A chilling medical case reveals a 55‑year‑old man’s finger and big toe were literally eaten away by metastatic cancer — which surgeons say had “completely replaced” the bones in those digits — just ...

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Glomus tumors of the hand usually present with classical triad of paroxysmal pain in fingertips, tenderness, and cold sensitivity. However, they often go undiagnosed or ...

Garett Wiltse, Grand Forks, was visiting family when his leg pain migrated to his lower back, and he became short of breath. His family encouraged him to go to the ER where tests revealed a brain ...

Plastic Surgery Department, Tanta Faculty of Medicine, Tanta, Egypt. From January 2013 to January 2023, a retrospective review of 17 patients who underwent surgical treatment under clinical suspicion ...

Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) is an age-related condition associated with increased mortality among patients with cancer. CHIP mutations with high variant-allele frequencies ...

One of the best ways to defeat cancer is by rousing the immune system to attack it. Experts have thought that immune cells had to be inside of tumors for one type of immunotherapy, known as checkpoint ...

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The diagnosis of glomus tumors remains a challenge and there is debate about the most accurate imaging test for diagnosis. A 35-year-old male patient was referred to the dermatology outpatient clinic ...

The symptoms: A surgeon developed swelling in his left hand near the base of his middle finger. This was the site of an injury he sustained five months earlier while removing a patient's malignant ...

In an unusual case, a surgeon developed a cancerous lump on his hand that stemmed from an injury he sustained while performing surgery. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...