Colonic melanoma is a rarely detected aetiology of small bowel obstruction. This is a case of a male in his 80s with a history of treated stage IIIA melanoma on his trunk 7 years prior who presented ...

Endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) is a poorly understood but common cause of heart failure in sub-Saharan Africa, which typically presents with a restrictive phenotype. We describe a previously unreported ...

Schwannomas are benign tumours derived from Schwann cells of the peripheral nerve sheaths. A schwannoma arising in the external auditory canal (EAC) is rare, with few cases reported in the literature.

Aggressive angiomyxoma (AA) of the vulva is a rare, benign, slow-growing tumour that arises from the myxoid cells of the connective tissue. It has a low tendency to metastasise, but a high chance of ...

The solid variant of aneurysmal bone cyst is an expansile cystic lesion involving long tubular bones with unknown aetiology and usually occurs in the second decade of life. This is a paradigm of ...

We present a case of acute-onset orbital inflammation with rapidly progressive proptosis, episcleral venous stasis with raised intraocular pressure and loss of vision in a patient with a recent ...

Valproate (VPA) is broad-spectrum antiepileptic drug. Several adverse reactions including hepatotoxicity, fetal risk and pancreatitis are well known and labelled as boxed warnings in the USA. One ...

A woman in her early 30s presented to her primary care physician’s office with hoarseness, joint pain and facial swelling. The objective evaluation revealed elevated inflammatory markers and ...

Lithium is a well-established treatment for mood disorders and considered first-line pharmacological therapy for bipolar disorder as per the American Psychiatric Association guidelines. However, ...

Early theories of schizophrenia considered the illness as a fragmentation of mental content in response to psychological trauma. Here we present a case of very late onset schizophrenia in a previously ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Gulhane Military Medical Academy Haydarpasa Teaching Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey 2 Department of Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine, Gulhane Military Medical Academy ...

We report the case of a school-aged boy who presented with clinical features suggesting acute appendicitis. However, further imaging which included CT, demonstrated an inflammatory mass involving the ...