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Primary hyperhidrosis substantially impairs quality of life. Conventional sympathectomy risks compensatory hyperhidrosis through trunk disruption, whilst selective sympathectomy preserves the trunk while dividing…
Read caseA 34-year-old woman, two days postpartum, was admitted to intensive care with hypertensive crisis and respiratory failure. CT showed an 18-cm left adrenal mass suspicious for pheochromocytoma.
A 33-year-old man with end-stage kidney disease from biopsy-proven AA amyloidosis was assessed for preemptive living-donor kidney transplantation.
The management of impacted common bile duct stones in patients with prior Billroth II gastrectomy poses unique challenges. Altered gastrointestinal anatomy renders duodenoscope passage and biliary cannulation during…
A 54-year-old woman with initially unresectable, HER2-negative, pMMR-by-IHC, EBER-positive gastric cancer and synchronous liver metastases received tislelizumab-based chemotherapy, with regimen changes after suspected…
A 45-year-old woman with right lower-quadrant pain and fever had CT evidence of ruptured appendicitis with a loculated peri-appendiceal abscess, which improved after percutaneous drainage and intravenous antibiotics.
A 26-year-old woman presented with sudden severe colicky central abdominal pain, non-bilious vomiting, and complete constipation; she had experienced a similar self-limited episode a month earlier.
A male infant born at 33 weeks and 5 days presented on day four of life with abdominal distension, feeding refusal, and no passage of flatus or stool.
A male patient sought esthetic rehabilitation for a diastema between the central incisors, mismatched tooth shapes, and overall dental disharmony.
A 36-year-old woman sought improvement of her smile. Existing ceramic veneers from the maxillary right to left canine showed staining and crack lines, with mild gingival recession around the restored teeth.
An 82-year-old woman with atrioventricular block, hypertension, and dementia presented with acute abdominal pain that had begun three days earlier.
A 7-year-old girl presented with several weeks of vomiting, abdominal pain and progressive distension. Examination found a large abdominal mass; laboratory results were unremarkable.
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