OBJECTIVE Inserting peripheral venous catheters (PVCs) has been identified as a core competency for medical students. Because the performance - even of hygienic standards - of both students and novice physicians is frequently inadequate, medical faculties must focus on competence-based learning objectives and deliberate practice, features that are combined in mastery learning. Our aim was to de...

Introduction. The most common sarcoma of childhood is rhabdomyosarcoma, approximately 35% of all paediatric rhabdomyosarcomas occur in the head and neck. Case Report. A 3-year-old girl referred to our clinic due to serosanguineous purulent discharge from her right ear. After paraclinical and pathologic evaluation it was diagnosed as embryonic rhabdomyosarcoma. Conclusions. In all children with ...

1 Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA), Chilanga, Zambia, 2 Care for Business (CFB) Medical Center and Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia, 3 Department of Disease Control, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia, 4 University Teaching Hospital (UTH), Lusaka, Zambia, 5 Research Centre for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Kita-Ku, Sapporo, Japan, 6 Department of Paraclinical S...

The case of an 81-year-old patient, initially presenting with gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding, including melena and hematemesis is reported. Endoscopy revealed an ulcerated mass of the stomach corpus with immunohistochemistry stains consistent with metastatic melanoma. The thorough physical and paraclinical examination did not reveal any lesions or nodules as a primary site of the disease. The l...

Histologic and immunohistochemical changes of the lung vascular and perivascular structures in 37 clinical and paraclinical COBP diagnosed were studied. We noted the deterioration of an important part of the pulmonary capillary network because of the destruction of interalveolar septae, with an intense vascular congestion within restant capillaries. The venules and arterioles have had a fibrosi...

We report a case of a 50-year old female presenting with a giant tumor on the volar aspect of the third finger of the left hand, a thorough clinical and paraclinical evaluation followed by surgical resection resulted in a benign lipoma with an uneventful postoperative course. We present this case due to its rare location and repercussion in the decision making process when other more common sim...

Background/Objective: The aim of the present preliminary study was to assess the demographic, clinical, paraclinical, microbiological, echocardiographic, and therapeutic profile as well as in-hospital outcome of patients with infective endocarditis at a referral center for various infectious diseases in Iran.Methods: Required demographic, clinical, plausible complications and paraclinical data ...

Background: Mushroom poisoning is a major health condition with a wide range of clinical and paraclinical features. This study aimed at evaluating the frequency of clinical and paraclinical manifestations of mushroom poisoning in patients referred to Shahid Rahimi Hospital in Khorramabad, Iran, over a one-year period (2018-2019). Methods: The data collected were associated with the clinical ma...

The article represents a case of a young patient with atypical clinical and paraclinical presentation of vertebral artery dissection by multiple cerebral infarcts, localized at the supratentorial and infratentorial levels in the posterior circulation. A case of a 21-year-old man, without a history of trauma in the cervical area or at the cranial level, without recent chiropractic maneuvers or p...

ETIOLOGICAL AND CLINICAL-PARACLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OF ACUTE ABDOMIMAL PAIN IN CHILDREN (Abstract): Abdominal pain is the most important symptom of digestive diseases in children, being one of the most frequent reasons for their coming to the general practitioner, pediatrician or emergency room. The etiological possibilities for abdominal pain are numerous and the condition is difficult to manag...