Case report and case series

The case report's strength is specificity. Establish why the observation matters, provide a coherent chronology, explain diagnostic reasoning and intervention, report outcome and follow-up, discuss relevant literature, and state the lesson modestly.

Protect privacy by removing unnecessary detail and following applicable consent and target requirements. Do not generalize efficacy or safety from one case. A case can alert, illustrate, or generate a hypothesis; it rarely settles one.