Case Presentation: A 29-year-old Japanese man who attended to an orthopedist in an outside hospital with multiple fractures of rib bones and a compression fracture of vertebral bones was referred to our hospital for further investigation for the tentative diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis worried about increased serum level of matrix metalloproteinase-3. In advance of the […]

Case Presentation: Headache is one of the most common complaint of patients, yet over 65% of patients with tension-type headaches don’t present to their primary care doctor. When it’s not just a typical headache is when it’s imperative to make the diagnosis early to prevent detrimental complications. A 46-year-old-male presented with a chief complaint of […]