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  1. In the patient with acromegaly, pituitary surgery is the therapeutic standard. Despite undergoing surgery, a significant number of patients with acromegaly continue to have uncontrolled growth hormone secretio...

    Authors: Héctor E Tamez-Pérez, Ana Bahena-García, María D Gómez de Ossio, Hugo Gutiérrez-Hermosillo and Alejandra L Tamez-Peña
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:200
  2. Gangrenous cholecystitis is a severe complication of acute cholecystitis. We present an unusual case of gangrenous cholecystitis which was totally asymptomatic, with normal pre-operative parameters, and was di...

    Authors: Sunil Chaudhry, Rima Hussain, Rajaganeshan Rajasundaram and David Corless
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:199
  3. This case report illustrates a rare case of teratoma of the mediastinum which was continuous to the pericardium and caused extrinsic compression to the right atrium.

    Authors: Ricardo D Vieira, Henrique Grimberg, Kiyomi K Uezumi, Lea MM Demarchi, Jeane M Tsutsui, Neuza HM Lopes and Whady Hueb
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:193
  4. Tuberculosis is still a serious infection among recipients of renal transplants. Although the ileocecal region is the most affected part in intestinal tuberculosis, acute tuberculous appendicitis is quite a ra...

    Authors: Mohammad R Ardalan, Mohammadali M Shoja and Kamyar Ghabili
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:191
  5. Infectious ileopectineal bursitis is a rare complication after total hip replacement and is associated mainly with rheumatoid arthritis. The main complications are local swelling and pain, but communication of...

    Authors: Jan Liman, Philipp von Gottberg, Mathias Bähr and Pawel Kermer
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:190
  6. We report a case of a 42-year-old man who had symptomatic hypothermia as a result of taking olanzapine for paranoid schizophrenia. According to published data, only a few cases of hypothermia associated with o...

    Authors: Lalith RMR Rasnayake, Harith Wimalarathne, Runkman KTDP Jayapala, Chaminda DM Gamage, Dinesh LB Dassanayake, Shiroma L Ratnayake, Anuradha Colombage, Damith Nandadeva and Amitha NPK Nelumdeniya
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:189
  7. Alveolar adenomas are extremely rare, benign, primary lung tumors of unknown histogenesis that are characterized by proliferative type II alveolar epithelium and septal mesenchyma. Mostly incidental, they are ...

    Authors: Tapan Bhavsar, Guldeep Uppal, John M Travaline, Colleen Gaughan, Yajue Huang and Jasvir S Khurana
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:187
  8. Aggressive, recurrent embolisms require accurate etiologic diagnosis. We describe the case of a 69-year-old Italian Caucasian woman with recurrent arterial embolisms in whom several sources and triggers of thr...

    Authors: Luigi Iuliano, Maria Misuraca, Alessandro Varroni, Massimo Raponi, Marco Massucci, Alessandro Pagnanelli, Giuseppe Cimino and Giovanni Bertoletti
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:186
  9. Bronchoperitoneal fistulas are extremely rare. We present a case where retained surgical drains from a previous surgery resulted in erosion and fistula formation. This condition required an extensive surgical ...

    Authors: Catherine Pesce, Samuel M Galvagno Jr, David T Efron, Alicia A Kieninger and Kent Stevens
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:185
  10. Intramuscular myxoma is a rare benign soft tissue tumor. The lack of specific symptoms and widely used laboratory tests makes the diagnosis quite difficult. We present a case of an Intramuscular myxoma associa...

    Authors: Dimitrios Theodorou, Eleftheria S Kleidi, Georgia I Doulami, Panagiotis G Drimousis, Andreas Larentzakis, Kostas Toutouzas and Stylianos Katsaragakis
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:184
  11. High grade gliomas are an insidious disease associated with an extremely poor prognosis. The role of re-irradiation for recurrent gliomas is unclear but several retrospective studies have indicated mild toxici...

    Authors: Shannon Fogh, Charles Glass, David W Andrews and Maria Werner-Wasik
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:183
  12. Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma is a diffuse proliferation of large neoplastic B lymphoid cells with a nuclear size equal to or exceeding the normal macrophage nuclei. We report a case of a clear cell variant of...

    Authors: Suzana Manxhuka-Kerliu, Gordana Petrusevska, Irma Kerliu, Emrush Kryeziu, Fehmi Ahmeti, Emine Devolli-Disha, Vjollca Sahatciu-Meka, Sadushe Loxha and Labinot Shahini
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:182
  13. Although metastatic carcinoma in the presence of an occult primary tumor is well recognized, underlying reasons for the failure of the primary tumor to manifest are uncertain. Explanations for this phenomenon ...

    Authors: Eileen Poon, Sin Jen Ong, Xue En Chuang, Wan Teck Lim, Nor Azhari Mohd Zam, Tsung Wen Chong, Issam Al Jajeh, Kent Mancer and Min-Han Tan
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:181
  14. We are in the era of "evidence based medicine" in which our knowledge is stratified from top to bottom in a hierarchy of evidence. Many in the medical and dental communities highly value randomized clinical tr...

    Authors: Oded Yitschaky, Michael Yitschaky and Yehuda Zadik
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:179
  15. Severe proximal myopathy can occasionally be the first presenting complaint of patients with osteomalacia. This may lead to investigations and misdiagnosis of a neuromuscular disease, rather than a metabolic b...

    Authors: Hood Thabit, Maurice Barry, Seamus Sreenan and Diarmuid Smith
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:178
  16. The majority of cases of post-prandial reactive hypoglycemia are considered idiopathic. Abnormalities of B-cell function and glucose regulation by insulin and glucagon have been postulated as causes but associ...

    Authors: Stephen J Middleton and Kottekkattu Balan
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:177
  17. Small bowel intussusception is rare in adults and accounts for one percent of all bowel obstructions. Malignancy is the etiologic agent in approximately 50 percent of all cases.

    Authors: Charalambos Spiridis, Apostolos Kambaroudis, Achilleas Ntinas, Savvas Papadopoulos, Athanasios Papanicolaou and Thomas Gerasimidis
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:176
  18. We report the case of a man who sustained a craniofacial injury after spontaneous lateral airbag deployment resulting in his face being struck by a car sunshade. This highlights the potential damage that can b...

    Authors: Mahdi Sharif-Alhoseini, Hadi Khatibi, Mojtaba Chardoli and Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:175
  19. Occipital peripheral nerve stimulation is an interventional pain management therapy that provides beneficial results in the treatment of refractory chronic occipital neuralgia. Herein we present a first-of-its...

    Authors: Ioannis Skaribas, Octavio Calvillo and Evangelia Delikanaki-Skaribas
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:174
  20. Lung cancer is now considered the most common cause of death among cancer patients. Although target biological regimens have emerged in recent years for non-small cell lung carcinoma, the survival and quality ...

    Authors: Paul Zarogoulidis, Eirini Terzi, Georgios Kouliatsis, Vasilis Zervas, Theodoros Kontakiotis, Alexandros Mitrakas and Kostas Zarogoulidis
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:173
  21. The medicinal leech, Hirudo medicinalis, has been used in the treatment of many diseases for thousands of years. In Turkey, it is used most commonly in the management of venous diseases of lower extremities.

    Authors: Bulent Kaya, Orhan Bat, Nuriye Esen Bulut, Hasan Altun and Kemal Memisoglu
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:172
  22. Vibrio parahemolyticus is the leading cause of vibrio-associated gastroenteritis in the United States of America, usually related to poor food handling; only rarely has it been reported to cause serious infectio...

    Authors: Rajeev R Fernando, Sujatha Krishnan, Morgan G Fairweather and Charles D Ericsson
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:171
  23. The incidence of hernias is increased in patients with alcoholic liver disease with ascites. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of an acute rise in intra-abdominal pressure from straining f...

    Authors: Daniel W Good, Jonathan E Royds, Myles J Smith, Paul C Neary and Emmanuel Eguare
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:170
  24. The vast majority of paratesticular masses are benign. Magnetic resonance imaging of the scrotum may provide valuable information in the pre-operative work-up of scrotal masses, by allowing the precise localiz...

    Authors: Athina C Tsili, Maria I Argyropoulou, Dimitrios Giannakis, Nikolaos Sofikitis and Konstantine Tsampoulas
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:169
  25. Plasmablastic lymphoma is an aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma classically occurring in individuals infected with HIV. Plasmablastic lymphoma has a predilection for the oral cavity and jaw. However, recent case ...

    Authors: Mayur Brahmania, Thomas Sylwesterowic and Heather Leitch
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:168
  26. The drugs gabapentin and ketamine are used frequently in the peri-operative setting. There is poor documentation whether or not gabapentin and ketamine interact to cause prolonged depression of the central ner...

    Authors: Ali R Elyassi, Robert P Long, Robert P Bejnarowicz and Bruce A Schoneboom
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:167
  27. Subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord is a rare cause of demyelination of the dorsal and lateral columns of the spinal cord and is a neurological complication of vitamin B12 deficiency. Subacute combi...

    Authors: Samira Rabhi, Mustapha Maaroufi, Hajar Khibri, Faouzy Belahsen, Siham Tizniti, Rhizlane Berrady and Wafaa Bono
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:166
  28. A retropharyngeal abscess is a potentially life-threatening infection in the deep space of the neck, which can compromise the airway. Its management requires highly specialized care, including surgery and inte...

    Authors: Olushola A Afolabi, Joseph O Fadare, Ezekiel O Oyewole and Stephen A Ogah
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:165
  29. Medical case reports (MCRs) have been undervalued in the literature to date. It seems that while case series emphasize what is probable, case reports describe what is possible and what can go wrong. MCRs trans...

    Authors: Aristotle D Protopapas and Thanos Athanasiou
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:164
  30. Pulmonary artery aneurysm is an uncommon disorder with severe complications. The diagnosis is often difficult, since the clinical manifestations are non-specific and the treatment is controversial, as the natu...

    Authors: Eva Serasli, Μaria Antoniadou, Paschalis Steiropoulos, Konstantinos Vassiliadis, Stamatia Mantzourani, Pavlos Papoulidis and Venetia Tsara
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:163
  31. Congenital hepatic fibrosis is an uncommon cause of portal hypertension. Despite the presence of portal hypertension, hepatocellular and renal function are usually well preserved. Congenital hepatic fibrosis i...

    Authors: Mohammad Reza Ghadir, Mohammad Bagheri and Amir Hossein Ghanooni
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:160
  32. Patients with clinically mild encephalitis/encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion present with relatively mild central nervous system disturbances. Although the exact etiology of the condition remain...

    Authors: Makiko Kitami, Shin-ichiro Kubo, Shinichiro Nakamura, Shinji Shiozawa, Hideyuki Isobe and Yoshiaki Furukawa
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:159
  33. Psychogenic movement disorders in childhood have been little researched. As there are few courses of treatment which have been evaluated, further examination and case studies about the treatment and clinical c...

    Authors: Elisabeth Sauerhoefer, Caroline Schafflhuber and Oliver Kratz
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:158
  34. Certain Staphylococcus aureus strains produce Panton-Valentine leukocidin, a toxin that lyses white blood cells causing extensive tissue necrosis and chronic, recurrent or severe infection. This report documents ...

    Authors: Patrick E Akpaka, Stefan Monecke, William H Swanston, A V Chalapathi Rao, Renee Schulz and Paul N Levett
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:157
  35. Mixed warm and cold autoimmune hemolytic anemia runs a chronic course with severe intermittent exacerbations. Therapeutic options for the treatment of hemolysis associated with autoimmune hemolytic anemia are ...

    Authors: Shilpi Gupta, Anita Szerszen, Fadi Nakhl, Seema Varma, Aaron Gottesman, Frank Forte and Meekoo Dhar
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:156
  36. The efficacy of adalimumab, a fully human anti-tumor necrosis factor α recombinant antibody, has dramatically improved the quality of life of patients with rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis and Crohn's diseas...

    Authors: Maurizio Benucci, Mariangela Manfredi, Sergio Testi, Maria L Iorno, Maurizio Valentini, Francesca Soldaini and Paolo Campi
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:155
  37. People with α1-antitrypsin deficiency are at increased risk for the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Previous retrospective epidemiologic studies have found that exposure to occupational dust...

    Authors: Moshe Zutler, Patricia J Quinlan and Paul D Blanc
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:154
  38. In a Monteggia fracture dislocation, it is important to reduce the ulnar fracture completely. Extensive plastic deformation of the proximal ulna may make reduction by closed manipulation impossible.

    Authors: Jason Lim and James S Huntley
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:153
  39. Corneal collagen cross-linking is a rather new technique that uses riboflavin and ultraviolet A light for collagen fiber stabilization in keratoconus corneas. Other than reversible side effects, the preliminar...

    Authors: Georgios Labiris, Eleni Kaloghianni, Stavrenia Koukoula, Athanassios Zissimopoulos and Vassilios P Kozobolis
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:152
  40. Refractory skin ulcers are a major burden in patients with diabetes. Their pathogenesis is multifactorial, and data increasingly implicate endothelin as a mediator of diabetic macro- and microvasculopathy. Her...

    Authors: Fátima Álvarez Reyes, Cristina Luna Gómez and Manuel Brito Suárez
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:151
  41. Acute pulmonary embolism has varied presentations ranging from asymptomatic, incidentally discovered emboli to massive embolism, causing immediate death. Tumor embolism is a rare but unique complication of mal...

    Authors: Rajasekharan Chandrasekharan, Mithun Chalakarayil Bhagavaldas and Ashish Jacob Mathew
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:150
  42. We describe the discovery of the trigemino-cardiac reflex by Schaller in 1999 and the continued improvement of the knowledge about the trigemino-cardiac reflex involved in neurosurgery, especially in skull bas...

    Authors: Nora Sandu, Pooan Sadr-Eshkevari and Bernhard J Schaller
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:149
  43. Postirradiation lumbosacral syndrome is a radiculopathy induced by radiation injury to the spinal cord. Its usual presentation is motor deficit and or sensory loss involving the lower limbs. Visceral involveme...

    Authors: Omer A Raheem and David P Hickey
    Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:148

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