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
Thursday, 5 March 2020
Spot the Diagnosis 1026-1034
Saturday, 4 January 2020
Spot the Diagnosis 1013-1020
Tuesday, 24 December 2019
Spot the Diagnosis qllllllllllll) llll) llllll
Monday, 11 November 2019
Spot the Diagnosis 998-1003
(999) A lady of 65 with injury has been brought on a strature . Her left leg is externally rotated . Spot the diagnosis?
(1000) An X ray of the hip joint has been shown to you in which there is rarification in the babecock's triangle. Spot the diagnosis?
(1001) A baby has been brought. He has a big mass attached to the sacral area there is rudimentary hand and finger . Spot the diagnosis?
(1002) A patient has a swelling for long years with no complain . Spot the diagnosis?
(1003) A patient has swelling . He give the history of reduction in size in the past . Spot the diagnosis?
(1004) A patient has come with a browny induration which pits on pressure by the finger . Spot the diagnosis?
Answers.
(998) Fracture of femur .
(999) Fracture neck of femur .
(1000) Tuberculosis hip joint .
(1001) Sacrococcygeal teratoma.
(1002) Benign growth.
(1003) Inflamatory or super imposed infection in a malignant growth.
(1004) Suppuration.
Monday, 7 October 2019
Spot the Diagnosis 988-997
Tuesday, 2 April 2019
Spot the Diagnosis 934-987
Ans: Hodgekin's disease
935: An unmarried girl of 24 has been brought by the parents for a thickened overgrowth of fibrous tissue over the manubrium sterni which is vascular,bluish and has finger like processes.
Ans:keloid
936: A patient has come with the superficial gangrene of hands.His W.R is positive.
Ans: Shringomylia
937:A patient of gangrene of index finger of left hand has come.On auscultation there is mid diastolic murmur.
Ans: Embolic gangrene
938: A patient of severe car accident has come.He has diminshed cardio-sound,increased cardiac dullness and low b.p.
Ans: Haemo-pericardium.
939: A patient has come in the emergency. On rectal examination his anterior rectal wall is bulging with tenderness.
ans: Pelvic abcess
940: A severely ill patient of pain abdomen has come in the emergency.On rectal examination there is tendernessin the recto-vasical pouch.
Ans: perforated peptic ulcer.
941: A patient of pain in lower abdominal rt side has come. on the P.R Pain in the right wall of rectum.
Ans:Acute appendicitis
942: A patient has come with many cysts on the scalp.One of the cyst is ulcerated and looks like epithelioma.
Ans: Cock's peculiar tumour.
943: A patient has come with a unilateral, purulent nasal discharge and there is tenderness on the maxilliary prominenece.
Ans:empyema of maxilliary prominence.
944:A child has come with bluish swelling on the side of midline of the floor of the mouth.the warton's duct is visible.
Ans: Ranula
945: An opaque cyst in the middle of the floor of the mouth found in a child.
Ans: dermoid cysts
946: A Patient has come.His urine is acidic,contains pus cells and on ordinary culture there is no growth.
Ans: Renal tuberculosis
947: An old man has come with gynocomasia.He was taking some drug for months alltogather for suspected case of carcinoma prostate.which drug it may be?
Ans: Stillbostrom
948: A patient of severe abdominal pain has been admitted.He feels more
agonising pain when he lies on his back and lessens when he sits up.
Ans: Acute Pancreatitis
949: A patient of acute appendititis has been admitted.Now he says that his pain is lessened too much.
Ans:Perforation of appendics has occured.
950:A patient of colicky pain now complains that the colicky pain has now turned into burning pain.Spot the Diagnosis
Ans : Peritonitis has set-in
951: A retired doctor has come.He complains of persistent flexion of his terminal phalanx of his left index finger.
Ans: Mallet fingers (due to rupture of extensior tendons)
952: A patient has come with a boney swelling under the flexor retinaculur.
Ans: dislocation of lunate bone.
953: A lady has come with oedema and tenderness of her rt.anatomical snuff box
Ans: Fracture of the scaphoid
954: A lady has come with a haematoma on the thenarspace. When asked to touch the littlefinger of the injured hand by the thumb of the same hand but he fails to do this.
Ans: bennett's fracture
955: A child of 10 has come with superficial ulceration of the arm. The ulcer heals at the centre and active at the periphery.
Ans: lupus vulgaris
956: A patient has come with multiple sinuses in the perinium discharging sulphur granules
Ans: actinomycosis
957: A patient of 25 has come with raised and hypertrophied epithelium around the anus and his epitrochlear and sub occipital lymph nodes are enlarged
Ans: Syphilis in the secondary stage
958: A patient has come with multiple acute ulcers on his genitals with copius purulent secretions with acute lymphoplasia.
Ans: ducreyi ulcer
959: An adult male has come with enlarged epitroclear and sub occipat group of lymph nodes enlargement.
Ans: Syphilis in the secondary stage.
960: A patient of hand injury has come. His middle metacarpel is depressed on examination as compared with the sound side when he makes a fist.On x-ray examination his middle metacarpel is not fractured
Ans: Dislocation of the Semi-lunar
961: A patient of hands injury has come.His middle metacarpel on one hand is depressed when he makes a fist as compared to the sound side
Ans :fracture of the middle metacarpel
962: A febrile patient aged 12 yrs was admitted in surgical ward.He is having pain abdomen and vomiting.The site of the pain was around the umbilicus.There is increse in the neutrophil count and on the ultrasound of the abdomen it is all okay. There is a history of pain in the right illiac fosa.
Ans : Appendicitis
963: A lady of 45 has come with a hard lump in her breast and pain & tenderness in the spine
Ans: carcinoma breast and metastitis in the spine
964: A lady patient has come. She has a lump in the breast which becomes painfull at the time of mensturation.
Ans: fibroedinosis
965: A lady has come,she complains of dark green discharge from the nipple.
Ans: fibroadenosis
966: A patient has come with painfull intermittent jaundice.
Ans : Stone in the CBD
967: A patient has come with painless and progressive jaundice
Ans : Carcinoma head of pancreas
969:A patient of 37yrs has come with a lump in the epigastrium.The lump is less mobile and more tender.
Ans: Perforating peptic ulcer
970: A patient of recurring pain abdomen has come .All the test prescribed was done but no positive finding.He complains of ligtening pain in the legs,loss of ankle joint,sluggishness in the papillary reaction and history of syphilis the long back.
Ans:Tabes dorsialis
971: A patient of severe chest pain has come.On palpatation you have detected a fracture in the sternum.What is that bone that is fractured simultaneously very frequently.
Ans: Spine
972: A patient has come with a x-ray plate of his chest.In his X-ray there is a cannon-ball appearance.
Ans: hypernephroma
973: A patient of chest injury has come with emphysema of neck,face and chest and then abdomen.what is that emphysema and where is the rupture
Ans: Midiastinal emphysema due to rupture of the bronchus
974: A patient of chest injury has been admitted.His Chest X-ray Shows horizontal line of the haemorraghe in the plural cavity.
Ans : Haemo pnemo thorax
975: A patient of fifty has come with huge enlargement of the spleen.The spleen is enlarged beyond the umblicus. There is sternal tenderness on pressure by the fingers.
Ans: Chronic myeloid leukemia
976:A patient of 50 has come with a enlarged lyphatic gland in the occipital triangle and enlarged lymph node in the epitrochlear area.
Ans : secondary syphilis
977: A patient has come with the pigmentation of the skin. On examination there is pigmentation of the buccal mucosa.
Ans: Addison's disease
978: A male patient of 50 complains of throbbing pain in the perinium.
Ans: prostatic abcess
979: A patient of 15 has come with a firm, irregular, fixed and tender lump.The patient has given history of diminishing of swelling sometime back. Two surgeons have difference in opinion.One says that the malignancy and the other says its inflammatory.What is your opinion??
Ans:Inflammatory swelling
980: A patient has come with a long standing parotind tumour. Now there is facial nerve involvement.
Ans:Malignancy has developed in the parotid tumour.
981: A newborn was brought.It has a naevus in the small of the back.
Ans: Spina bifida occulta
982: A patient has come.He has swelling in the scalp which looks like a bag full of pulsating earthworms.
Ans: Cirdoid ananeursymal haemangiona
983: A patient has come with a brownish-red-nodule with shining surface showing fine cappillaries over it.It lies on the cheek by the side of the nose.
Ans:rodent ulcer
984: An X-ray plate of the knee-joint was shown to you in which there are soft tissues shadows seen with flecks of calcification.
Ans: Malignant synovioma
985: A patient of 60 has come. He cannot raise his right leg but can move the right foot.
Ans: fracture of the femoral neck
986:A patient has come with huge enlargement of spleen upto the umblicus and the surface of the spleen is very hard.There is sternal tenderness
And: Myloid leukemia
987: A patient has come with huge enlargement of spleen up to the umblicus.The spleen is soft and the platlets count is very low.
Ans : essential thrombo cyto paenic pupurra haemorragica
Sunday, 24 March 2019
Spot the diagnosis 934-950
Saturday, 23 March 2019
Spot the Diagnosis 921-933
Spot the diagnosis : 911-920
Spot the Diagnosis 901-910
Spot the Diagnosis 891-900
Saturday, 12 January 2019
Spot the Diagnosis 881-890
Spot the Diagnosis 871-880
Spot the Diagnosis 861-870
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 .