Inconspicuous Nasoethmoidal Encephalocele Might Be Wrongly Diagnosed

Inconspicuous Nasoethmoidal Encephalocele Might Be Wrongly Diagnosed

291 Dear Editor-in-Chief, We have read the paper of Song et al. [1] on frontonasal dysplasia deformity. It was an interesting discussion of an image that depicts a boy with a nose deformity, and it was reported that no basal encephalocele was observed. We would like to point out that we had a similar case of a girl with the same nose deformity. As in the report by Song et al., our patient also ...

Response To Dr. Tang Letter to Editor: Inconspicuous Nasoethmoidal Encephalocele Might Be Wrongly Diagnosed

We appreciate your comments on our diagnosis of a case of frontonasal dysplasia. We reviewed Nond’s new classification system and the patient’s data and computed tomography (CT) findings again as you suggested. However, we were not able to find evidence of frontoethmoidal encephalomeniogocele (FEEM). Given the genetic counseling and the morphologic features based on the CT scan, we have conclud...

Pulmonary Hypoplasia Wrongly Diagnosed and Treated as Pulmonary Tuberculosis.

Pulmonary hypoplasia (PH), a rare congenital anomaly is observed with incomplete development of the lung, and may be associated with anomalies in other body systems. The clinical presentation varies with the extent of hypoplasia and the patient may be asymptomatic or may present with severe respiratory distress in the neonatal, infancy or childhood period. A six year old girl suffering from rig...

Appendicitis is easily missed or wrongly diagnosed - imaging is needed

Wondering What Might Be

This paper explores the possibility of supplementing the suppositional view of indicative conditionals with a corresponding view of epistemic modals. The most striking feature of the suppositional view consists in its claim that indicative conditionals are to be evaluated by conditional probabilities. On the basis of a natural link between indicative conditionals and epistemic modals, a corresp...