Brown Dog Tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus Latreille (Arachnida: Acari: Ixodidae) by Cynthia C. Lord

“… The brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus Latreille, is unusual among ticks, in that it can complete its entire life cycle indoors. …”
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Atypical Histiocyte-Rich Sweet’s Syndrome by Sharon Chi, Marcia Leung, Mark Carmichael, Michael Royer, Sunghun Cho

“…Other organ systems can be involved with varying degrees of severity. An unusual case of Sweet’s Syndrome associated with myopericarditis, acral involvement, and atypical histological findings with predominance of histiocytes is described here.…”
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Calcium Apatite Deposition Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment by Nicholas M. Beckmann

“…However, CADD has typical imaging characteristics that usually allows for a correct diagnosis to be made without additional imaging or laboratory workup, even when presenting in unusual locations. This is a review of the common and uncommon presentations of CADD in the appendicular and axial skeleton as well as an updated review of pathophysiology of CADD and current treatments.…”
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A Case of a 34-Year-Old Female with Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure and Proximal Muscle Weakness by Alex Diaz, Surit Sharma

“…Wound associated botulism is an unusual presentation. Early detection of this potentially life-threatening illness can significantly shorten length of hospital stay and improve prognosis. …”
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Transcriptome and DNA methylation profiling during the NSN to SN transition in mouse oocytes by Hannah Demond, Soumen Khan, Juan Castillo-Fernandez, Courtney W. Hanna, Gavin Kelsey

“…We identify late-methylating regions in SN oocytes that are associated with an unusual combination of chromatin modifications, which may be regions with high chromatin plasticity and transitioning between H3K27me3 and H3K36me3, or reflect heterogeneity on a single-cell level.…”
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L’intellectuel face à la célébration du (bi)centenaire de la Nation argentine by Romain Magras

“…Celebrating the founding date of a nation is generally the occasion for taking stock of the past and confronting the challenges of the future. It is not unusual to see writers emerge onto the scene in roles either complementary or antagonistic to those of politicians. …”
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Cutaneous Mucormycosis in a Diabetic Patient following Traditional Dressing by Zahra Ahmadinejad, Hamideh Khazraiyan, Fahime Ghanbari, Bahram Ahmadi, Mohsen Gerami Shoar

“…Early diagnosis and treatment are vitally important in improving outcome. We report an unusual case presenting with progressive necrotizing fasciitis due to mucormycosis following trauma and dressing by man-made herbal agents.…”
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Endovascular Management of Middle Aortic Syndrome Presenting with Uncontrolled Hypertension by Owen S. Glotzer, Kathryn Bowser, F. Todd Harad, Sandra Weiss

“…The authors present an unusual case of Middle Aortic Syndrome attributed to Takayasu’s arteritis in a 60-year-old female who presented to the emergency department with uncontrolled hypertension. …”
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Synovial Chondromatosis of the Ankle Joint: Clinical, Radiological, and Intraoperative Findings by Sedeek Mohamed Sedeek, Q. Choudry, S. Garg

“…Nevertheless, ankle involvement is unusual. The diagnosis is commonly made following a thorough history, clinical, physical, and radiographic examination. …”
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Trouble in Anatolia by Nick R Anthonisen

“…Mesothelioma in Anatolia is unusual in that it is very common, with an approximately equal sex distribution, and frequently occurs in relatively young people. …”
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Le temps d’une vie bourgeoise : la construction des rôles genrés dans les livres de comptes de la famille Guérin-Borel au XIXe siècle by Camille Cordier

“…Each of the couples of the Guérin-Borel family maintained two registers that describe their expenditures over a long period of time opening an unusual lens onto the evolution of gender identity throughout a lifetime. …”
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Dengue fever presenting with cerebellitis: A case report by Santhirasekaram Sathees, Deepa Amarasekara, Pubudu Jayasekara, Peumini Rajapakse, L.F. Sumaiya

“…Lesson: Dengue cerebellitis is an unusual neurological manifestation of dengue infection.…”
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Cutaneous metastasis as a breast carcinoma presentation. A case report by Daymi Martínez Rodríguez, Elizabet Fernández López, Susana Graciela Hernández Delgado

“…This case is presentation due to the need to highlight the importance of the differential diagnosis that the dermatologist must perform, given the real possibility of metastatic skin lesions, in patients who consult with unusual skin lesions.…”
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Apocalypse and Sensibility: The Role of Sympathy in Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth by André Cabral de Almeida Cardoso

“…The cause for world-wide disaster, a deadly disease, is a traditional element of dystopian fiction. What is more unusual about Sweet Tooth is that its protagonist seems particularly ill-suited to face the challenges that confront him in a violent post-apocalyptic world, either because he is too sensitive or because he is too vulnerable. …”
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Bilateral Glaucoma as Possible Additional Feature for PGAP3-Associated Hyperphosphatasia by Osama Obaid, Reem Batawi, Heba Alqurashi, Thana Ewis, Ahmad A. Obaid

“…Whole exome sequencing revealed a possible pathogenic variant of PGAP3 in a homozygous state (c.320C > T, p.Ser107Leu) which supported the diagnosis of HPRMS type-4. We report an unusual presentation for HPMRS and suggest adding this syndrome to the list of differential diagnoses of syndromic congenital glaucoma.…”
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A critical analysis of “Si dovrebbe pensare più a far bene... Alessandro Manzoni: Il progetto di Dio, il lavoro dell'uomo” by Fatemeh Asgari

“…The volume of essays by Norberto Cacciaglia is particularly interesting for how  author manages to invite the reader's attention to the new historical details of Manzoni’s masterpiece I PromessiSposi,  highlighting unusual insights not always easily traceable if not through a new point of view. …”
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Auster’s autobiographical ‘you’ in Report From the Interior: multi-faceted (inter)subjectivities by Sandrine SORLIN

“…This article focuses on the choice of the second-person pronoun in Paul Auster’s autobiographical work, Report from the Interior (2013). Unusual in the genre, this article demonstrates that it serves several functions within the economy of the narration but also across it (in its reaching out to the reader). …”
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Nasal Chondromesenchymal Hamartoma: Rare Case Report in an Elderly Patient and Brief Review of Literature by Kanish Mirchia, Rana Naous

“…To our knowledge, less than 50 cases of sinonasal hamartomas have been reported in the English literature so far with NCMH being very rare and primarily a tumor in infancy, with only 2 cases reported in individuals older than 16 years of age. We report a highly unusual case of a NCMH in the right maxillary sinus of a 70-year-old female.…”
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Oral and Lower Extremity Ulcers as the Initial Presentation of Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis by Mohammed Omar Al Salihi, Bianca Dominguez, Viresh Mohanlal, S. J. Carlan

“…The role of the sickle cell trait in this patient is undefined, but this combination of gender, race, and presenting symptoms in GPA is extremely unusual.…”
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Wedge-Shaped Beetles (suggested common name) Ripiphorus spp. (Insecta: Coleoptera: Ripiphoridae) by David Owens, Ashley N. Mortensen, Jeanette Klopchin, William Kern, Jamie D. Ellis

“… Ripiphoridae are a family of unusual parasitic beetles that are thought to be related to tumbling flower beetles and blister beetles. …”
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