Medical Must-See: Eight fingers on one hand but no thumb
No thumb, two ulnae and eight fingers with soft tissue syndactyly of the two most radial digits made this two-year-old a clearly unusual case. According…
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Medical Must-See: A belly full of cocaine and malignancy
A rare tumour blocked the passage of 88 cocaine-filled capsules after a 47-year-old drug smuggler ingested them. The patient presented to an ED in Igualada,…
Medical Must-See: Doctors puzzled by grass-green pee
Doctors in Morrocco have recounted a “rare and initially puzzling” case of green urine discolouration that resolved spontaneously in a young trauma patient. Their 15-year-old…
Medical Must-See: First case of giant malignant melanoma on the leg
The importance of tailoring care to each patient has been made all too clear for a team of US internists whose patient had a giant…
How Celine Dion and a runaway golf buggy led this GP to a rare diagnosis
Stiff person syndrome is unusually well-known, despite its rareness, thanks to singer Celine Dion. But it was still a surprise for GP Dr Dennis Berman…
Patient’s spinal fracture leads to GP diagnosis of rare genetic disorder
An unusual spinal fracture led GP Dr John Manton to uncover a rare genetic disorder that would have probably gone undiagnosed without him. His patient…
‘My eyes flew out of my head’: A GP’s encounter with a patient who saw yellow
Dr David Ringelblum was working as a GP in Melbourne in the late 1990s when a patient turned up with yellow vision. “This woman was…
How a ‘pretty unusual’ set of symptoms led doctors to Australia’s first case of fatal familial insomnia
A 32-year-old with a snoring problem turned out to be a rare and tragic example of fatal familial insomnia, the first case seen in Australia.…
‘I thought she had a full bladder’: Doctor’s unusual abdominal finding leads to rare cancer diagnosis
In 2004, Dr Robert Schmidli was in his first year as a staff specialist at Canberra Hospital when he uncovered a patient’s rare ovarian tumour.…
Why so blue? A GP remembers a rare diagnosis from 1979 that was ‘just so weird’
It was 1979 when Dr Michael Tayar, then a senior resident at Canberra Hospital, encountered a middle-aged patient who looked “deeply cyanotic” around her face…
