Medical Must-See: Pencil-core granuloma leaves child green around the gills
A two-year-old’s swollen eyelid led to a pencil-core granuloma diagnosis in this colourful case from Japan. A subcutaneous induration of the patient’s left lower eyelid…
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Medical Must-See: Don’t dot your eyes with topical anaesthetic
Ophthalmologists have warned their colleagues in ED not to prescribe topical anaesthetic eye drops after a trio of patients presented with complications. All three patients…
Medical Must-See: A bloody painful condition causes a bloody painful condition
Repeat hospital visits with dysmenorrhoea and an atypical pancreatitis presentation were just some of the clues that led doctors to diagnose a rare case of…
Medical Must-See: Clearing the air after a rare cannabis reaction
Smoking more than 10 cannabis joints a day for three days left a computer science student in a perilous situation after he developed acute eosinophilic…
Medical Must-See: Unusual housemate leads to infection and aortic valve replacement
Even on Airbnb, most guests will not cause as much drama as this patient’s unusual lodger. The 49-year-old biologist presented to doctors in the Democratic…
Medical Must-See: CT scan throws doctors a bone in mysterious appendicitis case
A nine-year-old boy’s abdominal pain and fever became a bone of contention in this acute appendicitis case published in Radiology Case Reports. The child had…
Medical Must-See: A heavy heart or cardiac cement emboli?
A routine CT scan has led doctors to a rare discovery: cardiac emboli caused by bone cement that had gone astray. The 38-year-old patient had…
Medical Must-See: A gynaecological tumour that’s one in 3300
A 40-year-old’s painless vulval mass was actually a rare benign smooth muscle tumour, a trio of pathologists discovered. The patient had slight discomfort but no…
Medical Must-See: Doctors finally wrap up foreign body aspiration case after 11 years
An inhaled lolly wrapper led to a decade-long cough in this rare case of foreign body aspiration involving a middle-aged woman. The patient, a teacher…
Medical Must-See: A fingertip lesion that’s not bleeding obvious
A non-itchy, non-painful fingertip lesion has led a Moroccan doctor to a rare and “controversial” diagnosis of basosquamous carcinoma. The 68-year-old patient, whose history included…
