Retained Shrapnel from a Blast Injury as a Rare Cause of Secondary Osteoarthritis of the Hip Joint: A Case Report and Review of Literature by Oshan Basnayake, Ahamed Nihaj, Ranji Pitagampalage, Umesh Jayarajah, Yasith Mathangasinghe, Harsha Mendis

“…Case Presentation. A 74-year-old otherwise healthy Sri Lankan male with a history of blast injury to the right hip 35 years ago presented with an isolated, right sided mild hip pain with a progressive limp for an 8-year duration. …”
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Linear Epidermal Nevus of the Oral Cavity: A Rare Diagnosis by Mariana Dutra de Cássia Ferreira Santos, Alexandre Scalli Mathias Duarte, Guilherme Machado Carvalho, Alexandre Caixeta Guimarães, Carlos Eduardo Monteiro Zappelini, Ana Cristina Coelho Dal Rio, Maria Elvira Pizzigatti Corrêa, Albina Messias de Almeida Milani Altemani, Ester Maria Danielli Nicola

“…We report a case of linear epidermal nevus of oral cavity in a 51-year-old lady or woman. The linear epidermal nevus of the oral cavity, although rare, can be considered a differential diagnosis of oral papillomatosis (OP). …”
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Klinefelter syndrome diagnosed at autopsy and small-cell lung carcinoma by Haruyasu Sakuranaka, Ryoma Tanaka, Yuji Yamakawa, Shiho Yamada, Komei Igei, Yasuo Asai

“…Computed tomography revealed a mass in the left lung of a 66-year-old man. He was diagnosed with small-cell lung carcinoma. …”
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Mental health status and the quality of life of infertile women receiving fertility treatment in Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study. by A B M Nahid Hasan, Azaz Bin Sharif, Ishrat Jahan, Mosammat Rashida Begum

“…Infertile women who married between 20 and 24 years old were 49% (95% CI: 0.27 to 0.98) less anxious than those who married earlier. …”
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Extraperitoneally Ruptured, Everted, and Prolapsed Bladder: A Very Rare Complication of Pelvic Injury by Rufus Wale Ojewola, Kehinde Habeeb Tijani, Olakunle Olaleke Badmus, Abisola Ekundayo Oliyide, Chukwudi Emmanuel Osegbe

“…Traumatic rupture of the bladder with eversion and protrusion via the perineum is a rare complication of pelvic injury. We present a 36-year-old lady who sustained severe pelvic injury with a bleeding right-sided deep perineal laceration. …”
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Epidemiology and Etiology of Acute Pancreatitis in Urban and Suburban Areas in Shanghai: A Retrospective Study by Junjie Fan, Ling Ding, Yingying Lu, Junyuan Zheng, Yue Zeng, Chunlan Huang

“…As to the male patients, the incidence of HTGP increased in both urban and suburban areas. Nonelderly (<60 years old) patients had higher HTGP incidence than elderly ones in both 2011 and 2016. …”
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The Body as a Vessel for Trauma: The Clinical Case Study of Aisha by Federica Visco-Comandini, Alberto Barbieri, Francesco Mancini, Alessandra Ciolfi

“…This case study examined the process of integration of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and sensorimotor psychotherapy (SP) in three-phase trauma treatment with a 32-year-old female Bengali refugee with Complex Post Traumatic Disorder (C-PTSD). …”
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A scoping review of interventions to supplement spoken communication for children with limited speech or language skills. by Maria Antonella Costantino, Maurizio Bonati

“…A total of 666 children were included in the review and 7 papers involved only children <5 years old. Papers were of average quality and all but one had been published during the previous 10 years by one of 8 research groups, 5 of which from the United States. …”
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Thyroid Storm with Multiorgan Failure Treated with Plasmapheresis by Ann Miller, Kristi D. Silver

“…Here we present a patient with thyroid storm and multiorgan failure who was treated with plasmapheresis. Case. A 50-year-old male with a history of hyperthyroidism, hypertension, and congestive heart failure presented to another hospital with fever and altered mentation. …”
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Vaccinating in Different Settings: Best Practices from Italian Regions by Carlo Signorelli, Flavia Pennisi, Anna Carole D’Amelio, Michele Conversano, Sandro Cinquetti, Lorenzo Blandi, Giovanni Rezza

“…Results: In Veneto, where prevention departments were the main actor, herpes zoster vaccination coverage for the 65-year-old cohort increased from 44.4% to 54.9%; in Tuscany, family pediatricians administered 64% of all childhood vaccines; in Liguria, pharmacies delivered 70.1% of COVID-19 vaccines, while vaccinating in schools in Taranto led to higher human papilloma virus vaccination rates compared to regional and national averages. …”
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A Homozygous CASQ2 Mutation in a Japanese Patient with Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia by Taishi Fujisawa, Yoshiyasu Aizawa, Yoshinori Katsumata, Akihiro Udo, Shogo Ito, Kazumasa Hatakeyama, Makoto Hirose, Hiroshi Miyama, Kazuaki Nakajima, Takahiko Nishiyama, Takehiro Kimura, Masamitsu Nitta, Kazuo Misumi, Seiji Takatsuki, Kenjiro Kosaki, Keiichi Fukuda

“…A 62-year-old female had suffered from recurrent syncopal episodes triggered by physical and emotional stress since childhood. …”
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Impact of an Interleukin-1 Receptor Antagonist and Erythropoietin on Experimental Myocardial Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury by Christina Grothusen, Angelika Hagemann, Tim Attmann, Jan Braesen, Ole Broch, Jochen Cremer, Jan Schoettler

“…Methods and Results. 12–15 week-old Lewis rats were subjected to myocardial ischemia by a 1 hr occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery. …”
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A randomised trial comparing the clinical effectiveness of different emergency department healthcare professionals in soft tissue injury management by Jonathan Richard Benger, Jane Powell, Fiona Cramp, Carey Middleton McClellan

“…Patients were excluded if they had any of the following: injury greater than 72 hours old; systemic disease; dislocated joints; recent surgery; unable to give informed consent (eg, dementia), open wounds; major deformities; opiate analgesia required; concurrent chest/rib injury; neurovascular deficits and associated fracture.Interventions Patients were randomised to treatment by ESPs, ENPs or routine care provided by doctors (of all grades).Main outcome measures Upper-limb and lower-limb functional scores, quality of life, physical well-being, preference-based health measures and the number of days off work.Results The clinical outcomes of soft tissue injury treated by ESPs and ENPs in the ED were equivalent to routine care provided by doctors.Conclusions As all groups were clinically equivalent it is other factors such as cost, workforce sustainability, service provision and skill mix that become important. …”
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Treatment of Complex Mandibular Body Fractures and Functional Reimplantation of the Maxillary Alveolar Fragment by Beatriz Sobrinho Sangalette, Rafaella Ferrari Pavoni, Thayna da Silva Emídio, Tiago Levatti, Marcos Capelari, Cláudio Maldonado Pastori, Gustavo Lopes Toledo

“…Patient E.M.S, 25 years old, male, leucoderma, referred to the Emergency Room of our institute. …”
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Pneumatosis Cystoides Intestinalis in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis: A Case Report and Review of 39 Japanese Cases by Manabu Kaneko, Shin Sasaki, Shuzo Teruya, Kosuke Ozaki, Kazuhiro Ishimaru, Emi Terai, Hiroshi Nakayama, Toshiyuki Watanabe

“…We report the case of an 82-year-old female patient with pneumoperitoneum due to PCI associated with SSc and review the features of the 39 Japanese cases. …”
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Wood Chip Incorporation in Almond Orchard Planting Berms Increased Gravimetric Water Content, Soil CO2 Efflux, and Fine Root Length Density by Hana You, Paul Martinez, Mae Culumber, Brent Holtz, Astrid Volder

“…Incorporation of chipped woody material into soil instead of burning or transporting wood chips (WCs) off-site is a practical solution to dispose of old orchard trees. In woody plants, the most external (fine) lateral roots are critical in acquiring water and nutrients and are the part of the root system that is most responsive to changes in the soil environment. …”
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Primary pulmonary diffuse large B cell lymphoma presenting with features of organizing pneumonia: a case report by Sunjie Li, Yige Huang, Linlin Wang, Jintao Zhou

“…Case presentation An 81-year-old Chinese man presented with a 4-month history of pulmonary nodules and a 2-month history of cough and dyspnea. …”
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Macrophage Activation Syndrome/Secondary Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in Adult‐Onset Still's Disease: An Uncommon Initial Presentation in a Young Nepalese Female: A Case Repo... by Kanchan Bishwakarma, Kajal Bishwakarma, Sunil Bogati, Saket Jha

“…Here, we present a case of a 36‐year‐old Nepalese female, with no known comorbidities presented with a history of fever, sore throat, multiple joint pain, fluctuating rash, hair loss, and unintentional weight loss for a month. …”
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Parathyroid carcinoma and pheochromocytoma in a patient with neurofibromatosis type 1: a rare association by Jardelina Brena Rocha Leite, Nicole Ramalho De Freitas, Rafaella Nelice de Holanda Cardoso, Erik Trovão Diniz, Gabriel Rodrigues de Assis Ferreira, Fernão Henrique Costa e Alvim, Camila Ribeiro Coutinho Madruga, Ana Carolina Thé Garrido, Luciano Albuquerque, Patricia Sampaio Gadelha, Ruy Lyra, Lucio Vilar

“…The case report outlines a 33-year-old woman with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) presenting complex symptomatology including a cervical mass, bone pain and significantly elevated calcium and parathyroid hormone levels, indicative of parathyroid carcinoma accompanied by cystic fibrous osteitis. …”
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Can Abies alba Needles Be Used as Bio-passive Samplers to Assess Air Quality? by Agnieszka Stojanowska, Maciej Górka, Anita Urszula Lewandowska, Kinga Wiśniewska, Magdalena Modelska, David Widory

“…Our results also prove that one-year-old needles are the most reliable isotope bioindicators. …”
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