This content is machine translated From symptom to diagnosis Dyspnea – thoracic lymphoma The spectrum of possible causes of lymph node swelling is broad and includes numerous acute and chronic diseases, including lymphoproliferative diseases and malignancies. In more than half of the cases,...…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Case Report Mycosis fungoides in an 11-year-old child Primary cutaneous lymphomas belong to the group of non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas. The most common form of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma is mycosis fungoides. Folliculotropic mycosis fungoides is a subtype that affects the...…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Cutaneous and especially facial metastases Rare manifestations of esophageal carcinoma Cutaneous metastases are among the rarest manifestations of esophageal carcinoma and occur in less than 1% of cases. Even more unusual is the occurrence in the face, which has so...…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Case report: L. pneumophila pneumonia Negative test results – but no alternative diagnoses Pneumonia caused by non-serogroup 1 Legionella pneumophila bacteriais a major diagnostic challenge, even for specialists. American physicians describe the case of a woman in whom the majority of tests were...…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Clinical case reports and implications for GP care Magnesium deficiency and dilated cardiomyopathy in the peripartum context Magnesium deficiency is often overlooked, but plays an important role in the pathophysiology of various internal and cardiological diseases. Particularly in the peripartum context, hypomagnesemia can have serious consequences, such...…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Case series Bleeding prophylaxis for von Willebrand disease Von Willebrand’s disease is predominantly inherited in an autosomal dominant manner and is the most common hereditary cause of a bleeding tendency. It is caused by a quantitative and/or qualitative...…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) Looks like type 2, but is type 1 Type 1 diabetes can occur in any age group. In adults, however, type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is often diagnosed first, and autoantibodies indicative of T1DM are only detected later. The...…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Case report: Acute rheumatic fever ARF with myocarditis and occlusion of the RCA Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease continue to pose a serious health risk in most developing countries. In individual cases, however, it also occurs in industrialized countries. ARF...…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Case study Opportunistic infection by Serratia marcescens Immunocompromised individuals sometimes have a considerably increased risk of opportunistic infections. Serratia marcescens is a Gram-negative bacterium that belongs to the Enterobacteriaceae family and was identified as the pathogen in...…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated From symptom to diagnosis Abdominal pain – groin pain: internal causes Imaging procedures – in particular computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with and without contrast enhancement – are informative in the differential diagnosis of groin pain. The spectrum...…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Case Report An unusual reason for gastrointestinal bleeding The cause of gastrointestinal bleeding is not always easy to find. This case study is about a patient with massive gastrointestinal bleeding associated with a rare malignant disease of the...…
