The Lady House Surgeon is a semi autobiographical ode to my time in Patna Medical college & Hospital (PMCH) then known as Prince of Wales Medical College. Its a very simple story, you will observe the sense and sensibilities of the sixties reflected in it. SPOT THE DIAGNOSIS medical questions for students of medicine. - Dr. B.N. Jha MBBS(Pat), MS (pat) Saharsa, Bihar,India
Friday, 26 October 2018
Spot the Diagnosis 851-860
Spot the Diagnosis 841-850
Thursday, 18 October 2018
Spot the diagnosis 811-830
(811) An old man has come with multiple sebaceous cyst on the scalp . The prominent cyst is ulcerated and fungated . Spot the diagnosis?
(812) An infant has been brought with cellulitis near the knee joint . Spot the diagnosis?
(813) An adult patient has been brought with cellulitis of scrotum . Spot the diagnosis?
(814) A cystic swelling was removed from a patient and dissected which contained hair in pultaceous mass . Spot the diagnosis?
(815) A patient has come with a cyst which has a punctum . Spot the diagnosis?
(816) A patient has come with a cyst which is fixed to the pericranium with erosion of the bone . Spot the diagnosis?
(817) A patient has come with a cyst in the finger . He gives the history of pin-prick . Spot the diagnosis ?
(818) A patient has come with a firm and irregular elevation from the skin . The margin is pink and tender . He gives the history of burn scar . Spot the diagnosis?
(819) A lady patient has come with a rounded ,firm and elastic swelling on the dorsum of wrist joint of the size of a nut . Spot the diagnosis ?
(820) A lady has come with a swelling of nut - size on the Palmar side of wrist joint which is firm, rounded and elastic .
(821) A lady of 40 has come with a palpable pea- size swelling on the radial styloid process which is painful on passive aduction and ulner deviation . Spot the diagnosis ?
(822) A patient has come with a cystic swelling in the palm which extends in to the forearm which is above the wrist joint . There is cross fluctuation . Spot the diagnosis?
(823) A patient has come with a thick scar which gives rise to itching . Which is vascular and tendancy to spread . Spot the diagnosis?
(824) A baby was born. There is a naevus in the midline over the small of the back . Spot the diagnosis ?
(825) A young lady of 25 has come for the repeated attack of faintness . She has portwine stain on her chicks right side . Spot the diagnosis?
(826) A patient has come with a horn like structure from the scalp . Spot the diagnosis?
(827) A patient of head injury has come. He has palsy ,hyperpyrexia and pin - point and fixed pupil. Spot the diagnosis?
(828) A lady of 40 has come for epilepsy which start in the finger and unilateral . Spot the diagnosis ?
(829) A lady has come for locking of joints and effusion in the joint . Spot the diagnosis?
(830) A patient has come with epistaxis . There is a spider naevi on the chest and abdomen and his spleen is palpable . Spot the diagnosis?
Answers.
(811) Cock's piculiar tumour .
(812) Acute osteomyelitis.
(813)Extra vasation of urine .
(814) Dermoid cyst .
(815) Sebaceous cyst.
(816) Dermoid cyst.
(817) Implantation Dermoid .
(818) Keloid .
(819) Dorsal gangliom.
(820) Palmar gangliom .
(821) De quervan's disease.
(822) Compound Palmar gangliom ( tuberculous affection of ulner barsa ).
(823) Keloid .
(824) Spina bifida ossulta .
(825) Sturge-weber syndrome .
(826) Sebaceous horn.
(827) Pontine haemorrhage .
(828) Jacksonian epilepsy.
(829) loose body in the joints.
(830) Cirrhosis of liver .
Monday, 20 August 2018
Spot the Diagnosis 801-810
Spot the Diagnosis 791-800
Spot the Diagnosis 781-790
Tuesday, 5 June 2018
Words of wisdom
Spot the Diagnosis 741-750
Thursday, 24 May 2018
Spot the Diagnosis 731-740
Wednesday, 23 May 2018
Spot the Diagnosis 721-730
Monday, 21 May 2018
Spot the Diagnosis 711-720
Spot the Diagnosis 701-710
Sunday, 1 April 2018
Spot the Diagnosis 691-700
Friday, 9 February 2018
Spot the Diagnosis 681-690
(681) A lady of 50 has come. She feels dyspoenic when walking for a long distance. On auscultation there is mid diastolic murmur and on inquiry gives the history of epistaxis. Spot the diagnosis?
(682) A patient has come with a sinus which looks like an ulcer due to wide mouth, thin blue, an undermine edge. Spot the diagnosis?
(683) A male patient has come in the emergency for severe agonising pain. The pain is lessened when he sits up or lies down on abdomen. Spot the diagnosis?
(684) A patient of road accident has come in the emergency. He has severe abdominal pain in the left hypochondrium. He is pallor and has running pulse and pain and hypersthesia in the right shoulder. Spot the diagnosis?
(685) A patient has come with large liver without palpable spleen and there is no finding what so ever except leucocytosis. Spot the diagnosis?
(686) A patient has been admitted in medical ward. He has fever, arthralgia, plural pericardial rub and unexplained heart murmur.the patient responded well to aspirin. Spot the diagnosis?
(687) A nurse is addicted to taking drugs for years together now has grown abnormally fatty,developed hypertension and diabetes. Spot the diagnosis?
(688) A patient was admitted in the medical ward for fever,rigor and sweating. On examination there are clubbing of fingers, on palpation spleen is palpable and on auscultation there are cardiac murmur. Spot the diagnosis?
(689) An elderly person has been admitted in the medical ward for hemiplegia. He gives the history of fever, rigor and sweating. On auscultation there is cardiac murmur and arrhythmias. Spot the diagnosis?
(690) A patient has come with dilation of superficial veins on the side of abdomen. The flow of the blood is from lower to upper side. Spot the diagnosis?
Answers
(681) Miteral stenosis.
(682) Tuberculous sinus.
(683) Acute pancreatitis.
(684) Splenic rupture.
(685) Liver abscess.
(686)Rheumatic fever.
(687) Iatrogenic cushing syndrome.
(688) Subacute bacterial endocarditis.
(689) The cause of hemiplegia is subacute bacterial endocarditis.
(690) Obstruction of inferior venacava.
Wednesday, 7 February 2018
Spot the Diagnosis 671-680
(671) You have been shown a Barium -meal X-ray of abdomen in which there is a spasm of the terminal part of the ileum and elevated portion of the caecum. Spot the diagnosis?
(672) A patient has come with oedema of both lower limbs. On examination there is a huge,firm and nodular tumour in the abdomen which doesn't move with respiration. Spot the diagnosis?
(673) A patient has come who has a hard and irregular lump in the right iliac fossa. On examination the right side testis is unfounded. Spot the diagnosis?
(674) A lady of 32 came in the surgerical emergency with severe pain in the lower abdomen, vaginal bleeding and shock like features. She gives the history of ammenorrhea for two months. She was operated for tubectomy two years back. Spot the diagnosis?
(675) A patient of injury has come. He has rigidity of the neck but no fever. Spot the diagnosis?
(676) A patient of head injury has come. He has rigidity of the neck with fever. Spot the diagnosis?
(677) A patient of head injury is admitted. His temperature of body is above 101 degree. Spot the diagnosis?
(678) A male patient of 45 has come with stricture of rectum. The stricture is hard, irregular and ulcerated. Spot the diagnosis?
(679) A young lady of 30 has come in the S.O.P.D. She has stricture of rectum. On inquiry she gives the history of previous vaginal sores and inguinal bubo. Spot the diagnosis?
(680) A child of 10 has come. He feels pain in the hypogastrium. Pain is referred to the tip of penis and haematuria at the end of micturation. Spot the diagnosis?
Answers.
(671) Hypertrophic ileocaecal tuberculosis.
(672)Retroperitoneal sarcoma.
(673)Malignant undecended testis.
(674)Ruptured ectopic gestation.
(675) Fracture- dislocation of cervical spine.
(676) Subarachnoid haemorrhage.
(677) Intracranial haemorrhage.
(678)Carcinoma rectum.
(679) Lymphogranuloma inguinale.
(680)Stone in urinary bladder.
Saturday, 3 February 2018
Spot the Diagnosis 661-670
(661) Melanotic sarcoma of the liver.
(662) Cirrhosis of liver.
(663) Subphrenic abscess due to subacute perforation of peptic ulcer.
(664) Cyst of the mesentry.
(665) Desmoid tumour.
(666) Cholecystitis.
(667) Tuberculous ulcer.
(668) Acute Cholecystitis.
(669) Ischaemic heart disease.
(670) intestinal obstruction due to impaction of round worms.
Spot the Diagnosis 651-660
(651) You get a telephonic call that your sister aged about 50 at home got abdominal pain with vomiting. Spot the diagnosis?
(652) A lady of 45 got abdominal pain at epigastrium to the right side of rectus abdominis. Spot the diagnosis?
(653) A lady got pain at right hypochondrium which is referred to the shoulder.
(654) A lady of 50 got pain in the epigastrium penetrating through to the back. Previously she was suffering from peptic ulcer.
(655) A patient has come with pain at right hypochondrium. He gives the history of irregular bowel for months together. There is intercostal tenderness. Spot the diagnosis?
(656) A patient has come with a fluctuant swelling with no sign of inflammation in the right hypochondrium. Spot the diagnosis?
(657) A patient with inflamed piles now complains of high fever with rigor. Spot the diagnosis?
(658) A medical student has diagnosed a case as carcinoma of liver but on his pathological exam his W.R is positive. Spot the diagnosis?
(659) A patient has come with a hard, irregular and nodular liver with umbilication . Spot the diagnosis?
(660) A patient has come with a cystic and fluctuant swelling on the lower part of liver. He gives the history of urticaria and the eosinophilia. Spot the diagnosis?
Answers
(651) Cholecystitis.
(652) Gall -bladder disease.
(653) Gall -bladder disease.
(654) Peptic ulcer penetrating to the pancreas.
(655) Amoebic hepatitis.
(656) Cold abscess due to tuberculous ribs or spine.
(657)Suppurative pylephlebitis.
(658) Gumma of the liver.
(659) Carcinoma of liver.
(660) Hydatid cyst.
Friday, 2 February 2018
Spot the Diagnosis 642-650
(642) You have been shown an X-ray plate of tibia. There is wide spread rarifaction with subperiosteal deposition of bone longitudinally.
(643) You have been shown an X-ray of a bone in which there is a soft tissue shadow. Spot the diagnosis?
(644) A lady of 60 has come with fracture of humerus. Her right breast was removed earlier. Spot the diagnosis?
(645) A patient has come in the emergency for abdominal pain with vomiting. There is visible peristalsis which moves from left to the right. Spot the diagnosis?
(646) A patient of 50 has come in the S.O.P.D. He has enlarged left supraclavicular lymph gland.
(a) Spot the diagnosis?
(b) What is the name of the gland?
(647) A patient has come. When his loin just outside of erector spinae was percussed it is found to be dull. Spot the diagnosis?
(648) A patient of 50 has come with pain in the epigastrium which passes through to the back. The pain is aggrevated when he lies down and lessens when he sits up. Spot the diagnosis?
(649) A lady have been admitted in the surgical ward for a lump in the epigastrium. The mass is less mobile and more tender. Spot the diagnosis?
(650) A patient of 55 has been admitted for a lump in the epigastrium. The lump is farm, irregular and tender. Spot the diagnosis?
Answers.
(642) Ewing's tumour.
(643) sarcoma.
(644) Secondary carcinoma of humerus primary was in the breast.
(645) Pyloric stenosis.
(646) (a) Carcinoma of stomach.
(b) Troisier's sign.
(647) Renal tumour.
(648) Carcinoma of the body and tail of pancreas.
(649) Leaking perforation of peptic ulcer.
(650) Carcinoma stomach.
Tuesday, 30 January 2018
Spot the diagnosis 637-641
(637) A patient has come with tenderness over the metaphysis of tibia. Spot the diagnosis?
(638) You have been shown an X-ray plate in which there is a cavity in the metaphysis of the bone surrounded by sclerosed margin.
(639) You have been shown an X-ray plate in which there is pedunculated bony out growth from the metaphysis.
(640) You have been shown an X-ray plate in which the end of a bone is seen like a cavity. The cavity is soap bubble appearance and enlarged transversely.
(641) You have been shown an X-ray plate of humorous bone in which there is a cyst but the margin of the cyst is not sclerosed and expansion occurring along the long axis of the bone.
Answers.
(637) Acute osteomylitis.
(638) Brodie's abscess.
(639) Osteoma (exostosis)
(640) Osteoclastoma.
(641) Bone cyst.