Thursday, 14 April 2016

Spot the diagnosis - 235- 241

(235) A lady of fifty has come with a lump in the breast which is firm . She has also multiple nodules all over the body in the size of a pea to cricket ball . (a)What is this tumor in the breast ?
(b) What is this condition known as?
(236) A patient of sixty has developed a horn like structure on his scalp .
(a) spot the diagnosis?
(b) How has this developed?
(237) A lady patient of thirty has come with occasional headache ,vertigo and convulsions . There is a pot wine stain on her right cheek . Spot the diagnosis?
(238) A baby was born . She has a nevus in the midline over the small of the back . Spot the diagnosis?
(239) A baby has a mass attached to the sacro-coxygeal region . There is a hand like projection protruding out from the mass . Spot the diagnosis?
(240) An already  diagnosed case of carcinoma ,now complains of pain . What does it indicate .
(241) A patient has come he has six cafe au lait pigmentation on the trunk and extrimites . Spot the diagnosis?

Answers.
(235a) Neurofibroma of the breast .
(b) Neurofibromatosis.
(236a) This horn is known to be sebaceous horn .
(b) It is caused by deposition of inspissitated sebaceous material.
(237) Sturge-weber disease .
(238) Spina- bifida -occulta.(239) Sacrocoxigeal teratoma.
(240) It indicates complications such as ulcerations deep infiltration and involvement of nerves and it also indicates inoperability .
(241) Neurofibromatosis ( Von-Reclighausen disease)

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