Osteochondral Avulsion Fracture of the Femoral Origin of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament in an 11-Year-Old Child by Sunil Kumar Pai, Nayef Aslam Pervez, Graham Radcliffe

“…Although rare, surgeons (and emergency room doctors) treating such patients should include femoral end avulsion injuries of the anterior cruciate ligament in the differential diagnosis of a child presenting with an acute haemarthrosis of the knee. …”
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Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis Presenting as Pauci-Immune Crescentic Glomerulonephritis in Pregnancy by Ryan Kunjal, Raafat Makary, Andreea Poenariu

“…Renal biopsy revealed a pauci-immune crescentic glomerulonephritis (PICGN). The diagnosis was consistent with granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA). …”
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Cecal Schwannoma: A Rare Cause of Gastrointestinal Bleeding in a Young Woman with Review of Literature by Kalyan Kanneganti, Harish Patel, Masooma Niazi, Kavitha Kumbum, Bhavna Balar

“…A very rare pathological diagnosis of cecal schwannoma was made postoperatively.…”
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Neglected adult PFAPA syndrome by Aiping Zhang, Ruifeng Zhang, Yiling Jiang, Ling Shi, Meihong Luo

“…Periodic Fever, Aphthous stomatitis, Pharyngitis and cervical Adenitis (PFAPA) syndrome is rarely seen in adults. The diagnosis is challenging, and the majority of cases are misdiagnosed early. …”
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Benign Duodenal Stricture Treated with Surgical Correction and Dietary Therapy in a Golden Retriever by John C. Rowe, Alice A. Huang, Jin Heo, Nolie K. Parnell, Adam J. Rudinsky

“…In this case report, the clinical, radiographic, ultrasonographic, endoscopic, surgical, and histopathologic findings of a single benign duodenal stricture in a Golden Retriever are reported. Definitive diagnosis was made possible with the utilization of esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD). …”
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Polymorphous Low-Grade Adenocarcinoma of the Tongue Base Treated by Transoral Robotic Surgery by Jeong Hong Kim, Chang Lim Hyun, Gil Chai Lim

“…A 54-year-old male presenting with a mass at the base of the tongue performed transoral laser microsurgery. The pathologic diagnosis was polymorphous low-grade adenocarcinoma. …”
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Acute Abdominal Compartment Syndrome following Extraperitoneal Bladder Perforation by Ana Licina

“…During the management, diagnosis was considered through the use of the point of care abdominal ultrasound. …”
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Exacerbation of Congenital Hydronephrosis as the First Presentation of COVID-19 Infection in Children by Masoumeh Mohkam, Mahnaz Jamee, Farshid Kompani, Mitra Khalili, Atena Seifi, Leily Mohajerzadeh

“…Here, we report five patients with an established diagnosis of congenital hydronephrosis, who presented with acute abdominal pain and fever and an abrupt increase in the anteroposterior pelvic diameter (APD). …”
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Clutter Mitigation in Echocardiography Using Sparse Signal Separation by Javier S. Turek, Michael Elad, Irad Yavneh

“…In ultrasound imaging, clutter artifacts degrade images and may cause inaccurate diagnosis. In this paper, we apply a method called Morphological Component Analysis (MCA) for sparse signal separation with the objective of reducing such clutter artifacts. …”
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Pregnancy in the Setting of Asymptomatic Non-Cirrhotic Chronic Portal Vein Thrombosis Complicated by Pre-Eclampsia by Işık Üstüner, Remzi Adnan Akdoğan, Emine Seda Güvendağ Güven, Figen Kır Şahin, Şenol Şentürk, Elif Akdoğan, Filiz Taşçı

“…This report will emphasize the clinical differential diagnosis, outcome, and management of pregnancies complicated by noncirrhotic PVT.…”
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The Effect of COVID-19 on Tuberculosis Care and Treatment Outcome in Pre-COVID, COVID, and Post-COVID Eras by Pooja N. Ranpariya, Harsha M. Solanki, Rajesh K. Chudasama

“…Comparison of TB care data includes notification, diagnosis, treatment services, and outcome for the pre-COVID, COVID, and post-COVID periods. …”
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Atypical Cutaneous Fibrous Histiocytoma: An Unusual and Misleading Variant of Fibrous Histiocytoma by Soumaya Ben Abdelkrim, Colondane Belajouza, Wafa Jomaa, Nadia Beizig, Zeineb Ben Said, Moncef Mokni, Rafia Nouira, Badreddine Sriha

“…We report a new case of atypical cutaneous fibrous histiocytoma in a 31-year-old man who presented with a recurrent polypoid nodule on the abdominal wall. The diagnosis was made on the basis of morphological and immunohistochemical findings. …”
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Listeria monocytogenes Cerebritis and Infective Endocarditis in an Immunocompetent Adult: A Rare Clinical Manifestation by Shalini A. Mohan, Zharif Sufyaan

“…Listeria monocytogenes was isolated from blood culture on day 5 of admission. A diagnosis of neurolisteriosis was made as contrast-enhanced-computed tomography (CECT) of the brain showed right frontal cerebritis. …”
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A Rare Case of Malignant Tumor of the Larynx with Good Prognosis: Laryngeal Chondrosarcoma by Abderrahim Elktaibi, Issam Rharrassi, Nabil Hammoune, Youssef Darouassi, Mohammed Amine Hanine, Haddou Ammar

“…Histological examination supported the diagnosis of low-grade chondrosarcoma. Five months later, the radiological and clinical findings showed no evidence of recurrence or metastases. …”
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Fundamentals and Methods for T- and B-Cell Epitope Prediction by Jose L. Sanchez-Trincado, Marta Gomez-Perosanz, Pedro A. Reche

“…There is great interest in identifying epitopes in antigens for a number of practical reasons, including understanding disease etiology, immune monitoring, developing diagnosis assays, and designing epitope-based vaccines. …”
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Multi scale multi attention network for blood vessel segmentation in fundus images by Giri Babu Kande, Madhusudana Rao Nalluri, R. Manikandan, Jaehyuk Cho, Sathishkumar Veerappampalayam Easwaramoorthy

“…Abstract Precise segmentation of retinal vasculature is crucial for the early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of vision-threatening ailments. …”
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Automatic Classification of Normal and Cancer Lung CT Images Using Multiscale AM-FM Features by Eman Magdy, Nourhan Zayed, Mahmoud Fakhr

“…Computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) systems provide fast and reliable diagnosis for medical images. In this paper, CAD system is proposed to analyze and automatically segment the lungs and classify each lung into normal or cancer. …”
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Massive Fetomaternal Hemorrhage Caused by an Intraplacental Choriocarcinoma: A Case Report by Anna-Karina Aaris Henningsen, Lisa Leth Maroun, Hanne Havsteen, Jens Svare

“…When found near term the risk of maternal metastasis is high because of the late diagnosis. Case. We describe a case of an intraplacental choriocarcinoma diagnosed postpartum after a near-term delivery of a severely anemic infant. …”
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Anti-3-Hydroxy-3-Methylglutaryl-Coenzyme A Reductase Immune-Mediated Necrotizing Myopathy following mRNA SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination by Marta Rodrigues de Carvalho, Myrian Mathildes Sá de Deus Rocha, Vinícius Alves Bezerra, Maciel Eduardo de Pontes, Maria Cristina del Negro, Julio Salgado Antunes, Vinícius Viana Abreu Montanaro, Rubens Nelson Morato Fernandez

“…In this article, we report the case of a young female patient who developed anti-3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase (anti-HMG-CoA) immune-mediated necrotizing myositis (IMNM) after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech (BNT162b2) COVID-19 vaccine. The diagnosis of probable post-vaccination IMNM was made due to the absence of other factors that may have led to the development of autoantibodies (medicines; e.g., statins, drugs) and the temporal relationship between exposure and event. …”
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“The Clock Is Ticking”: The Timely Management of a Painful Skin Rash in a Seventy-Year-Old Woman by Susan Thomas, Folashade Omole, Vijaykumar G. Patel, Michelle L. Nichols

“…Most patients have pre-existing conditions that render them susceptible to infection, although etiology is unclear. Diagnosis is primarily clinical and is often delayed because of the unfamiliarity of the condition among clinicians. …”
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