Medical Must-See: A ‘boring’ parasitic scalp infection
A chronic skin condition plus a rare parasitic fly left a US teen’s scalp teeming with “boring” worm larvae. The 15-year-old developed an intense focal…
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Medical Must-See: A ‘mammoth’ buttock lesion, four decades old
This soft and lobulated buttock lesion grew to mammoth proportions over 40 years before the patient raised it with his doctors. The US man, aged…
Medical Must-See: An ascending aortic aneurysm the size of a grapefruit
A giant ascending aortic aneurysm was the unusual cause of this 72-year-old’s hoarse voice and intermittent chest pain. Ultimately, doctors measured the aneurysm at 12.5cm…
Medical Must-See: A tumour that takes an average of four years to diagnose
A five-year diagnostic delay sounds terrible unless you know that, for insulinoma, a 4.3-year delay is the average. That is the takeaway from this Nepalese…
Medical Must-See: Can drug-laced cement set a new standard for Seymour fracture treatment?
Seymour fractures are notoriously difficult to treat, but Japanese doctors have laid the groundwork for a rock-solid fix: vancomycin-impregnated calcium phosphate cement. A Seymour fracture…
Medical Must-See: A patient with daffy ducts
Doctors have uncovered two uncommon conditions in one woman, whose only complaint was eight months of “vague” abdominal pain. The patient, 65, presented to the…
Medical Must-See: Read my (enlarged) lips
The cause of this boy’s swollen lips was unsealed based on critical histopathology. The 10-year-old presented to a hospital in Okayama, Japan, with persistent painless…
Medical Must-See: Menstrual cup, up and away
Menstrual cups have become an increasingly popular, environmentally friendly and cost-effective option, but there has been many a slip ‘twixt a cup and a urinary…
Medical Must-See: Slip an extra shrimp on the dystrophy
Most Aussies say ‘prawn’ not ‘shrimp’, but they still recognise shrimp’s meaning in the seafood context — how many will recognise the context of ‘shrimp…
Medical Must-See: Doctors get the sac from child’s internal iliac artery
Iranian surgeons have removed a 4cm x 4cm aneurysmal sac after diagnosing an idiopathic left internal iliac artery aneurysm in an 11-year-old boy. The previously…
