Uncommon presentation of a less common tumour

Uncommon Presentation of Common Disease

Tuberculosis is a chronic, granulomatous disease. Primary lesion usually occurs in the lung. Extra pulmonary infection commonly involves head, neck and abdomen. In the absence of typical features of tuberculosis, tuberculous cellulitis mimicking oral infection may pose a challenge for diagnosis. In an attempt to highlight an uncommon presentation, we document a case of extra pulmonary tuberculo...

An uncommon presentation of a common cancer.

Uncommon Presentation of a Common Tachycardia

We describe a patient with an implanted pacemaker for impaired AV conduction who presented with an incessant tachycardia. EP study showed that the tachycardia was atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT) with repeated spontaneous initiation because of poor or absent antegrade fast pathway conduction. Slow pathway ablation was successful in terminating the tachycardia and making it n...

Uncommon presentation of a common disease.

Purulent pericarditis has become uncommon in the developed world due to widespread antibiotic use. It usually presents with acute cardiovascular decompensation and features of sepsis. Tuberculosis as a cause of pyopericardium is rare even in high prevalence areas. We report here an unusual cause of pyopericardium which presented as prolonged fever and finally turned out to be due to mycobacteri...

A Case of Empyema necessitans: An uncommon presentation of Empyema

ABSTRACTIntroductionEmpyema is an accumulation of pus in the pleural space. Empyema necessitans occurs when pus extends through the parietal pleura into the surrounding tissues.Case ReportWe present here a 4 month old babywith severe respiratory distress and anassociated huge boggy swelling over the left side of his chest and back. Evaluation revealed pus accumulated in the pleural space which ...