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Cureus
December 2024
Neurology, Neurology and Neurophysiology Center, Vienna, AUT.
The combination of thumb aplasia, epilepsy, cognitive impairment, skeletal deformities, and myopathy has not been previously reported. The patient is a 22-year-old man with congenital bilateral thumb aplasia, developmental delay, and cognitive impairment who suffered a first tonic-clonic seizure at the age of 16 and was treated with valproic acid (VPA). At the age of 22, lamotrigine was added due to seizure recurrences and absences.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMembranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN) has previously been used as an umbrella term to describe a spectrum of hypocomplementemic glomerular diseases, which are rare causes of end stage kidney disease (ESKD). We present a 22-year-old man with a well-established medical history who had been complaining of 4 days of frothy dark urine, bilateral lower limb swelling, and puffiness on his face. For a month before his presentation, he had many bilateral skin lesions on his lower limbs that were leaking pus.
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November 2024
Internal Medicine, Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Group, Buraidah, SAU.
May-Thurner syndrome is a rare disorder characterized by the right common iliac artery overlies and compresses the left common iliac vein against the lumbar spine with or without iliofemoral deep venous thrombosis (DVT). The majority of cases are female and have been associated with the development of vulvar varicosities, particularly during pregnancy. Interestingly and very rarely, this condition has also been identified as a potential cause of varicoceles in males.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJMIR Dermatol
November 2024
Department of Dermatology, De La Salle Medical and Health Sciences Institute, Dasmariñas, Cavite, Philippines.
Int J Surg Case Rep
December 2024
Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria.
Introduction And Importance: Chondroid syringoma also referred to as a mixed tumor, is a benign and rare tumor originating from apocrine or eccrine sweat glands; it predominantly affects middle-aged men. While fine-needle aspiration cytology can aid in diagnosis, histological confirmation remains essential due to the potential for misdiagnosis.
Case Presentation: A-22-year-old male who presented with a solitary, slow-growing, painless, erythematous nodule on the right nasal wing that had been present for 1 year, which was misdiagnosed as an epidermal cyst.
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