2026 June - 101 articles
Background/Objectives: Advanced implant anchorage techniques are increasingly used to manage severe maxillary bone deficiency and to avoid extensive bone augmentation procedures. This case series report aimed to describe the canine bypass anchorage t...
Background and Clinical Significance: Peristomal pyoderma gangrenosum (PPG) is a rare subtype of pyoderma gangrenosum, most commonly associated with inflammatory bowel disease or haematologic disorders. Its occurrence in patients with solid malignanc...
Background and Clinical Significance: Many diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals are excreted in the urine. This can pose a diagnostic challenge when urine-containing structures are in atypical locations, particularly in review of planar imaging without an...
Background and Clinical Significance: Inflammatory myopericardial syndrome is an umbrella term recently introduced by the European Society of Cardiology, which encapsulates the overlap that exists in clinical practice between myocardial and pericardi...
Background and Clinical Significance: Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a neurovascular disorder characterized by the deposition of amyloid beta (Aβ) peptides within the walls of small-to-medium-sized cerebral vessels, leading to vascular fra...
Background and Clinical Significance: Pre-eruptive intracoronal resorption is a rare developmental anomaly resembling occlusal caries despite the absence of an external breach. Case Presentation: We report of two cases. The first case involves a 9-ye...
Objectives: To evaluate the clinical impact and treatment adaptations during the immediate-release oxycodone hydrochloride shortage. Methods: This retrospective, observational study was conducted during the oxycodone shortage period (May 2024–M...
Background and Clinical Significance: Tumefactive Multiple Sclerosis (TMS) represents a rare and diagnostically challenging form of demyelinating disease characterized by large space-occupying lesions that can closely mimic intracranial neoplasms, ab...
Background and Clinical Significance: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is an autoimmune vasculitis of both medium and large-sized vessels typically affecting females 50 years of age or older. Severe complications can include permanent visual loss, acute co...
Background and Clinical Significance: Advanced periodontitis destroys tooth-supporting structures and causes pathologic tooth migration (PTM) and functional and esthetic repercussions. This report illustrates how non-surgical periodontal therapy (NSP...
Background and Clinical Significance: Thyroid cancer is increasing, particularly the differentiated type, with decreasing incidence of the anaplastic type. Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) is a rare, aggressive, and often lethal form. It frequently...
Background and Clinical Significance: Spontaneous renal forniceal rupture is an uncommon complication of obstructive uropathy and is classically associated with ureteric calculi rather than distal urinary retention. Bilateral retention-related ruptur...
Background and Clinical Significance: “Hikikomori”—a state of prolonged social withdrawal affecting an estimated 2% of Japan’s working-age population—is frequently associated with underlying anxiety disorders, such as ga...
Background and Clinical Significance: Torsion of the vermiform appendix is a rare condition with a clinical presentation closely resembling acute appendicitis, while preoperative investigations are of limited value in distinguishing between the two e...
Background and Clinical Significance: IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a chronic fibroinflammatory, immune-mediated multisystem disorder that can mimic neoplastic, infectious, or autoimmune conditions. Among its head-and-neck manifestations, IgG4-re...
Background and Clinical Significance: Acute compartment syndrome is a rare but limb-threatening emergency in pediatric patients. While most cases follow high-energy trauma or displaced fractures, acute compartment syndrome precipitated by initially u...
Background/Objectives: Central nervous system (CNS) metastases are a frequent and morbid complication of small cell lung cancer (SCLC), with limited effective systemic treatment options. Lurbinectedin has demonstrated systemic activity in relapsed SC...
Background and Clinical Significance: Recurrent peripheral facial palsy is most often attributed to idiopathic Bell’s palsy (BP), yet a minority of patients harbor underlying structural lesions. Early recognition of such lesions is essential fo...
Background and Clinical Significance: Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic, debilitating skin disorder that often affects the inframammary fold (IMF). While surgical management, particularly wide local excision (WLE), is the gold standard for s...
Background/Objectives: Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is a serious complication of decompensated cirrhosis and is associated with acute kidney injury (AKI), organ failure, and death. Intravenous albumin is recommended in SBP because it reduc...
Background and Clinical Significance: Severe skeletal Class II malocclusion associated with periodontal compromise and posterior edentulism requires a carefully sequenced interdisciplinary treatment approach integrating orthodontic, surgical, periodo...
Background and Clinical Significance: Chronic subdural hematomas (cSDHs) present characteristic imaging findings, making the diagnosis straightforward. In rare cases, arachnoid cysts (ACs) may be associated with their formation. There is still no con...
Background and Clinical Significance: Giardia lamblia is a protozoan parasite that causes giardiasis, a gastrointestinal disease. The disease commonly manifests with abdominal pain, diarrhea, and emesis. Many giardia infections, however, are asy...
Background and Clinical Significance: Bone involvement is a common and debilitating manifestation of advanced malignancies, with a substantial negative impact on patients’ functional status, quality of life, and overall prognosis. Management is...
Background and Clinical Significance: Herpes zoster (HZ), caused by the reactivation of the latent Varicella-Zoster virus (VZV), typically is confined to a single dermatome in immunocompetent individuals. Thus, multidermatomal involvement, particular...
An 81-year-old woman with follicular lymphoma treated with obinutuzumab and bendamustine developed cognitive impairment and dysarthria. Three months before death, neurological exams showed dysarthria, right hemiparesis, and gait disturbance. Blood te...
Background: Extubation failure (EF) is a significant complication, and it is associated with increased mortality, prolonged hospital stays and extended mechanical ventilation (MV). Determining reliable predictors of EF could improve the clinical deci...
Background and Clinical Significance: Susac syndrome is a rare autoimmune-mediated microangiopathy characterized by the triad of encephalopathy, branch retinal artery occlusion (BRAO), and sensorineural hearing loss. Due to its variable onset and pro...
Background and Clinical Significance: Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is a leading cause of maternal mortality worldwide. Among its various etiologies, uterine atony accounts for approximately 70% of cases, while other causes include genital tract trauma...
Background and Clinical Significance: The coexistence of synchronous urologic malignancies may present diagnostic and therapeutic challenges, particularly when symptoms are minimal or nonspecific. This case illustrates the role of multimodal diagnost...
Background and clinical significance: Catheter knotting is a rare but potentially serious complication of urethral catheterization in neonates and infants, particularly when feeding tubes are used due to small urethral caliber. Case Presentation: We...
Background and Clinical Significance: Primary cutaneous anaplastic large cell lymphoma (C-ALCL) is a CD30-positive T-cell lymphoproliferative disorder that can clinically resemble various non-melanoma skin cancers, making diagnosis challenging. Altho...
Background and Clinical Significance: Extramammary Paget disease (EMPD) is a rare cutaneous adenocarcinoma that frequently involves apocrine-rich regions and may extend beyond clinically apparent margins through adnexal structures. Surgical excision...
Background and Clinical Significance: Familial gastric polyposis is a rare condition associated with an increased risk of malignant transformation, particularly in patients with a strong family history of gastrointestinal malignancies. Case Presentat...
Background and Clinical Significance: Histiocytic sarcoma is a rare and aggressive hematopoietic malignancy, which is particularly uncommon in the head and neck region and exceedingly rare within lymph nodes associated with salivary glands. The prese...
We report an unusual case of simultaneous left and right atrial appendage thrombosis identified on contrast-enhanced cardiac computed tomography angiography (CT) during pre-procedural evaluation in a patient with permanent atrial fibrillation and str...
Background and Clinical Significance: COVID-19 may worsen in patients receiving immunosuppressants. Furthermore, drug–drug interactions and concomitant use of anti-inflammatory drugs complicate treatment. We report the clinical course of severe...
Background and Clinical Significance: Kinesio tape (KT) has gained popularity as an adjunctive approach for treating edema during the rehabilitation phase, following traumatic events, as well as for managing edema in breast cancer patients. Its goal...
Background and Clinical Significance: Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is the most common congenital heart defect and may coexist with other cardiovascular anomalies. Among these is a single coronary artery (SCA), a rare congenital condition in which the...
Background and Clinical Significance: This case highlights the management of chronic extensor carpi ulnaris (ECU) tenosynovitis in a patient exposed to non-traditional wrist-loading activities. Exercise therapy rehabilitation is well established in s...
Background and Clinical Significance: Treatment options for chronic type B aortic dissections (TBADs) remain a topic of ongoing debate. Patients with post-dissection thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms (PD-TAAAs) are typically younger than those with d...
Background and Clinical Significance: Cystic mesenteric lymphangiomas are rare benign growths of the mesenteric lymphatic vessels. This entity poses a diagnostic dilemma due to the wide array of symptoms with which patients present. Usually, these pa...
Background and Clinical Significance: NMDAR autoimmune encephalitis is a rare but potentially life-threatening autoimmune disorder that can be hard to recognize initially because it has nonspecific symptoms. In the early phase of the disease, clinica...
Background and Clinical Significance: Osteoblastomas are rare, benign but locally aggressive bone tumors with a predilection for the posterior elements of the spine. Their clinical, radiological and histopathological presentation often overlaps with...
Background and Clinical Significance: Vitamin B12 deficiency in infancy is an uncommon but reversible cause of severe hematologic abnormalities and potential neurologic injury, particularly in exclusively breastfed infants whose vitamin B12 status de...
Spigelian hernias represent infrequent abdominal wall defects, and the incarceration of an inflamed appendix within the hernia sac is an even rarer clinical finding. We report an uncommon case in which a long-standing herniated appendix eventually pr...
Background and Clinical Significance: Acute retinal pigment epitheliitis is a retinal disorder considered as part of a larger group named idiopathic choroidopathies. Little gray round macular lesions at the retinal pigment epithelium can be found, wh...
Background and Clinical Significance: Dermato-neuro syndrome is a rare, potentially fatal complication of scleromyxedema, characterized by a prodrome of flu-like symptoms, and a triad of fever, confusion, and seizures. Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVI...
Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare a widely applied table-top digital non-mydriatic camera (Topcon TRC-NW-8) with a handheld digital non-mydriatic camera (Optomed Aurora IQ) regarding the quantitative assessment of the retinal microcirc...
Background and Clinical Significance: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer worldwide and the second leading cause of cancer-related death. Skeletal muscle metastases are extremely rare and typically occur in advanced or poorly diff...
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