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Large hand mass due to poor primary care access in an internally displaced person in the DRC: a case report

Marples R, Baruti Murakirwa B, Luhombo Kataala C, Kambere Simisi P
2025-07-14 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2025-07-14 • Oxford Medical Case Reports

We report a woman in her twenties from a displaced persons camp in the Democratic Republic of Cong...

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False-negative qualitative human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) test result (‘hook effect’) with classical ultrasound findings of complete molar pregnancy: an uncommon case

Phillipo D, Lucas S, Kalunga MP, Inyasi E, Lebba JP,  et al.
2024-01-27 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2024-01-27 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
False-negative qualitative Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) result is a phenomenon in which large amounts of β-hCG are produced by molar pregnancy, oversaturating the test’s assay syst...

Kwashiorkor skin lesions: case study on clinical presentation, management and patient caretaker perspectives in Maiduguri, north-eastern Nigeria

Bublitz A, Manirakiza C, Whitehouse K, Chara A, Musa T,  et al.
2023-07-18 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2023-07-18 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
The management of kwashiorkor disease (KD) in children is challenging in resource-limited settings, especially for those cases with severe skin lesions and its complications. There are n...

Retrospective analysis of fungemia among children in Anka General Hospital, Nigeria, from October 2018 to November 2021: a case series

Olubiyo R, Chukwumeze F, Lawal AM, Oloruntuyi G, Musoka H,  et al.
2023-07-18 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2023-07-18 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
Yeast-related bloodstream infections (BSIs) in pediatric patients are associated with severe acute malnutrition (SAM), hematological/oncological malignancies and admission to an intensiv...

Hippopotamus bite morbidity: a report of 11 cases from Burundi

Haddara MM, Haberisoni JB, Trelles M, Gohou JP, Christella K,  et al.
2020-08-01 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2020-08-01 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
Hippopotamus is one of the most-loved animals in Africa, yet it is aggressive and dangerous. The co-existence of humans in close proximity to their natural habitat increases the probabil...

Collaboration between Médecins Sans Frontières and Oxford Medical Case Reports

Balinska MA
2019-04-15 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2019-04-15 • Oxford Medical Case Reports

Acute respiratory failure in an infant and thiamine deficiency in West Africa: a case report

Hiffler L, Escajadillo K, Rocaspana M, Janet S
2020-06-25 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2020-06-25 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
In paediatrics, the overall clinical picture of thiamine deficiency (TD) is not easy to recognize, because it mimics or can be confused with other diseases even in cases of classic berib...

A misleading appearance of a common disease: tuberculosis with generalized lymphadenopathy—a case report

Bottineau MC, Kouevi KA, Chauvet E, Martinez Garcia D, Galetto-Lacour A,  et al.
2019-09-01 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2019-09-01 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
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Tuberculosis is a common illness for vulnerable populations in resource-limited settings. Lymph nodes in tuberculosis represent the most frequent extra-pulmonary form of...

Tungiasis: a highly neglected disease among neglected diseases. Case series from Nduta refugee camp (Tanzania)

Najera Villagrana SM, Garcia Naranjo Santisteban A
2019-06-24 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2019-06-24 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
Tungiasis is a highly prevalent yet neglected disease of populations affected by extreme poverty. It causes great discomfort and pain, leads to social stigmatization and, when left untre...

Tailored intervention to prevent relapses and hospitalization in a migrant suffering from paranoid schizophrenia

Duvivier H, Lashmi K
2021-06-18 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2021-06-18 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
Adherence issues combined with inequitable access to healthcare may increase the risk of discontinuation of care for undocumented migrants with severe mental health illness.

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A reflection on case reporting in resource-limited settings

Wind A
2019-08-14 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2019-08-14 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
In 2015, I was in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), working as a pediatrician with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). As had been the case in my two previous assignments with MSF,...

Seizure activity and anion gap metabolic acidosis secondary to adverse effect of nalidixic acid—a case report

Galvin M, Al Qaisy MS, Cajazeiro J
2021-01-01 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2021-01-01 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
Nalidixic acid is a commonly prescribed treatment for suspected dysentery in Middle Eastern populations. We describe a case of convulsions resulting from a single dose of nalidixic acid ...

A diagnostic challenge in an unresponsive refugee child improving with neurosurgery—a case report

Makris G, Papageorgiou N, Panagopoulos D, Brubakk KG
2021-05-24 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2021-05-24 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
An unresponsive paediatric patient may present a diagnostic challenge for health professionals, as rapid identification of the cause is needed to provide proper interventions. The follow...

Organophosphate poisoning in a young child: a case report

Sharma NC, Nin-Gonzalez R
2021-02-15 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2021-02-15 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
Unintentional ingestions are a common form of poisoning in children worldwide. Organophosphates are commonly used in households worldwide and are a common cause of childhood poisonings. ...

Painless: a case of congenital insensitivity to pain in a 5-year-old male

Al Amroh HH, Reyes AL, Barret Austin Hillary J, Al Khaffaf WH
2020-07-01 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2020-07-01 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
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Sseveral genetic disorders are known to be associated with congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP), a term often used to describe an impaired ability to perceive the type, ...

Sickle cell disease in anaemic children in a Sierra Leonean district hospital: a case series

Italia MB, Kirolos S
2019-07-12 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2019-07-12 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common inherited haemoglobinopathy wordwide, with the highest prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa. Due to the lack of national strategies and scarcity ...

DAA treatment failures in a low-resource setting with a high burden of hepatitis C infections: a case series

Zahid H, Aslam K, Dahl EH, Abbassi W, Adan S,  et al.
2022-05-23 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2022-05-23 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
Globally, 58 million people are living with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and 1.5 million new patients are infected every year. The advent of direct acting antivirals (DAAs) has revo...