DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
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Brachial plexus injury
The brachial plexus is a network of nerves that conducts signals from the spinal cord, which is housed in the spinal canal of the vertebral column (or spine), to the shoulder, arm and hand. These nerves originate in the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth cervical (C5-C8), and first thoracic (T1) spinal nerves, and innervate the muscles and skin of the chest, shoulder, arm and hand. Brachial plexus injuries, or lesions, are caused by damage to those nerves. Brachial plexus injuries, or lesions, can occur as a result of shoulder trauma, tumours, or inflammation...
lesions) - List of case studies
- Ovarian Cancer with Metastases
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short_summary: 61-year-old female underwent resection of the uterus, adenexae, onsectonomy and appendectomy for papillary serous carcinoma of the ovary . After 6 chemotherapy cycles tumor recu ...
- Pulmonary heteroplasia_3
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short_summary: 66-year-old female was diagnosed, following persistent cough, with non-operable tumor of her lung with satellite nodules, and chemotherapy was initiated (first Cisplatin and Gem ...
- Metastatic, Non Small Cell Lung Cancer – further opinion
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short_title: Lung Cancer short_summary: 67-year-old with multiple co morbities: Heart, renal, vascular, h ...
- Neuroendocrine Neoplasia
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short_summary: 60-year-old male was diagnosed with a symptomatic metastatic well differentiated rectal neuroendocrine tumor, with multiple liver metastases. This tumor is over-expressing somas ...
- Neuroroendocrine neoplasia with hepatic secondary lesions_2
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short_summary: 39-year-old male was diagnosed to have a neuroendocrine tumour with synchronic liver metastases. The disease was treated with an etoposide-carboplatin combination, Interferon A, ...
- Chronic Pain in the Lower Rib Cage – Suspected Intercostal Neurinoma
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short_title: Rib Pain caused by a Tumor short_summary: 67-year-old male began to complain of chronic pain ...
- Lung Cancer: Well differentiated mixed acinar and bronchoalveolar adenocarcinoma (BAC) of the lung (T1 N0).
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short_summary: 74-year-old women with thickening in the left lung. The tumor was typified as non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with millimetric parenchymal nodules suspected as secondary. She ...
- Motor Neuron Disease
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short_summary: 71-year-old female developed progressive dysarthria and dysphagia. Her doctor describes her speech difficulty as “Spastic dysarthria with slow and nasal speech" and n ...
- Chronic relapsing, non progressing eruption of purpuric papulovesicular lesions
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short_title: Purpuric Vasculitis short_summary: A 57 year old female complained about appearance of red to ...
- spreading pancreatic cancer
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short_summary: 33-year-old female was diagnosed with multiple endocrine neoplasia of the pancreas. She underwent removal of the pancreatic lesion and lymph node dissection, another surgery to ...