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Cureus
August 2024
Pediatric Surgery, University of Central Florida (UCF) College of Medicine, Orlando, USA.
Foreign body (FB) aspiration is one of the most common life-threatening emergencies in children and one of the leading causes of mortality in the pediatric population. Most commonly, aspirated items are organic materials, such as nuts and seeds. Inorganic objects are usually plastic or metal.
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December 2023
Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago, USA.
is a bacterial pathogen that tends to cause opportunistic infections, mainly in immune-compromised patients. In this case, we present a 69-year-old female who presented to the emergency department (ED) at Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago on February 11th, 2022, after a mechanical fall. She had a medical history of metastatic lung cancer treated with chemotherapy, hypertension, pulmonary embolism, polysubstance abuse, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
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December 2023
Department of Pulmonology, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310052, China.
Although airway foreign body aspiration (FBA) is a common occurrence in any age group, unrecognized and retained foreign bodies in lungs may result in severe complications, such as lung abscess or bronchiectasis. In rare cases, FBA may present with similar clinical features as many other diseases (e.g.
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August 2023
FSH: Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, Australia.
Background: Increased usage of cross sectional imaging for a variety of indications, in particular CT imaging, has led to an increased detection of renal and ureteric masses. Benign ureteric masses are rare, with 95% of identified tumours consisting of transitional cell carcinoma (TCC). IgG4-related disease is a recognised clinical systemic autoimmune, inflammatory condition with a propensity for multi-organ manifestation.
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July 2023
Department of Hematology, National Center for Cancer Care and Research, HMC, Doha, Qatar.
Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a rare neoplastic disease characterized by infiltration of histiocytes and dendritic cells into body organs. While treatment is better established in pediatrics, there is still no consensus on therapy in the adult population. Imatinib has shown promising results in some case reports and a small clinical trial.
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