Introduction And Importance: Evacuation of obstructed trachea foreign body (FB) can be challenging and may have several life-threatening complications. Iatrogenic tracheobronchial injury (TBI) is a rare and devastating complication which need prompt diagnosis and management.
Case Presentation: An 11-year-old child was brought to the emergency with a history of cough and chest discomfort for the last 15 days.
Background: Penetrating chest trauma can have lethal consequences. Anterior chest wall penetrating injury can cause fatal lacerations over the chest wall, lungs, pericardium, and the heart. There are few reports on these kinds of injuries and operative management.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Ganglioneuroma (GN) is a rare benign tumor of ganglion cell origin and can occur anywhere along the sympathetic chain. These tumors can grow to a significant size without any symptoms unless they exert a mass effect on the region they grow and start showing symptoms. Spinal extensions are rare and they may produce neurological symptoms warranting further investigation.
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October 2022
Introduction And Importance: Cutaneous Squamous cell carcinoma(cSCC) represents approximately 16% of scalp tumors. Overall, cSCC is significantly more common in the oropharyngeal mucosa than the skin. Smoking is a risk factor for mucosal lesions, risk factors for developing cutaneous SCC include age, ultraviolet light exposure, chronic scarring, history of ionizing radiation, androgenetic alopecia (in men), and immunosuppression.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntermediate syndrome with respiratory failure is a serious complication that can be fatal as in our case of a 24-year-old-man who developed intermediate syndrome requiring intubation and respiratory support. Furthermore, the patient's socio-economic situation significantly impacts the illness's progress and prognosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction And Importance: Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease is a rare autosomal dominantly inherited genetic condition. Von Hippel characterized the illness independently in 1911, and Lindau in 1926. Its prevalence is estimated to be about 1 in every 36,000 live births.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: and importance: An encephalocele is a type of congenital neural tube defect defined by herniation of intracranial contents via a cranial defect. When an encephalocele is greater than the size of the head, it is referred to as a "giant encephalocele." The occurrence of encephalocele has been documented to be 1-4 instances per 10,000 live births.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMalignant adnexal tumors of skin are rare. Sebaceous carcinoma-a rare and aggressive cutaneous tumor-is frequently located in the periorbital region. Malignant adnexal tumors of sebaceous carcinoma type on trunk with axillary lymph node and distant metastasis in young adult is rare.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction And Importance: Myiasis has been reported as a complication of fracture treatment with external fixation. Therefore, physicians should be aware of the possible re-emergence of myiasis as a complication of surgery and the use of metal fixators.
Clinical Presentation: A 45-year-old male, non-diabetic, chronic alcoholic treated with external bone fixation and flap coverage for Gustilo-Anderson type IIIB comminuted fracture of shaft of left tibia and fibula with intact distal neuro-vascular system presented with multiple maggots with foul-smelling discharge from the pin tract.
Hyoscine butylbromide-induced pyschosis, though rare, should be considered in a child presenting with deteriorating cognitive functions and psychotic features acutely as evident in our case of a 9-year-old child taking hyoscine for her non-specific abdominal pain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction And Importance: Ileosigmoid knotting is a surgical emergency. Common in Asian males, it is presented with signs and symptoms of diffuse peritonitis. Aggressive resuscitation with intravenous fluids and antibiotics followed by workup enable the patient hemodynamically stable.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRib tumors are rare. They can present with wide varieties of symptoms and differentiating benign from malignant lesions is challenging. A careful history and supporting investigations can help to reach the definite diagnosis.
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September 2021
Introduction: Pulmonary sequestration is a rare congenital lung malformation characterized by non-functioning mass of pulmonary tissue that lacks normal communication with bronchial tree and receives one or more aberrant systemic arterial supply. It usually presents in children with recurrent chest infections. It is uncommon in adult and remains asymptomatic or present with recurrent chest infections, rarely with more severe symptoms like a massive haemoptysis as in seen in our case.
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