intramuscular hemangioma of upper lip mucosa in a fifty-four-year-old man

Episodes of Massive Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding Due to Dieulafoy’s Lesion in A 75-Year-Old Man: A Case Report

  Aneurysms of gastric vessels (Dieulafoy`s disease, caliber-persistent artery) are thought to be of malformative rather than degenerative origin. They are usually single, located in the submucosa, usually on the lesser curvature, and characterized by a large tortuous vessel surmounted by a small defect...

Fifty-nine-year-old man with abrupt-onset claudication.

A 59-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a 10-day history of abrupt-onset right leg claudication. He was a nonsmoker and had no risk factors for peripheral arterial disease or thromboembolism. His neurologic examination findings were normal and his ankle pulses were palpable, but his bedside ankle-brachial index on the right was abnormal at 0.79. He had mild right calf tende...

Fifty-five-year-old man with chronic yeast infections

As immunologists, we are frequently asked to evaluate patients with recurrent infections. These infections can provide us with clues regarding what pathways might be aberrant in a given patient, e.g., specific pyogenic bacteria with Toll-like receptor problems, atypical mycobacteria with interferon gamma receptor autoantibodies, and Candida/staphylococcal infections with cellular immune abnorma...

Achalasia in a sixty-four-year-old man.

Achalasia is an esophageal motility disorder characterized by increased lower esophageal sphincter pressure and absence of peristalsis in the lower esophagus. Patients typically present with complaints of progressive difficulty swallowing over a period of several years. Diagnosis is confirmed by esophageal manometry. Complications of achalasia include esophagitis, aspiration and possibly an inc...

Intramuscular Hemangioma in Lip Treated with Sclerotherapy and Surgery

Intramuscular hemangioma is a relatively rare, benign tumor of vascular origin, accounting for less than 1% of all hemangiomas. This paper reports a case of a 48-year-old female patient with intramuscular hemangioma in the upper lip, treated with sclerotherapy and subsequent complementary surgery.

A 77-year-old man with nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding.