Spot Dx — Why did this red eye appear overnight?
Gerard is a 62-year-old retired architect who presents with 24 hours of a painful red right eye. Test your clinical know-how by taking the quiz…
Tag: Diagnostics
Spot Dx — What’s the cause of this facial oedema?
A 28-year-old Caucasian female presents to the dermatology clinic for evaluation of facial oedema, erythema and enlargement of pores. Test your clinical know-how by taking…
Move from film to digital mammography accelerated overdiagnosis, researchers say
A move from film to digital mammography between 2006 and 2010 picked up a small number of extra cancers at the expense of many more…
Spot Dx — Can you pick what’s causing these plaques?
Jim is a 41-year-old farmer in southern Australia who presents with multiple brown plaques on the torso. Test your clinical know-how by taking the quiz…
Can Australia do better at detecting heart valve disease?
Timely detection of heart valve disease is suboptimal because patients do not know what it is and GPs do not routinely perform auscultation, an Australian…
Spot Dx — What’s causing this festive-looking rash?
Tai is a 32-year-old who presents with a mildly itchy rash on the trunk and back. He first noticed a single red patch on his…
Spot Dx — Is the answer on the tip of the tongue?
Mary is a 58-year-old who presents with a two-year history of gradually worsening burning tongue pain. Test your clinical know-how by taking the quiz below.…
Medical Must-See: Doctors cut out and cut open a 5kg myxoid ovarian tumour
A 36-year-old who presented after a month of left flank pain turned out to be carrying a 5kg myxoid ovarian leiomyoma. The patient presented to…
Wrist cuff BP measure ‘non-inferior’ to upper-arm reading
Validated blood pressure devices that take readings at a patient’s wrist are an appropriate option for patients who cannot use a traditional upper-arm cuff, Australian-led…
Hypertension is the hallmark of this easily missed diagnosis
Chen is a 46-year-old factory worker who presents with fatigue. He denies any associated systemic symptoms or stress at home or work and has not…
