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Gunshot Wound To The Chest With Retained Epicardial Bullet., Toba Bolaji, Abuoma C Ekpendu, Frederick Giberson
Gunshot Wound To The Chest With Retained Epicardial Bullet., Toba Bolaji, Abuoma C Ekpendu, Frederick Giberson
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Gunshot wounds remain the most common cause of penetrating injuries in children and adolescents and the second leading cause of death among youth in the United States. Penetrating cardiac injuries carry a significantly increased mortality rate. The extent of damage caused depends on the type of firearm, the bullet used, the velocityand the trajectory. Therefore, rapid diagnosis and treatment is of the utmost importance. We report a case of a 19-year-old boy who presented to ouremergency department (ED) after sustaining a gunshot wound (GSW) to the right chest. In the ED, the patient was stabilized and a large hematoma was …
A Case Of Diastematomyelia Presenting With Minimal Neurologic Deficits In A Middle-Aged Patient, Gabriella Mamo, Rishu Batra, Jeffrey Steinig
A Case Of Diastematomyelia Presenting With Minimal Neurologic Deficits In A Middle-Aged Patient, Gabriella Mamo, Rishu Batra, Jeffrey Steinig
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Diastematomyelia is a rare congenital deformity of the spine in which the spinal cord is split into two hemicords along the sagittal plane. This condition belongs to the group of spinal dysraphisms, is more common in females, and is usually diagnosed prenatally or during childhood; rarely is it diagnosed in adults. We report a male patient in his 50s in which diastematomyelia of the thoracic spine was incidentally encountered after receiving a CT scan of the chest for shortness of breath. Although most patients with this condition are symptomatic, the patient did not display any significant acute neurological complaints at …
A Rare Case Report Of A Corpus Callosal Splenial Lesion In The Context Of Atypical Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome., Ryan Serdenes, Samuel Orr, Pamela Trio, Seetha Chandrasekhara, Meghan Musselman
A Rare Case Report Of A Corpus Callosal Splenial Lesion In The Context Of Atypical Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome., Ryan Serdenes, Samuel Orr, Pamela Trio, Seetha Chandrasekhara, Meghan Musselman
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In this report, we describe a case of atypical neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) presenting with an isolated lesion in the splenium of the corpus callosum (ILSCC). There is a paucity of information regarding this topic within the literature and only 7 previous case reports have been published at the time of writing. To our knowledge, this case report is also the first to describe an atypical NMS variant in the context of an ILSCC. In this report, we describe the important considerations in formulating differential diagnosis for ILSCC and are the first report to propose a possible pathophysiological mechanism relating …