Unusual suspect in a common diagnosis: think beyond ‘minimal’

Bilateral Cervical Lymphadenopathy- Need to Think Beyond Tuberculosis

Any patient with bilateral lymphadenopathy especially in Indian subcontinent is regarded as suffering from tuberculosis unless proved otherwise. This sometimes leads to unwarranted delay in correct diagnosis and management if there is ignorance regarding other rarer etiologies. Rosai-Dorfman Disease (RDD) may present in the same manner and should always be kept on the back of the mind to help a...

Eyebrow Lesion: An Unusual Suspect

Figure 1. Hematoxylin and eosin stain demonstrates a well-circumscribed dermal nodule (arrow) composed of mixed solid cellular proliferation including microcysts, ducts, and areas of myxoid stroma.

An Unusual Suspect in Cocaine Addiction

Development of drug addiction is extremely complex, but its initiation can be as simple as the flip-flop of glutamatergic receptor subtypes triggered by an "unusual" type of NMDA receptors, as suggested by Yuan et al. (2013) in this issue of Neuron.

An Unusual Suspect Causing Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure

Introduction: Antisynthetase syndrome (ASS) is characterized by the presence of anti-Jo-1 antibodies in conjunction with clinical findings of fever, polymyositis-dermatomyositis, and interstitial lung disease (ILD). Inflammatory myopathies carry a high risk of malignancy, but this association is less well outlined in ASS. We present the case of a patient with ASS who developed non-Hodgkin's lym...

DNA damage and neurodegeneration: the unusual suspect