A Curious Case of Intestinal Diaphragm Disease Unmasked by Perforation of a Duodenal Ulcer by Mairéad McNally, Ion Cretu

“…A variety of NSAID-induced injuries may occur including ulcers, erosions, colitis, strictures, and diaphragm disease. …”
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Photodynamic therapy with hematoporphyrin derivative for the treatment of penile verrucous carcinoma: A case report by Runqun Liu, Xiaoqing Xiang, Yanliang Li, Guozhang Ma, Junhong Ye

“…Examination revealed a verrucous, erosive lesion with a cauliflower-like surface, firm texture, and irregular shape, accompanied by pain, bleeding, and a foul odor. …”
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Pemphigus Vulgaris with Solitary Toxic Thyroid Nodule by Mostafa Alfishawy, Karim Anwar, Amira Elbendary, Ahmed Daoud

“…A 51-year-old woman was evaluated for blisters and erosions that develop on her trunk, face, and extremities, with a five-year history of progressively enlarging neck mass, and a past medical history of pemphigus vulgaris seven years ago. …”
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Uterine Sarcoidosis: A Rare Extrapulmonary Site of Sarcoidosis by Creticus P. Marak, Narendrakumar Alappan, Amit Chopra, Olena Dorokhova, Sumita Sinha, Achuta K. Guddati

“…Uterine sarcoidosis can present with cervical erosions, endometrial polypoid lesions, and recurrent serometra. …”
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PUVA Induced Bullous Pemphigoid in a Patient with Mycosis Fungoides by Birgül Özkesici, Saliha Koç, Ayşe Akman-Karakaş, Ertan Yılmaz, İbrahim Cumhur Başsorgun, Soner Uzun

“…On physical examination tense bullae on the normal skin, remnants of blisters, and erosions were observed on her breasts, the chest wall, and the upper abdomen. …”
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Open-label use of Anakinra (Kineret) in the treatment of patients with osteoarthritis by Craig Davis Scoville, John Partridge Dickson

“…Nine of the 11 patients received Kineret intra-articular (IA) injections and 2/11 patients with erosive polyosteoarthritis received Kineret 100 mg subcutaneous injections daily for 30 days. …”
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Herpes Simplex Virus Pneumonia: Importance of Aspiration Etiology by Kentaro Odani, Mitsuhiro Tachibana, Rintaro Tamashima, Yutaka Tsutsumi

“…At autopsy, HSV-induced multiple mucosal erosions were observed on the tongue, pharynx, epiglottis, and trachea. …”
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Cloxacillin: A New Cause of Pill-Induced Esophagitis by Petros Zezos, Ziv Harel, Fred Saibil

“…A few days later, he returned with persistent severe retrosternal pain; endoscopy at the same day revealed a normal upper esophagus, several small stellate erosions in the midesophagus, and a normal squamocolumnar junction with a small hiatus hernia. …”
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Distinguishing rheumatoid arthritis from psoriatic arthritis by Joseph F Merola, Luis R Espinoza, Roy Fleischmann

“…Joint involvement is typically, but not always, asymmetric in PsA, while it is predominantly symmetric in RA. Bone erosions, without new bone growth, and cervical spine involvement are distinctive of RA, while axial spine involvement, psoriasis and nail dystrophy are distinctive of PsA. …”
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Musculoskeletal Ultrasonography in Detecting Disease Activity in Patients of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Cross-Sectional Study by Sharad Dev, Ashish Verma, Anup Singh

“…A significant correlation between erosions and rheumatoid factor and anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide values was found. …”
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Duodenal Histoplasmosis Presenting with Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding in an AIDS Patient by Michael A. Spinner, Heather N. Paulin, C. William Wester

“…We report the unusual case of a 33-year-old Caucasian male with advanced AIDS who presented with upper GI bleeding from diffuse erosions throughout the duodenum. Biopsy of the lesions revealed small bowel mucosa with granulomatous inflammation and macrophages with small intracellular yeasts consistent with disseminated histoplasmosis. …”
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Limbitis Secondary to Autologous Serum Eye Drops in a Patient with Atopic Keratoconjunctivitis by Jeffrey David Welder, Pejman Bakhtiari, Ali R. Djalilian

“…A 32-year-old African American female with atopic keratoconjunctivitis (AKC) presented with chronic dry eye and diffuse punctate epithelial erosions refractory to conservative treatment. She was initially managed with cyclosporine ophthalmic 0.05% in addition to preservative-free artificial tears and olopatadine hydrochloride 0.2% for 6 months. …”
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Inhibition of Gastric Acid Secretion by Unfractionated and Low Molecular Weight Heparins in the Rat by Omar M.E. Abdel Salam, Ayman R. Baiuomy, Amany Ameen

“…The majority of patients receiving heparin preparations are at stress, which is a risk factor for the development of gastric erosions. Our aim was to examine the effect of unfractionated heparin (UFH) and low molecular weight heparins (LMWHs) on gastric acid secretion. …”
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Detection of Helicobacter suis bacteria in pigs of different age groups by F. M. Nurgaliev

“…Severe hyperkeratosis, erosions, and ulcers were found on the stomach mucosa of fattening pigs and sows that were infected with H. suis bacteria. …”
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A Case Series of Psychological Stress Evaluation as a Risk Factor for Oral Lichen Planus by Irna Sufiawati, Ani Megawati, Muhammad Al Farisyi, I. Nyoman Gede Juwita Putra

“…All cases showed typical clinical features of OLP on the oral mucosa, including reticular, plaque-like, erosive, and ulcerative lesions. An incisional biopsy was performed in some cases and the histopathology features confirmed the diagnosis of OLP with no signs of dysplasia/malignancy. …”
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Integrated Pest Management of Wireworms in Potatoes: Use of Tolerant Varieties to Implement Damage Prevention by Furlan Lorenzo, Bona Stefano, Benvegnù Isadora, Cacitti Valentina, Govoni Fausto, Parisi Bruno

“…The assessment involved counting all the erosions/scars caused by wireworm feeding activity. …”
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Treatment compliance at initial and maintenance therapy at gastroesophageal reflux disease by V. I. Simanenkov, S. V. Tikhonov, N. B. Lischuk

“…By results of esophagogastroduodenoscopy and morphological investigation of mucosal biopsies non-erosive reflux disease (NERD) was diagnosed in 32 (38.1%) patients, reflux esophagitis was found in 52 cases (61.9%). …”
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Gradenigo’s Syndrome and Bacterial Meningitis in a Patient with a Petrous Apex Cholesterol Granuloma by Jacqueline Hodges, Julie Matsumoto, Nicholas Jaeger, Brian Wispelwey

“…Brain imaging revealed an expansile, erosive PA cholesterol granuloma with associated contiguous dural and leptomeningeal enhancement. …”
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Everolimus Implicated in Case of Severe Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage by Paul Gonzales, Seth Klusewitz, Johanna Marowske, John Gancayco, Michael B. Osswald, Robert Setlik

“…On endoscopy, bleeding was secondary to erosive gastritis. Previous case reports have described bleeding due to gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE), which was described in two prior reported cases. …”
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Characteristics of the Small Bowel Lesions Detected by Capsule Endoscopy in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease by Harunobu Kawamura, Eiji Sakai, Hiroki Endo, Leo Taniguchi, Yasuo Hata, Akiko Ezuka, Hajime Nagase, Takaomi Kessoku, Eiji Yamada, Hidenori Ohkubo, Takuma Higrashi, Yusuke Sekino, Tomoko Koide, Hiroshi Iida, Takashi Nonaka, Hirokazu Takahashi, Masahiko Inamori, Shin Maeda, Atsushi Nakajima

“…In CKD patients, past history of blood transfusion (OR 5.66; 95% CI 1.10–29.1, P=0.04) was identified as an independent predictor of the presence of vascular lesions, and history of low-dose aspirin use (OR 6.00; 95% CI 1.13–31.9, P=0.04) was identified as that of erosive/ulcerated lesions. This indicated that proactive CE examination would be clinically meaningful for these patients.…”
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