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Cascade of neural processing orchestrates cognitive control in human frontal cortex
(eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd, 2016)Rapid and flexible interpretation of conflicting sensory inputs in the context of current goals is a critical component of cognitive control that is orchestrated by frontal cortex. The relative roles of distinct subregions ... -
Case 10-2009: A 23-Year-Old Woman With an Abnormal Papanicolaou Smear
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Case 14-2013 — A 70-Year-Old Woman With Vaginal Bleeding
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Case 32-2003 — a 37-Year-Old Woman With Atypical Squamous Cells on a Papanicolaou Smear
(Massachusetts Medical Society, 2003-10-16)Presentation of Case: A 37-year-old woman was referred to the colposcopy clinic because of two Papanicolaou smears showing atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASC-US). One and two years previously, the ... -
Case 40-2010 — A 68-Year-Old Woman with Chest Pain during an Airplane Flight
(New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS), 2010)A 68-year-old woman was transferred to this hospital because of substernal chest pain. An ECG showed evidence of MI. Coronary angiography was performed, with stenting of an occluded coronary artery. On the fourth hospital ... -
Case 8-2010 — A 22-Year-Old Woman with Hypercalcemia and a Pelvic Mass
(Massachusetts Medical Society, 2010-03-18)A 22-year-old woman was admitted to this hospital because of hypercalcemia and a pelvic mass. One month before admission, abdominal pain developed, followed by abdominal fullness, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, polydipsia, ... -
The Case for Reforming Drug Naming: Should Brand Name Trademark Protections Expire upon Generic Entry?
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Ameet Sarpatwari and Aaron Kesselheim explore whether stripping branded drugs of trademark protection would improve the efficiency and fairness of health care. -
A Case of Carotid Aneurysm in Familial Retinal Arterial Tortuosity
(The Korean Ophthalmological Society, 2009)A 44-year-old woman who showed recurrent vitreous hemorrhages with vascular tortuosity received CT angiography which revealed an internal carotid artery aneurysm. A case of internal carotid aneurysm was associated with a ... -
A Case of Complete and Durable Molecular Remission of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Following Treatment with Epigallocatechin-3-gallate, an Extract of Green Tea
(Cureus, 2015)We report the case of a 48-year-old man who achieved a complete molecular remission 20 years after a diagnosis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia while using epigallicatechin-3-gallate, an extract of green tea. The patient ... -
A Case of Lower Extremity Venous Thrombosis in the Pediatric Emergency Department
(Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2011)Unilateral calf swelling and pain is not a common complaint in the pediatric emergency department. We present a case of a 17-year-old male with no past medical history who presented with left leg swelling and pain while ... -
A Case of Radiation-Induced Multifocal Laryngeal Angiosarcoma Presenting as a Diagnostic Dilemma
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012)Head and neck sarcomas are relatively rare tumors, with angiosarcomas representing a small subset. Angiosarcoma is a malignant endothelial neoplasm characterized by atypical, multilayered, or solid endothelial proliferation ... -
A case report in cardiovascular magnetic resonance: the contrast agent matters in amyloid
(BioMed Central, 2017)Background: Cardiac amyloidosis is a progressive but underdiagnosed and underappreciated cause of heart failure. In the last few years, cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) has become the gold standard for non invasive ... -
Case Report of a Child after Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation with Acute Aspergillus Tracheobronchitis as a Cause for Respiratory Failure
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2016)Rapid respiratory failure due to invasive mycosis of the airways is an uncommon presentation of Aspergillus infection, even in immunocompromised patients, and very few pediatric cases have been reported. Patients with ... -
Case report of tracheobronchial squamous cell carcinoma treated with radiation therapy and concurrent chemotherapy
(Elsevier BV, 2016)Tracheobronchial tumors include primary malignant tumors, secondary malignant tumors, and benign tumors. Primary malignant tumors of the trachea are rare, representing only 0.1% to 0.4% of all malignant disease. Squamous ... -
Case report: a 37-year-old male with telangiectasias, polycythemia vera, perinephric fluid collections, and intrapulmonary shunting
(Springer Nature, 2014)The TEMPI syndrome was recently described in 2011, and is characterized by the constellation of five hallmarks: Telangiectasias, Erythrocytosis and elevated Erythropoietin, Monoclonal gammopathy, Perinephric fluids ... -
Case Report: Next generation sequencing identifies a NAB2-STAT6 fusion in Glioblastoma
(BMC, 2016)Background: Molecular profiling has uncovered genetic subtypes of glioblastoma (GBM), including tumors with IDH1 mutations that confer increase survival and improved response to standard-of-care therapies. By mapping the ... -
Case Report: Occupationally Related Recurrent Varicella (Chickenpox) in a Hospital Nurse
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2005)Commonly accepted outcomes of varicella-zoster virus (VZV) infections include chickenpox (primary) and shingles (recurrence or latency), as well lifetime immunity against chickenpox. We report the case of a registered nurse ... -
Case Report: Successful Staged Ureteroscopic Treatment of a 5 cm Staghorn Renal Calculus
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012)It is widely accepted that percutaneous nephrostolithotorny (PCNL) is the standard of choice for the removal of large staghorn renal calculi. Although data exists supporting a stagad ureteroscopic as an alternate treatment ... -
A Case Study of the Reproducibility of Transcriptional Reporter Cell-Based RNAi Screens in Drosophila
(BioMed Central, 2007)Off-target effects have been demonstrated to be a major source of false-positives in RNA interference (RNAi) high-throughput screens. In this study, we re-assess the previously published transcriptional reporter-based ...