Background: Diabetes is a known risk factor for susceptibility and severity of COVID-19 infection. It may also be a complication of COVID-19. Many hypotheses have been proposed to explain this condition. It may be due...
Vulvar Crohn’s disease (VCD) is a rare complication of Crohn’s disease, especially in pediatric population. An early diagnosis can result difficult if the complication does not present in conjunction with the classi...
Background: Cystic echinococcosis is a zoonotic infection that occurs worldwide. Humans are infected through ingestion of parasite eggs in contaminated food, water or through direct contact with infected dogs, which a...
Background: Hypothalamic hamartoma is a rare non-neoplastic lesion, typically identified in early childhood during investigations for precocious puberty and/or gelastic seizures. However, cases of diagnosis even earli...
BACKGROUND Abernethy malformation,also known as congenital extrahepatic portosystemic shunt,is an uncommon malformation resulting from aberrant development of the portal venous system.Cystic fibrosis(CF)is an autosoma...
Myiasis is the infestation of live human and vertebrate animals with maggots that feed on the host’s dead or living tissue, depending on the life cycle of the fly. It is a rare condition and often misdiagnosed. Tropi...
This study was supported by the National Key R&D Program Project(No.2017YFC0909900);Qinghai Science and Technology Department 2022 Science and Technology Plan Projects(Qinghai Research Key Laboratory for Echinococcosis Research);Young and Middle-aged Scientific Research Fund Project of the Affiliated Hospital of Qinghai University(No.ASRF-2021-YB-17);Tsinghua University Institute of Precision Medicine Strategic Project(Nos.2022ZLA005,2022ZLB004);Beijing Natural Science Foundation(No.Z190024).
A 7-year-old girl presented to our out-patient clinic with complaints of abdominal mass and pain with yellowish skin for over 3 months.The patient was also accompanied by clinical manifestations such as nausea and vom...
Breast cancer in adolescents occurring in fibroadenomas is extremely rare. We report a case of right breast cancer in a 15-year-old female student diagnosed in 2020. This is the youngest reported case of breast cancer...
This case study presents different strategies that were explored by the patient’s mother (who is a researcher in music and medicine) when her 17-year-old daughter was diagnosed with ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis), al...
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is still a topical practice in several African regions or countries. They constitute a violation of human rights, in particular because of their harmful consequences for the health of t...