Case report: a rare case of diffusely metastatic BRAF V600E-mutated colorectal cancer with concomitant infiltration of the skin and parotid gland by Aristeidis E. Boukouris, Ioannis Kokkinakis, Elias Drakos, Maria Sfakianaki, Maria Tzardi, Dimitrios Mavroudis, Dimitrios Mavroudis, John Souglakos, John Souglakos

“…Herein, we report a patient with initial diagnosis of stage IIIc CRC, who presented during follow-up (adjuvant phase) with dysphagia, left-sided lagophthalmos and multiple skin nodules. The ensuing work-up revealed disseminated metastatic disease from the primary CRC, which was BRAF V600E-mutated (retrospective tissue analysis), affecting, besides the lungs, multiple uncommon sites, such as the skin and parotid gland. …”
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Blue infrastructure as nature-based solutions for urban sustainability: Evaluating local perceptions from four Indian megacities by Koushik Chowdhury, Sukanya Basu, Malay Pramanik, Tobias Plieninger

“…Urban blue infrastructure provides multiple economic, social, and ecological benefits to local residents, and can enhance urban sustainability. …”
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Immune-related adverse events with PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors: insights from a real-world cohort of 2523 patients by Ting Yan, Minghui Long, Chaoyi Liu, Jiwen Zhang, Jiwen Zhang, Xingyu Wei, Xingyu Wei, Fei Li, Fei Li, Dehua Liao

“…Patients were categorized into an irAEs group and a non-irAEs group, with the former further subdivided into a multiple irAEs group and a single irAE group. Chi-square tests were employed to evaluate differences in baseline characteristics and efficacy outcomes between the irAEs and non-irAEs groups, as well as between the multiple and single irAE groups. …”
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Unveiling GPT-4V's hidden challenges behind high accuracy on USMLE questions: Observational Study by Zhichao Yang, Zonghai Yao, Mahbuba Tasmin, Parth Vashisht, Won Seok Jang, Feiyun Ouyang, Beining Wang, David McManus, Dan Berlowitz, Hong Yu

“…ConclusionsGPT-4V achieved high accuracy on multiple-choice questions with images, highlighting its potential in medical assessments. …”
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A Variational Approach to Perturbed Discrete Anisotropic Equations by Amjad Salari, Giuseppe Caristi, David Barilla, Alfio Puglisi

“…We continue the study of discrete anisotropic equations and we will provide new multiplicity results of the solutions for a discrete anisotropic equation. …”
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Does Diabetes Mellitus Alter the Onset and Clinical Course of Vascular Dementia? by Santosh B. Murthy, Ali Jawaid, Salah U. Qureshi, Yogeshwar Kalkonde, Andrew M. Wilson, Michael L. Johnson, Mark E. Kunik, Paul E. Schulz

“…Background: Vascular dementia (VaD) is the second most common dementing illness. Multiple risk factors are associated with VaD, but the individual contribution of each to disease onset and progression is unclear. …”
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Necrotizing Infiltrative Lipomatosis in a Miniature Zebu Bull (Bos primigenius indicus) by Scott D. Reed, Dawn E. Evans

“…This is the first pathologic description of lipomatosis that we are aware of in this species and breed of cattle. Infiltration of multiple visceral organs is described and depicted along with comparison to previously published cases of lipomatosis in other breeds of cattle.…”
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Rare Extraperitoneal Involvement with Fatal Outcome in a Case of Bilateral Luteinized Thecoma of the Ovaries with Sclerosing Peritonitis by Mohamed A. Medhat, Mohamed A. Y. Abdel Malek, Saad Zaki, Ahmed Helmy, James J. Driscoll

“…We report the case of a woman diagnosed with bilateral luteinized thecoma of the ovaries with sclerosing peritonitis, multiple intraperitoneal cystic lesions, and extraperitoneal lesions of the liver, inferior to the spleen, and high suspicion of bone marrow involvement. …”
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Abnormal Hematological Indices in Cirrhosis by Amir A Qamar, Norman D Grace

“…Abnormalities in hematological indices are frequently encountered in cirrhosis. Multiple causes contribute to the occurrence of hematological abnormalities. …”
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The Boundedness of the Hardy-Littlewood Maximal Operator and Multilinear Maximal Operator in Weighted Morrey Type Spaces by Takeshi Iida

“…The aim of this paper is to prove the boundedness of the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator on weighted Morrey spaces and multilinear maximal operator on multiple weighted Morrey spaces. In particular, the result includes the Komori-Shirai theorem and the Iida-Sato-Sawano-Tanaka theorem for the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator and multilinear maximal function.…”
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On Types of Solutions of the Second Order Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems by Maria Dobkevich, Felix Sadyrbaev, Nadezhda Sveikate, Inara Yermachenko

“…The existence results and the multiplicity results are stated in terms of types of solutions.…”
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Papillary Cystadenoma: An Incidental Finding in Tubal Ligation by Tabitha Lynn Ward, Neda Zarrin-Khameh

“…von Hippel-Lindau disease (vHLD) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder with multiple benign and malignant tumors of different organs. …”
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On Some Metric Inequalities and Applications by Hassen Aydi, Bessem Samet

“…Some applications of our result are given, including metric inequalities in Lebesgue spaces, matrices inequalities, multiplicative metric inequalities, and partial metric inequalities. …”
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Foster Care Youth in Transition: How to Help Mitigate Risks of Homelessness Faced by Teens and Emerging Adults in the Foster Care System by Francesca Michelini, Kate Fogarty, Randall Cantrell, Marilyn Swisher

“… This article discusses multiple problems that youth encounter after they exit foster care, and the ways that almost anyone can work to help these young people. …”
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On the modelling of complex sociopsychological systems with some reasoning about Kate, Jules, and Jim by Nicola Bellomo, Bruno Carbonaro

“…The modelling is based on suitable developments of the methods of mathematical kinetic theory of active particles with special attention to modelling multiple interactions. A first approach to complexity analysis is proposed referring to both computational and modelling aspects.…”
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A Rare Cause of Right Upper Quadrant Pain in a 17-Year-Old Female by Nwabundo Nwankwo, Aram Barbaryan, Alaa M. Ali, Aibek E. Mirrakhimov

“…Abdominal computed tomography showed multiple hypoechoic liver masses. Liver biopsy was done, which was diagnostic for hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma.…”
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CASE PRESENTATION by Goga Iolanda, Cioc Enache, Boghici Elena-Monica, Moraru Mihaela, Nichita Monica-Adriana, Dumitrescu Elena, Pirlea Andrei-Daniel, Zob Daniela-Luminiţa

“…A case report Clinical and therapeutic particularities in dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans – a case report Multiple myeloma presenting as sellar plasmacytoma and focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis – case report…”
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CMR in Heart Failure by Daniel M. Sado, Jonathan M. Hasleton, Anna S. Herrey, James C. Moon

“…Heart Failure (HF) is a common syndrome with multiple causes. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is a medical imaging technique with significant advantages, allowing the understanding of aetiology and pathophysiology of HF in the individual patient, permitting specific therapy to be administered and predicting prognosis. …”
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Left Vocal Cord Paralysis Detected by PET/CT in a Case of Lung Cancer by Ali Ozan Oner, Adil Boz, Evrim Surer Budak, Gulnihal Hale Kaplan Kurt

“…This test demonstrated, compared with the first PET/CT, an increase in the size and metabolic activity of the primary mass in the left lung in addition to multiple, pathologic-sized, hypermetabolic metastatic lymph nodes as well as multiple metastatic sclerotic areas in bones. …”
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Feasibility Study on Application of Various MADM Approaches for Selection of Kenaf/Saw Dust Composite by Vishwas Mahesh

“…This study focuses on the mechanical characterization and application of the various Multiple Attribute Decision Making (MADM) approaches for the selection of composites fabricated using two natural fibers, kenaf, and sawdust. …”
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