Rare Cases
Superior mesenteric artery syndrome
◉ Profile of the Patient
• Age/Sex: male, age 22
• Build: Asthenic (underweight and slender)
• Overview: A young man with persistent complaints of upper gastrointestinal blockage.
◉ Presenting Complaints
• For eight months, there has been recurring stomach pain
Kimura disease
● Introduction:
➣ Originally identified as "eosinophilic hyperplastic lymphogranuloma" in 1937, Kimura disease (KD) was formally recognised as Kimura's disease in 1948. With a male-to-female ratio of 3:1, it is uncommon outside of Asia and most commonly observed in adolesc
Pneumolabyrinth
● Introduction:
• Definition: Air in the vestibule, semicircular canals, or cochlea.
• Taken into account radiographic evidence of a perilymphatic fistula (PLF).
•PLF = improper connection between the inner ear and the air-filled middle ear → perilymph leakage.
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Emphysematous Gastritis
• The patient is a 35-year-old male who has post-head injury hearing loss and asthma.
• Symptoms include a 2-day history of fever with chills, dry cough, nasal congestion, vomiting with blood specks, and diffuse abdominal pain (mostly middle/lower abdomen, severe, 7/10).
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Laryngocele
●Introduction:
• Unlike other neck cysts, this one communicates with the laryngeal lumen and is uncommon, benign, and filled with air or fluid.
• Larrey (1829) described it, and Virchow (1867) gave it a name.
• The annual incidence is about 1 in 2.5 million.
• The M
INVERSE PSORIASIS
🔹 Definition:
~Intertriginous (skin fold) areas or areas where skin rubs against skin are the main targets of inverse psoriasis, a chronic inflammatory skin disease.
~ Although it is thought to be a variation of psoriasis vulgaris, the moist environment of body folds cau
Phlebosclerotic colitis
◉ Patient History and Demographics
• Age/Sex: 56-year-old male.
◉ Chief complaints:
• For one day, there was widespread stomach pain.
• Stool passage was absent for a week.
• a week of intermittent nausea and vomiting.
• Previous health history:
• For two
Lacrimal sac rhinosporidiosis
INTRODUCTION
The Rhinosporidium seeberi epidemic in South India is the cause of the chronic mucocutaneous granulomatous illness known as rhinosporidiosis.
Originally categorised as a fungus, it is currently included within the Mesomycetozoa clade, which includes aquatic proti
Tolosa-Hunt Syndrome
Introduction
An uncommon idiopathic granulomatous inflammatory condition that might impact the orbit, superior orbital fissure, or cavernous sinus.
Important clinical characteristic: Ophthalmoplegia with severe unilateral orbital discomfort (CN III, IV, VI).
Eduardo Tolosa
Intestinal Lymphangiectasia
◉ Patient Information
• Age/Sex: guy, 27 years old
• Yeungnam University Hospital is the hospital.
• Entry: December 1991
◉ Chief complaints:
• Having diarrhea
• Lower extremity edema that worsened over eight months
◉ Past Health Conditions
• Eight
Behçet’s Disease
● Introduction:
➣ The traditional triad—oral aphthae + genital ulcers + uveitis—was initially defined in 1937 by Turkish dermatologist Hulusi Behçet. Historical note: ➣ Hippocrates' works from the fifth century BC contained comparable descriptions.
➣ Epidemiolog
EOSINOPHILIC GASTROENTERITIS
◉ CASE 1:
• A woman aged 71
• Two-year symptoms:
• diarrhea, nausea, and a 10-pound weight loss.
◉ INVESTIGATIONS
• 8.2% were eosinophilic (↑).
• 26 U/mL of serum IgE (↑; N 6–12)
• EGD: erythema, ulcers, thickened folds, distal esophagitis, and many