Publications by authors named "Emerald O'Sullivan Mejia"
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- * It mostly occurs in the feet and is common in the "mycetoma belt" regions of Africa, South America, and South Asia, with few cases reported in the USA.
- * Recent reports highlight cases in immigrants, suggesting that the incidence of mycetoma in the USA may be underestimated, prompting a need for increased awareness among healthcare providers, particularly dermatologists and podiatrists.
Background: The application of ancillary molecular testing is becoming more important for the diagnosis and classification of disease. The use of fine-needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy as the means of sampling tumors in conjunction with molecular testing could be a powerful combination. FNA is minimally invasive, cost effective, and usually demonstrates accuracy comparable to diagnoses based on excisional biopsies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEosinophilic angiocentric fibrosis (EAF) is a rare, benign condition of unknown etiology involving the sinonasal tract and the upper respiratory airways, and rarely, larynx, and orbit. We report four cases of EAF identified, in three women and one man, aged 31, 57, 27, and 51 years, respectively. The patients complained of sinonasal obstructive symptoms of long duration, nasal masses, epiphora, and/or proptosis.
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