Michele Paula Dos Santos, Lucas Leão Santoro, Gabrielle de Souza Castanho, Renata Baumann Simões, Italo Trois Maestri, William Gustavo Dreissig, Carolina Hack Alves, Carolina Boeira Soares, Carlos Augusto Treviso, Luane Pereira Gomes, Raquel Silveira de Maman, Barbara Adelmann De Lima, Fernanda Bercht Merten, Bartira Ercilia Pinheiro Da Costa, Rafaela Siviero Caron-Lienert & Miriam Viviane Baron·Asian Journal of Case Reports in Medicine and Health·2022
Aims: Breast cancer is a malignant neoplasm caused by disordered clonal proliferation of breast cells, resulting from the influence of hormonal exposure or inherited susceptible genes. Case Presentation: The present report is about a female patient with comorbidities, such as sy...
Diri, Robert Ogbodede, Amadi, Ekechi Stella, Agbarakwe, Blessing, Amaewhule, Mary Nneda, Aprioku, Esther, Nonju, Tamunobarabiye, Nwamadi, Christian Chisom, Rotifa, Oluwafemi & Wakama, Rita·Asian Journal of Case Reports in Medicine and Health·2022
This is a case of a 30 year old female who presented with a 4 month history of progressive abdominal swelling and mild abdominal discomfort. She had a past history of poorly treated pulmonary tuberculosis however during current symptoms the usual screening tests for tuberculosis...
Diabetes mellitus type 1 (DM1) is associated with different clinical syndromes. Some are commonly encountered, like Turner's syndrome, while others are rarely found in clinical practice, namely, De Grouchy syndrome. This is a rare genetic disorder characterised by micro deletions...
Introduction: Snakebite is a neglected tropical public health problem that is common in Nigeria. The occurrence of haemorrhagic stroke following snakebite envenomation is a rare medical emergency. Aim: To describe the neurological complications that occurred after snakebite enven...
Pregnancy in which the fertilized egg gets implanted in a site other than the uterine cavity is called Ectopic Pregnancy, the most common site of implantation being the fallopian tube. Abdominal or pelvic pain in the first trimester with or without vaginal bleeding with a history...
Fannyhessea vaginae, formerly Atopobium vaginae, is a slow-growing anaerobic bacterium that frequently causes bacterial vaginosis and, rarely, bacteraemia and invasive infection. Published cases of bacteraemia are associated with childbirth or gynecological procedures that can le...
Aims: Present a case of carbon monoxide (CO)-intoxication with initial presence of cortical lesions instead of globus pallidus lesions, to create awareness of atypical or late MRI findings in patients with CO-intoxication. Presentation of the Case: A 27 year old women with no med...
Aim: Bilateral thromboembolic manifestations in mild COVID infection. Case Presentation: 64-year-old male with no known comorbidities presented to OPD with pain and swelling of the right lower limb, and chest pain. He was found to have bilateral lower limb deep vein thrombosis in...
The clinicopathologic spectrum of Guillain Barré Syndrome (GBS) has expanded to include both inflammatory injuries that lead to demyelination and axonal loss forms that cause the motor and sensory loss. However, GBS may also have atypical presentations, that intrigue the clinicia...
We describe an atypical presentation of probable Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Disease with unilateral angle closure and normal intraocular pressure in a young male. On Ultrasonographic Biomicroscopy, there was anterior rotation of ciliary processes with supraciliary effusion. Fundus Fluo...
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...