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Corneal suture removal, particularly microsurgery requiring complete immobility, demands adequate anesthetic depth while ensuring rapid recovery.
Read caseA 42-year-old woman with long-standing asthma and rheumatoid factor (RF) of 322 IU/mL presented with myocardial infarction-like cardiac involvement despite non-obstructive coronary arteries.
Angiosarcoma is a rare, aggressive endothelial malignancy with a poor prognosis; diagnosis is often delayed by vague symptoms, nonspecific imaging, and challenging histopathology.
A 12-year-old immunocompetent girl presented with high fever, severe headache, and diplopia, followed by rapid neurological deterioration.
A patient with multiple myeloma receiving maintenance teclistamab, daratumumab, and lenalidomide developed rapidly progressive brainstem-cerebellar encephalitis.
A 1.5-year-old boy sustained complete thermal-crush amputations of the left index, middle, and ring fingers in an industrial sealer injury.
A fetus with distal lumbar myelomeningocele was assessed by fetal MRI, which showed a 23 × 11-mm defect, ventricular dilatation, and Chiari II malformation. Open fetal repair was performed at 25 weeks of gestation.
A 24-year-old woman at 30 weeks’ gestation presented with headache, vomiting, fever, and nuchal rigidity. Cerebrospinal fluid findings confirmed tuberculous meningitis, and chest CT showed diffuse miliary nodules…
A 34-year-old man presented with sudden severe non-radicular low-back pain but no neurological deficit. MRI showed multiple enhancing intradural extramedullary lesions from T12-L1 to S1; the dominant T12-L1 lesion…
Thrombocytapheresis is an established adjunctive therapy for rapid platelet cytoreduction in patients with extreme thrombocytosis, particularly in myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), where it is typically used…
A 47-year-old woman presented with dysphagia and a left-sided neck mass. Initial fine-needle aspiration was non-diagnostic; repeat sampling suggested a spindle cell neoplasm.
A 7-year-old girl requiring aortic valve replacement had a functionally unicuspid aortic valve. Although the Ross procedure is generally favored in children, an intraoperative bicuspid pulmonary valve made durable…
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