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Cureus
December 2024
Department of Surgery, Florida Atlantic University Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Boca Raton, USA.
Subtrochanteric fractures in older patients are typically due to low-energy falls. The standard of care is intramedullary nailing. The Smith & Nephew Trigen Intertan (Memphis, TN, US) is an intramedullary nail with a novel design that incorporates two integrated compression screws.
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December 2024
Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital de Santa Maria, ULS de Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal.
Unlabelled: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a human herpes virus with a worldwide seroprevalence of 60-100%, mainly known to cause severe life-threatening disease in immunocompromised patients. In immunocompetent hosts (IMCh), CMV causes a self-limiting mononucleosis-like infection, and severe pictures are less recognized. We report a case of a previously healthy 62-year-old woman evaluated in the Internal Medicine outpatient clinic for 3 weeks of progressive fatigue, generalised inflammatory arthralgias, hypogastric discomfort and daily persistent fever.
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November 2024
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
Peribronchiolar metaplasia is an uncommon lesion characterized by fibrosis and bronchiolar epithelial cell proliferation along the peribronchiolar alveolar walls, primarily in response to bronchiolar and peribronchiolar injuries. Peribronchiolar metaplasia usually appears as ground glass nodules or sub-solid nodules on computed tomography. However, we present an exceptional case of peribronchiolar metaplasia that appeared as a solitary solid nodule on computed tomography.
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February 2025
From the Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.
Evaluating patients with adult-onset gait instability can pose diagnostic challenges. In this case, a 62-year-old Ashkenazi Jewish woman with a history of surgically corrected hammer toes presented with chronic progressive lower extremity weakness, sensory impairment, and gait instability. Subsequently, the patient developed urinary urgency and mild cognitive difficulties.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeurospine
December 2024
Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
This video provides a step-by-step guide for performing the hybrid endoscopic thoracic discectomy using navigation and robotic arm for addressing high migrated calcified disc herniation. With the development of techniques, endoscopic spine surgery has emerged as a reliable treatment for thoracic myelopathy. This approach offers high-resolution, off-axis visualization of the surgical field.
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