To cite: Idris AA, Begum T, Verlage KR, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2016215266 DESCRIPTION A 37-year-old Hispanic man with no medical history presented with sudden onset of two episodes of witnessed seizure. On arrival to the emergency room, he experienced another episode of generalised tonic–clonic seizure witnessed by the physician and...

the histopathologic diagnosis of orbital and ocular adnexal lymphoproliferative lesions is difficult, resulting controversy in classification, determining benignity or malignancy of them and treatment modality selection. we designed the following study to evaluate clinical, histopathologic and if necessary immunochemical features of them in decreasing indeterminate cases. the study includes 51 ...

introduction: striae distensae (sd) are a frequent skin condition for which treatment remains a challenge. the 1540-nm non-ablative fractional laser (star lux 500) has been shown to improve atrophic scars by increasing the amount of dermal collagen. to assess the safety and efficacy of the star lux 500 laser in the treatment of mature hypopigmented striae in persian people (striae alba). method...

this case is a 19-year-old soldier who suffered a combined elbow dislocation and posterior monteggia fracture and dislocation (type ii). the ulna fracture was managed by orif. the elbow dislocation was managed by closed reduction and immobilization in 900 flexion. the posteriorly dislocated radial head was kept reduced by a transarticular pin. after 6 months elbow and forearm motion was restric...

PURPOSE Dynamic contrast-enhanced T2*-weighted MR imaging has been helpful in characterizing intracranial mass lesions by providing information on vascularity. Tumefactive demyelinating lesions (TDLs) can mimic intracranial neoplasms on conventional MR images, can be difficult to diagnose, and often result in surgical biopsy for suspected tumor. The purpose of this study was to determine whethe...