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Volume 6

Cognitive consequences after traumatic brain injury (TBI)

A traumatic brain injury (TBI) can cause temporary dysfunction of brain cells. More severe craniocerebral injuries can lead to bruising, perforation and tissue rupture, bleeding, and other physical damage to the brain that can lead to long-term complications or death (Bigler, 2016). Consequences of TBI can include physical, sensory, behavioral, and communication disorders, as well as disturbances in cognitive functioning.

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Neurocysticercosis In An Immigrant, A Case Report From A Tertiary Hospital In Uganda

1.1. Introduction: Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is one of the seven neglected endemic zoonoses targeted for elimination by the World Health Organization. NCC is a common primary cause of preventable epilepsy in many developing countries caused by the platyhelminth Taenia solium and yet the clinical diagnosis is often difficult as neurological presentation in non-specific. Herein, a case of NCC initially misdiagnosed as cerebral malaria in an immigrant is present.

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Delayed post-traumatic splenic rupture after fall in a hemodynamically stable patient with undiagnosed pancreatic malignancy which occluded both splenic artery and vein

The spleen, due to its anatomical position, is the most frequently injured organ of the abdomen due to blunt trauma. Herein we describe the case of a 59-year-old female patient who fell from the same height and five days later she complained of persistent pain in the left hypochondrium

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An Atypical presentation of Primary Tubercular Psoas Abscess Presenting as Groin Pain

Psoas abscess, a collection of pus in the iliopsoas compartment is an unusual lesion that is unfamiliar to many medicine specialists, which can make an accurate and timely diagnosis problematic. The symptoms associated with this disorder often involve hip pain instead of abdominal or back pain

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