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Intern Emerg Med
January 2025
Internal Medicine Department. Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada, Camino del Molino, 2, 28942, Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Spain.
Front Surg
January 2025
Orthopedics and Traumatology Department, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Türkiye.
Retained drain fragments, though rare, can lead to significant complications in orthopedic surgery(1). This case report presents a 57-year-old woman who developed gluteal tendinopathy and Trendelenburg gait two years after a total hip arthroplasty (THA) due to a retained drain fragment. A less experienced surgeon encountered resistance during drain removal on the first postoperative day and applied excessive force, unknowingly leaving a fragment inside.
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January 2025
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Medical College, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China.
Rationale: Percutaneous endoscopic transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (PE-TLIF) is a minimally invasive surgical approach for the treatment of lumbar degenerative diseases, Due to the high incidence of surgical complications and long operative time, the cases reported in previous literature were focused on single segment lumbar degenerative diseases. In our study, we present 2 patients who had continuous double-level lumbar degenerated disease.
Patient Concerns: A 71-year-old man with severe low back pain and right leg pain for 3 months, a 57-year-old woman with severe low back pain and bilateral leg pain for 6 months.
JACC Case Rep
December 2024
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
This report discusses the case of a 57-year-old woman with a history of breast cancer and gastric cancer, germline CDH1 gene mutation, who presented to the hospital with syncope. Diagnostic workup revealed a mass in the right ventricular outflow tract. Transcatheter biopsy suggested papillary fibroelastoma, which was confirmed with surgical pathology.
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January 2025
Service de Médecine nucléaire et Imagerie.
Spontaneous cervical swelling syndrome is a rare, benign, and recurrent condition, most commonly affecting middle-aged women. Although its etiology is not fully understood, it is thought to be associated with intermittent occlusion of the thoracic duct, caused by increased pressure in the head and neck region. It occurs as an acute, limited swelling of the left supra-clavicular region and regresses, in most cases, spontaneously, in less than a week.
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