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
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.