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Neovascularization of coronary tunica intima (DIT) is the cause of coronary atherosclerosis.

1602 Samuel Drive, Madison, WI, 53717, USA Corresponding author: Vladimir M Subbotin: moc.liamg@nitobbus.m.rimidalv Background An accepted hypothesis states that coronary atherosclerosis (CA) is initiated by endothelial dysfunction due to inflammation and high levels of LDL-C, followed by deposition of lipids and macrophages from the luminal blood into the arterial intima, resulting in plaque formation. The success […]

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This is the passport of the mummy of Ramesses II obtained to travel from Egypt to France

As is known, to travel outside a country of origin it is essential to have a passport that proves the origin of the traveler and to have authorization to enter another territory. For this reason, the mummy of Pharaoh Ramesses II had to obtain one of these documents to travel from Egypt to France in […]

Necrotizing Fasciitis of the Upper Extremity

The patient was a 66 year-old male who was admitted to our hospital with extensive cellulitis and fasciitis of his left chest wall and axillary region. He mentioned trauma to his left arm 2 months ago which had caused a swelling and tenderness in his left arm. In another hospital he had undergone several debridements […]

Case of billateral necrotizing fasciitis post debridement surgery showing muscle exposure

Necrotizing fasciitis (NF), also known as flesh-eating disease, is an infection that results in the death of parts of the body’s soft tissue. It is a severe disease of sudden onset that spreads rapidly. Symptoms usually include red or purple skin in the affected area, severe pain, fever, and vomiting. The most commonly affected areas are the limbs and perineum. ypically, the infection enters the body through a […]

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Angle grinder accident

This is what happens when you use an angle grinder without face protection! The patient suffered lacerations that crossed the left nostril and extended downward, dividing the upper lip. The image on the right shows the patient after the operation, showing excellent aesthetic and functional results with minimal scarring. Before using such a power tool, […]

Laparoscopic retrieval of an unusual foreign body

Binay Kumar Shukla, Rajesh Khullar, Anil Sharma, Vandana Soni, Manish Baijal, and Pradeep Chowbey Author information Article notesCopyright and License information Disclaimer INTRODUCTION Foreign body ingestion is a common cause of accidental death. Although approximately 90% of them pass spontaneously, they can result in perforation or obstruction in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Toddlers aged 2-3 years are most commonly affected; as […]

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Human egg emerging from the ovary

Rare and startling film has been captured of a human egg emerging from the ovary. Fertile women release one or more eggs every month, but until now, only fuzzy images had been recorded. The images were taken by accident by gynaecologist Jacques Donnez while carrying out a partial hysterectomy on a 45-year-old woman. The release […]

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G-Force injury

An 11-year-old boy who suffered horrific injuries doing a YouTube challenge still refuses to watch the video after realising how close it brought him to death. Tyler Broome took part in the ‘Roundabout of Death’ – where the back wheel of a motorbike is used to spin play equipment at great speed. The schoolboy was […]

Jellyfish injuries

Lakkana Thaikruea & Potjaman Siriariyaporn It is widely known that box jellyfish are one of the most venomous marine animals in the world [1]. Envenomation involves the physical discharge of venom into tissues. The venom is a complex mixture of polypeptides and proteins, including hemolytic, cardiotoxic and dermatonecrotic toxins The islands of Samui and Pha-ngan have the […]

Traumatic injury

A 58-year-old male person was admitted to the Emergency Clinical Hospital Bucharest, on June 14th 2010, approximately 7 hours after a traumatic injury of the left leg amputated by the blade of an electric saw. Amputation was produced at the level of the left talocrural joint, with talar dome fracture, bimalleolar fracture and complete section of […]

Extensive Frontoparietal Abscess: Complication of Frontal Sinusitis (Pott’s Puffy Tumor)

Raquel Andrade Lauria,* Fernando Laffitte Fernandes, Thiago Pires Brito, Pablo Soares Gomes Pereira, and Carlos Takahiro Chone Case Report A 14-year-old male adolescent, with no significant past medical history, presented at an otorhinolaryngology department of a tertiary teaching hospital with a 7-day history of a common cold that progressively evolved with frontal headache, vomiting, fever, purulent rhinorrhea, and frontal and […]

Facial Transplantation

Patient 3 is a 25-year-old man who had sustained extensive ballistic facial injury in June 2016, requiring multiple procedures including maxillary, mandibular, zygomatic, and right orbital floor open reduction and internal fixation with debilitating functional deficits and exposed hardware. In preparation for FT, the patient underwent hardware removal, bilateral naso-orbito-ethmoid osteotomies, medial canthal tendons repositioning, […]

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87 Y/O Man with Coronavirus Watches Sunset Outside For First Time In A Month

The photo was taken after 5 pm on March 5 at the East Hospital Branch of the Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University. In the photo, Dr. Liu Kai, a member of the medical team from Zhongshan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, stopped while escorting the patient for CT, and the 87-year-old man, who had been […]

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Squeezing An 18 Year Old Cyst

After a car accident left him with a head injury, Josh has been living with this growing lump on his head for the last 18 years. Dr Lee suspects it’s a cyst, so cuts it open to see what’s going on! Cyst featured in the video it’s an epidermoid cyst which is a benign cyst derived from the infundibulum […]

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Removing a big cyst below the knee!

Dr Pimple Popper meets a man from New York who has a mysterious lump just below his knee. The lump turns out to be the largest cyst Dr. Sandra Lee has ever seen in her life – and what comes out is just unbelievable. Cysts are closed capsule or sac-like structures, typically filled with a […]

Earthquake injuries

Lei Liu, Gang Tan, Fujun Luan, Xin Tang, Pengde Kang, Chongqi Tu, and Fuxing Pei The Wenchuan earthquake (May 12, 2008; 2:28 p.m. local time) was a disaster for China. Orthopedic surgeons faced major challenges in controlling fractures quickly and effectively, repairing tissue defects, closing the wounds, promoting wound healing, preventing infection, and minimising complications. […]

Upper lip replantation

A 28 year old woman presented at an emergency department on a weekend night at a rural hospital following dog bites sustained to her lips. There were two bites, one that lacerated the lower lip that was still connected to the face by a small, lateral pedicle and one that amputated more than half of […]

Full facial and total scalp burn injury

The FT recipient was a 41-year-old male firefighter who sustained a full facial and total scalp burn injury in 2001 while in the line of duty. Following his initial injury, the patient had undergone >70 reconstructive procedures without improvement in functional or esthetic outcomes (Fig. 1). August 2015, the patient underwent a total face, eyelids, ears, […]