Diagnosing Intraoperative Pneumothorax in Patients Undergoing Autologous Breast Reconstruction: A Useful Clinical Sign by Thomas Reekie, David McGill, Elizabeth Marshall

“…Given the difficulties of access to the chest by the anaesthetic team during breast procedures, this has the potential to be a useful adjunct in the diagnosis of this potentially serious intraoperative complication.…”
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Psoas Abscess Formation in Suboptimally Controlled Diabetes Mellitus by A. J. Lansdown, A. Downing, A. W. Roberts, D. Martin

“…It is important to include psoas abscess in the differential in such patients to ensure early diagnosis and treatment.…”
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Kink of Subclavian Artery Mimicking Stenosis by Hatice S. Kemal, Aziz Gunsel, Murat Kocaoglu, Levent Cerit, Hamza Duygu

“…In this asymptomatic case, we have merged clinical and multiple imaging modalities to secure the diagnosis and treatment plan.…”
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Guidelines for Identification and Management of Plant Disease Problems: Part II. Diagnosing Plant Diseases Caused by Fungi, Bacteria and Viruses by Ken Pernezny, Monica Elliott, Aaron Palmateer, Nikol Havranek

“…They provide beginning Master Gardener volunteers with methods for taking a systematic approach to diagnosis of plant disease problems. Published by the UF Department of Plant Pathology, February 2008. …”
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Primary Aneurysm of the Medial Marginal Vein of the Foot by D. Casian, V. Culiuc

“…Based on the clinical findings, the venous aneurysm was suspected and duplex ultrasound confirmed the diagnosis of the aneurysm of the medial marginal vein of the foot. …”
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Common diseases during the neonatal period. Complete blood count, peripheral blood smear, reticulocyte count, and platelet count results by Nelson Rafael Terry Leonard, Cleopatra Cabrera Cuéllar

“…The complete blood count, the peripheral blood smear, the reticulocyte count and the platelet count in the pathological neonatal period are fundamental tests in the diagnosis and follow-up of some of the most frequent diseases in this phase of life, such as anemia and infections, which can sometimes cause great morbidity and mortality in the newborn. …”
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A 29-Year-Old Man with Hospital-Acquired Cavitary Pneumonia by Mansoor Mehmood, Ruba A Halloush, Faisal A Khasawneh

“…This article describes the presentation, work-up, diagnosis and treatment of an East Asian immigrant who was admitted with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure.…”
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Recalcitrant ‘knuckle pads’: a revisited case by Enas Attia

“…Secondary knuckle pads are distinctly different from primary knuckle pads, acquired by repetitive trauma, and dermoscopy may aid in diagnosis. We hereby report a case of a female patient with recalcitrant knuckle pads for 8 years, that were confused with psoriasis or erythrokeratoderma. …”
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Clinical Practice Guidelines for Herniated Disk Treatment by José Ramón Tejera del Valle, Joaquín Aguilar Trujillo, Danny Barrueta Reyes, José Gómez Cruz, Líder Tejera Sánchez

“…The current concept is not only limited to the disorder caused by the rupture of the intervertebral disk, it also includes primary disk degeneration and the resulting spondylosis, and disk disorders associated with this degeneration, traumas and aseptic and granulomatous discitis. Concept, diagnosis, treatment and aetiology are defined and commented stressing the neurosurgical aspects. …”
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Urinoma: A Rare Complication of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Surgery by Koon-Sung Cheng, Hashim Hashim, Janice Tsui, Caroline Osborne, Nickolas Law

“…We report a case of symptomatic urinoma after infra-renal AAA repair and discuss the etiology, diagnosis and treatment of this unusual condition.…”
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Piperazine derivatives as dangerous abused compounds by Welz Anna, Koba Marcin

“…This hinders the correct diagnosis and treatment of patients with poisoning. …”
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Myocardial Infarction after Endoscopic Removal of Foreign Body by Carola Maraboto, Florentino Lupercio, Ileana L. Piña

“…This case report summarizes a rare complication of a low-risk procedure and highlights the importance of considering this potential adverse event, particularly in patients with significant cardiovascular risk factors, to promote early diagnosis and proper treatment.…”
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Pleomorphic Adenoma of the External Auditory Canal: A Rare Presentation by Samir Jaber, Milan Rudic, Ivan James Keogh

“…The tumor was excised and histopathology confirmed a diagnosis of ceruminous pleomorphic adenoma of the external auditory canal. …”
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BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER – A NARRATIVE REVIEW by JOHN J. SÖDERHOLM

“…The aetiology of BPD is multifactorial, and although some form of trauma is common, the heritability is also significant. The diagnosis of personality disorders including BPD may be moving from categorical towards dimensional approaches. …”
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Les outils d’évaluation de la biodiversité et des services écosystémiques recommandés aux entreprises : compromis entre crédibilité, pertinence et légitimité by Anastasia Wolff, Natacha Gondran, Christian Brodhag

“…The quantitative analysis of the scores highlights tradeoffs between these three dimensions as well as different profiles depending on the inclusion of business actors in the conception phase, the type of output (qualitative, monetary, non-monetary, combining monetary and non-monetary) and final use (diagnosis, monitoring and external communication). …”
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Customer Participation in Professional Services Operations And Its Impacts On Flexibility and Costs by Juliana Barreto, Ricardo Silveira Martins

“…Through a multi-case study with four professional services organizations, using data collection through semi-structured interviews and documentary research, we identified four main sources of variability, namely: customer arrival, the diagnosis of needs, production and implementation and the delivery value analysis. …”
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Thyroid Tissue Connected to Normally Located Thyroid Gland: Ectopic or Exophytic? by Erol Keles, Sule Ozkara, Turgut Karlidag, İbrahim Hanifi Ozercan

“…It is often seen in cervical midline, and rarely in other areas such as submandibular area. Diagnosis is made histopathologically by fine needle biopsy after the elimination of malignancy. …”
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Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma to the Parotid Gland in the Setting of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia by Robert Deeb, Ziying Zhang, Tamer Ghanem

“…Total parotidectomy revealed this mass to be an additional site of metastasis which had developed 19 years after his initial diagnosis of RCC.…”
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Cerebral Salt Wasting Syndrome following Head Injury in a Child Managed Successfully with Fludrocortisone by Nagendra Chaudhary, Santosh Pathak, Murli Manohar Gupta, Nikhil Agrawal

“…Cerebral salt wasting (CSW) syndrome is an important cause of hyponatremia in head injuries apart from syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone (SIADH). Proper diagnosis and differentiation between these two entities are necessary for management as the treatment is quite opposite in both conditions. …”
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Subcutaneous EEG Monitoring Reveals AED Response and Breakthrough Seizures by Sigge Weisdorf, Ivan C. Zibrandtsen, Troels W. Kjaer

“…The case illustrates how objective seizure counting in epilepsy using new devices can completely change diagnosis and management.…”
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