2018
Overview
Clinical medical reviews and case reports are scholarly article formats that document individual or small-series patient presentations alongside critical syntheses of the existing literature on a condition or its management. Case reports describe the clinical presentation, diagnostic workup, treatment, and outcome of an unusual, instructive, or rare patient, while accompanying reviews place those findings in the context of previously published work to highlight patterns, risk factors, and management options. This format matters because it captures rare diseases, atypical presentations, unexpected treatment responses, and emerging safety signals that large trials may miss, often providing the first published evidence on a phenomenon and generating hypotheses for further study. Well-constructed case reports follow recognized reporting principles, distinguish observation from inference, and acknowledge the limits of single-case evidence. Key aspects include detailed clinical narrative, supporting imaging or laboratory data, differential diagnosis, and a focused review of comparable reported cases. Related open-access research on this topic, including reports of uncommon tumor locations and associated risk factors, is available within the journal.
Research published in this journal
1 peer-reviewed article, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.