“The Role of Case Reports in Clinical and Scientific Literature”

Randomized clinical trials have been a corner stone in advancing medical literature. These trials are expensive, labor intensive and require significant resource utilization. Furthermore, these trials are often difficult to execute when dealing with rare diseases due to lack of significant study group sizes. Case reports and case series help to provide fellow colleagues with interesting and unique case presentations, diagnostic methods and treatment modalities. We hereby present a brief summary on the importance of case reports in clinical and scientific literature.