Medical Must-See: Rare lipoma triggers unusual surgery
Doctors pulled the trigger on an alternative surgical approach for a woman with a rare hand lipoma. The 56-year-old, with no significant medical history, presented…
Doctors pulled the trigger on an alternative surgical approach for a woman with a rare hand lipoma. The 56-year-old, with no significant medical history, presented…
Adolescents undergoing gastric bypass or sleeve gastrectomy for obesity have durable reductions in BMI and type 2 diabetes, according to findings from the longest follow-up…
An early-career Brisbane surgeon has removed a 2kg tumour from a 67-year-old who had no symptoms and only “slightly abnormal” liver function. Dr Joel Lewin…
As a podcast devotee, one of the first things Dr Amanda Nikolic did to prepare for her general surgery fellowship exams was to look for…
Caleb, a three-year-old boy, is brought in by his parents with a four-day history of intermittent fever and soft stool. He has vomited twice over…
Professor Chris Pyke was overseas training as a breast surgeon when he was told that two of his sisters had been diagnosed with cancer. Both in…
One of the proclaimed truths of Australia’s medical regulation system is that it is not about the administration of punishment but about deterrence. The role…
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…
This story has been corrected. See footnote below. A coroner has blamed an “input error” involving handwritten medication charts for the death of a patient…
Lack of recognition of clinical deterioration made up one third of all sentinel events and half of paediatric events over 12 months, a Victorian report…
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