Acute pancreatitis recurrence should always alert clinicians to primary hyperparathyroidism,especially in younger patients and those with a hereditary condition.When parathyroid abnormalities are adequately recognized...
BACKGROUND With 4.9 to 35 instances per 100000 cases,hyperparathyroidism is one of the rarest causes of acute pancreatitis.The major cause of primary hyperparathyroidism is a parathyroid adenoma,which can manifest cli...
BACKGROUND Castleman's disease(CD)is a rare lymphoproliferative,emulating both benign and malignant diseases.The diagnosis of CD is formulated upon the combination of clinical and laboratory criteria and ultimately co...
BACKGROUND Direct infiltration of the pancreas by acute myeloid leukemia(AML)with acute pancreatitis(AP)as an initial symptom is extremely rare.Only once in the literature,the leukemia cells in AML have been implicate...
Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province,No.2019CFB798。
BACKGROUND Spontaneous esophageal rupture or Boerhaave’s syndrome is a rare and acute disease with a high incidence of misdiagnosis and mortality.Here,we aimed to explore the clinical characteristics,diagnosis,treatm...
Supported by Medical Health Science and Technology Project of Zhejiang Provincial Health Commission,No.2021KY833;Traditional Chinese Medical Science and Technology Project of Zhejiang Province,No.2021ZB110.
BACKGROUND Musculoskeletal involvement in primary large vessel vasculitis(LVV),including giant cell arteritis and Takayasu's arteritis(TAK),tends to be subacute.With the progression of arterial disease,patients may de...
Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Changsha City,No. kq2007076
BACKGROUND Kimura’s disease is an inflammatory disease that is usually found in the deep lymph nodes of the head and neck.While rare,It is most frequently seen in young men.The oral cavity and salivary glands may als...
BACKGROUND To the best of our knowledge,cases of Kawasaki disease(KD)occurring at the age of 12 are rare,even in Asia where the incidence of KD is high.We report a case of lymph-node-first presentation of KD(NFKD)in a...
BACKGROUND Peliosis hepatis(PH)is a rare benign lesion of vascular origin with a pathological characteristic of multiple blood-filled cavities in the liver parenchyma.It is commonly misdiagnosed due to its lack of spe...
BACKGROUND Sarcomatoid carcinoma of the pancreas(SCP)is a rare type of pancreatic neoplasm,and only a few cases have been described in the literature.Histologically,it is composed mostly of atypical spindle cells with...