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A 30 year old male presented at the Surgery OPD with chief complaint of discharging wound in the upper part of the abdomen for 1 month. The problem started 6 months back when he underwent an emergency exploratory laparotomy at another medical college for 3 days old abdominal pain. A small peptic perforation was detecte...
This patient is a 48 year old female who was admitted with a large fungating right breast mass which measured 22 × 20 cm and elevated 12 cm above the skin surface (Figure ). The patient stated that the mass began as a very small "bump" that she believed was a cyst. One year prior she had been evaluated by her primary c...
A male patient aged 42 years reported to the department of maxillofacial surgery with the chief complaint of painless huge growth over left eye and loss of vision. History revealed that the patient was apparently alright 2 years back, when he first noticed a small pea nut size ulcerative growth over left lower eyelid n...
A 33-year-old female patient presented at the emergency room with epigastric pain, nausea, and vomiting that had persisted for a day. The patient had a history of child birth eight months prior, and had proximal deep vein thrombosis (DVT) on the left common femoral vein during the 36th week of pregnancy. An inferior ve...
A 21-year-old Greek Caucasian female rowing athlete was injured on both thighs during field training. She had to train in sprint as part of her field training program. Upon acceleration, she experienced severe pain on both thighs and fell down. She continued to suffer from severe pain on the anterior surface of her thi...
A 30 year old male presented at the Surgery OPD with chief complaint of discharging wound in the upper part of the abdomen for 1 month. The problem started 6 months back when he underwent an emergency exploratory laparotomy at another medical college for 3 days old abdominal pain. A small peptic perforation was detecte...
An 8-year-old male child patient presented with a swelling and pus discharge in relation to the right side of his mandible since 1 month. Past history revealed that the patient had met with a motor vehicle accident 3 months ago and was subsequently treated for fracture of the mandible on the right side. Extra oral exam...
A 44-year-old woman presented to the accident and emergency department with acute right knee pain. While dancing the quick-step (an energetic and form-intensive style) she externally rotated about a planted right foot and felt an acute pain in her right knee with her patella shifting laterally. On arrival at hospital h...
An 18-year-old woman without a medical history showed headache and fever for a few days and then suddenly presented with personality changes with violent behavior and speech disabilities requiring her admission to the department of neurology in our hospital. A diagnostic image of her brain showed minimal changes such a...
A 56-year-old male patient, whose plasmacytoma was enucleated 3 years ago from the medial side of the left mandible, was referred to our clinic due to his complaints of persistent orocutaneous fistula (Figures –). Past medical history revealed that the patient was operated three times to close the orocutaneous fistula ...
Our patient was a 67-year-old woman, gravida 4, para 1. Her past medical history included epilepsy diagnosed at 56 years of age, unspecified cardiopulmonary arrest at age 57 years, peritonitis due to acute perforated gastric ulcer, venous thrombosis of the lower limb, and pulmonary arterial embolism. She was also aller...
A 33-year-old Caucasian male of Greek origin sustained a work accident. He fell from a height of 2 meters and landed on his right side. On admission he was conscious and well orientated with normal vital signs. His right shoulder and arm were painful, swollen and deformed. Clinical examination revealed a closed and neu...
A 31-year-old male patient was referred from the department of plastic surgery for the fabrication of an auricular prosthesis for his missing right side ear. The ear was lost as a consequence of a road traffic accident a few years ago. The patient was initially attempted for surgical reconstructing of the artificial ea...
A 79-year-old right-handed male with a medical history of diabetes, hypertension, coronary artery disease, and chronic kidney disease underwent the EVAR procedure with a left renal stent for an incidental finding of a juxtarenal AAA on CT scan (). According to the vascular surgery operative report, the procedure was co...
A 19-year-old male with a history of a right tibial stress fracture with intramedullary nail fixation 14 months before presented to the emergency department after jumping into a shallow lake and immediately suffering severe right ankle pain and inability to bear weight. He had had the proximal intramedullary nail screw...
A 48-year-old female patient (gravid 3, para 1) visited the private hospital because of urinary incontinence and lower abdominal discomfort. On the abdominal computed tomography (CT) scan, heterogeneously enhanced mass measuring 8 cm in size nearby the uterus and right ovary was not detected exactly. CT finding suggest...
A 43 year old male visited the clinic complaining about the discomfort and pain in the upper right molar area while biting. The clinical and radiographic examination revealed that the maxillary right second premolar and the maxillary right first molar were both associated with localized severe chronic periodontitis. In...
A 22-year-old woman, gravid 2, para 1-0-0-1, was referred to our institution for fetal echocardiography at 23 weeks of gestation because of abnormally looking great arterial arches. The pregnancy had not been complicated. The mother had not had any diseases or taken any drugs or herbal medications. There was no family ...
We report the case of an 85-year-old healthy Caucasian man suffering from severe neck pain and headache for years with aggravation and a change in pain character since 2 months. On presentation at our department, he described his symptoms as constant boring pain not being altered by activity or rest whereas increasing ...
We report on a case of a 68 year-old healthy female who initially presented to the emergency room with pain, redness, and swelling in the regions surrounding the proximal and radial aspect of the nail fold of her right thumb in May of 2009. She noted that she had worsening symptoms over the course of one week but no pr...
An otherwise healthy 25-year-old female presented to our emergency department with complaints of acute onset of epigastric pain and nausea with bilious emesis. Workup in the way of liver function tests and abdominal ultrasound did not demonstrate evidence suggesting biliary or gallbladder pathology, and as such she was...
A 62-year-old female presented for evaluation of recurrent left lower extremity swelling. Her medical history was notable for prior deep vein thrombus in the right distal lower extremity while on hormone replacement therapy (HRT). She denied the active use of HRT and tobacco use during this admission. Venous Doppler ul...
A 33-year-old pregnant woman was admitted to our department in the 16th week of her first gestation because of suspicion during a routine ultrasound of decreased fetal movements and fetal malformation consisting of postural deformity of both lower limbs associated with a uterine fibroid. The family history was unremark...
A 65-year-old male, without any comorbidities presented to us with complaints of weakness in all four limbs and bladder involvement for the past 18 months following a fall in the bathroom. The patient was diagnosed as degenerative cervical spondylotic myelopathy with OPLL and was associated with central cord syndrome. ...
This is the case of a two-year-old boy who was referred to our Emergency Department by his pediatric cardiologist for evaluation of his lung condition. The physician was performing a routine echocardiogram for the assessment of the child's preexistent foramen ovale, when he saw a round opacity in the thorax, suspicious...
A 22-year-old male, driver of the car was involved in a road traffic accident when his car hit against a bridge with his ipsilateral hip and knee in flexion. He presented to the emergency department in 4 h injury time with painful deformities of the right hip and knee, along with Type I open wound right leg with abnorm...
A 5-year-old male child came to the department of oral and maxillofacial surgery with a complaint of difficulty in opening the mouth for the past 2 years. The birth history was normal. No other member of the family was similarly affected. His mouth opening was normal until he met with a trauma with wooden thorn on the ...
A 25-year-old male came with complaints of pain in both groins for 1 month. Pain was more in the left groin compared to the right side. He is mason by occupation and his work involves lifting heavy objects such as stones but does not involve walking long distances. The weight of the stone was 10–15 kg and he had to lif...
A 78-year-old male was admitted with acute ischemic stroke in the territory of the left middle cerebral artery, which was treated with venous thrombolysis. Investigation showed critical stenosis of the left ICA and 50%–69% stenosis of the right ICA on Doppler ultrasound (DUS). Angiography showed occlusion of the right ...
A 62-year-old female presented for evaluation of recurrent left lower extremity swelling. Her medical history was notable for prior deep vein thrombus in the right distal lower extremity while on hormone replacement therapy (HRT). She denied the active use of HRT and tobacco use during this admission. Venous Doppler ul...
A 41-year-old female presented to the emergency department (ED) with four hours of severe sudden-onset left-sided retro-orbital headache. It was associated with blurry vision in her left eye and did not change in intensity. She initially delayed seeking medical evaluation but came to the ED when her symptoms persisted....
A 46- year old Sudanese male has few months’ history of gastric symptoms. He was planned for upper GIT endoscopy. There was no significant past medical history and he is not on immunosuppressive therapy. One day before endoscopy, he started to feel right lower costal pain which worsened next morning. His symptoms were ...
A 58-year old male presented to the emergency department complaining for pain at the left side of the base of his penis 4 h after excessive forceful masturbation. His medical and surgical history was unremarkable and he was under no medications whatsoever. At physical examination there were no signs of penile deformati...
A 57-year-old woman attended for routine mammography screening. She was recalled because her screening mammograms revealed three separate lesions in her right breast and one in the left. At clinical examination, there were only two vaguely palpable masses in the upper outer quadrant of her right breast and one in the u...
This is a 63-year-old female who was referred to the radiotherapy clinic at our tertiary hospital in December 2016, for consideration of adjuvant radiotherapy for a resected retrorectal adenocarcinoma with a positive margin.\nThe patient provided a remote history of a congenital cyst that had been surgically removed wh...
A 10-month-old girl born of nonconsanguineous marriage with normal developmental history, with no prior medical problems, was brought to our emergency room with history of fall on the head when the child was trying to walk on her own. She cried for a brief period and there was no loss of consciousness. There was no vom...
A 41-year-old woman with end stage renal disease (ESRD) from ADPKD was referred to our tertiary care center for urgent renal replacement therapy. Considering her actual state, the very long distance from hemodialysis centers and the possible opportunity for a future renal transplantation we concluded to start with peri...
A 50 year old female patient previously healthy has undergone an abdominal ultrasound demanded by her primary care physician when her routine checkup blood test showed a slightly elevated level of liver enzymes with no other lab abnormalities. This ultrasound showed right adrenal lesion of 9 cm of diameter. An Abdomina...
We present a 55-year-old female with ESRD on HD secondary to Diabetic nephropathy who presented initially for creation of a hemodialysis access. She had a thirty pack a year history of tobacco use with current use of tobacco products. She had Charcot's disease of the left lower extremity, amputation below knee of her l...
An 80-year-old man was admitted to the Emergency Department (ED) with right upper quadrant abdominal pain and a cutaneous lesion with white, purulent discharge that appeared a week ago in the same region. The patient’s medical history was notable for an operation for the removal of a liver abscess of unknown etiology f...
A 25-year-old male with a history of intermittent abdominal pain for the last six months was admitted to our emergency department complaining of intractable postprandial abdominal pain, along with bloody vomiting. Having been subject to a preliminary evaluation in our emergency department, the patient was transferred t...
An 83-year-old female patient presented to outpatient oncology clinic with a large ulcerated nodule located in the left cheek and extending into the left neck region. Five years ago, a previously documented squamous cell skin cancer lesion located in the left mandibular region was excised with clear margins. The lesion...
The patient is a right-handed, 40 year old woman employed as a teacher in primary school. She was referred to our neurological centre for sporadic generalized epileptic seizures and reactive depressive syndrome. Early medical history reported depressive-apathetic episodes during adolescence and early adulthood lasting ...
A 66 year-old male patient had been followed for nearly two years with a mediastinal mass. Two years ago a mass was observed near the left cardiac margin measuring 6.5 × 5.7 cm in a modified left parasternal view of the transthoracic using echocardiography (). Further radiological evaluation had been offered but the pa...
A 29-year old woman who was in her seventh month of pregnancy presented with chief complaints of sudden onset of pain and watering in her left eye of 4 days duration. Her past history revealed the onset of myopia at the age of 12 years which gradually increased and stabilized by 18 years of age. At the age of 20 years ...
A 50 year old female patient previously healthy has undergone an abdominal ultrasound demanded by her primary care physician when her routine checkup blood test showed a slightly elevated level of liver enzymes with no other lab abnormalities. This ultrasound showed right adrenal lesion of 9 cm of diameter. An Abdomina...
A 50 year old female patient previously healthy has undergone an abdominal ultrasound demanded by her primary care physician when her routine checkup blood test showed a slightly elevated level of liver enzymes with no other lab abnormalities. This ultrasound showed right adrenal lesion of 9 cm of diameter. An Abdomina...
A 77-year-old Japanese man consulted our hospital with a 1-month history of right alar swelling with hard pain as his chief complaint. A physical examination revealed a submucosal tumor with an intact and smooth surface in the right nasal vestibule. The result of biopsy was suspected malignancy. Computed tomography (CT...
A 66-year-old male patient with history of previous papillary urothelial carcinoma of bladder was referred to our vascular surgery clinic. The patient had undergone radical cystectomy and ureterostomy seven years ago. Recurrence of malignancy had occurred five years after the operation. The patient had a mass at right ...
A 69-year-old female with a history of prothrombin gene mutation was scheduled for living donor kidney transplantation. After developing spontaneous left subclavian and brachial artery thrombosis 17 years ago, patient underwent therapeutic anticoagulation and maintenance on warfarin for 1 year. With therapy, her thromb...
We present a 46-year-old female patient. The patient was first diagnosed with urethra adenocarcinoma 8 years ago. Total resection of the urinary bladder with lymphatic dissection was performed followed by combined chemotherapy and radiotherapy. One and a half-year after the first operation the patient was reoperated on...
A 50 year old female patient previously healthy has undergone an abdominal ultrasound demanded by her primary care physician when her routine checkup blood test showed a slightly elevated level of liver enzymes with no other lab abnormalities. This ultrasound showed right adrenal lesion of 9 cm of diameter. An Abdomina...
A 58-year-old female was admitted to the emergency unit of our hospital suffering from acute dyspnoea, multiple episodes of vomiting, productive cough, and fever since 3 days. The patient reported a previous medical history of right mastectomy due to breast cancer followed by chemoradiotherapy and laparoscopic cholecys...
A 28-year-old male patient reported to the Department of Periodontology and Oral Implantology with a chief complaint of a fractured crown in relation to root canal treated maxillary left central incisor. The patient had undergone root canal treatment of the tooth 3 years back and had received fixed bridge prosthesis in...
A 16-year-old boy with a history of ulcerative colitis (UC), diagnosed at age 15, and complicated by primary sclerosing cholangitis presented with pleuritic chest pain and low-grade fevers in the setting of an IBD flare with presenting symptoms of six to seven bloody stools per day and abdominal pain with labs signific...
A 12-year-old male child presented to our emergency room with an injury to the elbow following a fall on the outstretched hand. He had a diffuse swelling around the elbow, with no external wounds. On examination there was diffuse swelling with a hard bony lump on medial aspect of the elbow. The radial head was not in p...
A 32-year-old Caucasian woman presented to an outside orthopaedic spine surgeon at 31 weeks of pregnancy because of a right leg pain and difficulty walking. The patient reported that the pain had come on gradually and it had caused her to go from walking independently to requiring the use of a cane and to eventually a ...
A 29-year-old Saudi woman presented to our Emergency Room with a five-day history of epigastric and lower abdominal pain associated with lower abdominal and pelvic fullness that she attributed to fibroids. The pain was intermittent, colicky in nature and associated with nausea and vomiting. She denied any history of fe...
A 33 year old right handed male i.v. drug abuser presents to the emergency department three hours after reportedly self injecting water dissolved crushed zolpidem tablets into the right forearm. His chief complaint was forearm tenderness extending down to the hand. The patient described an immediate onset of pain, whic...
A 40 years old female reported to the emergency department of a level II trauma center after an epileptic convulsion with complaints of pain and restriction of movements of both shoulder joints. Physical examination revealed hollowness below the acromion process on either side with flattening of the normal contour of t...
Patient 2 was a 45-year-old male patient who presented with a T3 N0 M0 recurrent squamous cell carcinoma involving the entire lower lip, chin, neck, cheek and mandible. He had undergone previous resections of his lower lip carcinoma and a left tonsillectomy a year before. He had received postoperative radiation and che...
The patient was a 30-year-old woman who was diagnosed with peripheral vascular disease 9 years prior to this encounter. She presented to our clinic with complaints of worsening pain in the lower extremities with activity and sometimes pain at rest. The patient had a medical history of hypertension and admitted to non-c...
A 55-year-old woman visited our clinic in September 2018 with stage IV breast cancer. She was a mother of two sons with a history of contraceptive injection use for 5 years and suffered from type II diabetes for 4 years with routine insulin treatment. She presented with a left breast mass that had appeared several mont...
A 66-year old right hand dominate female, with no significant past medical history, presented to the emergency department at our institution with left shoulder pain after an accidental trip and fall onto an outstretched hand that occurred the same day. She had noticeable deformity of the upper arm and was neurovascular...
A 50 year old female patient previously healthy has undergone an abdominal ultrasound demanded by her primary care physician when her routine checkup blood test showed a slightly elevated level of liver enzymes with no other lab abnormalities. This ultrasound showed right adrenal lesion of 9 cm of diameter. An Abdomina...
A 62-year-old female presented for evaluation of recurrent left lower extremity swelling. Her medical history was notable for prior deep vein thrombus in the right distal lower extremity while on hormone replacement therapy (HRT). She denied the active use of HRT and tobacco use during this admission. Venous Doppler ul...
A 62-year-old female presented for evaluation of recurrent left lower extremity swelling. Her medical history was notable for prior deep vein thrombus in the right distal lower extremity while on hormone replacement therapy (HRT). She denied the active use of HRT and tobacco use during this admission. Venous Doppler ul...
A 62-year-old female presented for evaluation of recurrent left lower extremity swelling. Her medical history was notable for prior deep vein thrombus in the right distal lower extremity while on hormone replacement therapy (HRT). She denied the active use of HRT and tobacco use during this admission. Venous Doppler ul...
A 35-year-old gravida 3, parity 2 woman was admitted to the hospital for vaginal bleeding and severe abdominal pain. Her past medical history was free of any medical problems. On her obstetric history, she had a vaginal delivery following an uneventful pregnancy course 8 years ago. Her second pregnancy was terminated v...
A 41-year-old woman presented to our hospital with a 2-year history of palpable mass in the right lateral aspect of the neck. There was no past history of irradiation or trauma in the head and neck. On physical examination, a firm and non-tender mass was palpable in the right lateral neck measuring 3.0 cm at the level ...
A 56-year-old man who had a 2-month history of shortness of breath was presented to a local clinic with a sudden onset of chest pain. He was transferred to the local hospital and was tested. Physical examination revealed tachycardia and mild tachypnea. Coronary arteriography showed normal coronary arteries. The next da...
A 70-year-old male patient was referred to the emergency department with a sudden- onset back pain complaint that lasted for approximately 3 days. His medical history included hypertension. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) in the arterial phase revealed the aneurysm’s origin, the aortic arch and branches in e...
A 36-year-old man, originally from Latin America, presented at our outpatient department with complaints of abdominal pain that had persisted for 2 months. The patient had first noticed right lateral abdominal pain 2 months prior to the visit, and the pain was gradually worsening. The abdominal pain was localized in an...
A 26-year old woman presented with traumatic complete T5 paralysis for 2 years after suffering a T5 burst fracture caused by falling from a tree while hunting. T5 posterior fusion and decompression was performed to stabilize her, but the injury was complete with no return of function after 2 years. A baclofen pump was ...
An 11-year-old boy visited our outpatient clinic with complaints of persistent right cheek pain. His family history revealed that his father had severe hearing impairment. His medical history showed that he had allergic rhinitis and chronic sinusitis that had been treated until 3 months previously by an otolaryngologis...
A 9-year-old boy had presented with frequent pneumonia. He was born vaginally at 25 weeks and 6 days at home due to an unknown reason. His birth weight was 750 g. He was in cardiopulmonary arrest when he arrived at the previous hospital. Resuscitation was performed immediately on arrival. Peritoneal drainage was perfor...
A 47-year-old woman presented with a complaint of generalized right knee pain. Physical examination of the right knee joint revealed nothing remarkable. The patient had a history of chronic alcohol consumption exceeding 400 mL of ethanol per week for the past 20 years. There was no history of steroid intake or trauma. ...
A 20-year-old man farmer whose family lived in a rural area healthy, nonsmokers no history of any drug taken without any congenital anomalies were admitted to our hospital with sudden-onset pain, absent pulses, paresthesia, and the pallor of the right lower extremity that had begun two hours before admission while he w...
A 77-year-old female presented to the orthopedic hand clinic with a three-year history of an extremely sensitive small mass on her right wrist. The mass had subjectively grown over this period of time. The pain had progressively worsened over time, and she had developed significant hypersensitivity to light contact. Th...
This case presents a 38-year-old Asian G2P1001 female who delivered by cesarean section (CS) at 32 weeks gestation for pre-eclampsia with severe features with uncontrollable blood pressures. Her pregnancy was further complicated by a known right ovarian mass, history of endometriosis which was managed conservatively, a...
A 65-year-old man with no medical history was transferred from another hospital because of pain in the right side of chin and ear. He complained of frequent paroxysms of severe stabbing pain in the right side of his mandible radiating to the right ear. His pain either occurred spontaneously or was triggered by chewing ...
A 77-year-old female presented to the orthopedic hand clinic with a three-year history of an extremely sensitive small mass on her right wrist. The mass had subjectively grown over this period of time. The pain had progressively worsened over time, and she had developed significant hypersensitivity to light contact. Th...
A 21-year-old female who presented to our outpatient clinic with complaints of pain and swelling in her left knee for 8 months before her first visit, with a sudden increase in size for later 2 months. On examination of her limb, there was gross wasting of quadriceps muscle with diffuse swelling over the lateral aspect...
A 66-year-old female patient was admitted with the diagnosis of an approximately 10 cm painless and immobile mass between the clavicle and the chin on the right side of the neck. A vascular mass originating from the carotid body was detected in ultrasonography and a tomography was performed. In sagittal and axial image...
The Radiology Department requested an emergency surgical consultation for an 84-year-old male patient with sudden lower abdominal discomfort and pain during a diagnostic barium enema. The enema had been scheduled and administered as diagnostic tool for the evaluation of his chronic constipation. The patient had been re...
An 11-year-old boy visited our outpatient clinic with complaints of persistent right cheek pain. His family history revealed that his father had severe hearing impairment. His medical history showed that he had allergic rhinitis and chronic sinusitis that had been treated until 3 months previously by an otolaryngologis...
A 59-year-old female initially presented to the emergency department 10 months prior with right arm pain and swelling. A computed tomography of the neck with contrast at the time showed two confluent masses in the right axillary and right supraclavicular regions encasing the right subclavian and axillary vein, the inte...
This is a case of 11-year-old boy, who has a history of fall from the sixth floor and sustained severe traumatic brain injury when he was at 4 years of age. During trauma screening including CT brain, he was found to have multiple brain contusions and an incidental finding of extensive optic glioma. After that, an MRI ...
The second patient (P2) was a 30-year old female with headache (TTH or migraine) several days a week. She was living with her boyfriend and working in primary care clinic. The patient had experienced headaches since she was a little girl and had migraine since she was 15 years old. She had tried lots of medication and ...
Case 2: A 23 year old male, presented with symptoms of crawling sensation and foreign body sensation in his right eye, and had observed a worm in this eye. He had no previous symptoms prior to his presentation. He gave a history of having worked in a cocoa farm plantation during his childhood years and had severally su...
An 11-year-old boy visited our outpatient clinic with complaints of persistent right cheek pain. His family history revealed that his father had severe hearing impairment. His medical history showed that he had allergic rhinitis and chronic sinusitis that had been treated until 3 months previously by an otolaryngologis...
A 59-year-old female initially presented to the emergency department 10 months prior with right arm pain and swelling. A computed tomography of the neck with contrast at the time showed two confluent masses in the right axillary and right supraclavicular regions encasing the right subclavian and axillary vein, the inte...
A 59-year-old female initially presented to the emergency department 10 months prior with right arm pain and swelling. A computed tomography of the neck with contrast at the time showed two confluent masses in the right axillary and right supraclavicular regions encasing the right subclavian and axillary vein, the inte...
An 11-year-old boy visited our outpatient clinic with complaints of persistent right cheek pain. His family history revealed that his father had severe hearing impairment. His medical history showed that he had allergic rhinitis and chronic sinusitis that had been treated until 3 months previously by an otolaryngologis...
A 16-year-old male runner fell forward over an outstretched left leg during a race. He felt a popping sensation with his left hip in deep flexion and the left knee in forced extension and a sharp pain in the posterolateral aspect of the left distal thigh. He could not bear weight on the affected leg, which prevented hi...
A 36-year-old man, originally from Latin America, presented at our outpatient department with complaints of abdominal pain that had persisted for 2 months. The patient had first noticed right lateral abdominal pain 2 months prior to the visit, and the pain was gradually worsening. The abdominal pain was localized in an...
An otherwise healthy 22-year-old caucasian woman consulted for an initial orthopedic examination due to an accelerated growth of a large mass over the posterior aspect of her right buttock and lower lumbar region. The mass had been present for over 5 years and had gradually enlarged during this time. Recently, the lesi...
A 36-year-old man, originally from Latin America, presented at our outpatient department with complaints of abdominal pain that had persisted for 2 months. The patient had first noticed right lateral abdominal pain 2 months prior to the visit, and the pain was gradually worsening. The abdominal pain was localized in an...
Our patient is a 38-year-old male who presented with right chest wall and shoulder pain after a weight lifting injury. The patient was performing a one-rep max bench press when he felt a pop in his right upper arm, accompanied by severe pain. There was no history of anabolic steroid use. He was initially treated with i...
A 72-year old man, previously well, was admitted to a regional hospital with fever, recurrent bloody sputum, weight loss and left sided chest pain of 4 weeks duration. A chest radiograph showed a mass at the left hilum thought to be a neoplasm (see figure ). A misdiagnosis of haematemesis led to an upper gastrointestin...