Mercy Buabeng Asamoah,Zoha Alam,Mohammed Alam
Mercy Buabeng Asamoah
A healthy toddler presented with a 1-month history of constipation and was started on laxatives. Four years later, the patient returned with an abdominal mass and pain, but no vomiting, diarrhoea or hard stools. An ultrasound showed a thick...
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BMJ case reports. 2026 Jan 22;19(1):e270698. DOI:10.1136/bcr-2025-270698 2026
Sanket Vinubhai Davra,Pushkar Kumar,Anurag Kumar
Sanket Vinubhai Davra
Fournier's gangrene (FG) is a fulminant necrotising fasciitis of the perineum and genital region. We report a rare case of FG secondary to retroperitoneal perforation of sigmoid diverticulitis in a male patient in his late 60s. The patient ...
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BMJ case reports. 2026 Jan 22;19(1):e268768. DOI:10.1136/bcr-2025-268768 2026
Leukemoid reaction following ferric carboxymaltose infusion in an elderly patient [0.03%]
老年患者输注右旋糖酐铁后出现类白血病反应
Venugopal Mantry,Akshata Rao,Swarup Das et al.
Venugopal Mantry et al.
Leukemoid reaction, a non-malignant leucocytosis (total leucocyte count≥30 000-50 000 /mm³) is typically triggered by infection, malignancy or drug exposure. Its occurrence after intravenous iron infusion is rare. An elderly man in his mi...
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BMJ case reports. 2026 Jan 22;19(1):e268222. DOI:10.1136/bcr-2025-268222 2026
Misinterpreted pyramidal sign: revisiting Garcin's description of the hollow hand sign [0.03%]
误读的尖塔征：重新审视Garcin对空握拳征的描述
Hiroshi Shiba,Yasushi Shiba,Keisuke Watanabe et al.
Hiroshi Shiba et al.
Neurosarcoidosis: clinical diagnosis of migratory chiasmitis and bilateral optic neuropathy [0.03%]
神经肉芽肿的临床诊断：游走性视交叉炎和双眼视神经病
Martin Regan,Jia Ying Tan,Yee Ho Chiu
Martin Regan
Sarcoidosis is a diagnostically challenging and complex multisystem disease characterised by the formation of non-caseating granulomas. This case describes a young man who developed bitemporal vision loss that rapidly progressed to complete...
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BMJ case reports. 2026 Jan 22;19(1):e270070. DOI:10.1136/bcr-2025-270070 2026
Unusual association: Sturge-Weber syndrome with Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome [0.03%]
罕见关联：Sturge-Weber综合征伴发Klippel-Trenaunay综合征
Vykuntaraju K Gowda,Muskan P Verma,Deepthi Krishna et al.
Vykuntaraju K Gowda et al.
Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS) and Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome (KTS) are rare vascular malformation disorders characterised by distinct clinical features but overlapping pathogenic mechanisms, involving somatic mosaic mutations and dysregulatio...
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BMJ case reports. 2026 Jan 22;19(1):e269990. DOI:10.1136/bcr-2025-269990 2026
STAT3 gain-of-function mutation presenting with adult-onset recurrent abdominal pain, fever and lymphadenopathy, managed by JAK inhibitor therapy [0.03%]
STAT3功能获得性突变导致的成人期发作反复腹痛、发热和淋巴结病一例及JAK抑制剂治疗效果评估
Rofaida Desoki,Stephany Barreda,Samir Khwaja et al.
Rofaida Desoki et al.
Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) gain-of-function (GOF) syndrome is a rare genetic immune dysregulation disorder that typically presents in infancy with autoimmunity, lymphoproliferation, susceptibility to infectio...
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BMJ case reports. 2026 Jan 19;19(1):e271007. DOI:10.1136/bcr-2025-271007 2026
Vibhansu Yadav,Madhu Babu Killi Killi,Raghavendra Kaganur et al.
Vibhansu Yadav et al.
Osteoarticular tuberculosis (TB) of long bones is an uncommon manifestation and a frequently challenging diagnosis due to the absence of typical symptoms. We report a case of an infant with tubercular osteomyelitis involving the distal radi...
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BMJ case reports. 2026 Jan 19;19(1):e267597. DOI:10.1136/bcr-2025-267597 2026
Ravi Gupta,Aditya Gaurav,Gaurav Gupta et al.
Ravi Gupta et al.
The WHO categorises plasma cell tumours into two primary types: multiple myeloma and plasmacytoma. Plasmacytoma is further classified into solitary extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMP) and solitary plasmacytoma of bone. The upper respiratory t...
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BMJ case reports. 2026 Jan 19;19(1):e267404. DOI:10.1136/bcr-2025-267404 2026
Nicholas Brutus,Sisi Zheng,Sean Lisse et al.
Nicholas Brutus et al.
Varicocelectomy is a commonly performed urologic procedure for the surgical correction of abnormal dilation of the venous pampiniform plexus draining the testicle. Of the surgical approaches, laparoscopic surgical correction is a minimally ...