Medical Must-See: How a bright yellow ulcer sparked a three-way ‘diagnostic dispute’
A young man’s yellow leg ulcer has served as a lesson in considering differential and albeit unusual diagnoses after US dermatologists discovered it was caused…
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Medical Must-See: Perineal pain points to rare thrombosis
The dangers of self-medicating became all too clear for one US man whose “inappropriate” sildenafil use gave rise to a rare and abnormal thrombus formation…
Medical Must-See: Port-wine stain and a bony growth
Klippel–Trenaunay syndrome is easily diagnosed at birth but sometimes slips past doctors, according to Indian dermatologists who found the rare genetic condition in a three-year-old…
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…
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…
