Medical Case Reports

Overview

Medical case reports are detailed accounts of the clinical course of an individual patient, describing the history, presentation, diagnostic findings, treatment, and outcome of a particular case. They are most valuable for documenting rare diseases, unusual presentations of common conditions, unexpected associations, adverse effects, and novel treatments, providing a way for clinicians to share observations that can generate hypotheses and inform practice. Although they sit lower in the hierarchy of evidence than controlled studies, well-constructed case reports contribute to medical education, pharmacovigilance, and the early recognition of emerging conditions. Clinical Case Reports and Images is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to publishing such reports together with illustrative clinical and diagnostic images across specialties. The journal's scope is exemplified by a report of non-Hodgkin lymphoma of the external auditory canal, an uncommon location, which documents a rare presentation and its associated risk factors, the kind of single-case observation the case-report format is designed to capture. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access case reports and clinical images relevant to the documentation of individual patient cases and unusual clinical findings.

Research published in this journal

1 peer-reviewed article, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

This page summarises published research for orientation; it is not medical or professional advice.

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