A Man with a Story

A sad story of a man with two ventricles

A contrast enhanced computed tomography (CT) scan showed a pseudoaneurysm arising from the inferior wall of the LV (Fig. 2). The patient underwent urgent surgical repair of the aneurysm by Dor procedure (Fig. 3), but unfortunately he died during surgery. Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm (LVP) results from a cardiacfree wall rupture contained by adherent pericardium or scar tissue without any myo...

Editor's Note/Man, the Story-Telling Animal

A man with dilated superficial abdominal veins.

Background: The clinical presentation of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) varies tremendously depending upon the type of lymphoma and the areas of involvement. NHL can rarely present as an abdominal mass compressing the inferior vena cava. The clinical presentation due to obstruction of inferior vena cava has often been called the inferior vena cava syndrome (IVCS). It can present acutely or chronica...

A middle age addicted man with caustic stomach

Background: The term caustic generally refers to alkaline and the term corrosive generally refers to acidic agents' injury however, in medical literature caustic is frequently a term applied to both substances. Ingested alkali typically damage the esophagus more than stomach or duodenum, whereas acids usually cause more severe gastric injury. Since esophagus has a slightly alkaline pH, its epit...

ZOSTERIFORM METASTASES IN A MAN WITH MALIGNANT MELANOMA

Zosteriform metastasis is a rare clinical distribution from spreading neoplasms of every organ to the skin. Tumors most often arise from a n internal o r hematologic malignancy. W e report a 69-year-old man, a known case of malignant melanoma of the left heel. In this case, multiple red-brown metastatic nodules appeared four months after diagnosis. Distribution of metastatic lesions resemb...