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…
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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…
Hair dye’s aromatic amines lead to blurred vision lasting four months: case
A 61-year-old woman developed bilateral blurry vision shortly after using hair dye, due to the aromatic amines in the product, French doctors say. The patient…
A cosmetic concern that is more than skin deep
Fen, a 61-year-old woman, visits her GP to review the results of recent blood tests. She is concerned about a lump under her right eye,…
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…
Oddly puffy shins and frothy urine
Daniel is a 19-year-old university student who presents to his GP with a one-month history of bilateral pitting oedema to his mid-shins and three months…
Medical Must-See: A skin-deep mystery that just needed UV light
Saudi Arabian doctors have shed light on the case of a 43-year-old with chronic atopic dermatitis who developed a new rash on her upper extremities,…
Pancreatitis, party mishaps and panic — the clinical cases where AI fails
Imaging misinterpretation was meant to fall quickly to AI’s diagnostic supremacy, but a study of 150 clinical challenges suggests that imaging, numbers and party hijinks…
‘Insidious onset of symptoms’: Holiday sandfly bite triggers rare parasitic disease two years later
An Australian man’s sandfly bite in Greece two years previously triggered a diagnostic dilemma culminating in a rare diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis, Melbourne doctors report.…
