This is a classical presentation of a fracture of the neck of the femur. It is usually seen in old patients secondary to osteoporosis and follows a fall or any other trivial injury involving the hip or bottom. The leg …
This patient is suffering from a condition called tennis elbow or lateral epicondylitis. In this condition, there is pain where the common extensor tendon arises from the lateral epicondyle of the humerus. The muscle group that is affected are the …
This is a classic picture of a common sports injury. The player jumps up and lands on a slightly twisted knee hence giving rise to a medial meniscus tear. He could very well also have an anterior cruciate ligament injury …
Colles’fracture Results from fall on an outstretched hand, often in old osteoporotic women. The deformed and painful wrist looks like a “dinner fork”. The main lesion is a dorsally displaced, dorsally angulated fracture of the distal radius. COLLES Results from …
Sudden onset of lower back pain and felt more during forward bending or similar movement like getting up from bed favours the diagnosis of lumbosacral disc herniation INTERVERTEBRAL DISC PROLAPSE, SCIATICA A herniated disc is most common in those aged …
Note that the patches of the skull are sclerotic and not lytic. Sclerotic patches represent Paget’s disease (osteitis deformans) whereas if it was lytic lesions on the skull it would represent multiple myeloma. Alkaline phosphatase is seen to be raised …
Developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) Formerly referred to as congenital dislocation of the hip (CDH). DDH is now the preferred term to reflect that DDH is an ongoing developmental process. Defined simply as abnormal growth of the hip More …
There has been a long debate regarding the use of topical antibiotics in bacterial conjunctivitis. NHS has been moving towards using self care rather than antibiotics for infective conjunctivitis. For most people, use of a topical ocular antibiotic makes little …
The diagnosis here is atrial fibrillation| Follow the above-mentioned steps for analysing an ECG In this ECG, at step 2 (determine regularity), we can already see irregularity here just by looking at the QRS complex. Also note the fine f …
LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK (LBBB) It is always good to be able to recognize a LBBB on an ECG LBBB is best seen in lead V6, where you would see a broad complex with an “M” morphology. This broad complex …