Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510016

Drive Line Infection and Colonic Erosion: A Rare Complication of Left Ventricular Assist Device Placement Demonstrated on PET/CT

Kanchan Kulkarni

Article Type: Clinical Image | First Published: November 23, 2015

Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) placement is now commonly performed as both bridge to transplant and as destination therapy in end stage cardiomyopathy with high associated prevalence of sepsis (up to 58%) and mortality (up to 44%)....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510015

Paediatric Lingual Thyroid: Cause of Chronic Cough

Gautam Bir Singh, Mayank Yadav and Shruti Ranjan

Article Type: Clinical Image | First Published: November 12, 2015

A 10 year old female child was referred to us from the paediatric department with the chief complaints of chronic cough and an occasional history of odynophagia for the past 6 months, especially following attack of upper respiratory tract infection....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510014

Modified Titanium Discs Enhance the Growth of Osteoblasts

Gabriel Castillo-Dali, Elena Campano-Cuevas, Jean L. Saffar, Jose L. Gutierrez-Perez and Daniel Torres-Lagares

Article Type: Image | First Published: November 3, 2015

The image shows the growth of osteoblasts (NHOst) on Titanium discs whose surface had been previously modified with an external recorder....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510013

Severe Complications of Laparoscopic Surgery as a Result of Incorrect Abdominal Wall Closure

Sheila Serra Pla, Xavier Serra Aracil, Pere Rebasa Cladera, Laura Mora Lopez and Salvador Navarro Soto

Article Type: Clinical Image | First Published: October 30, 2015

The appearance of hernias at laparoscopic trocar incision sites remains one of the unresolved complications of laparoscopic surgery. Closure of these incisions is difficult, and in fact complete closure is not usually achieved....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510012

Colonic Atresia in 69-Day-Old Infant

Sabriye Dayi, Sabriye Korkut and Sukru Yildirim

Article Type: Image | First Published: October 30, 2015

The girl baby, 28 weeks of gestation, was followed in neonatal intensive care unit because of prematurity. She has passed meconium in time. She had been feeding orally but the amount of feeding could not been increased gradually....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510011

Unfavorable Hip Stress Distribution in a Patient with Cerebral Palsy as a Cause for Hip Dislocation

Petra Schara, Karin Schara and Veronika Kralj-Iglic

Article Type: Image | First Published: October 30, 2015

Hip dislocation is a relatively common complication in cerebral palsy. Surgical intervention in the early phase is the preferred choice of treatment which however requires following the migration of femoral head with respect to acetabulum in hips at risk....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510010

Talc, over the Nails

Shilpa Y Krishnegowda and Sudhir Kumar N

Article Type: Image | First Published: September 21, 2015

A 40-year-old male was referred for evaluation of nail changes present since 2 years. The patient had a 10 - year history of HIV infection and was on antiretroviral therapy....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510009

Symmetric Peripheral Gangrene

Shilpa Y Krishnegowda and Sudhir Kumar N

Article Type: Image | First Published: September 21, 2015

A 60 year old female was referred for evaluation of blackish fingers and toes since 2 days. Her heart rate (130 beats/minute), blood pressure (70/40 mmHg), respiratory rate (28 cycles/minute) and raised total cell counts revealed that she was in septic shock....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510008

Sub-RPE Desposits - Ex Vivo Hyperspectral Autofluorescence (AF) Image of Drusen from 84-Year-Old Male Donor with late Age-Related Macular Degeneration

R. Theodore Smith, Tal Ben-Ami and Yuehong Tong

Article Type: Image | First Published: August 25, 2015

The image is an overlay of 3 images representing the distribution of the 3 most abundant fluorophore signals that were extracted using advanced factorization algorithms....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510007

Drusen on Fire: Ex Vivo Hyperspectral Autofluorescence (AF) Image of Drusen from 81-Year-Old Male Donor with Age-Related Macular Degeneration

R. Theodore Smith, Tal Ben-Ami and Yuehong Tong

Article Type: Image | First Published: August 25, 2015

The image is an overlay of 3 images representing the distribution of the 3 most abundant fluorophore signals that were extracted using advanced factorization algorithms....