Journal of Clinical and Medical Images (ISSN 2640-9615)

Case Report

Palliative Metallic Colonic Stenting Without the Use of Fluoroscopy: Utility of an Ultrathin Gastroscope

1. Abstract A 59-year-old male presented to our hospital with a 6-month history of abdominal pain and altered bowel habits. Clinically he had a palpably hard liver. An abdominal and pelvis CT scan showed a rectosigmoid tumor with multiple liver metastasis. Sigmoidoscopy showed a large tumor causing almost complete luminal obstruction.

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Imaging of Diffuse B Cell Large Lymphoma in Liver, Kidneys, Pancreas and Myocardium in a Case Report

1. Case Report A 41-year-old man was transferred to our Infectious Diseases Unit with a history of three weeks of fever, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and weight loss. He was HIV positive since 2013 but discontinued antiretroviral therapy in 2019.

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Acute Coronary Syndrome in HIV Patients: The Role of Immune System in Cardiovascular Disease and its Red Flags in Cardiovascular Imaging

1. Background Widespread use of contemporary antiretroviral therapy (HAART) globally has transformed HIV disease into a chronic illness associated with excess risk for disorders of the heart and circulatory system. The global burden of human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV)-associated cardiovascular (CV) disease has tripled over the past two decades and is now responsible for about 2.6

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Serendipity – When Looking for his She-Donkeys, Young Saul Unveiled his Royalty

1. Abstract A 59-years-old man, producing suckling oral sounds during several months, displayed a simultaneous brain stem aneurysm. The arterial lesion was submitted to embolization, but the buccal symptoms persisted after the manipulation. The nature of the bruit originating from the oral cavity remains void. A possible association between the two events, that from the

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Large Aneurysm in Contained Rupture on Arteriovenous Fistula: A Case Operated on at the Festoc Center of the Mother Child Hospital «Luxembourg» in Bamako

1. Summary An aneurysm is defined as a permanent localized dilatation of an artery with an increase of at least 50% in diameter compared with the expected normal diameter [12].

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Umbilical Endometriosis, Case Report. Is there a Causative Relation with Premenarchal Surgery?

1. Abstract Umbilical endometriosis is the most common site of cutaneous endometriosis, and it often follows surgical procedures where a iatrogenic implantation of endometriotic tissue occurs. We report a case of a woman with umbilical endometriosis with history of hernia repair during early childhood. The patient presented a 3 cm umbilical nodule that had progressively

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Mosaicplasty for the Treatment of Cartilage Defects in the Knee Joint

1. Introduction Chondral lesions are frequent in knee joint and their treatment is very difficult. Therefore, drilling and microfracturing leads to formation of fibrocartilage instead of normal hyaline cartilage. However, osteochondral allografts and osteochondral autografts (Mosaicplasty) results in cartilage regeneration and continuity.

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