Medical Must-See: Man survives accidentally shooting nail into his eye
They say hindsight is 20/20 — perhaps a cruel maxim in the case of a construction worker who experienced a transorbital penetrating brain injury after…
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Medical Must-See: A drink of superabsorbent beads leads to troubled waters
A bleary-eyed drink from a misplaced bottle of water landed a young man in ED after ingesting superabsorbent polymer beads, US doctors report. The 19-year-old…
Medical Must-See: Replacement hip hops to new location
Nine years after a revised total hip arthroplasty, an 84-year-old patient found herself back in hospital with an “extremely rare” case of intrapelvic cup migration,…
Medical Must-See: Doctors see double during appendicectomy
While two for the price of one is usually a great deal, a 36-year-old man got more than he bargained for with two inflamed appendices.…
Medical Must-See: Doctors ace diagnosis of teen’s backhander
A red lump on a 15-year-old’s right hand, half the size of a tennis ball, set Texan doctors up for rare diagnosis of extraosseous Ewing’s…
Medical Must-See: Patient stitched up after swallowing needle
A run-of-the-mill case of foreign body ingestion gave doctors in NSW an opportunity to trial a unique operative retrieval of a sewing needle beyond endoscopic…
Medical Must-See: Sprint for glory leaves man with bilateral Achilles tendon rupture
To loosely borrow from Oscar Wilde, to lose one’s Achilles tendon to rupture is a misfortune; to lose both simultaneously is just pure bad luck…
Medical Must-See: Super magnets put squeeze on patient’s penis
The forces of attraction proved too strong for an 11-year-old boy when the magnets he was playing with failed to detach from his penis, doctors…
Medical Must-See: Caught between the differential diagnosis and the deep-blue pee
Urine colour charts are easy to interpret: pale yellow is the sweet spot, while darker shades point to dehydration. But what about blue–green urine reminiscent…
Medical Must-See: Aussie woman’s rare ‘black fungus’ bowel infection
It was a lucky, albeit long and arduous, escape for a 63-year-old woman in Adelaide after she became one of only seven cases of gastrointestinal…
