Cases

• Approach to the patient
• Case 1 Postoperative dyspnoea
• Case 2 Inside out
• Case 3 A wound leak
• Case 4 Postoperative infection
• Case 5 An inflamed neck
• Case 6 A sore neck
• Case 7 Hidden infection
• Case 8 Burnt thorax
• Case 9 Burn treatment
• Case 10 Lumps on the scalp
• Case 11 A lump on the wrist
• Case 12 Recurrent abscesses over the sacrum
• Case 13 A septic great toe
• Case 14 A skin tumour
• Case 15 Two men with facial ulceration
• Case 16 A pigmented spot on the face
• Case 17 A pigmented skin lesion that has got bigger
• Case 18 A lump on the chest wall
• Case 19 A patient with a chest drain
• Case 20 A fatal lung disease
• Case 21 A pulsating abdominal mass
• Case 22 Abdominal bruising
• Case 23 A painful calf
• Case 24 Black toes
• Case 25 A useful instrument in vascular surgery
• Case 26 A young woman with cold hands
• Case 27 A complication of varicose veins
• Case 28 A chronic leg ulcer
• Case 29 Another leg ulcer
• Case 30 A cerebral mass on magnetic resonance imaging
• Case 31 A cerebral vascular catastrophe
• Case 32 A baby with a large head
• Case 33 A blow to the skull
• Case 34 A severe head injury
• Case 35 Another severe head injury
• Case 36 A spinal abnormality in a newborn child
• Case 37 Back injury
• Case 38 A lacerated wrist
• Case 39 A hand deformity
• Case 40 A deformed finger
• Case 41 A boy with a droopy eyelid
• Case 42 A lump on the lip
• Case 43 A white plaque on the tongue
• Case 44 A baby with two gross congenital deformities
• Case 45 A painful submandibular swelling
• Case 46 A lump over the angle of the jaw
• Case 47 A patient with difficulty swallowing
• Case 48 Another patient with difficulty swallowing
• Case 49 A third patient with difficulty swallowing
• Case 50 Heartburn
• Case 51 A fateful vomit
• Case 52 Vomiting in a baby
• Case 53 A gastric ulcer
• Case 54 A bloody vomit
• Case 55 An acute abdominal emergency
• Case 56 A serious gastric lesion
• Case 57 A surgical specimen of stomach
• Case 58 An acutely painful, distended abdomen
• Case 59 Neonatal intestinal obstruction
• Case 60 A very constipated small boy
• Case 61 A painful distended abdomen in an old man
• Case 62 An unusual case of severe rectal bleeding in a child
• Case 63 An abdominal mass in a young man
• Case 64 A striking and diagnostic facial appearance
• Case 65 Acute abdomen in a medical student
• Case 66 Yet another mass in the right iliac fossa
• Case 67 A symptomless finding on a barium enema examination
• Case 68 Ulcerative colitis
• Case 69 A complication of longstanding ulcerative colitis
• Case 70 A very old woman with an abdominal mass
• Case 71 A patient with subacute obstruction
• Case 72 A pathological anal verge
• Case 73 A painful mass at the anal verge
• Case 74 Another painful mass at the anal verge
• Case 75 An agonizing anal verge
• Case 76 A very painful buttock
• Case 77 A patient with recurrent perianal sepsis
• Case 78 A prolapsing anal mass
• Case 79 An ulcer in the rectum
• Case 80 An ulcer at the anal verge
• Case 81 A large swelling in the groin
• Case 82 A groin lump in an old woman
• Case 83 A lump at the umbilicus
• Case 84 A swelling in the abdominal wall
• Case 85 A jaundiced and very ill patient
• Case 86 A postmortem finding
• Case 87 A man with a grossly swollen abdomen
• Case 88 A massive haematemesis
• Case 89 A schoolmistress with attacks of abdominal pain
• Case 90 A collection of calculi
• Case 91 A patient with jaundice and interesting physical signs
• Case 92 The patient in Case 91 has surgery
• Case 93 A giant abdominal mass
• Case 94 A severe abdominal injury
• Case 95 A painless lump in the neck
• Case 96 Swollen legs in a young woman
• Case 97 A frightened girl with a breast lump
• Case 98 Breast screening
• Case 99 An ulcerating breast lesion
• Case 100 A sinister break
• Case 101 A woman with a sore nipple
• Case 102 A painless lump in the neck
• Case 103 A young immigrant with a lump in the neck
• Case 104 A lump in the neck that moves on swallowing
• Case 105 A woman with an obvious endocrine disease
• Case 106 A mass of cervical lymph nodes
• Case 107 A rapidly enlarging mass in the neck
• Case 108 A patient with colic, and its underlying endocrine cause
• Case 109 A girl with hirsutes
• Case 110 Congenital disease of both kidneys
• Case 111 Haematuria of sinister origin
• Case 112 A gross congenital abnormality
• Case 113 A bladder stone found at autopsy
• Case 114 An insidius cause of lumbago
• Case 115 A man with difficulty passing urine and with an interesting X-ray
• Case 116 Sciatica with a sinister cause
• Case 117 A patient with a very distended bladder
• Case 118 A foreskin problem in a child
• Case 119 An ulcerated prepuce
• Case 120 A missing testis
• Case 121 A swelling in the scrotum
• Case 122 Two examples of testicular tumours
• Case 123 A renal transplant recipient with a gastrointestinal haemorrhage