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  1. We report the case of a patient who was diagnosed as having pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis while being treated with prednisolone for bronchial asthma. Even before we had experienced a case of this, the rel...

    Authors: Akiko Ezuka, Kenichi Kawana, Hajime Nagase, Hirokazu Takahashi and Atsushi Nakajima
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:163
  2. Extramammary Paget’s disease is an uncommon intraepithelial neoplasm that arises in areas rich in apocrine glands. Treatment includes wide surgical excision and nonsurgical modalities. We present the case of a...

    Authors: Nikola Jankulovski, Liljana Spasevska, Vesna Janevska and Blagica Dukova
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:162
  3. Lymphoepithelioma is a very rare form of malignant tumor originating from epithelial line cells. Its occurrence has potential clinical, therapeutic and prognostic implications. In the present report we describ...

    Authors: Gian Paolo Spinelli, Giuseppe Lo Russo, Alberto Pacchiarotti, Valeria Stati, Alessandra Anna Prete, Federica Tomao, Cinzia Sciarretta, Mara Arduin, Enrico Basso, Stefania Chiotti, Marsela Sinjari, Martina Venezia, Giada Zoccoli and Silverio Tomao
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:161
  4. Intra-hepatic cholestasis arising from biliary strictures is a frequent complication in pediatric patients after liver transplantation. Minimally invasive procedures such as percutaneous drainage placement and...

    Authors: Gabriel Putzer, Peter Paal, Andreas P Chemelli, Walter Mark, Wolfgang Lederer and Franz J Wiedermann
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:160
  5. Ovarian metastases occur in 3 to 8% of women with primary colon cancer. In the setting of a pre-existing colorectal carcinoma this would constitute a hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer, Lynch 2 syndrom...

    Authors: Peter A Ongom, Michael Odida, Robert L Lukande, Josephat Jombwe and Emmanuel Elobu
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:158
  6. Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the temporal bone is an unusual but distinct disease entity. The most common presenting symptoms are otalgia, otorrhea, hearing loss, facial palsy, and vertigo. We describ...

    Authors: Xiaoli Zhou, Tingting Liu, Zhibin Chen, Zhihong Zhang and Guangqian Xing
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:157
  7. In contrast to adults, traumatic glenohumeral dislocation is a rarely observed condition among children. In some cases, success in durable reduction with conservative methods, and achieving lasting treatment, ...

    Authors: Mustafa Isik, Mehmet Subasi, Oguz Cebesoy, Irfan Koca and Ugur Pamukcu
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:156
  8. An infection by herpes zoster virus is a common and important cause of encephalitis. Herpes zoster virus encephalitis if not treated promptly can result in significant morbidity and mortality. The diagnosis of...

    Authors: Amrish Saxena, Benjamine Khiangte, Iadarilang Tiewsoh and Ulhas N Jajoo
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:155
  9. Extraosseous uptake of 99mTc-hydroxymethylene diphosphonate is a common situation of variable clinical relevance.

    Authors: David Morland, Carole Mathelin, Arnaud Wattiez and Izzie Jacques Namer
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:154
  10. Aggressive angiomyxoma is a rare myxedematous mesenchymal tumor that mainly occurs in the female pelvis and perineum. The principle of treatment for aggressive angiomyxoma is surgical excision. The tumor can b...

    Authors: Dae Gy Hong, Gun Oh Chong, Young Lae Cho, Il Soo Park, Ji Young Park and Yoon Soon Lee
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:153
  11. Replication of the human immunodeficiency virus involves an obligatory step of reverse transcription of the viral ribonucleic acid genome into a double-stranded deoxyribonucleic acid, and subsequent integratio...

    Authors: Anfumbom KW Kfutwah, Valerie Ngono, Paul Alain Ngoupo and Richard Njouom
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:152
  12. Tetralogy of Fallot is one of the most common forms of cyanotic congenital heart disease and in the absence of surgical correction it has an elevated early mortality, with most patients dying in childhood.

    Authors: Pedro Sousa, Walter Santos, Nuno Marques, Pedro Cordeiro, Rui Ferrinha, Salomé Pereira, Ana Almeida and Ilídio Jesus
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:150
  13. Acute leukemia is rare in pregnancy. The importance of promptly diagnosing and treating this disease in pregnancy stems from its life-threatening potential, both to the mother and fetus.

    Authors: Syheda Latifi Hoxha, Vlora Ademi Ibishi, Ahmet Brovina, Mynevere Hoxha and Shefqet Lulaj
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:148
  14. Pleural effusions are a common clinical problem and affect about one million people in the United States and United Kingdom each year. Over 60 causes of pleural effusion have been identified; establishing the ...

    Authors: Andrew Rosenstengel, Ee Mun Lim, Michael Millward and YC Gary Lee
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:147
  15. Both the isolated distal femoral epiphysiolysis and the isolated proximal tibial epiphysiolysis are the least common epiphyseal injuries. Even though they are uncommon, they have a high incidence rate of compl...

    Authors: Deniz Gulabi, Mehmet Erdem, Guven Bulut, Cem Coskun Avci and Murat Asci
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:146
  16. Crystal violet was commonly used for the treatment of oral and vaginal candidiasis or for sterilization during operations up to the 1960s. Because crystal violet is potentially toxic to mucosal membranes, it h...

    Authors: Takeshi Hashimoto, Makoto Ohori, Takeshi Kashima, Hidenobu Yamamoto and Masaaki Tachibana
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:145
  17. Solitary rectal ulcer syndrome is a condition in which an ulcer occurs in the rectum. There is evidence that solitary rectal ulcer syndrome is associated with rectal prolapse either overt or occult and that st...

    Authors: Narimantas Evaldas Samalavičius and Edvinas Kildušis
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:133
  18. Left ventricular non-compaction is a rare congenital heart disease, and is most commonly diagnosed via two-dimensional echocardiography according to echocardiographic criteria. Recently, transthoracic three-di...

    Authors: Takao Konishi, Tomoo Nagai, Akira Hamabe, Junko Arakawa, Hideki Hisadome, Mikoto Yoshida and Hirotsugu Tabata
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:142
  19. Spontaneous atraumatic true axillary artery aneurysm is a relatively unusual disorder. Although most cases are asymptomatic, complications of axillary artery aneurysms may result in acute vascular insufficienc...

    Authors: Changsheng He, Xingjiang Wu, Jianmin Cao, Xinxin Fan, Kai Liu and Baochen Liu
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:140
  20. Liver cavernous hemangioma is the most common noncystic hepatic lesion, and a hemangioma that undergoes degeneration and fibrous replacement is called a hepatic sclerosed hemangioma.

    Authors: Yoshitaka Shimada, Yoshihito Takahashi, Hiroyoshi Iguchi, Hitoshi Yamazaki, Hidekazu Tsunoda, Masaaki Watanabe, Masaya Oda and Hiroaki Yokomori
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:139
  21. Post-mastectomy seromas are a common problem in modern oncological surgery. Occurrence rates of up to 59% have been reported in the literature. High-risk patients, that is, those who have received previous sur...

    Authors: Christian Eichler, Faten Dahdouh, Axel Sauerwald and Mathias Warm
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:138
  22. We report a case of deliberate self-harm in which three three-inch nails were fired from a nail gun resulting in mandibular fixation and two penetrating injuries to the right cardiac ventricle. This combinatio...

    Authors: Herman Lim, Laurence Weinberg, Chong Oon Tan, Stanley Tay, Constantine Kolivas and Philip Peyton
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:137
  23. Free vascularized fibular grafts have been widely used for the reconstruction of long bone defects. However, the use of a vascularized tibial graft is precluded by its weight-bearing function and unacceptable ...

    Authors: Shih-Hao Chen, To Wong, Ming-Chung Yeh, Chun-Huang Pai and Jih-Yang Ko
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:136
  24. Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are generally considered to be distinct illnesses. One piece of evidence supporting their distinctness is the rarity of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder occurring in monozy...

    Authors: Richard O’Reilly, E Fuller Torrey, Jay Rao and Shiva Singh
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:134
  25. Juvenile idiopathic arthritis is a heterogeneous T cell-mediated autoimmune disease with symptoms of premature aging of the immune system (immunosenescence). The present work is an investigation of immunosenes...

    Authors: Giovanni Almanzar, Manuela Zlamy, Christian Koppelstaetter, Andrea Brunner, Verena Jeller, Christina Duftner, Christian Dejaco, Juergen Brunner and Martina Prelog
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:135
  26. Fungal myositis is very uncommon, even in patients who are immunocompromised. Because of its rarity and a lack of clinical experience, no consensus has been reached about the best means of treating fungal myos...

    Authors: Xiao-Ji Lin, Rong-Xin Yao, Mu-Qing He, Bao-Ling Zhu and Wen-Jian Guo
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:132
  27. The clinical presentation of eosinophilic myocarditis may vary from asymptomatic to the manifestation of severe symptoms, including cardiac tamponade and arrhythmias. In pregnant patients with this condition, ...

    Authors: Yu Kasamatsu, Takashi Kida, Mayumi Shigeru, Toru Tagashira, Naoki Murai, Eiji Takai and Hideyuki Takaoka
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:129
  28. Irreversible electroporation (IRE) is a new minimally invasive tumor ablation technique which induces irreversible disruption of cell membrane integrity by changing the transmembrane potential resulting in cel...

    Authors: Christoph Niessen, Ernst-Michael Jung, Andreas G Schreyer, Walter A Wohlgemuth, Benedikt Trabold, Joachim Hahn, Michael Rechenmacher, Christian Stroszczynski and Philipp Wiggermann
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:128
  29. Histiocytic sarcoma is a rare neoplasm with few cases reported in the literature of which some were diagnosed in animals. This neoplasm arises from abnormal reticuloendothelial system cell proliferation of his...

    Authors: Elisabeth Pérez-Ruiz, Maite Delgado, Andrés Sanz, Ana Maria Serradilla Gil and Antonio Rueda Domínguez
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:127
  30. Paracoccidioidomycosis is a systemic mycosis in Latin America that can affect various organs. Few case reports of paracoccidioidomycosis affecting the prostate are found in the literature.

    Authors: Pedro Francisco Ferraz de Arruda, Márcio Gatti, José Germano Ferraz de Arruda, Daniel Cernach Ayres, Eduardo Maciel Narvaes, Laísa Ferraz de Arruda and Moacir Fernandes de Godoy
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:126
  31. Congenital diaphragmatic hernia is a major malformation occasionally found in newborns and babies. Congenital diaphragmatic hernia is defined by the presence of an orifice in the diaphragm, more often to the l...

    Authors: Enrica Bianchi, Paola Mancini, Stefania De Vito, Elena Pompili, Samanta Taurone, Isabella Guerrisi, Antonino Guerrisi, Vito D’Andrea, Vito Cantisani and Marco Artico
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:125
  32. The normal startle response is a form of physiological myoclonus. Its anatomic origin is probably the brain stem. Pathologic startles are defined as reproducible exaggerated startle responses to trivial and no...

    Authors: Julia Schoof, Christian Kluge, Hans-Jochen Heinze and Imke Galazky
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:124
  33. A laugh-induced seizure is an unrecognized condition and to the best of our knowledge no case has been reported in the medical literature until now. We present an interesting and extremely rare case in which laug...

    Authors: Naba Raj Mainali, Leena Jalota, Madan Raj Aryal, Torrey R Schmidt, Madan Badal and Richard Alweis
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:123
  34. Pathological (late) fracture of the mandibular angle after third molar surgery is very rare (0.005% of third molar removals). There are 94 cases reported in the literature; cases associated with osseous pathol...

    Authors: Tommaso Cutilli, Theodora Bourelaki, Secondo Scarsella, Desiderio Di Fabio, Emanuele Pontecorvi, Pasqualino Cargini and Luis Junquera
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:121
  35. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is a rare disease that affects patients of any age with acute or chronic liver disease. Liver transplantation is the only therapeutic option of proved benefit, and can result in substa...

    Authors: Atqah Abdul Wahab, Maryam Al-Mansoori, Mariam El-Hawli and Vishwanatha Kini
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:120
  36. Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura is a type of occlusive thrombotic microangiopathy that is not specific to pregnancy but occurs with an increased frequency during it. Prognosis of thrombotic thrombocytopeni...

    Authors: Ernesto González-Mesa, Isidoro Narbona, Marta Blasco and Isaac Cohen
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:119
  37. The rare variant of renal epithelioid/pleomorphic angiomyolipoma has been reported in approximately 120 cases. One of the most important characteristics to differentiate these tumors from other renal cell neop...

    Authors: Samantha E Hohensee, Francisco G La Rosa, Petra Homer, Thomas Suby-Long, Shandra Wilson, M Scott Lucia and Kenneth A Iczkowski
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:118
  38. Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder that classically presents as sudden death in infancy secondary to central hypoventilation. Most cases are caused by polyalanine rep...

    Authors: Elizabeth Bygarski, Melanie Paterson and Edmond G Lemire
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:117
  39. CyberKnife® radiation is an effective treatment for unresectable skull base tumors because it can deliver a highly conformational dose distribution to the complex shapes of tumor extensions. There have been few r...

    Authors: Shoko Merrit Yamada, Yudo Ishii, So Yamada, Yoshiaki Goto, Mineko Murakami, Katsumi Hoya and Akira Matsuno
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013 7:116

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