A Young Lady with Quadriparesis

A young man with reversible quadriparesis.

A Young Lady with a Swelling over the Back: A Rare Case of Tuberculosis

Musculoskeletal tuberculosis accounts for 1-2% of all types of tuberculosis. Tubercular abscess of the chest wall accounts for 1-5% of all cases of musculoskeletal tuberculosis. Herein, we report a case of tubercular abscess of the chest wall. The occurrence of caries rib and cold abscess of the chest wall with concomitant pulmonary tuberculosis, and tubercular lympha-denitis of neck and medias...

Young lady with chest pain.

A 20-year-old woman presented to the emergency department at 0730 hrs with a 3-hour history of sharp right-sided chest pain without radiation. She denied having shortness of breath, cough or fever. She had not sustained any trauma or undergone any surgical procedure recently. Although a smoker, she had no other significant past medical or family history. At the time, she was not on any prescrip...

Necrotic thymoma with cardiac compression in a young lady

Methods A 30-year-old female patient presented with a history of three months complaining of interscapular chest pain and progressive dyspnea on exertion. Last two weeks she had nocturnal dyspnea and excessive chest pain. The patient had no clinical signs of myasthenia gravis. Radiological investigations revealed a mass lesion of 82x55x90 mm located in the anterior mediastinum without any calci...

Celiac crisis with hypokalemic paralysis in a young lady.

Celiac crisis presents as severe acute diarrhea with life-threatening metabolic derangement in a patient with celiac disease. We report a 30-year-old lady who was admitted with one-month history of worsening small bowel-type diarrhea. She developed acute quadriparesis due to refractory hypokalemia. Celiac disease was diagnosed on the basis of positive serology and histological features. She imp...