Acute retinal necrosis (ARN) is a rare but devastating and rapidly progressive viral retinitis. The most common aetiological agents are reported to be herpes simplex virus (HSV) and varicella zoster ...

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The incidence of sebaceous carcinoma (SC) in the outer one-third of the external auditory canal is considered extremely rare, and only eight case reports have been published. We present a case of a ...

Chyle leak (CL) secondary to inadvertent thoracic duct injury (TDI) is an exceptionally rare complication of a right hemithyroidectomy. TDI occurs in 0.5–1.4% of patients undergoing a thyroidectomy, ...

Marchiafava-Bignami disease (MBD) is a rare, toxic demyelinating disorder of the central nervous system associated with chronic alcoholism and malnutrition. The clinical presentation is varied and non ...

A relatively healthy male patient in his 60s presented with chest pain and shortness of breath in addition to a history of significant weight loss over the preceding months. He was admitted to the ...

Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) may present in the form of parenchymal disease or extraparenchymal disease. Patients with TB as a primary cause of respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation have ...

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A male in his 20s presented with episodic headache and subsequently developed episodic unilateral weakness, dysphasia and encephalopathy. These paroxysmal episodes persisted over time with the ...

While metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST) are generally treated using systemic therapy, surgery and/or ablative procedures, radiotherapy appears to have a restricted role. We present a ...

This case highlights the intersection of psychiatric symptoms and hypermobility spectrum disorder (HSD) in a woman in her 20s with multiple comorbidities, including postural orthostatic tachycardia ...

Sclerosing mesenteritis is a rare benign disease presenting with chronic inflammation of the mesenteric adipose tissue and variable degrees of fibrosis. A 47-year-old black man presented to the ...