeneous disorders characterized by white matter abnormalities. Leukoencephalopathy is usually encountered in children, but here we report a case with adul...

    Authors: Mohamed A. Taha and T. Scott Diesing

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:561

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  2. Carney’s triad is a rare syndrome comprising gastrointestinal stromal tumor, extra-adrenal paraganglioma, and pulmonary chondroma along with newer additions of adrenal adenoma and esophageal leiomyoma. The tri...

    Authors: Ghazal Tansir, Nihar Ranjan Dash, Saurabh Galodha, Prasenjit Das, Shamim Ahmed Shamim and Sameer Rastogi

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:559

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  3. The new coronavirus, known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) owing to its similarity to the previous severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), is characterized by causing, in most...

    Authors: Natalia Ramirez, David Ujueta, Luis Felipe Diaz, Lucila Emilse Folleco, Andrea Rodríguez, Ivan Gaona and Mauricio O. Nava-Mesa

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:558

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  4. Pneumatosis intestinalis is a rare disease characterized by gas-filled cysts within the submucosa or serosa of the intestinal tract. In recent years, pneumatosis intestinalis was reported in patients undergoin...

    Authors: Soji Toda, Hiroyuki Iwasaki, Daisuke Murayama, Maya Isoda, Hirotaka Nakayama, Nobuyasu Suganuma and Katsuhiko Masudo

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:556

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  5. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 reinfection prevalence is unknown. It is essential to understand reinfection symptoms and, importantly, the lived experience.

    Authors: Jacinda K. Dariotis, Stephanie M. Sloane and Rebecca Lee Smith

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:557

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  6. Pituitary metastases are rare, often deriving from lung or breast cancer owing to the upper vena cava proximity. Pituitary metastases can manifest with signs and symptoms of pituitary tumors, consequent to mas...

    Authors: Giuseppe Giuffrida, Francesco Ferraù, Ylenia Alessi and Salvatore Cannavò

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:555

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  7. Sigmoid volvulus in pregnancy is a rare cause of intestinal obstruction with high maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality if not diagnosed and managed early.

    Authors: Jay Lodhia, Joachim Magoma, Joylene Tendai, David Msuya, Jamil Suleiman and Kondo Chilonga

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:554

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  10. Progressive pseudorheumatoid dysplasia is a rare, autosomal recessively inherited, noninflammatory musculoskeletal disorder caused by mutations occurring in the WNT1-inducible signaling pathway protein 3 gene....

    Authors: Anjumanara Anver Omar, Salman Ahmed, John Chris Rodrigues, Allan Kayiza and Lawrence Owino

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:551

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  11. Primary myelofibrosis is a rare myeloproliferative disorder in middle-aged and old adults and should be distinguished from secondary and reactive causes of bone marrow fibrosis because, in reactive fibrosis, t...

    Authors: Mahdi Khatuni, Marziyeh Ghalamkari, Fereshteh Ameli and Habibeh Yekehtaz

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:550

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  12. The aim of this study is to highlight the importance of having a central case managing team and to make some strong recommendations that can have a positive impact on the lives of hematopoietic stem cell trans...

    Authors: Jaleel Mohammed, Hadeel R. Bakhsh, Cliodhna Craig and Shahrukh K. Hashmi

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:549

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  13. Over-the-counter medication overdose is a difficult diagnostic challenge for many physicians as common drug screening assays cannot detect these substances. We present a case of acute psychosis, serotonin synd...

    Authors: Roudi Bachar, John Robert Majewski, Christopher Shrack and Anthony El-Khoury

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:548

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  15. The symptoms of coronavirus disease 2019, caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, were originally assumed to be mainly respiratory. With increasing knowledge, however, it turned ou...

    Authors: A. Saleh, R. Jung, S. Tonner, F. Hornof and M. Strittmatter

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:547

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  16. Dieulafoy’s lesion, first found by Paul Georges Dieulafoy, is an infrequent but important cause of recurrent upper gastrointestinal bleeding. The bleeding is usually severe, but patients rarely present with ch...

    Authors: Javad Salimi, Mohamad Behzadi, Alireza Ramandi, Mehdi Jafarinia, Hamid Zand and Mohammad Pirouzian

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:545

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  17. This report describes the case of a patient whose pituitary microadenoma resolved after he contracted coronavirus disease 2019. To our knowledge, this is one of the first reported cases of pituitary tumor reso...

    Authors: Salah Raishan, Mohammed Alsabri, Ann Mary Hanna and Matthew Brett

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:544

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  18. Hodgkin lymphoma is a systemic disease that commonly involves the cervical, supraclavicular, and mediastinal lymph nodes. The involvement of central nervous system in Hodgkin lymphoma is extremely rare, and di...

    Authors: Shanila Ahmed, Babar Irfan, Muhammad Raza and Ghulam Haider

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:532

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  19. Pericardial neoplastic involvement is rarely related to primary tumors of the pericardium and is most often caused by spread from other primary sites, such as lung and breast carcinomas, hematological malignan...

    Authors: Milena Brachmans Mascarenhas Neves, Mirella Velasco Stival, Yuri Costa Sarno Neves, Jordânia Gonçalves Pereira da Silva, Daniela Borges da Rocha Macedo, Bianca Mendes Carnevalli, Alana Moura Fé e Silva, Claudia Vaz de Melo Sette, Stephane Tomaz da Luz and Daniel de Iracema Gomes Cubero

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:543

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  20. Being expressed in all stages of B-cell development and having a significant value on the European Group for the Immunological Characterization of Acute Leukemias scoring system, CD79a is considered as an exce...

    Authors: A. Berhili, M. Bensalah, J. ElMalki, A. Elyagoubi and R. Seddik

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:531

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  21. Neuroendocrine tumors are rare, heterogeneous neoplasms that produce a wide variety of clinical symptoms. Diarrhea in neuroendocrine tumors is incredibly common and is usually benign in nature. We report two e...

    Authors: Emma Gordon, David L. Chan, Jennifer Arena, Elizabeth Bernard, Emily Carr-Boyd, Stephen J. Clarke, Malinda Itchins, Diana Learoyd, Neomal Sandanayake and Nick Pavlakis

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:542

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  22. Desmoid-type fibromatosis is a rare disease that can result in hydronephrosis. Hydronephrosis associated with desmoid-type fibromatosis often requires surgery or ureteral stent insertion. Although radiation th...

    Authors: Yojiro Ishikawa, Rei Umezawa, Takaya Yamamoto, Noriyoshi Takahashi, Kazuya Takeda, Yu Suzuki and Keiichi Jingu

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:540

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  23. Streptococcus gallolyticus subspecies gallolyticus is a known pathogen that causes infective endocarditis, and most cases involve the left heart valves. We present the first reported case of prosthetic tricuspid ...

    Authors: Raz Shapira, Tamir Weiss, Elad Goldberg, Eytan Cohen, Ilan Krause, Ram Sharony and Idan Goldberg

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:528

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  24. The consequences of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic have already exceeded 10 million infected and more than 560,000 deaths worldwide since its inception. Currently, it is known that the disease affects m...

    Authors: Caroline Petersen da Costa Ferreira, Kalynne Rodrigues Marques, Gustavo Henrique Ferreira de Mattos and Tércio de Campos

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:541

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  25. Extranodal, natural-killer/T-cell lymphoma of nasal type is a rare but aggressive disease usually presenting as progressive necrotic lesions in the nasal cavity that responds poorly to chemotherapy. In this pa...

    Authors: Fatemeh Adabifirouzjaei, Bharam Khazai, Ghazaleh Azami and Ghazaleh Shoja-e-Razavi

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:539

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  26. Emerging reports are describing stroke in young, otherwise healthy patients with coronavirus disease 2019, consistent with the theory that some of the most serious complications of coronavirus disease 2019 are...

    Authors: Nicolas Koslover, Marc Hardwick, Alexander Grundmann and Tamara Levene

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:538

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  27. Ehlers–Danlos syndrome is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of heritable connective tissue disorders caused by a defect in collagen synthesis and structure. The vascular subtype (Ehlers–Danlos s...

    Authors: Ahad E. Alotaibi, Ohood H. AlAamer, Mohammed A. Bawazeer and Ali A. Alzahrani

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:537

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  28. Massive hemoptysis due to aspergilloma is a rare but life-threatening complication. Bronchial artery embolization is recommended as a definitive treatment for massive hemoptysis. Polyvinyl alcohol is widely us...

    Authors: Wei Luo, Tongchen Hu, Yu Mao and Qi Yu

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:522

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  29. In this case report, we describe a very rare case of severe limb ischemia due to an arterial embolus caused by an aneurysm of the oval foramen in a term-born infant that occurred in the first few hours after b...

    Authors: J. J. van Vonderen, J. M. H. Keus, J. van Schaik, F. J. Smiers, D. J. ten Harkel and E. Lopriore

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:536

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  30. Permanent neonatal diabetes mellitus (PNDM) presents with dehydration and hyperglycemia, which usually occurs during the first 12 months of life. Activating mutations of beta-cell adenosine triphosphate-sensit...

    Authors: Maryam Razzaghy-Azar, Mitra Nourbakhsh, Ali Talea, Mahsa Mohammad Amoli, Mona Nourbakhsh and Bagher Larijani

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:535

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  31. Postpartum ovarian thrombosis is an uncommon condition. It appears with the nonspecific, predominantly right-sided abdominal symptoms and must be differentiated from other acute visceral conditions. If left un...

    Authors: Christos Tsitlakidis, Khalil Ibrahim Salim Al Ajmi, Alya Yousuf Al Madhani and Adel Hassan Ahmidat

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:521

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  32. Acute dystonic reactions caused by drugs are uncommon in daily practice, whether in outpatient or in emergency settings. Such types of unfavorable reaction may cause the treating physician’s working diagnosis ...

    Authors: Ritesh Chaudhary, Gyanendra Malla and Monika Kadayat

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:520

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  33. Thyroid storm is an endocrine emergency and life-threatening condition discovered in 1926. There is no specific laboratory parameter that can differentiate or distinguish between thyroid storm and primary hype...

    Authors: Muhammad Saleem, Sher M. Sethi, Abrar Ali and Zareen Kiran

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:519

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  34. While commonly utilized to fix tissue and muscles to megaprostheses to restore function and stability after tumor surgery, an attachment tube was used as a synthetic reconstruction of the knee joint’s extensio...

    Authors: Alena Richter, Henning Windhagen and Max Ettinger

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:534

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  35. Diabetic papillopathy is a rare diagnosis of exclusion characterized by unilateral or bilateral optic disc edema with variable degrees of visual loss. Although the visual prognosis has been generally reported ...

    Authors: Ilir Arapi, Piergiorgio Neri, Alfonso Giovannini and Arjeta Grezda

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:518

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  36. We report here a case of a healthy 23-year-old female patient who was assessed at the gynecology emergency department for genital ulcers, fever, and blurred vision. After suspicion of herpes simplex virus-2 le...

    Authors: S. Masmejan, Y. Guex-Crosier, C. Diserens, M. Vouga, A. S. Clottu, C. Ribi, P. Mathevet and M. Jacot-Guillarmod

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:517

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  37. With early diagnosis, fiberoptic or rigid bronchoscopy methods are the gold standard in the management of tracheobronchial foreign body. Otherwise, nonrecognized bronchial foreign bodies cause irreversible dam...

    Authors: Narindra N. M. Razafimanjato, Rindra A. Ralaivao, Tsiry D. N. Ravelomihary, Francis A. Hunald and Jean Louis H. Rakotovao

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:533

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  38. Vertebral artery dissection is an uncommon, but potentially fatal, vascular event. This case aimed to describe the pathogenesis and clinical presentation of vertebral artery dissection in a term pregnant patie...

    Authors: Francesca Monari, Stefano Busani, Maria Giovanna Imbrogno, Isabella Neri, Massimo Girardis, Annamaria Ghirardini, Francesca Cavalleri and Fabio Facchinetti

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:530

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  39. Giant cell arteritis has a wide variety of clinical symptoms, one of them being cervical radiculopathy, which mainly involves the C5 nerve root. If the patient does not develop typical clinical symptoms of gia...

    Authors: Akihiko Nakabayashi, Hiroki Ikai and Yoshinori Katada

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:527

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  41. Cerebellar degeneration is a rare and severe presentation of primary Sjögren syndrome. There are few case reports of cerebellar degeneration associated with different autoimmune diseases, especially with syste...

    Authors: Seow Lin Chuah, Ahmad Tirmizi Jobli, Sharifah Aishah Wan and Cheng Lay Teh

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:526

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  42. Autoimmune hepatitis–primary sclerosing cholangitis overlap syndrome is a form of autoimmune hepatitis with cholestatic features and is characterized by negative anti-mitochondrial antibody and cholangiographi...

    Authors: Behzad Hatami, Hamide Rahmani Seraji and Mohaddese fallahi

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:524

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  43. Uveal effusion syndrome is a rare disease characterized by exudative detachments of the choroid, ciliary body, and retina. Various surgical procedures and nonsurgical strategies have been described to treat uv...

    Authors: Li Song, Fangtian Dong and Changxian Yi

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:515

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  44. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is an effective cardiopulmonary support therapy, which can provide temporary cardiopulmonary support for critically ill patients whose condition cannot be reversed by...

    Authors: YouLian Chen, HuaiSheng Chen, XueYan Liu, ChengYing Hong and HuaDong Zhang

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:529

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  45. Desmoplastic fibroblastoma (also known as collagenous fibroma) is a benign, slowly growing soft-tissue tumor. Most desmoplastic fibroblastomas develop in the limbs, neck, or trunk. A mediastinal origin is quit...

    Authors: Tai Hato, Hiroaki Kashimada, Masatoshi Yamaguchi, Ato Sugiyama, Yoshiaki Inoue, Kohei Aoki, Hiroki Fukuda, Masatoshi Gika, Jun Kikuchi, Takashi Fujino, Takehiko Yamaguchi, Jun-ichi Tamaru, Mitsutomo Kohno and Mitsuo Nakayama

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:525

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  47. Plantaris tendinopathy and plantaris-associated Achilles tendinopathy can be responsible for chronic pain in the Achilles tendon midportion, often accompanied by medial tenderness. As conservative treatments a...

    Authors: Håkan Alfredson, Lorenzo Masci and Christoph Spang

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:513

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  48. Basal cell carcinoma is the most common nonmelanotic skin cancer. It has variable clinical and histological subtypes that vary in their aggressiveness and liability to recurrence and metastasis. Chronic ultrav...

    Authors: Mohammad Younes, Lamia Kouba, Hanaa Almsokar and Ayham Badran

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:512

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  50. Immune checkpoint inhibitors are new immunotherapy drugs globally used for many malignancies, including renal cell carcinoma. Myocarditis as an immune-related adverse event is rare but highly fatal, suggesting...

    Authors: Yasuyuki Miyauchi, Hirohito Naito, Hiroyuki Tsunemori, Ryosuke Tani, Yusuke Hasui, Yuichi Miyake, Tetsuo Minamino, Ryo Ishikawa, Yoshio Kushida, Reiji Haba and Mikio Sugimoto

    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2021 15:508

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