Les réfections chirurgicales de l’hymen en Tunisie. Des techniques de purification et d’absolution ? by Ibtissem Ben Dridi

“…It also investigates how the various actors involved (young women, medical personnel, religious authorities) construct specific discourses entailing a moral logic that justifies the reconstruction of the hymen through the mobilization of the principles of repentance, protection and the common good, as well as the notion of physical and psychic purification. …”
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Erythema Multiforme Attributable to Herpes Simplex Virus: Clinical Aspects and Treatment by Aya Mtiri, Ghada Bouslama, Nour-sayda Ben Messouad, Iyadh Abidi, Souha Ben Youssef, Badreddine Sriha

“…Erythema multiforme is an acute mucocutaneous hypersensitivity reaction with various etiological factors, including herpes simplex virus, medications, autoimmune diseases, and malignancies, but the most common cause is infection by herpes simplex virus. …”
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Psychotic Features Abated with Vitamin D Treatment in a Patient with Major Depressive Disorder by David C. Fipps, Elisabet Rainey

“…Vitamin D deficiency is common in psychiatric populations, and vitamin D has been used as an add-on medication in major depressive disorder. …”
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COVID-19: An Emerging Culprit of Inflammatory Arthritis by Muhammad Shariq Mukarram, Muhammad Ishaq Ghauri, Sehrish Sethar, Nasir Afsar, Amir Riaz, Khizra Ishaq

“…Arthralgia is one of the most common symptoms that occur in patients with COVID-19. …”
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Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) Causing Tension Hemothorax in a Pregnant Woman Requiring Emergent Cesarean Delivery by Nidhi Sood, Nikhil Sood, Vibhu Dhawan

“…Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVMs), although most commonly congenital, are usually detected later in life. …”
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The Most Important Maglev Applications by Hamid Yaghoubi

“…It has various uses. The common point in all applications is the lack of contact and thus no wear and friction. …”
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Distributed Attitude Consensus for Multiple Rigid Spacecraft under Jointly Connected Switching Topologies by Long Ma, Shicheng Wang, Haibo Min, Shouyi Liao, Zhiguo Liu

“…The whole system is proved to be stable by using common Lyapunov function method. Finally, the theoretical result is illustrated by numerical simulations.…”
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Difficult Internal Jugular Central Venous Cannulation Using J-Tip Guidewire with Indwelling Peripherally Inserted Central Venous Catheters by Preeti Anand, Minal Joshi, Khaja Ahmed, Joel Yarmush

“…Central venous cannulation is a commonly performed procedure while managing critically ill patients; increasingly we encounter patients with indwelling wires or devices, like pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillator devices, and peripherally inserted central venous catheters which complicate insertion of central venous catheters further. …”
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Pulmonary hypertension associated with connective tissue disease by Srinivas Rajagopala, Molly Mary Thabah

“…PH-specific therapy in addition to immunosuppression is the most common treatment used though data are scant. In this narrative review, we discuss the epidemiologic burden, clinical presentation, evaluation, and management of PH in CTDs.…”
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Bacterial overgrowth syndrome by Yu. A. Kucheryavy, T. S. Oganesyan

“…Now there are no general guidelines on diagnostics of bacterial overgrowth syndrome in small intestine besides there is no common opinion which diagnostic test is preferable. …”
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Pregnancy counseling in rheumatic diseases: Where science meets the steps by Anu Balakrishnan, Pankti Mehta, Latika Gupta

“…Most rheumatic diseases (RDs) have a predilection for women in the reproductive age group. Common drugs used in rheumatology practice have identified risks to the fetus; thus, adequate pregnancy counseling is of utmost importance. …”
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Fast finite difference/Legendre spectral collocation approximations for a tempered time-fractional diffusion equation by Zunyuan Hu, Can Li, Shimin Guo

“…The sum-of-exponential technique developed in [Jiang et al., Commun. Comput. Phys., 21 (2017), 650-678] is used to discrete generalized fractional derivative with exponential kernel. …”
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A Simple Technique to Facilitate Treatment of Urethral Strictures with Optical Internal Urethrotomy by Konstantinos Stamatiou, Aggeliki Papadatou, Hippocrates Moschouris, Ioannis Kornezos, Anargiros Pavlis, Georgios Christopoulos

“…Urethral stricture is a common condition that can lead to serious complications such as urinary infections and renal insufficiency secondary to urinary retention. …”
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Autoimmune Hepatitis (AIH) in Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS): A Case Report and Review of Literature by Jordan Roussel, Sudha Pandit, Paul Jordan, Moheb Boktor, Kurt Knowles, Nester Dela Cruz, Hrishikesh Samant

“…The common causes of abnormal liver chemistries in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected patients are multifactorial. …”
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Untangling a case of dapsone-induced acute liver injury by V Meghana, Divya Ravindran, Umapathy Pasupathy

“…Dapsone hypersensitivity syndrome, although rare, may manifest with fever, rash, and multi-organ failure, mimicking other common diseases. This case study involves a 9-year-old female patient presenting with fever and acute liver injury, in which the intake of dapsone was not revealed until much later. …”
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Uncommon T12 Burst Fracture after an Epileptic Crisis by Akiki Alian

“…People having an epileptic crisis present to the hospital with an altered mental status and generalised fatigue. The most common orthopaedic pathology associated to epilepsy is the undiagnosed posterior shoulder dislocation. …”
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« Entrer dans l’immobilité » : les défunts en position assise du second âge du Fer by Valérie Delattre, Laure Pecqueur

“…This position seems to transcend the community liturgies and suggests that these selected bodies found on the margin of cemeteries were isolated on purpose from the common mortals: chosen and laid out for the eternity, they now on seem to approach the divine and its expression modalities.…”
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The Role of Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography in Optic Nerve Head Edema: A Narrative Review by Narges Karrabi, Sadid Hooshmandi, Alireza Amirabadi, Danial Roshandel, Kiana Hassanpour, Mohammad Pakravan

“…In this narrative review, we describe OCTA findings of the most common causes of ONH edema and its differential diagnoses including ONH drusen.…”
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Asynchronous Bilateral Ureteric-Arterial Fistula: Diagnosis and Treatment by Pietro Pepe, Letterio D’Arrigo, Domenico Patane’, Ludovica Pepe, Giuseppe Candiano, Michele Pennisi

“…A 48-year-old woman submitted to anterior exenteration plus ileal-cutaneous conduit for metastatic cervical cancer during the change of the ureteral stent showed massive bleeding in the left ureter. …”
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Improving the Accuracy of the Diffusion Model in Highly Absorbing Media by Alexander X. Cong, Haiou Shen, Wenxiang Cong, Ge Wang

“…The diffusion approximation of the Boltzmann transport equation is most commonly used for describing the photon propagation in turbid media. …”
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