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Mycosis fungoides, the most common type of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, can manifest in a variety of clinical and histological forms, but blistering is not a feature normally associated with the condition. Indeed, of the many variants that have been...
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The basal ganglia and cerebellum have been extensively studied in schizophrenia as these areas of the brain are involved in the control of movement. Disease in these areas has been implicated in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia as movement...
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Listeria monocytogenes is an anaerobic, Gram-positive bacillus causing infections of the central nervous system (CNS) primarily observed in immunocompromised hosts. A specific form of listerial CNS infection, listerial rhomboencephalitis, usually...
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Isolated long thoracic nerve paralysis causes weakness of the serratus anterior muscle and winging of the scapula [1,2]. The normal function of the serratus anterior muscle is to maintain the scapula in apposition to the thorax when the arm is...
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One of the challenges in primary care is the ongoing management of patients with chronic painful syndromes who have not responded to the standard treatment regimens. Polypharmacy, multiple speciality referrals, patient dissatisfaction, depression,...
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Aripiprazole is one of the recently introduced atypical antipsychotics (AAs) used in the treatment of psychosis related to schizophrenia [1], depression [2], bipolar disorder [3], and Parkinson’s disease (PD) [4]. Welldocumented side effects...
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Inflammatory demyelinating diseases can present as a mass lesion, which is indistinguishable from a tumor, both clinically and radiologically, especially when there is no evidence of temporal dissemination of this...
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Epilepsy is common, affecting 0.5% to 1% of the population. Of these, a third are women in reproductive age, and approximately 1 in 250 pregnancies are exposed to antiepileptic drugs. In utero exposure to antiepileptic drugs can result in several...
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The rapid diagnosis of central nervous system infection with herpes simplex virus (HSV) is important because of the potential morbidity and mortality associated with the disease as well as the wide availability of acyclovir which has been proven to...
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Shoulder-hand syndrome (SHS) is a relatively rare clinical entity classified as a complex regional pain syndrome type 1 (CRPS1), indicated previously as reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) [1]. SHS consists essentially of a painful 'frozen shoulder'...
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Muir-Torre Syndrome (MTS) is defined by the combination of a sebaceous gland tumour and at least one visceral carcinoma occurring in the same individual in the absence of other precipitating factors such as...
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Osteosarcoma is the third most common cancer in adolescence, after lymphomas and brain tumors. One-third of patients who present with osteosarcoma will have recurrent disease. Within the recurrent disease group, 95% of relapses occur within the first...
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In this patient, an emergency presentation of rectal bleeding led to an unusual diagnosis. Rectal bleeding is a common presentation of rectal malignancy. An uncommon form of this is malignant melanoma, attributing to only 1% of all rectal malignancies...
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Primary Hepatic Lymphoma (PHL) is a rare variant of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with an incidence of < 1%. The presence of diffuse hepatic involvement is uncommon and therefore presentation as hepatocellular jaundice or acute fulminant hepatic failure...
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The granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF)-producing tumor was first reported in 1977 by Asano et al. in lung cancer [1]. Since that study, further G-CSF-producing lung carcinomas have been reported, but G-CSF-producing pancreatic carcinomas...
