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 ...

A 40-year-old south Asian blue collar worker presented to us with worsening pain, photophobia and redness for 15 days in spite of taking medications. Slit-lamp examination and fluorescein staining ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this case, a woman in her 80s presented to the emergency department with signs and symptoms of acute pancreatitis that began after starting a course of doxycycline. Common aetiologies of acute ...

A 70-year-old man referred to emergency department with acute onset of severe flank pain. In initial examinations, the patient was pale, with pulse rate of 120/min and blood pressure of 95/65. In ...

Shoulder dystocia is a critical obstetrical emergency that challenges even the most experienced practitioners. This case report details a patient at 40 weeks of gestation with no identified risk ...