Mysterious but not serious?

Mysterious but not serious?

1 of 2 DESCRIPTION A previously well 13-year-old boy presented with a 3-month history of right-sided hip pain responding to simple analgesia. Physical examination and blood tests were unremarkable. A pelvic x-ray ( fi gure 1 ) revealed multiple sclerotic lesions in both femora, worse on the asymptomatic left side ( fi gure 2 ) with further lesions in the pelvis. Review of a previous x-ray taken...

not intervention but participation

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trigeminal neuralgia-divided but not classified

Planning for death but not serious future illness: qualitative study of housebound elderly patients.

OBJECTIVE To understand how elderly patients think about and approach future illness and the end of life. DESIGN Qualitative study conducted 1997-9. SETTING Physician housecall programme affiliated to US university. PARTICIPANTS 20 chronically ill housebound patients aged over 75 years who could participate in an interview. Participants identified through purposive and random sampling. ...

Tuberculous Pyomyositis: A Rare but Serious Diagnosis

Tuberculous pyomyositis is a rare clinical entity with serious consequences if a diagnosis is not established early. A 53-year-old female with a past medical history of sarcoidosis and pulmonary fibrosis presented from an outside hospital with persistent fevers and a rash. She had been hospitalized multiple times at an outside hospital without any improvement in her symptoms. On examination, sh...