Publications by authors named "Pilar Silva-Melendez"

A spontaneous renal calyceal rupture in pregnancy is extremely rare and can be challenging to identify as its presentation can mimic other more common diagnoses, which can lead to a delay in management. Here, we describe an unusual case of renal calyceal rupture in a 24-year-old G2P0010 female with pregnancy at 26.5 weeks gestation age (WGA) who was admitted to the antepartum ward due to left flank pain and uterine contractions.

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Small cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix is a rare and aggressive extra-pulmonary variant of small cell tumors. This carcinoma of the cervix comprises less than 5% of all cervical carcinomas and is know to be highly undifferentiated. It is associated with a poor prognosis and characterized by premature distant nodal involvement.

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