We report here the case of a 36-year-old male emergency physician contracting the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) while performing endotracheal intubation on a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) positive patient with conjunctivitis as the sole sympto...
Background: The resurgence and geographical spread of monkeypox is a public health concern. It is also an implication of weak response and mitigation strategies to disease outbreaks, especially in the endemic regions where there have been sporadic disease outbreaks since five dec...
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma usually presents with regional lymphadenopathy and involvement of lymph nodes follows a particular pattern. Parotid lymph node involvement is a rare phenomenon in nasopharyngeal carcinoma. The occurrence of parotid lymph node involvement has been reported...
Campylobacter fetus is a gram negative, microaerophilic bacterium which can cause bacteraemia and invasive infection in humans. Its cause is considered to be close contact with animals and/or consumption of contaminated food of sheep or bovine origin and, therefore, the primary i...
Brain tumors account for 6-8% of all types of neoplasms. Of these, meningiomas occur in 27.9% of patients, of which 20% among men and 33.2% among women. According to various authors, brain tumors develop annually in 2-25 per 100,000 population. The connection between traumatic br...
Introduction: The occurrence of venous thrombosis in children is rare, often idiopathic and rarely a known etiology can be found, with sometimes a delay diagnostic in most cases. Method: We report a case illustrating the difficulties of diagnosing phlebitis and a fairly rare eti...
Aim: The clinical importance of acute urinary retention in aseptic meningitis. Case Presentation: A 19-year-old male presented to us with signs and symptoms suggestive of meningitis. He later developed urinary retention. MRI of the brain with contrast was normal. Cerebrospinal fl...
Aplastic anemia (AA) is a life-threatening, autoimmune-mediated condition that targets bone marrow precursors leading to pancytopenia. Hepatitis-associated aplastic anemia (HAAA) is one of the rarest entities where the recovery of acute hepatitis is complicated by aplastic anemia...
COVID-19 mRNA vaccines have serious side effects, including myocarditis; it’s an uncommon but dangerous side effect following mRNA-based COVID-19 immunization. Herein we report a 45-year-old female presenting with myocarditis seven days after the second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech va...
Though tuberculous lymphadenitis is the most common form of extra-pulmonary Tuberculosis (TB) in children, it is usually overlooked as the main focus is on adult ‘sputum positive TB’. This is especially relevant in tribal communitities mostly living in inaccessible remote areas h...