Medical Must-See: Identical scalp lesions in three siblings a real head-scratcher
The rule of three rang true for a trio of unlucky siblings in Mexico when doctors found a rare fungal source for their near-identical head lesions. A concerned…
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Medical Must-See: Pregnant patient’s diagnosis a rare pain in the butt
Identifying the rare cause of a pregnant patient’s back and buttock pain was, well, a pain in the butt for her doctors. The woman, carrying twins, presented at…
Medical Must-See: Three little sigmoids
Three’s a crowd, according to the saying, and this is especially true of sigmoid colons in an infant. This nine-month-old patient had previously undergone the…
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…
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.…
