Abdominal Aortocaval Vascular Injury following Routine Lumbar Discectomy by Matthew Leech, Marc James Whitehouse, Ruta Kontautaite, Mukesh Sharma, Sumant Shanbhag

“…Prompt diagnosis is essential; however, bleeding is often occult, and this may therefore delay management of this condition. …”
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‘Rents in the Veil of Time’: Annie Besant’s Auto-biographies of Giordano Bruno by Muriel Pécastaing-Boissière

“…It retraces her personal and spiritual evolution through an analysis of her biographies of Bruno as occult autobiographies, that transgress gender boundaries, and pursue the legitimization strategies developed by Besant in her openly autobiographical texts.…”
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Leiomyosarcoma after Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy with Power Morcellation by Tsukasa Takahashi, Tomohisa Ugajin, Noriaki Imai, Atsushi Hayasaka, Nobuo Yaegashi, Takeo Otsuki

“…Considering the risk of dissemination and occult malignancy, the use of power morcellation should be avoided if there are alternative options to remove the tumor.…”
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Diagnostic efficacy of serological and epigenetic methods of screening diagnostics of colorectal cancer by O. I. Kit, D. V. Burtsev, A. Yu. Maksimov

“…The main group included 204 patients with colorectal cancer (CRC),that has been revealed at screening of 1669 patients by immunochemical fecal occult blood test (FOBT). Control group included 213 CRC patients who have addressed oncologic institutions for intestinal or general complaints independently. …”
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Elevated Aminotransferase Activity as an Indication of Muscular Dystrophy: Case Reports and Review of the Literature by S Zamora, C Adams, JD Butzner, H Machida, Rb Scott

“…The practical clinical implication of this report is that children with elevated serum ALT, in the absence of other signs and symptoms of hepatic injury, may have occult muscular disease - most frequently muscular dystrophy. …”
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A Case of Histoplasma capsulatum Causing Granulomatous Liver Disease and Addisonian Crisis by P Wong, S Houston, B Power, E Lalor, VG Bain

“…While hepatic granulomas often reflect an occult disease process, the cause may remain undiscovered in 30% to 50% of patients despite exhaustive investigations. …”
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Scaphoid Fat Stripe Sign: Is It a Reliable Radiological Sign of Scaphoid Fracture in Children? by Pavle Manic, Stéphanie Schizas, Pierre-Yves Zambelli, Eleftheria Samara

“…Conclusions: The scaphoid fat stripe sign can be used as an adjacent in the diagnosis of an occult scaphoid fracture in children or adolescents. …”
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An Unusual Case of Mammary Paget’s Disease Diagnosed Using Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI by Eleonora Gaspari, Aurora Ricci, Valeria Liberto, Angela Lia Scarano, Maria Fornari, Giovanni Simonetti

“…An underlying carcinoma is also common in women with negative mammography and ultrasound (US); in these cases, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a diagnostic tool useful in the detection of occult cancer. We described an unusual case of mammary Paget’s disease with underlying DCIS, in a patient without nipple-areola complex alterations and/or palpable lump. …”
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Prevalence and Molecular Epidemiological Data on Dirofilaria immitis in Dogs from Northeastern States of India by Sonjoy Kumar Borthakur, Dilip Kumar Deka, Saidul Islam, Dilip Kumar Sarma, Prabhat Chandra Sarmah

“…ELISA test evidenced an overall 22.69% of occult infections, mainly in working dogs (60%), and molecular techniques detected Dirofilaria (Nochtiella) repens in 4 stray dogs from Guwahati. …”
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Childhood-onset enthesitis-related arthritis leading to nephrotic syndrome due to secondary amyloidosis complicated by acute pulmonary embolism - The domino effect by Vishal Mangal, Bhaskar Datt, Arun Hegde, A W Kashif, Ankit Kumar, Jaspreet Kaur, Nidhi Goel, Anil Shankar Menon

“…We present a case of a young male who was diagnosed with JIA-ERA at the age of 13 years with multiple flares in childhood had now developed nephrotic syndrome secondary to AA amyloidosis demonstrated on renal biopsy complicated by acute pulmonary embolism and occult hepatitis B infection. He was managed with anti-tumor necrosis factor inhibitor therapy with a favorable outcome. …”
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No evidence for active viral infection in unicentric and idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease by Viral-Track analysis by Ira Miller, Melanie D. Mumau, Saishravan Shyamsundar, Mateo Sarmiento Bustamante, Pedro Horna, Michael V. Gonzalez, David C. Fajgenbaum

“…Several hypotheses have been proposed regarding the pathogenesis of UCD and iMCD, including occult infection given the precedent established by HHV-8 infection. …”
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Case report: A case of mycobacterium bovis, in a previously healthy 10-year-old girl in Lebanon by Amal Naous, MD, Zeina Naja, MD, Aref Ramadan, MD, Batoul Ahmad-Kassem, MD, Walaa Saba Tayon, MD, Mahmoud Abdelnabi, MD, Lynn Mansour, Zenah Delbani, Elissa El-judri, Ali Zeidan, Mariam Rajab, MD

“…This case portrays a patient initially treated for a fungal infection after presenting with weight loss, anorexia, and positive fecal occult blood. Subsequent hospitalization for continuous fever, limb edema, and strawberry tongue led to a diagnosis of Kawasaki disease. …”
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Percival Lowell as a researcher of Japanese culture by D.E. Martynov, Yu.A. Martynova, R.R. Mukhametzanov

“…Lowell's main works: “Chosön, the Land of the Morning Calm: A Sketch of Korea”; “The Soul of the Far East”; and “Occult Japan: Or, the Way of the Gods”. It is obvious from these works that P. …”
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Late-onset and relapsed cytokine release syndrome after nivolumab treatment in a patient with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: a case report by Tomoyuki Otsuka, Yoshiki Kojitani, Fumio Imamura, Junko Fukutake, Minako Nishio, Takashi Fujii, Toshihiro Kudo

“…Here, we report a case of a 65-year-old man with squamous cell head and neck carcinoma of an occult primary origin who developed nivolumab-associated late-onset CRS that recurred. …”
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Efficacy of Seabuckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) Oil vis-a-vis Other Standard Drugs for Management of Gastric Ulceration and Erosions in Dogs by Richa Dogra, S. P. Tyagi, Amit Kumar

“…Melena was continued till day 3 in SBT group, day 6 in lansoprazole- and famotidine-treated animals, and day 9 in sucralfate and misoprostol group animals. Fecal occult blood test was positive in all animals till there was endoscopic evidence of gastric bleeding. …”
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Ethnobotanical study of pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata Duchesne) landraces in Benin by Vincent Ezin, Ulrich Herbert Gbemenou, Gazali B. T. A. Sanni, Adam Ahanchede

“…The harvested fruits were used for consumption, commercial, therapeutic and occult purposes. However, about 48% of producers have abandoned its production mainly due to production and marketing constraints. …”
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Seborrheic Keratoses as the First Sign of Bladder Carcinoma: Case Report of Leser-Trélat Sign in a Rare Association with Urinary Tract Cancer by Aline Stollmeier, Bernardo Augusto Rosario, Bruna Loise Mayer, Gibran Avelino Frandoloso, Francisco Luiz Gomide Mafra Magalhães, Gustavo Lenci Marques

“…Skin disorders can be the first manifestation of occult diseases. The recognition of typical paraneoplastic dermatoses may anticipate the cancer diagnosis and improve its prognosis. …”
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Use of Nomogram to Predict the Risk of Lymph Node Metastasis among Patients with Cervical Adenocarcinoma by Yongju Tian, Yiping Hao, Qingqing Liu, Ruowen Li, Zhonghao Mao, Nan Jiang, Bingyu Wang, Wenjing Zhang, Xiaofang Zhang, Baoxia Cui

“…In this study, a nomogram was developed based on the pathologic features, which helped to screen individuals with a higher risk of occult LNM. As a result, this tool may be specifically useful in the management of individuals with cervical AC and help gynecologists to guide clinical individualized treatment plan.…”
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Unusual Presentation of Type 1 Idiopathic Macular Telangiectasia by Zaïnab Bentaleb Machkour, Philippe Denis, Laurent Kodjikian

“…We described two patients with an unusual presentation of type 1A IMT with bilateral presentation, affecting two middle-aged women, with occult and without peripheral involvement in one case. …”
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Placenta Creta: A Spectrum of Lesions Associated with Shallow Placental Implantation by Jerzy Stanek

“…On placental histology, placenta creta (PC) ranges from clinical placenta percreta through placenta increta and accreta (clinical and occult) to myometrial fibers with intervening decidua. …”
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