A male in his late teens presented with acute respiratory distress, subcutaneous emphysema and a pneumothorax in the setting of necrotising pulmonary tuberculosis. Imaging demonstrated a thick-walled ...
Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a medical emergency due to the high risk of permanent vision loss. It occurs most often in people of northern European ancestry, with a global prevalence of approximately ...
A 36-year-old man was brought to the emergency department with suspected COVID-19, following a 3-week history of cough, fevers and shortness of breath, worsening suddenly in the preceding 4 hours. On ...
We report an adolescent girl with genetically confirmed Bardet–Biedl syndrome complicated by end-stage renal disease, epilepsy, psychomotor delay and cardiac anomalies. During intensive care for ...
Riedel’s thyroiditis is an extremely rare fibrosing inflammatory disorder that extends beyond the thyroid capsule into surrounding structures. The disease usually progresses slowly; however, we report ...
Yusuke Okamoto, Kenichi Ishiyama, Kazuhisa Chonabayashi, Junya Kanda, Munenori Kawai, Akihisa Fukuda, Yasuhito Nannya, Seishi Ogawa, Kouhei Yamashita, Akifumi Takaori ...
A woman in her 30s presented with acute flaccid paraparesis secondary to severe hypokalaemia. She had a known history of ...
Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) encephalitis is marked by rapidly evolving and severe neuropsychiatric symptoms that can affect any age. This case illustrates a woman in her early 40s who was ...
Adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) is a rare, slowly growing salivary gland neoplasm distinguished by its versatile phenotype and destructive clinical course. Its underlying aetiology is unclear. It is ...
T-cell large granular lymphocyte leukaemia (T-LGLL) is a chronic lymphoproliferative disorder often associated with pure red ...
Von Hippel–Lindau (VHL) disease is a hereditary cancer syndrome predisposing to renal cell carcinoma (RCC), typically considered more indolent than sporadic RCC. The ‘3 cm rule’ has guided ...
The inferior vena cava (IVC), formed by the confluence of the two common iliac veins at the level of L5, is the main venous ...