Topic: case report
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Mysterious Keto Rash: Causes Still Unknown
A man in Taiwan developed a persistent, itchy rash that was ultimately linked to his recent adoption of a ketogenic diet, highlighting an unexpected side effect. The ketogenic diet forces the body into ketosis, a metabolic state where fat is broken down into ketone bodies to be used as an alterna...
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Diet Soda Resolves Woman's Mystery Pain and Vomiting
A patient with complex medical history presented with severe abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting that were unresponsive to remedies. Diagnostic imaging revealed an enlarged bile duct and a stomach mass with trapped air, leading to a diagnosis of a gastric bezoar. Gastric bezoars are concretions ...
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Man dies after amoebas eat him alive, leaving necrotic lesions
A 78-year-old man suffered severe skin lesions and ulcers for six months, with doctors initially baffled before specialists at Yale identified the cause as a common, free-living amoeba called "Acanthamoeba". The infection, detailed in "Emerging Infectious Diseases", had advanced too far by the ti...
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Man's Brain Tumor Symptoms Were Actually Caused by Worms
A 60-year-old man in Spain with a persistent headache and behavioral changes was found to have multiple brain lesions, initially suspected to be metastatic cancer due to his lack of travel history and non-immunocompromised status. Extensive cancer screening, including whole-body scans and colonos...
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The Shocking Cause Behind This Disturbing Eye Photo
A 63-year-old man developed a severe systemic infection, including lung and liver masses, after initial gastrointestinal illness, which later caused sudden vision loss in one eye due to a rare, aggressive ocular infection called panophthalmitis. Diagnostic imaging revealed over fifteen nodules in...
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