Tuesday, 14 July 2015

Spot the diagnosis

(1) A young lady of twenty three has come for occasional shooting pain, burning sensation, pallor , blanching and numbness in both arms and fingers ( Both the thumbs are escaping). Nothing abnormal  detected in x ray of the cervical region .
Ans: Reynaud's disease

(2) Huge and soft enlargement of liver with intercostal tenderness .
Ans :Amoebic liver abscess

(3) Huge and hard liver without splenic enlargement.
Ans :Metastatic cancer of liver .

(4) Huge and hard enlargement of spleen with sternal tenderness
Ans Chronic myeloid leukemia .

(5)  Posterior vertebral protusion (Gibbus ) with local bony tenderness .
Ans: Pott's disease .

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