An unusual location of hand, foot and mouth disease.

Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) is a childhood febrile disease. Oral lesions and papulovesicular lesions on the hands and feet are the clinical signs of the disease. In our case, a 17-year-old boy presented to the emergency department, where he was diagnosed with HFMD.

Diagnostic imaging in COVID-19 pneumonia: a literature review.

In December 2019 in Wuhan (China), a bat-origin coronavirus (2019-nCoV), also known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was identified, and the World Health Organization named the related disease COVID-19. Its most severe manifestations are pneumonia, systemic and pulmonary thromboembolism, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and respiratory failure. A swab test is considered the gold standard for the diagnosis of COVID-19 despite the high number of false negatives.

A case of duodenal duplication in an adult.

We report a rare case of duodenal duplication, manifested in an adult with aspecific symptoms, whose diagnosis was possible with ultrasound at the beginning and then with gastrointestinal barium study, endoscopic ultrasonography and contrast enhanced CT scan; it was confirmed surgically.