Isolated unilateral temporalis muscle hypertrophy: first case in an Indo-Aryan

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-52
Author(s):  
Ali Niyaf ◽  
Kiran Niraula ◽  
Shiara Zahir ◽  
Mohamed Sajuan Mushrif

Unilateral hypertrophy of temporalis muscle (isolated type) is extremely rare and only 14 cases have been reported in English literature since 1990. Although no definitive etiology is identified, stress and bruxism are among the many factors are linked to it. Reported patient ages ranged from 7 years to 62 years and most of them are Caucasians. Here we report the first ever case of an Indo-Aryan ethnic patient who presented with painful swelling of the left temporal region. Temporalis muscle biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of isolated unilateral temporalis muscle hypertrophy. This case raises the importance of considering rare diagnoses such as isolated unilateral temporalis muscle hypertrophy despite the inadequate statistical data on ethnicity or geographic location of a condition.

2018 ◽  
Vol 119 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-66
Author(s):  
N. Zwetyenga ◽  
A. Hallier ◽  
M. Girodon ◽  
J. Levasseur ◽  
L. Loison-Robert ◽  
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Author(s):  
D.T. Grubb

Diffraction studies in polymeric and other beam sensitive materials may bring to mind the many experiments where diffracted intensity has been used as a measure of the electron dose required to destroy fine structure in the TEM. But this paper is concerned with a range of cases where the diffraction pattern itself contains the important information.In the first case, electron diffraction from paraffins, degraded polyethylene and polyethylene single crystals, all the samples are highly ordered, and their crystallographic structure is well known. The diffraction patterns fade on irradiation and may also change considerably in a-spacing, increasing the unit cell volume on irradiation. The effect is large and continuous far C94H190 paraffin and for PE, while for shorter chains to C 28H58 the change is less, levelling off at high dose, Fig.l. It is also found that the change in a-spacing increases at higher dose rates and at higher irradiation temperatures.


Open Medicine ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-148
Author(s):  
Syu Jhang ◽  
Allen W. Chiu

Abstract Primary renal carcinoid tumors are exceedingly rare. We report a 37-year-old woman with primary infertility, who was found to have a primary renal carcinoid tumor. She became pregnant and gave birth to a baby after removal of the tumor. This is the first case in the English literature of primary renal carcinoid tumor related with primary infertility.


2010 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Nunura ◽  
Tania Vásquez ◽  
Sergio Endo ◽  
Daniela Salazar ◽  
Alejandrina Rodriguez ◽  
...  

We report a case of severe toxoplasmosis in an immunocompetent patient, characterized by pneumonia, retinochoroiditis, hepatitis and myositis. Diagnosis was confirmed by serology, T. gondii in thick blood smear and presence of bradyzoites in muscle biopsy. Treatment with pyrimethamine plus sulfadoxine was successful but visual acuity and hip extension were partially recovered. This is the first case report of severe toxoplasmosis in an immunocompetent patient from Peru.


Rare Tumors ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yugo Sawada ◽  
Fumio Ito ◽  
Hayakazu Nakazawa ◽  
Nobuhiko Tsushima ◽  
Hikaru Tomoe ◽  
...  

Close examination of a 67-year-old Japanese man, who complained of persistent nocturia, revealed that a semitransparent polypoid tumor had developed from the bladder neck to the prostatic urethra obstructing the internal urethral meatus, which resulted in excessive urinary retention and post-renal dysfunction. The tumor was resected by a transurethral procedure and a pathological examination of specimens revealed aggressive angiomyxoma (AAM) of the prostate. AAM usually develops in the intrapelvic and perineal organs of females. So far as we know, this is the second case of primary prostatic AAM reported in the English literature, and is the first case where the patient encountered urethral obstruction.


2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-120
Author(s):  
Mădălin-Sebastian LUNG ◽  
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Gabriela-Alina MUREȘAN ◽  

This paper aims to analyse the religious structure and its evolution in the Apuseni Mountains (Romania). Thusly, we employed statistical data from three distinct population censuses, the first one being the Austro-Hungarian census of 1880. The next one was the one in 1930, organised by Romanian authorities. Furthermore, it was the first and most important demographic census after the Great Union of 1918. The last census taken into consideration was the one in 2011, the second census of the 21st century. After obtaining the numerical data from the three censuses, we processed it using Microsoft Excel. Three tables were generated, emphasizing the numerical values and the percentages for each religion or confession for each census. The map depicting the geographic location of the study area was developed using GIS technology (ArcGis 10.3). We determined that Christians have been dominating the Apuseni Mountains and the Orthodox faith had and still has the most adherents. Likewise, the political-administrative factor heavily influenced census operations and also produced imbalances in the religious structure, especially after the 1948 abolition of the monarchy.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Juan Jakez-Ocampo ◽  
Yemil Atisha-Fregoso ◽  
Luis Llorente

Hyperprolactinemia has been related to autoimmune diseases. Herein, we describe a case of a female with a prolactin producer pituitary macroadenoma who developed severe polymyositis one month after its removal. The patient had very high levels of CPK and muscle biopsy showed remarkable inflammatory infiltration. Steroid therapy was followed with total recovery. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case reported of acute polymyositis after pituitary macroadenoma exeresis.


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