A 9-year-old girl with a single dysplastic kidney and chronic kidney disease presented to the hospital to undergo transplantation of a kidney from a deceased donor. During preparation of the kidney for transplantation, the donor kidney was found to have five renal arteries. During fetal development, multiple mesonephric arteries supply blood to the kidney. Typically, […]
Read MoreOn April 23, 1986, a 3-year-old girl was brought to our institution after a 1.5-ton truck ran over her left lower limb. She suffered a floating knee injury with fractures at the supracondylar level of the femur and middle third of the tibia. An above the knee and near-total amputation was sustained at the supracondylar […]
Read MoreA 51-year-old right-handed man presented to the clinic with a 3-year history of worsening swelling of the left wrist associated with pain and numbness in the fingers. His medical history included type 2 diabetes and human immunodeficiency virus infection; he was adherent to an antiretroviral therapy regimen and his CD4 cell count was 357 per […]
Read MoreA 19-year-old woman (gravida 0, para 0) presented to the emergency department with severe abdominal pain that had started 9 hours earlier. On examination, the abdomen was soft and nondistended without guarding, but rebound tenderness was present in the suprapubic and left iliac fossa regions. A urine test for beta human chorionic gonadotropin was negative. […]
Read More3D imaging of neurons from intact brain tissue. Green is to the amygdala, and purple is from the amygdala. This image is from a recent methods paper (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09515-0#Sec15). Characterizing the precise three-dimensional morphology and anatomical context of neurons is crucial for neuronal cell type classification and circuitry mapping. Recent advances in tissue clearing techniques and […]
Read MoreCase Presentation A 38-year-old male, a chronic alcoholic who committed an attempt of suicide, was presented to the emergency department of the University Hospital “St. George”- Plovdiv. On initial presentation, the patient was in a prone position, awake, oriented, and hemodynamically stable (blood pressure 140/90 mmHg and heart rate 92 bpm). The external examination revealed […]
Read MoreA 19-year-old man presented to the dermatology clinic with a 3-month history of an enlarging ulcer on the dorsal aspect of the right hand and multiple tender subcutaneous nodules on the right forearm and elbow. Five months earlier, the patient had traveled to Ecuador, where he had worked at an organic produce farm. On physical […]
Read MorePatient is a 30-year-old male who presented to the ED from the field with extensive facial trauma secondary to a firework blast to the face. His airway was secured immediately upon arrival due to an altered mental status with a GCS of 3 and poor oxygenation. A glidescope intubation with a size 7 tube was […]
Read MoreA 4-month-old infant in Maryland may be the first person to have had teeth form in his brain as a result of a specific type of rare brain tumor, according to report of the case. The boy is doing well now that his tumor has been removed, and doctors say the case sheds light on […]
Read MoreA 45-year-old man in China who developed a large, dark discoloration of his upper gums had a rare type of melanoma, a cancer that usually happens on the skin, according to a new report of his case. “This is an unbelievably rare type of melanoma,” said Dr. Susan Muller, professor of head and neck surgery […]
Read MoreOn 12 November 1935, a Portuguese neurologist named Antonio Egas Moniz became the first individual to perform what would later be known as a lobotomy. Moniz’s early experiments involved drilling holes into patients’ skulls & pouring alcohol into the frontal cortex to sever nerves; and coring out regions of the brain with hollow needles. Moniz’s […]
Read MoreA tourist to the Red Sea left with an unwanted souvenir: a pair of fish jaws embedded in his eyelid, accordint to the case report. The 52-year-old man went swimming at a beach on the Red sea, an inlet of the Indian Ocean that sits between Africa and Asia. But during his swim, he collided […]
Read MoreA 6-year-old female patient with a low socioeconomic status, with an incomplete immunization schedule according to her age (only one dose of pentavalent vaccine and rotavirus had been applied). She began her clinical presentation 11 days prior to hospital admission, after having a sharp slice of wood on her right arm. She went to the […]
Read MoreA 56 years old female presented with history of road traffic accident with resultant avulsion of her left side of face. There was degloving and avulsion of the left hemi-face including the upper lip nose, forehead skin and eyebrow, upper and lower eyelids and the entire left cheek. The zygomatic bone was also avulsed and […]
Read MoreA man in China who enjoyed eating raw beef became infected with a parasite — a 20-foot-long tapeworm —that came from including this food in his diet, a new case report reveals. The parasite had attached to the 38-year-old man’s small intestine and had likely been inside him for at least two years before doctors […]
Read MoreA 32-year-old woman presented to an ophthalmologist with a 2-week history of nodules that moved around her face. She had first noted a nodule below her left eye (Panel A). Five days later, it had moved to above her left eye (Panel B), and 10 days after that to the upper lip (Panel C). She […]
Read MoreA man in China had a steel spoon lodged in his esophagus for a year, but surprisingly, the half-swallowed utensil didn’t cause too much discomfort. The man — identified only as “Mr. Zhang” — swallowed the spoon on a dare in 2017, and it promptly got stuck in the narrow tube connecting his mouth and […]
Read MoreScientists have discovered a genetic mutation responsible for a disorder that causes people to sprout thick hair on their faces and bodies. Hypertrichosis, sometimes called “werewolf syndrome” is a very rare condition, with fewer than 100 cases documented worldwide. But researchers knew the disorder runs in families, and in 1995 they traced the approximate location […]
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