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Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) and cervical myelopathy are rare coexisting conditions in paediatric patients, often leading to significant diagnostic challenges due to their overlapping symptoms. We ...
A well mid-30s man suffered a ventricular fibrillation arrest following blunt chest trauma while playing football. Development of anterior Q waves on ECG, troponin elevation >50 000 ng/L, recurrent ...
We discuss the complications associated with inferior vena cava (IVC) filters, focusing on a female patient in her mid-30s who presented to the emergency department with a history of hypercoagulable ...
Uterine fibroids (leiomyoma) are a common presentation in women of reproductive age. However, during pregnancy, red degeneration and torsion of a subserosal fibroid may present with an acute abdomen, ...
This case report encompasses three patients who had worked in the construction industry. All three patients had significant silica dust exposure and were subsequently diagnosed with systemic sclerosis ...
A farmer in his mid-60s with diabetes mellitus and heart failure on medications presented with non-resolving pneumonia for the past 1 month. The patient was initially treated for community-acquired ...
A man in his 50s with chronic pancreatitis presented with epigastric pain and haematemesis. Imaging revealed pancreatic calcifications, multiple pseudocysts and a large pseudoaneurysm arising from the ...
We discuss a case of a female in her 60s diagnosed with primary squamous cell carcinoma of the breast. It is an aggressive and rapidly growing breast cancer with limited cases discussed in the ...
Cholecysto-duodenal fistula (CDF) is a rare complication of chronic calculous cholecystitis. Due to advancements in minimally invasive techniques, a paradigm shift has occurred from the traditional ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...