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A patient with known adenocarcinoma of the lower third of the esophagus was admitted with ataxia and double vision. Work-up revealed new brain hemorrhage and brain metastases as the cause of the pa...
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A patient with known left breast cancer metastatic to the brain presented to the emergency department with altered mental status (AMS). Diagnostic imaging revealed stable metastatic brain cancer wi...
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A patient who is status post right above-the-knee amputation and placement of an osteointegrated implant, returns for corrective surgery. A medial thigh lift was performed due to soft tissue envelo...
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The above patient underwent right medial thigh lift and elliptical excision of skin from the stoma on the lateral side due to soft tissue envelope redundancy and ulcerations around the osteointegra...
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A 38-year-old patient was admitted due to prolapsed and nonhealing necrotic neovaginal skin graft, six days status post gender reassignment surgery, involving penile inversion vaginoplasty. What is...
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This same patient underwent repair of the prolapsed and nonhealing necrotic neovaginal graft, six days status post gender reassignment surgery. At surgery, the nonviable skin graft was removed and ...
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A patient was admitted with recurrent malignant pleural effusion, and thoracentesis with placement of a PleurX™ catheter was performed. Pleural fluid cytology was positive for cancer cells. The p...
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The patient has been diagnosed with myasthenia gravis and also with dialysis dependent end stage renal disease secondary to type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). When following the Index to Diseases und...
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The patient is a 49-year-old who presented for heart transplantation surgery because of end stage heart failure due to peripartum cardiomyopathy which developed four years postpartum. The Offic...
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A 43-year-old female was transferred to our facility for treatment of end-stage ischemic cardiomyopathy due to peripartum spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) that occurred more than ten y...
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