a 52-year-old woman presented with a history of diabetes mellitus under medical treatment and a surgical history of a cesarean section 20 years ago. the patient was referred to our emergency department because of a 2-week hypermenorrhea and unspecific abdominal pain without nausea and vomiting, fever, or other symptoms. she did not complain of weight loss.

Background: Laparoscopic orchiopexy (LO) has become a standard procedure for the treatment of nonpalpable undescended testes (UDT). LO palpable UDT is still controversial. The aim this study...

Henoch Shonlein purpura (HSP) is a form of systemic vasculitis characterized by deposition of IgA dominant immune complexes in the small vessels. The triad of palpable purpuric rash on lower extremities, abdominal or renal involvement and arthritis is the typical presentation in this condition. The disease primarily affects children and is less common in adults. We report a case of a young fema...

Undescended testis is one of the most common pediatric disorder of the male endocrine glands and the most common genital disorder identified at birth. The undescended testis may be palpable or non-palpable. Approximately 20% of undescended testis are non-palpable and either located in the abdomen or the canaliculi, or atrophic or are completely absent. Identifying the location of ectopic and un...

This study encourages the use of percutaneous FNB to diagnose and stage advanced lung cancer in patients with palpable metastases in supraclavicular lymph nodes or soft tissues. Percutaneous FNB of metastases is much easier to learn than transthoracic needle aspiration: the superficial target is anchored and sampled with multiple passes using a short needle grasped directly in the fingers. It i...

In its original sense palpability is about being “apprehensible by the sense of touch”, “perceptible by palpation”, “plain, evident, obvious”, “easily perceived by some one of the other senses, as sight, hearing, etc.” []. There is a reminiscence of these meanings in the notion of palpable computing, as the description of work for the PalCom project states it: “Palpable denotes that systems ...

Stereotactic vacuum-assisted breast biopsy (VAB) has been used to evaluate microcalcifications or non-palpable breast lesions on mammography. Although stereotactic VAB is usually performed in a prone or upright position, an expensive prone table is necessary and vasovagal reactions often occur during the procedure. For these reasons, the lateral decubitus position can be applied for stereotacti...

DOI: 10.5935/abc.20130234 Clinical Data: Progressive fatigue on exertion has been noted for two decades, despite operative intervention 10 years ago for the closing of interatrial communication, valvar and tricuspid annulus plastia, and plication of the right atrium. Currently, it is presented with fatigue for small efforts, lower limbs edema and in use of furosemide, hydrochlorothiazide, amiod...