Medical Must-See: Patient stitched up after swallowing needle
A run-of-the-mill case of foreign body ingestion gave doctors in NSW an opportunity to trial a unique operative retrieval of a sewing needle beyond endoscopic…
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Medical Must-See: Sprint for glory leaves man with bilateral Achilles tendon rupture
To loosely borrow from Oscar Wilde, to lose one’s Achilles tendon to rupture is a misfortune; to lose both simultaneously is just pure bad luck…
Medical Must-See: Super magnets put squeeze on patient’s penis
The forces of attraction proved too strong for an 11-year-old boy when the magnets he was playing with failed to detach from his penis, doctors…
Medical Must-See: Caught between the differential diagnosis and the deep-blue pee
Urine colour charts are easy to interpret: pale yellow is the sweet spot, while darker shades point to dehydration. But what about blue–green urine reminiscent…
Medical Must-See: Aussie woman’s rare ‘black fungus’ bowel infection
It was a lucky, albeit long and arduous, escape for a 63-year-old woman in Adelaide after she became one of only seven cases of gastrointestinal…
Medical Must-See: Sunscreen, sweat and a rare corneal ulcer
When a 58-year-old man in tropical Puerto Rico got sunscreen and sweat in his eye while working in his yard, he did not expect to…
Medical Must-See: Doctors find needle in 80-year-old’s parietal lobe
A small needle embedded in an octogenarian’s brain was probably there for her whole life following an attempted infanticide during World War II, Russian doctors…
Medical Must-See: Electrical accident causes vocal cord palsy
A man’s sore throat after he was electrocuted was the first sign he had a unique case of unilateral vocal cord paralysis, according to his…
Medical Must-See: Coral reef cut haunts woman 20 years on
Brisbane doctors have connected a painless but “cosmetically bothersome” lesion on a woman’s leg to her tumble on a coral reef 20 years ago. The…
Medical Must-See: Doctors extract air rifle pellet after patient’s close shave
A young man with an air rifle injury was able to avoid catastrophic consequences after doctors in New Zealand successfully removed a lead pellet lodged…
