Case Report: Adrenocortical Oncocytoma in a Patient with a Previous Contralateral Adrenalectomy for a Cortisol-Secreting Adenoma

BackgroundOncocytomas are uncommon benign tumors that arise in various organs and are predominantly composed of oncocytes.Adrenocortical oncocytomas EYE BALM are extremely rare and are generally non-functioning.MethodsWe report the case of a 40-year-old patient with a progressively enlarging left adrenal mass.At the age of 19 he had undergone right

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Update on the evaluation of transient vision loss

John H Pula,1 Katherine Kwan,2 Carlen A Yuen,3 Jorge C Kattah4 1Department of Neurology, 2Department of ophthalmology, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston IL, USA; 3University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, 4Department of Neurology, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, IL, USA Abstract: Transient vision

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Anthropology of music: Paradigms and perspectives

Music represents a relational category, in the sense that people write meaning into it, and later by the means of the same music they write the meaning into other people.Therefore, I regard music as a cultural construct.Music does not possess universal meanings, but it forms its numerous meanings in different cultural environments, as well as in di

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