Smoker's face: an underrated clinical sign?

Are meteotsunamis an underrated hazard?

Meteotsunamis are generated by meteorological events, particularly moving pressure disturbances due to squalls, thunderstorms, frontal passages and atmospheric gravity waves. Relatively small initial sea-level perturbations, of the order of a few centimetres, can increase significantly through multi-resonant phenomena to create destructive events through the superposition of different factors. ...

Neonatal Uterine Bleeding: An Underestimated Clinical Sign?

Neonatal uterine bleeding (NUB) occurs in approximately 5% of newborns and represents, similarly as menstrual bleeding, a progesterone (PG) withdrawal bleeding. While evident NUB is relatively rare, biochemical proofs of vaginal bleeding can be found in 25-61% of neonates, depending on different methods used to detect it. The anatomy of neonatal uterus (large cervix to corpus ratio) and the pre...

Stump appendicitis. Underrated reality?

Food allergy in adults: an over- or underrated problem?

BACKGROUND 10% to 20% of the population sees itself as suffering from food allergy, yet genuine, immune-mediated food allergy is suspected by patients and their physicians far more often than it is actually shown to be present. The unfounded suspicion of an IgE-mediated food allergy can substantially impair a patient's quality of life through needless dietary restriction and the accompanying an...

Atraumatic splenic rupture, an underrated cause of acute abdomen

Dear Sir, We recently read with interest the pictorial review of splenic emergencies by Unal et al., just published in Insights into Imaging. After describing the common injuries from blunt abdominal trauma, this paper comprehensively describes several more or less unusual non-traumatic acute conditions including splenic infarction, aneurysms and pseudoaneurysms, arterial and venous thrombosis,...