Clinical Focus

Clinical Focus Spot Diagnosis

What is causing this painful pinna?

24th September 2021
Mark is a 44-year-old banking executive who presents with a painful, tender nodule on the right ear. Test your clinical…
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painful pinna
Clinical Focus Case Report

Severe skin reaction follows a topical treatment

23rd September 2021
Mark, a 30-year-old engineer, presents to his GP with a progressively worsening localised itchy rash on the dorsum, medial…
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5 minutes to read
contact dermatitis
Clinical Focus Spot Diagnosis

What's driving this rash and excoriated nodules?

17th September 2021
A 49-year-old man presents with several months of pruritic rash and progressive excoriated nodules affecting his torso and…
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Prurigo nodularis
Clinical Focus Therapy Update

A GP guide to primary aldosteronism

16th September 2021
Need to know: Primary aldosteronism is a common secondary cause of hypertension. Untreated primary aldosteronism is…
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10 minutes to read
Clinical Focus Spot Diagnosis

Can you work out the cause of this fluctuant mass?

10th September 2021
Felicity, a 25-year-old teacher, presents complaining of a tender swelling over her frontal bone with associated fever for…
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frontal bone swelling
Clinical Focus Case Report

Long-term abdo pain and diarrhoea in a teen

9th September 2021
Charlotte, a 14-year-old girl, presents with longstanding intermittent abdominal pain, bloating and watery diarrhoea. She…
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5 minutes to read
teen with stomach ache
Clinical Focus Spot Diagnosis

What's behind these spreading white patches?

1st September 2021
Cherie, a 30-year-old woman, presents for review of progressive white patches affecting her skin. Test your clinical know…
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vitiligo