Fibrous dysplasia (FD) is a rare, non-inherited, congenital bone disorder which may be monostotic or polyostotic. The polyostotic form may rarely present in syndromic forms when associated with extra-skeletal manifestations. ...
Despite significant progress in the prevention, screening, diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy
of breast cancer (BC), it remains a highly prevalent and life-threatening disease affecting millions
worldwide. Molecular ...
Krüger, Gabriele Christa; Jantz, Richard L.; Van der Walt, Elizabeth; Lockhat, Zarina I.; L'Abbe, Ericka Noelle(Springer, 2024-11)
Continual re-evaluation of standards for forensic anthropological analyses are necessary, particularly as new methods are explored or as populations change. Indian South Africans are not a new addition to the South African ...
Measures of physical growth, such as weight and height have long been the predominant outcomes for monitoring child health and evaluating interventional outcomes in public health studies, including those that may impact ...
Hiesgen, Juliane; Badenhorst, Jacques(American Medical Association, 2023-04)
A 37-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a 3-day history of acute blindness. He had delayed the consultation because of the belief that the symptoms were transient adverse reactions from an overuse of ...
A 56-year-old woman presented with a 2-year history of
chronic persistent right upper quadrant abdominal pain that
was associated with intermittent nausea, vomiting, and
unintentional weight loss. She had been on ...
Congenitalgiant orbital tumors in infancy are relatively rare, especially when the tumors are associated with significant
intracranial extension. We describe the use of a transorbital neuroendoscopy-assisted resection of ...
Precision medicine is the personalization of medicine to suit a specific group of people or even an individual patient, based on genetic or molecular profiling. This can be done using genomic, transcriptomic, epigenomic ...
Malan, Roxanne; Van der Linde, Jeannie; Kritzinger, Alta; Graham, Marien Alet; Kruger, Esedra; Kollapen, Kumeshnie; Lockhat, Zarina I.(Taylor and Francis, 2023)
PURPOSE : To describe the evolution of swallowing and feeding abilities of neonates with hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) during hospitalisation.
METHOD : A longitudinal cohort study was used. Twenty-nine participants ...
Hiesgen, Juliane; Annor, T.N.(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2023-01)
Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is an uncommon, subacute neurological disorder that presents radiologically with
a pattern of bilateral parieto-occipital areas of vasogenic oedema. Conditions commonly ...
BACKGROUND: Pulmonary thromboembolism is one of the leading causes of maternal death worldwide. Globally there has been increasing physician reliance on CT pulmonary angiogram for definitive diagnoses and exclusion of ...
Giant cell tumour (GCT) arising from the soft tissues of the breast is a rare disease with only eight cases previously reported in the literature. We present a case of histologically proven GCT of the breast, which ...
Behçet’s disease is a rare, systemic variable vessel vasculitis mostly seen in patients from
the Middle East, Northern Africa and Central Asia. Neuro-Behçet disease (NBD) is often diagnosed in patients with known Behçet’s ...
A pediatric patient with neurological deficit was examined using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI]. The images revealed abnormal signal intensity and enhancement of the spinal cord, indicating myelopathy. Identifying the ...
BACKGROUND: Congenital anomalies occur in approximately 2% of newborns, resulting in severe medical, physical and social disabilities. Managing clinicians, therefore, require more confidence in their diagnosis and prognostic ...
Edwards, Richard; Khan, Nausheen(AOSIS, 2021-03-12)
Blunt chest trauma related acute thoracic aortic injury (TAI) is a life-threatening condition that requires prompt diagnosis and appropriate management because of high mortality. Computed tomography angiography (CTA) is ...
Badenhorst, Jacques; Velleman, Mark D.; Jansen van Rensburg, Audrey; Botha, Tanita; Van der Walt, Nikki; Janse van Rensburg, Dina Christina(AOSIS, 2021-10)
BACKGROUND : Chronic exertional compartment syndrome (CECS) of the forearm is a rare but
important cause of morbidity amongst athletes involved in strenuous upper limb activities. The
diagnosis remains challenging due ...
Naidoo, Natasha; Khan, Nausheen(British Institute of Radiology, 2021-09)
Accessory articulation of the transverse processes of the cervical vertebrae is an extremely rare congenital anomaly. We present two cases of accessory articulation of the transverse processes of the left C5/C6 and C6/C7 ...
Helena, Jolene Michelle; Joubert, Anna Margaretha; Mabeta, Peaceful Lucy; Coetzee, Magdalena; Lakier, Roy; Mercier, Anne Elisabeth(MDPI, 2021-08-17)
2-Ethyl-3-O-sulfamoyl-estra-1,3,5(10)16-tetraene (ESE-16) is an in silico-designed estradiol
analogue which has improved the parent compound’s efficacy in anti-cancer studies. In this proofof-
concept study, the potential ...
BACKGROUND : Bobble-head doll syndrome is a rare neurological syndrome presenting with repetitive anteroposterior head movements. It is usually associated with expansile cystic lesions in the third ventricular region.
CASE ...