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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 ...
John Bassett, Krithikaalakshmi Sathiyamoorthy, Alistair Horman, Georgeta Taylor, Hoi Yee Teresa Wu, Stephen Dent, Reena Sharma ...
A previously healthy male patient presented with relapsing serous effusions affecting the pleural, pericardial and peritoneal membranes, along with thrombocytopaenia, following infection with COVID-19 ...
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 ...
A woman in her 70s presented with approximately 2 years of sudden-onset gait and cognitive problems. She had been diagnosed with normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) and underwent ventriculoperitoneal ...
A female patient in her early 90s presented with a rapidly growing erythematous plaque on the right upper arm. Histopathological analysis revealed dense dermal lymphoid infiltrate with a non-germinal ...
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 ...
Anti-signal recognition particle (anti-SRP)-positive necrotising myopathy causes severe progressive proximal weakness with a propensity to involve pharyngeal, laryngeal and respiratory muscles. It is ...
A 34-year-old man with no significant medical history presented to the emergency room (ER) after an episode of thunderclap headache. His symptoms began with dry heaves but no vomiting immediately ...
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 ...
A woman in her early 60s presented to the emergency room with worsening pain 10 days after an injury to her right abdomen. CT revealed a large subcutaneous haematoma and contained small bowel ...
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 ...