Medical Must-See: Mother’s mishap leads to 10-fold diazoxide overdose in newborn
A preterm baby fresh out of hospital was rushed back the next day for a diazoxide overdose after his mother accidentally administered 10 times the…
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Medical Must-See: Giant fungating tumour beggars be-leaf
In a rare case perhaps more fitting for a horror movie, a middle-aged woman’s giant breast tumour broke through her skin and grew to epic…
Medical Must-See: Doctors land on rare Eagle syndrome diagnosis
A middle-aged woman’s decade-long battle with chronic facial and neck pain was eventually put down to a rare and elusive condition known as Eagle syndrome,…
Medical Must-See: Doctors rescue boy’s tongue from electric nail clipper
Tongue lacerations from falls or sports injuries are common in children, but one boy was unlucky enough to have his tongue cut open after getting…
Medical Must-See: Shot through the arm, lodged in the brain
Emergency doctors have described an unusual case of a missing bullet from a shoulder wound that was eventually found in the patient’s brain three days…
Medical Must-See: Swallowed blister packs to blame for unexplained abdominal pain
Accidental ingestion of medication blister packs could provide a rare explanation for abdominal pain without a clear cause, especially if cognition is impaired, say Swiss…
Medical Must-See: The pointy end of a coronation BBQ
A barbecue to celebrate King Charles III’s coronation took a sharp and unexpected turn for one unlucky man in a unique case of penetrating foreign…
Medical Must-See: Migrating tattoo ink mimics endometriosis
A young woman’s leg tattoo was the source of clinical confusion for US doctors after her suspected endometriosis turned out to be lymphadenopathy triggered by…
Medical Must-See: Prisoner’s fungating neck tumour poses a dilemma
Doctors decided against surgical excision of this “unsettling” fungating neck tumour but did manage to improve the patient’s quality of life with some meticulous wound…
Medical Must-See: When a patient’s small bowel starts torquing
A distended, painful abdomen and ‘whirlpool-like’ distribution of the small intestine on CT led Chinese doctors to this “extremely rare” case of diffuse intestinal lipomatosis.…
