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  1. The majority of patients with small bowel diverticula are asymptomatic, however, associated complications include inflammation, intestinal obstruction, perforation and gastrointestinal haemorrhage. Bladder div...

    Authors: Katherine Reeve, Alex Hotouras, Muralidharan Manghat and Suresh Pillai
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:8755
  2. We reported a 21-year-old patient with strict descending aorta coarctation and small post-ductal patent ductus arteriosus, complicated with abortion and hypertension. The patient was successfully treated by en...

    Authors: Mustafa Kemal Batur, Mevlut Koç, Ilkut Ozer and Gulcan Abalı
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:8477
  3. We report a typical case of injection-site granuloma attributed to subcutaneous administration of leuprorelin acetate, an LHRH agonist. A 70-year-old man who had undergone total prostatectomy and was subsequen...

    Authors: Riko Kitazawa, Fukashi Yamamichi, Toshiharu Hidaka, Shinichi Morishita, Takeshi Kondo, Kiyoshi Mori and Sohei Kitazawa
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:8326
  4. We describe the case of a 78-year-old woman admitted to our department for suspected silent myocardial ischaemia with the evidence of T wave inversion in anterior lead. All the instrumental exams excluded indu...

    Authors: Gregoriana Zanini, Giuseppe Seresini, Marco Racheli, Monica Bortolotti, Adriana Virgillo, Adriana Novali, Claudia Benetello and Gian Franco Pasini
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:8278
  5. Desbuquois dysplasia is a rare, but well described syndrome with remarkable clinical and radiographic variability ranging from mild skeletal involvement with normal intelligence to those with early fatal outcome.

    Authors: Ali Al Kaissi, Klaus Klaushofer and Franz Grill
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:7873
  6. A 14-year-old male presented to the neurosurgical clinic with swelling just above the right eye which had been growing slowly for the last eight years. The swelling first appeared following a non-penetrating t...

    Authors: Muhammad Ahsan Zafar, Syeda Sidra Waheed and S Ather Enam
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:7860
  7. Bilomas are localized collections of bile occurring usually post-operatively from an injured cystic or bile duct while most bilomas collect in the subhepatic space. We describe a rare case of hepatic subcapsul...

    Authors: Karim Ibn Majdoub Hassani, El Bachir Benjelloun, Abdelmalek Ousadden, Khalid Mazaz and Khalid Ait Taleb
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:7836
  8. This case report presents a 56-year-old man with right upper limb weakness which arose 22 years after initial local radiation treatment for a grade III fibrosarcoma. Nerve conduction studies revealed impairmen...

    Authors: Sammy Al-Benna, Cornelius Schubert, Hans Ulrich Steinau and Lars Steinstraesser
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:6838
  9. Coronary artery anomalies occur in approximately 0.3% to 0.8% of the population, and include morphological variants of origin, course, or termination. Detection of these types of anomalously originating corona...

    Authors: Sofia Chatzidou, Sotiris C Plastiras and Stelios Rokas
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:6835
  10. Esophageal perforation is a serious condition with a high mortality rate. Successful therapy depends on the size of the rupture; the time elapsed between rupture and diagnosis, and the underlying health of the...

    Authors: Konstantinos Tsalis, Konstantinos Blouhos, Dimitrios Kapetanos, Theodore Kontakiotis and Charalampos Lazaridis
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:6784
  11. In the last decade, several sophisticated and accurate imaging methods such as positron emission tomography have been developed in order to evaluate malignant potential in enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes. Thi...

    Authors: Omer Dzemali, Nestoras Papadopoulos, Farhad Bakhtiary, Panagiotis Therapidis and Peter Kleine
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:6718
  12. Angioplasty with the use of cutting balloons has been suggested by some case reports and small series for the treatment of renal artery stenoses that are resistant to conventional balloon catheters. Based on t...

    Authors: Elias N Brountzos, Nikolaos Ptohis, Helen Triantafyllidi, Irene Panagiotou, Themistoklis N Spyridopoulos, Evangelos P Misiakos and Alexios Kelekis
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:8881
  13. Intracranial plasmacytomas are an uncommon presentation of extramedullary relapse of multiple myeloma. The optimal management of extramedullary plasmacytomas remains unclear, with initial reports of bortezomib...

    Authors: Deirdre F Waterhouse, Geraldine A Moloney, Fatma S Gargoum, Peter S Hayden and Tom O'Gorman
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:7456
  14. Vertebral osteomyelitis is an uncommon complication of infective endocarditis with the organism Streptococcus viridans being a rare cause of the condition. This case highlights an unusual presentation of Streptoc...

    Authors: Maitrayee Choudhury, Brijesh R Patel, Minal Patel and Tariq Bashir
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:6857
  15. The posterior thoracic wall, an area drained by the azygos venous system, is a common site for surgical intervention. Since the venous part of the cardiovascular system is subject to most common variation, abn...

    Authors: Lydia S Quadros, Bhagath Kumar Potu, Anitha Guru, Thejodhar Pulakunta, Biswabina Ray, Suhani Sumalatha D'Silva, Sylvia Sequeira and Huban Thomas
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:6746
  16. The Situs viscerum inversus associated with anomalies of intestinal rotation and fixation is an extremely rare condition. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first report of colon cancer associated with int...

    Authors: Antonio Brillantino, Luigi Marano, Michele Schettino, Francesco Torelli, Giuseppe Izzo, Angelo Cosenza, Luigi Monaco, Raffaele Porfidia, GianMarco Reda, Felice Foresta and Natale Di Martino
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:6555
  17. The authors describe a case of a 31-year-old female with tuberous sclerosis, a genetic, rare, variably expressed disease. Clinical symptoms were chest pain, and progressive dyspnea. Computed tomography scan of...

    Authors: Flavia Gavinho Vianna, Edson Marchiori, Glaucia Zanetti, Claudia Mauro Mano, Branca Sarcinelli-Luz, Juliana Franca Carvalho, Carla Assed, Isabella Guedes Santos, Alair Augusto Santos and Alberto Domingues Vianna
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:9238
  18. Splenosis is a post-traumatic autotrasplantation and proliferation of splenic tissue in ectopic sites. These implants may mimic malignancy in healthy patients or peritoneal metastases in cancer patients. When ...

    Authors: Stefania Rizzo, Lorenzo Monfardini, Maddalena Belmonte, Bernardo Rocco and Massimo Bellomi
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:8982
  19. One of the rare manifestations of systemic neoplasia is intramedullary spinal cord metastasis that causes serious diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma. It has been very rarely reported as the initial manifestati...

    Authors: Mehrnaz Asadi, Hadi Rokni-Yazdi, Farahnaz Salehinia and Farshad S Allameh
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:7805
  20. Splenic artery aneurysms are rare. We discuss a case of a 58-year-old gentleman presenting with collapse and shock secondary to spontaneous splenic artery aneurysm rupture. Patient underwent laparotomy and spl...

    Authors: Dibendu Betal, Jasdeep S Khangura, Peter J Swan and Veysi Mehmet
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:7150
  21. The cause of chest pain in patients presenting to the emergency room often remains unclear. We present a case of essential thrombocythemia as a novel cause of atypical chest pain, which responded dramatically ...

    Authors: Kevin J Patel, Amit Banga and Shahibzada U Latif
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:7011
  22. Cavernous hemangiomas of the orbit are benign vascular malformations, commonly encountered in adults. Although they are infrequent in pediatric population their diagnosis and course are of a great significance...

    Authors: Eleni Evagelidou, Elena Tsanou, Ioannis Asproudis, Spiridon Gorezis, Miltiadis Aspiotis, Dimitrios Peschos and Antigoni Siamopoulou
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:6912
  23. Acute adult pharyngitis is a common reason to visit the primary care physician's office. Without knowledge of the natural course of acute pharyngitis in the adult patient, it can be easy to miss a serious comp...

    Authors: Nidhi Gupta, Justin Lovvorn and Robert M Centor
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:6808
  24. Non-typhoid Salmonella and Mycobacterium avium complex infections are part of the constellation of infections seen with increasing frequency in patients with acquired immuned deficiency syndrome. The incidence ha...

    Authors: Adetunji Adejumo, Olutayo Olabige and Vel Sivapalan
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:6773
  25. Acute Fulminant Necrotizing Amoebic Colitis is a rare complication of amoebiasis that is associated with high mortality. Only one to four such cases are seen per year in large hospitals of India, and only few ...

    Authors: Shilpi Singh Gupta, Onkar Singh, Sumit Shukla and Mathur K Raj
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:6557
  26. Venous thromboembolus is an important cause of hospital acquired morbidity and mortality. Venous thrombosis is a very rare occurrence in patients with haemophilia A. The thrombosis originated from the right ma...

    Authors: Murat Bicer, Murat Yanar and Oktay Tuydes
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:6390
  27. Renal cell carcinoma accounts for 85% of all solid renal tumors in adults. Nearly one quarter of patients has distant metastasis at presentation while another 50% develop metastasis during follow-up. A small p...

    Authors: Raquel Ribeiro Batista, Edson Marchiori, Tatiana Chinem Takayassu, Fernanda Caseira Cabral, Rafael Ferracini Cabral and Gláucia Zanetti
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:9045
  28. Adrenocortical carcinoma is a rare malignancy with a poor prognosis and presents with mass effects and less often with signs of hormone excess (approximately 60% of all adrenocortical carcinoma's). Hormonally ...

    Authors: Melpomeni Peppa, Vasilios Pikounis, Georgios Papaxoinis, Anastasios Macheras, Theofanis Economopoulos, Sotirios A Raptis and Dimitrios Hadjidakis
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:8951
  29. Circumscribed choroidal hemangiomas are vascular tumors associated with secondary changes in the overlying retinal pigment epithelium and neuro-sensory retina. Spectral-domain optical coherence tomography, a r...

    Authors: Kakarla V Chalam, Ravi K Murthy, Shailesh K Gupta and Vikram S Brar
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:8778
  30. Gastrointestinal stromal tumours are rare mesenchymal neoplasms affecting the digestive tract or nearby structures within the abdomen. We present a case of a 66-year-old female patient who presented with obscu...

    Authors: Stavros Gourgiotis, Dimitrios Kotoulas, Stavros Aloizos, Aikaterini Kolovou, Nikolaos S Salemis and Ioannis Kantounakis
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:8186
  31. We report a case of acute myocardial infarction and syncope in an 18-year-old athlete during high-performance exercise. A coronary arteriography and an angiographic computed tomography scan subsequently reveal...

    Authors: Ronan MG Berg, Bente Brendorp, Thomas Kristensen, Morten Helvind and Steffen Helqvist
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:8142
  32. To describe the use of combined preoperative imaging and intraoperative parathyroid hormone as a novel approach in the surgical management of a patient with tertiary hyperparathyroidism associated with X-linke...

    Authors: Matthew D Neal, Berthony Deslouches and Jennifer Ogilvie
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:7572
  33. Infective endocarditis in pregnancy has a low incidence, often being associated with a previous history of rheumatic or congenital heart disease. In most reports the disease tends to run a subacute course and ...

    Authors: Enrico Vizzardi, Giuseppe De Cicco, Gregoriana Zanini, Antonio D'Aloia, Pompilio Faggiano, Roberto Lo Russo, Ermanna Chiari and Livio Dei Cas
    Citation: Cases Journal 2009 2:6537