introduction we present a case report of a healthy man who ingested a large number of well-manufactured cocaine packages to smuggle them across international borders. case presentation a 36-year-old man ingested cocaine packages worth approximately us $900,000 to transport it from dubai to madrid. he was arrested by police at istanbul ataturk airport for suspected body packing of drugs. on arri...

A Liberian man who fell ill with Ebola shortly after arriving in the United States has died, officials at the Texas hospital where he was being treated announced on Wednesday 8 October. Thomas Eric Duncan, a 42 year old Liberian national, left Liberia on 19 September, arriving in Dallas, Texas the next day. Press reports said that he had helped to carry a young woman who was ill with Ebola seve...

A 55 year old Caucasian male was referred to the hospital for evaluation of abdominal pain, increasing abdominal girth and general malaise since the past few months. During his interview he endorsed poor appetite but denied any nausea or vomiting. He had not noted any change in his bowels. He had maintained a clear sensorium throughout. He admitted to drinking 7-8 beers daily and had been doing...

A 48-year-old male with no significant past medical history came to the emergency department (ED) because of sudden onset of diffuse myalgia especially in the legs, chest and back. It was associated with mild diaphoresis. Symptoms started acutely as he was driving back home from his work as a cab driver. He denied fever, new medications, recreational drug use, recent illness, significant physic...

In a patient with features indicating the presence of pseudotumor cerebri, a negative cranial CT-scan is not adequate to rule out less benign pathology and an MRI of brain should be performed. In this study, a 10-year old boy with daily headaches for one month and diplopia for one week was found to have a partial abducens palsy and bilateral papilledema; otherwise, his examination was normal. A...

A 77-year-old farmer presented with a 3-month history of progressive dyspnea. His symptoms started with anorexia, malaise, fever, and dry cough. He was initially treated with azithromycin and a short course of oral corticosteroids for COPD exacerbation. Two days after finishing the treatment, his symptoms progressed, and he was admitted to a local hospital with respiratory distress, altered men...

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Use of the Gore-Tex polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) braided ligament (W. L. Gore & Associates Inc, Flagstaff, Arizona) for reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is associated with high rates of recurrent effusion and ligament rupture (Indelicato, Pascale and Huegel 1989; Fu and Olson 1992). In addition, osteolysis in the tibial tunnel has been reported due to a histiocytic respo...