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Trichobezoar Causing Gastric Perforation: A Case Report

Trichobezoars are impactions of swallowed hairs in the stomach and occasionally in the intestine. They occur in emotionally disturbed, depressed, or mentally retarded patients who have trichotillomania and trichophagia. Trichobezoars are usually diagnosed on CT scan or upper GI endoscopy. They can give rise to complications like gastroduodenal ulceration, haemorrhage, perforation, peritonitis, ...

STIR Description of the STIR implementation of FBP 3 DRP

A FSH-Secreting Pituitary Macroadenoma Causing A Testosterone Deficiency Syndrome

STIR General Overview

4 Reconstruction algorithms currently distributed 4 4.1 FBP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4.2 3DRP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4.3 Ordered Subsets Maximum A Posteriori using the One Step Late algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4.4 OSSPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

STIR(ing) appearance of rhabdomyolysis

A 30-year-old man was admitted unconscious to a peripheral hospital after consuming 120 mg of methadone to celebrate his release from prison. On arrival his creatinine was 1.93 mg/dl and his creatine kinase 68645 (IU/l). After reversal of his opiate intoxication, he began complaining of burning pain and weakness in both legs. Over the next 36 h his creatinine increased to 11.4 mg/dl with worsen...