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A Tumor in a 5-Month-Old's Belly Held Brain and Eye Tissue and an Amniotic Membrane That Kept Making Fluid
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (730+ words) A 5-month-old girl, already malnourished, came to the doctors with a belly that kept getting bigger. Imaging showed a mass with multiple fluid-filled pockets deep in her abdomen. A biopsy turned up pancreatic tissue, so her doctors suspected a pancreatic…...
A Chest X Ray Suggested a Lung Tumor, and Surgeons Found Bone Growing Off the Second Rib
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (867+ words) A 41-year-old man in Japan went in for a routine health checkup and left with a chest X-ray showing a rounded mass roughly 4 centimeters across in the upper part of his left lung field. On a plain film, it looked…...
Lung Cancer Patients With HER2 Mutations Can Now Start a Daily Targeted Pill Before Any Other Systemic Treatment
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (986+ words) The decision expands a previous accelerated approval granted in November 2025, which limited the drug to patients who had already received systemic therapy. Eligible patients no longer have to try another treatment first. The group affected is small but specific. Activating…...
His Pupils Suddenly Mismatched, and Over 15 Years the Sweaty Side of His Face Turned Pale and Lost Hair
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (569+ words) The unusual part came later. Over 15 years of follow-up, the side of his face that had been sweating too much turned pale and lost hair, in a pattern bounded by the midline of his face. Physicians affiliated with Universidad Anáhuac…...
Eight Years of Thigh Pain Ended After a Scan Ordered for Something Else Found the Cause
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (850+ words) The pain changed how the patient moved. Walking shifted to accommodate it, and ordinary daily activities became difficult. Then a scan performed for a completely unrelated health problem found the answer by accident. Fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography, better known…...
Nearly 3 Percent of Scanned Patients Had Pancreatic Tissue Looped Around a Major Vein Without Knowing It
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (842+ words) Most people assume the pancreas sits in front of the large veins that drain the gut and the spleen. In a small share of the population, it does not. A collar of pancreatic tissue loops behind the portal vein and…...
A Suspected Food Clump Blocking Her Bowel Turned Out to Be Surgical Gauze Left 15 Years Earlier
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (759+ words) For three years, a 65-year-old woman in Culiacán, Mexico, had bouts of diarrhea that no treatment could stop. In the year before she landed in the emergency department, she lost about 15 kilograms, roughly 33 pounds. Surgeons and researchers from Hospital Civil…...
Adding an Experimental OX40 Drug to Keytruda Nearly Doubled Tumor Responses in Advanced Head and Neck Cancer
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (803+ words) The drug, INBRX-106, activates OX40, a protein on T cells that helps sustain immune attacks on tumors. Keytruda works by releasing a brake on the immune system, while an OX40 drug is meant to press the accelerator at the same time. Inhibrx…...
An 80-Year-Old Woman's Growing Buttock Lump Turned Out to Be an Artery That Should Have Vanished Before Birth
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (633+ words) The swelling in the 80-year-old woman's right buttock had been growing for a year, and for the last three months it had hurt. It was firm, tender, and extended down into the upper back of her thigh. Given how much…...
Surgeons Opened a Woman's Back for the Most Reliable Muscle in Breast Reconstruction and Found Nothing There
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (470+ words) The latissimus dorsi is the muscle reconstructive surgeons reach for when they want a sure thing. It is broad, it is fed by a dependable set of vessels, and its anatomy is consistent enough that surgical planning is usually straightforward....