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An older woman with dementia and type 2 diabetes was started on semaglutide and subsequently developed severe psychological and physical symptoms, including apathy, significant weight loss and ...
A man in his 20s presented after a high-energy MCA. Initially, he was haemodynamically stable; the abdominal exam revealed a large right flank haematoma. On placement of a catheter, there was gross ...
A young pregnant woman in her 20s presented with a 2 month history of high-grade intermittent fever. She exhibited multiple painful nodules scattered across her body for 2 months, initially small but ...
Despite the perception that medical students and doctors should be ‘invincible’, mental health challenges are common in this population. Medical students and doctors have low levels of help seeking ...
Three unrelated patients attended the accident and emergency department with pain and blurred vision after ocular injury with a Nerf gun. Two were adults and one was a child, all of which presented ...
Erythema nodosum (EN) is a common dermatological manifestation with many different aetiologies. Often however, the aetiology remains unidentified. We present here a 42-year-old male patient with an EN ...
A 32-year-old woman presented with a 1-year history of severe paroxysmal pain, point tenderness and sensitivity to cold in her left thumb. On examination, a faint bluish lesion in the middle, radial ...
Learning points Several entities with anterior knee pain that involve peripatellar fat may be encountered when evaluating MR of the knee. Of these, one of the most common is quadriceps/suprapatellar ...
Review articles1 and dermatology textbook presentations of scabies2 often contain no images of its dermoscopic features and, in fact, may omit mention of dermoscopy as an aid in diagnosis. Scabies ...
Hypercalcaemia in pregnancy presents with altered mental status, constipation, fatigue and nausea. Hypercalcaemia mediated by parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP) secondary to benign breast ...
Tattoo-associated cutaneous sarcoidosis with uveitis is a rare but potentially serious cause of intraocular inflammation that requires prolonged immunosuppressive therapy to avoid vision-threatening ...
Primary splenic angiosarcoma is an extremely rare and aggressive vascular neoplasm associated with high rates of metastasis. A male patient in his 70s presented with thrombocytopenia. Physical ...