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Journal of Clinical Case Reports and Images
An open-access journal of Case Reports, Clinical Images, Case Series and Technical Notes from across medicine, surgery and the allied clinical specialties, with documented patient care at the center of every submission.
A case is read here for what it documents — the presentation, the investigations that qualified it, the decision taken and what followed — rather than for the specialty it arrived from.
The journal is general by intention. The classes below are the territories from which case records are received; they index the journal's coverage rather than bound it, and the boundary itself is stated on the aims and scope page. Interdisciplinary cases may connect imaging, pathology, genetics, pharmacotherapy or digital care when the clinical record and its diagnostic, management, procedural, safety or educational contribution remain central.
- 01 Internal medicine General medicine and its subspecialties, including endocrine, renal, hepatic and gastroenterological presentations.
- 02 General and emergency surgery Elective and emergency operative practice, perioperative complications, retained material and surgical recovery.
- 03 Diagnostic and interventional imaging Radiological, endoscopic and image-guided findings, published with the interpretation that qualified them.
- 04 Cardiovascular and thoracic medicine Cardiac, vascular and thoracic presentations, device and stent complications, and thoracic surgery.
- 05 Orthopedics and musculoskeletal practice Trauma, joint, tendon and soft-tissue presentations, operative management and rehabilitation.
- 06 Obstetrics, gynecology and neonatal care Maternal, fetal and neonatal presentations and the decisions taken in their management.
- 07 Hematology and clinical oncology Hematological and oncological disease, including the evolution of a disease process over time.
- 08 Infection and antimicrobial resistance Infectious presentations, resistant organisms, and the treatment decisions they force.
- 09 Neurology and neurosurgery Central and peripheral nervous system presentations, operative and conservative management.
- 10 Pediatric and adolescent medicine Presentations in infancy, childhood and adolescence across medical and surgical practice.
- 11 Pathology and laboratory correlation Histological, cytological and laboratory findings correlated with the clinical picture.
- 12 Anesthesia and critical care Perioperative, intensive-care and resuscitation practice, including airway and analgesic management.
6 entries from the current and preceding volumes. Each entry resolves through its DOI to the article of record.
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Incidence and Management of Sural Neuritis Post-Peroneal Tendon Repair – Case Series
Kai Higuchi, Ashraf Khafaga, Joseph Waterhouse
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Hospital Podiatric Medicine and Surgery Hospital, New Hyde Park, New York, USA
Case Series Volume 3, Issue 1 · Pages 19–23 10.14302/issn.2641-5518.jcci-26-6134
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Transmural Migration of a Retained Surgical Sponge; A Case Report
Taah-Amoako Philip, Ernest Osei, Antointette Afua Asieduwaa Bediako-Bowan
Tain District Hospital, Nsawkaw, Ghana
Case Report Volume 3, Issue 1 · Pages 12–18 10.14302/issn.2641-5518.jcci-26-5982
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A Case of Postoperative Hematoma Mimicking Giant Hydrocele
Maham Qamer, Abid Qureshi, Dhanan J Etwaru
Department of Surgery, The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Case Report Volume 3, Issue 1 · Pages 6–11 10.14302/issn.2641-5518.jcci-25-5522
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Antibiotic-Resistant Urinary Tract Infection in a Bahamian Woman: A Case Report
Keith L. Rivers
Family Medicine and Geriatric Medicine, Able Hands Primary Care Center, Nassau, Bahamas
Case Report Volume 3, Issue 1 · Pages 1–5 10.14302/issn.2641-5518.jcci-24-5362
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A Tandem of Rare Complications Due to Stent Infection
Inga Botchorishvili, Vakhtang Kipiani, Rusudan Agladze, Tamar Gaprindashvili, Sergo Khajalia, Zurab Pagava, Levan Vashakidze, Vasil Natsvlishvili
Bokhua Memorial Cardiovascular Center, Tbilisi, Georgia
Case Report Volume 2, Issue 4 · Pages 7–12 10.14302/issn.2641-5518.jcci-23-4554
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Evolution of Janus Kinase 2 V617F-negative idiopathic myelofibrosis into Philadelphia+ chronic myeloid leukemia
Anu Partanen, Esa Jantunen
Department of Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
Case Report Volume 2, Issue 4 · Pages 1–6 10.14302/issn.2641-5518.jcci-23-4506
A case report makes its clinical reasoning visible. An image-led report makes a finding interpretable through the image, legend and patient context together. A common condition can be suitable when it carries a clear learning point; rarity or a first-ever observation is not required.
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Recognition
A presentation that is rare, atypical, or easily mistaken for something more common, described well enough for a reader to recognize it.
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Diagnostic reasoning
The investigations ordered, the findings that qualified them, and the differential the clinician worked through.
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Management and course
What was decided, what was done, and what followed — including complications and outcomes that were not expected.
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Documentation
Images, laboratory values and a timeline complete enough that another clinician can weigh the case rather than accept the description.
A single case documents one patient's course. It can establish that something occurred, show how it was recognized, and set a hypothesis for later study; it does not establish treatment efficacy, causality, prevalence, comparative superiority, population-level safety or a clinical guideline. Manuscripts are expected to draw conclusions their evidence supports, and the journal edits toward that limit rather than away from it.
A case record is a patient's account before it is a publication. The requirements below are checked at screening and again before a manuscript is accepted; the full text of each is set out in the editorial policies and the instructions for authors.
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Consent for publication
Authors obtain written informed consent from the patient for publication of the case details and images, and include a patient consent statement in the manuscript.
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Identifiable images
Patient-identifiable images and recordings require explicit consent for publication. Removing identifiers does not automatically remove the need for consent. Any exception requires editorial assessment under applicable policy, law and institutional requirements.
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Ethics approval
Institutional review board or ethics committee approval is required where the work falls within its remit, and is reported in the manuscript.
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Image rights
Authors must hold permission to publish every image. Adapted or reused figures require written permission and a citation to the source.
The CARE checklist guides individual case reports. Case series state selection, methods, outcomes and limitations and use guidance appropriate to their design. For clinical video, confirm supported formats and publication arrangements with the editorial office before submission. Every empirical research manuscript must include a data-availability statement. Corrections, retractions and competing-interest handling are set out in the editorial policies.
Manuscripts are screened, assigned and decided by named editors. Every member of the board is listed with their role, institution and country, and with their ORCID iD where one has been supplied.
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Editor-in-Chief
Lalit Gupta
Professor, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, New Delhi, India
- Section Editor
- 23board members
- 12countries represented
- 10members with an ORCID iD
- Screening
- All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal's scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review.
- Peer review
- Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request. Manuscripts that proceed to external peer review are normally evaluated by at least two independent subject-matter experts.
- Editorial decisions
- Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal. Decisions are independent of fees and of any service the publisher offers.
- Rights and license
- Open access under CC BY 4.0. Authors retain copyright. Copyright and license
- Persistent identifiers
- Articles are registered with Crossref under the DOI prefix 10.14302. The journal is identified by ISSN 2641-5518.
- Data availability
- Every empirical research manuscript must include a data-availability statement.
- Trial registration
- Where an eligible case-based submission concerns participation in a trial, the publisher's registration requirement applies. Interventional clinical trials must be registered in an accepted public trial registry at or before the first participant provides consent for enrollment. The registry name, registration number, and registration date must be reported in the manuscript. Standalone trials remain outside the scope of new JCCI submissions.
Each entry below is a record a reader can open and check. Journal identifiers, DOI registration and discovery services are separate things and are listed separately; the indexing page carries the journal's full statement, including preservation.
- Journal identifier
- ISSN 2641-5518, registered with the ISSN International Centre. ISSN Portal record
- DOI registration
- Registered articles carry a Crossref DOI under the prefix 10.14302, and the DOI resolves to the article of record. Crossref record
- Scholarly discovery
- The journal and its articles are represented in the OpenAlex open catalog of scholarly works. OpenAlex source record (API)
- Author identifiers
- Editors and authors are displayed with their ORCID iD where one has been supplied.
- 35published records
- 3volumes
- 9issues
- 2017–2026publication history
- Volume 1, Issue 1 4 records Opened
- Volume 1, Issue 2 4 records Opened
- Volume 1, Issue 3 4 records Opened
- Volume 1, Issue 4 4 records Opened
- Volume 2, Issue 1 3 records Opened
- Volume 2, Issue 2 4 records Opened
- Volume 2, Issue 3 4 records Opened
- Volume 2, Issue 4 4 records Opened
- Volume 3, Issue 1 4 records Opened
Archive totals reflect the journal's current published record.
Three routes are available, and each reaches the same editorial office. Authors must use only one submission route for the same manuscript.
- Primary
- Alternative
- Assisted
The article processing charge is USD 1,440, with a student rate of USD 900. There are no submission fees, the charge falls due only after acceptance, and a rejected manuscript incurs no charge. The charge has no bearing on the editorial decision. Full terms are on the article processing charges page, and fee-relief inquiries go to the editorial office.
Submit your clinical case or image-led report to JCCI
Journal of Clinical Case Reports and Images welcomes submissions throughout the year from researchers, clinicians, and multidisciplinary teams reporting documented patient care across medicine, surgery and allied clinical specialties. Case Reports, Clinical Images, Case Series and Technical Notes are considered throughout the year.
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