To the Editor: A frail 74‐year‐old woman visited the emergency department with a chief complaint of “intermittent abdominal pain for 6 days and vomiting for 2 days”. She described her symptoms as a colicky lower abdominal pain that occurred 6 days ago, recurred several times, and resolved spontaneously, but progressed to severe and sustained pain with vomiting 2 days before visiting the hospita...

We present a rare case of spontaneous rupture of the adductor longus tendon induced by ciprofloxacin. A 35-year-old man was diagnosed with pneumonia and was recommended ciprofloxacin 500 mg iv twice a day for 7 days. Three days after receiving the initial dose, he developed discomfort in his left medial thigh, and pain and swelling in the same area followed ten days later. He consulted us when ...

BACKGROUND & AIMS The severe depletion of muscle mass at the third lumbar vertebral level (sarcopenia) is a marker of malnutrition and is independently associated with mortality in patients with cirrhosis. Instead of monitoring sarcopenia by cross-sectional imaging, we investigated whether ultrasound-based measurements of peripheral muscle mass, measures of muscle function, along with nutrition...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Diabetic muscle infarction, which is a rare microangiopathic complication of uncontrolled diabetes, should be considered as a differential diagnosis for diabetic patients with lower extremity swelling and local pain, and without any other systemic symptoms. In this study, we presented the case of a diabetic patient with thigh muscle infarction. CASE REPORT: The case wa...

Although hemangioma is a common benign soft-tissue tumor, the formation of intratumoral ossification is rare. Ossified intramuscular hemangioma, an infrequent benign tumor, is characterized by a progressively enlarging painless mass in the lower extremity of young female. Herein, we report a case of 27-year-old female suffered from a progressively enlarging painless mass in her left thigh. The ...

INTRODUCTION This study determines Chinese body segment parameters based on a magnetic resonance imaging method. METHODS Fifty young Chinese men (21.5 ± 1.52 yr) participated in this study. Magnetic resonance images were obtained using a GE magnetic resonance imaging 1.5-T scanner with 10-mm thickness. The magnetic resonance digital images were analyzed using medical imaging software. This st...

INTRODUCTION Lipoma is a benign soft tissue neoplasm that may contain mesenchymal elements, as a result of metaplastic process. Ossification in benign and malignant soft tissue tumors can also manifest due to metaplastic process. CASE PRESENTATION A 45 year old woman presented with a large thigh mass. The mass was developed one and a half year ago which insidiously increased in size and was a...

The occurrence of primary extranodal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) of soft tissue is rare, particularly in skeletal muscle. The present study describes a case of diffuse large B cell lymphoma of the right lower extremity and provides a detailed review of the literature associated with this disorder, with the aim of improving the future diagnosis and therapy of extranodal NHL. The present case re...

Breast metastasis arising from non mammary malignancy is very rare and occurs in malignant melanomas, sarcomas, lung cancers, ovarian tumors, renal and thyroid carcinomas. Few cases of breast metastasis from myxoid liposarcoma have been reported in the worldwide literature. We report herein a case of a 51-year-old woman with 2-year history of a slowly growing, painless mass of the right proxima...