Semi-in-situ cutting force measurement of a jigsaw by Sándor Apáti, György Hegedűs, Sándor Hajdu

“…The study also found unusual patterns, like sudden force spikes or negative values, due to the material inhomogeneity and the spring back of the sawing blades. …”
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Clinical Report of a 17q12 Microdeletion with Additionally Unreported Clinical Features by Jennifer L. Roberts, Stephanie K. Gandomi, Melissa Parra, Ira Lu, Chia-Ling Gau, Majed Dasouki, Merlin G. Butler

“…Since syndrome-specific DNA sequencing studies failed to provide an explanation for this patient’s unusual habitus, we postulate that this case represents an expansion of the 17q12 microdeletion phenotype. …”
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Intravenous Leiomyoma with Extension to the Heart: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Fuat Demirkiran, Veysel Sal, Umit Kaya, Cem Alhan, Nedim Tokgozoglu

“…Abdominal CT is a useful imaging technique for the diagnosis of unusual pathology in a patient with uterine fibroid having suspicious pelvic masses. …”
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Familial Russell–Silver Syndrome like Phenotype in the PCNA Domain of the CDKN1C Gene, a Further Case by A. H. Sabir, G. Ryan, Z. Mohammed, J. Kirk, N. Kiely, M. Thyagarajan, T. Cole

“…This report supports the previously reported findings of Russell–Silver syndrome (RSS) like phenotype caused by this unusual mechanism (CDKN1C mutations in the PCNA domain), highlights subtle radiological features not described previously and the phenotypic variability between two affected siblings. …”
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Neurapraxia following neck lifting procedures–anatomical consideration, contributing factors, and management strategies: a case report by Phoebe Kar Wai Lam

“…However, these procedures carry risks, including potential nerve injury, which can result in sensory and motor deficits. To document unusual complications following a thread-lift procedure and highlight the importance of understanding the complex anatomy of the neck and submental region to prevent such complications. …”
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Suspected Pericardial Tuberculosis Revealed as an Amyloid Pericardial Mass by Sebastiano Cicco, Antonio G. Solimando, Patrizia Leone, Stefano Battaglia, Roberto Ria, Angelo Vacca, Vito Racanelli

“…The immunoglobulin deposits are usually localized in the kidney, heart, and liver. We describe an unusual case of a patient suffering from a pericardial amyloidoma with internal calcifications and air bubbles that compressed the right ventricle and shifted the heart to the left. …”
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Ischemic Gangrene of the Glans following Penile Prosthesis Implantation by Borja García Gómez, Javier Romero Otero, Laura Díez Sicilia, Estibaliz Jiménez Alcaide, Eduardo García-Cruz, Alfredo Rodríguez Antolín

“…The development of ischemic gangrene of the penis following implantation of prosthesis is unusual, and very few cases are available in the literature. …”
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Consensus document on the management of wound closure in orthopaedic surgery by Pablo Sanz-Ruiz, José Ramón Caeiro-Rey, Juan Carlos Martínez-Pastor, José Luis Martín-Alguacil, Antonio Murcia-Asensio, Jesús Moreta

“…Complications of the surgical wound in orthopaedic surgery are not unusual, being the main cause of medical care and readmission in the first 90 days. …”
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The Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges of Posttraumatic Iris Implantation Cysts: Illustrative Case Presentations and a Review of the Literature by Nandini Venkateswaran, Steven S. T. Ching, William Fischer, Frank Lee, Gabrielle Yeaney, Holly B. Hindman

“…In this paper, we provide descriptions of two unusual cases of posttraumatic iris implantation cysts. …”
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Sexual Masochism Disorder with Asphyxiophilia: A Deadly yet Underrecognized Disease by Anna Coluccia, Mario Gabbrielli, Giacomo Gualtieri, Fabio Ferretti, Andrea Pozza, Andrea Fagiolini

“…Hence, DSM-5 new approach to paraphilias demedicalizes and destigmatizes unusual sexual behaviors, provided they are not distressing or detrimental to self or others. …”
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Dispensable genome and segmental duplications drive the genome plasticity in Fusarium solani by Abbeah Navasca, Jatinder Singh, Viviana Rivera-Varas, Upinder Gill, Gary Secor, Thomas Baldwin

“…We recently reported a unique opportunistic F. solani associated with unusual dark galls in sugarbeet. We assembled the chromosome-level genome of the F. solani sugarbeet isolate strain SB1 using Oxford Nanopore and Hi-C sequencing. …”
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A comparison of sex-specific senescence patterns in a long-lived marine mammal by Kaitlin R. Macdonald, Jay J. Rotella, William A. Link

“…The Weddell seal is a species of long-lived mammal that displays moderate polygyny and little sexual size dimorphism, which makes it an unusual species compared to other long-lived mammals that share the polygynous mating system. …”
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A case report of Gorham-Stout disease diagnosed during the course of recurrent meningitis and cholesteatoma by Makoto Hosoya, Naoki Oishi, Jun Nishiyama, Kaoru Ogawa

“…Conclusion This case describes unusual temporal bone osteolysis after cholesteatoma surgery and the importance of considering the possibility of multiple concurrent diseases in such individuals. …”
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Unsuspected Cause of Respiratory Distress: Unrecognized Esophageal Foreign Body by Naima Baddouh, Lahcen Arjdal, Abdelaziz Raji, Mounir Bourrous

“…Revelation by respiratory distress is a rare and unusual condition. Objective. We describe and discuss the case of an esophageal foreign body, in which the patient presented with respiratory distress. …”
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Seismic Performance Assessment of Ordinary Moment Resisting Frame Equipped with Viscous Dampers under Pulse-Like Earthquakes by Amir Yousefpour, Hamid Mazidababdi Farahani, Mohsen Ali Shayanfar

“…A pulsed movement in the near field records in this system will, however, result in unusual behavior. Technology advances and the creation of vibration control systems have helped control this type of behavior since the earthquake forces are applied indirectly to the structure. …”
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Hepatic sinusoidal obstruction syndrome (SOS) associated with checkpoint inhibitor therapy by Marianna Litterio, Nicole Marchetti, Francesco Carubbi, Marianna Tudini, Luciano Mutti, Claudio Ferri

“…The difficulty lies in diagnosing these unusual toxicities with an incidence of as low as less than 1% hence defined as SOS. …”
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Prenatal Diagnosis of 4p and 4q Subtelomeric Microdeletion in De Novo Ring Chromosome 4 by Halit Akbas, Naci Cine, Mahmut Erdemoglu, Ahmet Engin Atay, Selda Simsek, Aysegul Turkyilmaz, Mehmet Fidanboy

“…Ring chromosomes are unusual abnormalities that are observed in prenatal diagnosis. …”
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Schistosome feeding and regurgitation. by Patrick J Skelly, Akram A Da'dara, Xiao-Hong Li, William Castro-Borges, R Alan Wilson

“…Schistosomes are parasitic flatworms that infect >200 million people worldwide, causing the chronic, debilitating disease schistosomiasis. Unusual among parasitic helminths, the long-lived adult worms, continuously bathed in blood, take up nutrients directly across the body surface and also by ingestion of blood into the gut. …”
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Challenges in Medicine: The Odyssey of a Patient with Isolated IgG4-Related Eosinophilic Angiocentric Fibrosis Presenting as a Locally Destructive Sinonasal Mass by Snigdha Nutalapati, Richard O’Neal, William O’Connor, Brett T. Comer, Gerhard C. Hildebrandt

“…We hereby present such an unusual case of a 60-year-old female who presented to us with recurrent sinonasal mass, after a decade long haul of multiple clinical evaluations, biopsies, and debulking surgery without a definitive diagnosis. …”
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COVID-19 Mortality in a Pediatric Patient with Hemoglobin SC Disease and Alpha-Thalassemia Trait by Joshua E. Motelow, Stacie Kahn, Patrick T. Wilson

“…We believe this to be an unusual case of a pediatric patient with HbSC disease and COVID-19. …”
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